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Bullfrog Films
P.O. Box 149
Oley, PA 19547
Tel: 610/779-8226
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Rain in a Dry Land (Short Version)
Two Somali families find new homes in urban America.
52 minutes
DVD-R version available
(82-minute version also available)
Color
Grade Level: 7 - 12, College, Adult
US Release Date: 2006
Copyright Date: 2006
ISBN (VHS): 1-59458-524-5
ISBN (DVD): 1-59458-525-3
Directed by Anne Makepeace
Directors of Photography: Joan Churchill, Barney Broomfield
Editor: Mary Lampson
Composer: Joel Goodman
Associate Producer: Su Kim
Associate Editor: Brad Kimbrough
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"A sharp, deeply felt humanist tale" Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix
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In 2004, thirteen thousand Somali Bantu refugees realized their dream of coming to America. They are now living in fifty cities across the country, becoming the largest African group from a single minority to settle in the United States at one time.
RAIN IN A DRY LAND chronicles two years in the lives of two extended Somali Bantu families as they leave behind a two-hundred year legacy of oppression in Africa to face new challenges in a strange new land.
The DVD version of this program is recorded on DVD-R which is not compatible with some older DVD players. See the new DVD page for more details.
Study guide available
Awards:
Working Films Award, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
"Stories from the Field" United Nations Documentary Film Festival
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Atlanta Film Festival
Related Subjects:
African Studies
African-American Studies
American Studies
Anthropology
Globalization
Human Rights
Immigration
Political Science
Social Psychology
Sociology
Related Links:
The filmmaker's web site
The PBS "P.O.V." website
18-page Discussion Guide
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