Rain in a Dry Land (Short Version) Two Somali families find new homes in urban America.
52 minutes
Directed by Anne Makepeace
Produced by Anne Makepeace Productions
Directors of Photography: Joan Churchill, Barney Broomfield Editor: Mary Lampson Composer: Joel Goodman Associate Producer: Su Kim Associate Editor: Brad Kimbrough
"A sharp, deeply felt humanist tale" Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix
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.
Grade Level: 7 - 12, College, Adult
US Release Date: 2006
Copyright Date: 2006
DVD ISBN: 1-59458-525-3
VHS ISBN: 1-59458-524-5
Awards and Festivals 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
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