Reem Saleh (@Meemzo), director of What Comes Around (@WCAthefilm), one of the best docs I’ve seen about a poor community, and about Cairo. “Mama, you asked me to take care of your people, so I told their stories.”pic.twitter.com/689AK1CGNc
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Reem Saleh (@Meemzo), director of What Comes Around (@WCAthefilm), one of the best docs I’ve seen about a poor community, and about Cairo. “Mama, you asked me to take care of your people, so I told their stories.”pic.twitter.com/689AK1CGNc
There's nothing melodramatic, patronizing or forced about @WCAthefilm, it lives & breathes with the people of Rod El Farag, capturing the solidarity imbuing their credit unions & social events, the poverty but also the pride of its breadwinners, formidable women. #tdf20
Here’s director @Meemzo on the film’s most controversial moment, of a tenacious girl surreptitiously using credit union funds to perform FGMpic.twitter.com/0tYhhfgPen
Also, this very insightful bit on whether, and how, to include children in documentary filming (sometimes they don’t give you a choice.)pic.twitter.com/JGPkTSfxO5
Through 6 yrs of filming & 3 presidents, the Egyptian Revolution didn’t really affect the lives of the people of Rod El Farag (obvious in the film, but I had to ask)pic.twitter.com/9QKg1TDhN9
PS: @alaskaHQ, you will love this documentary, my friend :)
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