SCREENINGS
Date: 20/10/2009
Cost: Free Screening
Time: 18:30
Venue: Shortwave Cinema
Slideshow:
Trailer: Great Africans: Wangari Maathai
Date: 20/10/2009
Cost: Free Screening
Time: 18:30
Venue: Shortwave Cinema
Slideshow:
Great Africans: Wangari Maathai
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
Great Africans: Wangari Maathai
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
Great Africans: Wangari Maathai
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
Trailer: Great Africans: Wangari Maathai
Great Africans: Wangari Maathai
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
Tuesday 20th Oct / 18.30 / Shortwave Cinema / Free screening
TUESDAY 20th OCTOBER 2009 - BHM SHOWCASE
Great Africans: Wangari Maathai
Film info: Kenyan environmental and social justice activist Wangari Maathai is a trailblazer, pioneering many “firsts” for women in Africa; she was the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. She was not only the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004; she was the first environmentalist, paving the way for a string of environmentalist Nobel Prize winners. Through her Green Belt movement she has planted 30 million trees in her motherland and protected endangered indigenous forests. A one-woman tour-de-force, Maathai captures camera and audience with her infectious fervour.
Time: 52mins
Release: 2009 – European Premiere
Director: Wanuri Kahiu
Country: Kenya
Distributor: Courtesy MNet
Great Africans: Wangari Maathai
Film info: Kenyan environmental and social justice activist Wangari Maathai is a trailblazer, pioneering many “firsts” for women in Africa; she was the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. She was not only the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004; she was the first environmentalist, paving the way for a string of environmentalist Nobel Prize winners. Through her Green Belt movement she has planted 30 million trees in her motherland and protected endangered indigenous forests. A one-woman tour-de-force, Maathai captures camera and audience with her infectious fervour.
Time: 52mins
Release: 2009 – European Premiere
Director: Wanuri Kahiu
Country: Kenya
Distributor: Courtesy MNet