Rose & Nangabire
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Rose Nangabire
Images
Nangabire and Rose drive home from the airport, reunited after 10 years.
Website
http://www.artsengine.net/rose_and_nangabire/
Topics
Economy: Microcredit
Health: Disease/treatment, Infant Mortality, Nutrition/Malnutrition
Human Development: Children, Education, Emergency Relief, International Cooperation, Migration, Poverty, Refugees, Shelter & Housing, Social Exclusion, Youth
Human Rights: Civil Rights, Gender, Race Politics, Social Exclusion
Information & Media: Freedom of Expression
Peace and Conflict: Arms & Military, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Peace, United Nations
Politics: Activism, Civil Society, Codes of Conduct, Corruption & Transparency, Democracy, Ethics & Value Systems, Justice and Crime, Law
Identity Niches
African, Children, Religious, Women, Youth/Teen
Budget
Raised to date: $36,000.00
Estimate to complete: $15,248.00
Total Estimated Budget: $51,248.00
The budget numbers above are accurate as of 10/20/2010
Status
Production
Media Type
Video
Project End Use
Other: Arts Engine pursues a multi-platform strategy for all films. This includes theatrical, television, internet, DVD and other platforms.
Key Personnel
Beth Davenport
Director
Beth Davenport is a staff Producer at Big Mouth Films, a project of Arts Engine, Inc. She started her film career at Chelsea Pictures where she worked on award-winning commercials and music videos. In 2003 she moved into the documentary field with Big Mouth. Her work includes production and outreach for the Emmy-nominated film DEADLINE, and field producing on WAR BRIDES (Arte France) and ELECTION DAY (ITVS). Davenport recently line produced WRONGFUL DEATH, about the U.S. legal and insurance systems, with director Thomas Balmes for Canal Plus and the BBC, for which she also was the sole creative team member for much of production. She directed and produced an organizational video for The Brennan Center for Justice and is currently producing THE DISHES, a Big Mouth Film in post-production. Davenport is also a songwriter, musician and vocalist. She graduated with a degree in Sociology and Peace and Conflict Resolution from Wayne State University.
Elizabeth Mandel
Director
Elizabeth Mandel is Director of Production at Big Mouth Films, a project of Arts Engine. She most recently produced the film ARCTIC SON with Dallas Brennan Rexer. She directs and produces pieces for organizations such as Jewish Women International, Johns Hopkins Medical Center’s Project Restore, Nickelodeon and Sundance Channel. Mandel was a co-producer on Jennifer Fox's film FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN, an associate producer for Jasmine Dellal’s GYPSY CARAVAN, and the producer of the DEADLINE DVD.
Prior to joining Big Mouth in 2001, she worked for the United Nations and the Asia Foundation. She has worked in India, Cambodia, Nepal and Japan on women’s security and empowerment projects, microenterprise, community development, leadership training and citizen participation projects. She holds a Master's Degree from Columbia University in International Affairs and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. from Columbia University.
Katy Chevigny
Producer
Katy Chevigny is an award-winning filmmaker who runs the non-profit Arts Engine, and its production arm, Big Mouth Films. She is best known for DEADLINE, an investigation into Illinois governor George Ryan’s commuting of death sentences, which she co-directed with Kirsten Johnson. After premiering at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, DEADLINE was broadcast on NBC, was nominated for an Emmy, and won the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award. Chevigny' most recent project is ELECTION DAY, which will be broadcast on POV on July 1st. She also directed JOURNEY TO THE WEST: CHINESE MEDICINE TODAY and has produced five award-winning documentaries: ARCTIC SON, INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY, NUYORICAN DREAM, BROTHER BORN AGAIN and OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION IN AMERICA. Chevigny also spent four years working as the Assistant to the Director of the Vietnamese Association of Illinois, a refugee-run social service agency.
Outreach/Engagement Plan(s)
Big Mouth Films, a project of Arts Engine, has completed eight feature-length documentaries with major film festival premieres and television broadcasts on PBS, HBO, Cinemax and NBC. We work with educational and home video distributors to ensure our films reach schools, community centers, libraries and individual homes. Arts Engine is also home to MediaRights.org, an online community of over 18,000 filmmakers and activists and an important outreach vehicle for our films. Outreach for ROSE & NANGABIRE will build on this experience and center on our principal partner, Mapendo International.
We will develop a touring workshop series, partnering with organizations that have a constituent body in place including schools, NGOs, film distributors, and government organizations, making it easier to reach our target audiences. Our goal is to reach four under-served audiences: Immigrants and refugees to the U.S.; women’s rights activists; youth; and teachers & community leaders and the communities they serve.
Other elements will include: a website; a blog by Rose’s daughter, Nangabire; podcasts following Rose on her worldwide workshop tour and featuring women and girls around the world who are leaders in their communities; downloadable Teacher/Viewing Guides; and links to take action locally and internationally on issues of peace and reconciliation, immigrant and refugee issues, and cultural preservation.
Funders
| Name | Amount | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York State Council on the Arts | $8,000.00 | 08/09/2007 | |
| Chicken and Egg Pictures | $28,000.00 | 03/15/2007 |
Short Synopsis
Explosive ethnic violence in Rwanda spread into the Democratic Republic of Congo, separating Rose Mapendo from her five-year-old daughter, Nangabire. Over a decade later, mother and daughter are reunited in the US where they must face the past and build a new future.
Description/Treatment
Following the gruesome execution of her husband, Rose Mapendo was interned in a death camp. She gave birth to twins on the concrete floor of her cell, and managed to keep her nine children alive under appalling conditions. Upon release, Rose was unable to find her five-year-old daughter Nangabire and assumed the worst.
In 2000, Rose and her children were airlifted to Phoenix, Arizona, and today the twins are healthy second graders. Rose has become an activist, working to bring reconciliation to her country. We follow her in her human rights work as she travels throughout the United States and Africa, meeting with survivors who are living the future Rose so narrowly escaped. After more than a decade, she has found Nangabire and has the chance to bring her back into her life. We witness their reunion as Nangabire steps off the plane in Phoenix. She is overwhelmed with joy but acutely feels the gap in time during which the family has moved on without her. She must now learn how to communicate with her American-raised siblings with whom she literally shares no common language.
In addition, Rose’s activism will take her away once again, this time on a harrowing trip back to her remote home village, leaving Nangabire to figure things out in her absence. Through this intimate family portrait unfolding against the wider drama of war, we will explore the long-term repercussions of war through a gendered lens. In this deeply feminist film, in which a woman takes on a leadership role in a culture in which women are not traditionally leaders and uses that role to promote peace and equity, we will also examine the unique and critical role women play in post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation, within the family and in the broader social context.
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