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Hong Kong’s Heritage Heroes – Part Three

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Adam Bemma — Leave a comment

HONG KONG – Heritage Heroes Part Three is the third, and last, part of a documentary on residents fighting to save Hong Kong’s cultural heritage and historic buildings from neglect and, eventual, demolition by local government and property development companies…

Tagged with: #Conservation, Architecture, documentary, gentrification, Heritage, Hong Kong
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Jeppe on a Friday – a #radio doc about a #film doc in #SouthAfrica

Posted on July 4, 2013 by Adam Bemma — Leave a comment

Synopsis: Jeppe on a Friday is a 2013 South African documentary film about gentrification in Jeppestown, a low-income district in Johannesburg in the midst of re-development. This radio documentary examines the collaborative process used by Canadian filmmaker Shannon Walsh in cinema…

Tagged with: Arya Laloo, cinema verite, documentary, film, gentrification, Jeppe on a Friday, jeppestown, Johannesburg, Neil Frasier, Shannon Walsh, South Africa
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#RightsMedia doc: #Lengo means #goal in #Swahili

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Adam Bemma — 1 Comment

28-year-old Tanzanian Emanuel Saakai founded Lengo Football Academy in Arusha. Over the last six months Saakai has been training street kids from his home village of Ngaramtoni to play competitive soccer. This community development work is being done without regular…

#RightsMedia doc: #Tanzania ‘s #renegade #opposition MP

Posted on June 27, 2013 by Adam Bemma — 1 Comment

Part 3: Godbless Lema was elected to parliament in Tanzania to represent the constituency of Arusha-Urban. Since his 2010 election, Lema has been arrested and charged several times by police, making him unable to fulfill his mandate. As an elected…

Tagged with: #RightsMedia, Africa, Arusha, CCM, Chadema, corruption, documentary, Godbless Lema, inaction, interview, member of parliament, MP, opposition party, renegade, tanzania
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