Paula meets Bill Clinton in New York
Category: WildlifeDirect news | Date: Sep 23 2008 | By: baraza
Greetings friends. In my first 24 hours in New York I met Bill Clinton, a very funny city vagrant, four children from Rwanda and a minister, a Rwandan film maker, and three tiger cubs and their keeper plus golden retriever nanny.
I’ll upload more pictures later but thought I’d leave you with this photo of the team meeting Bill Clinton which was the highlight. The children from Rwanda and USA are in the Scholastic Press Corp and are preparing for the big event on Friday ‘the first ever Kids Gorilla Summit“. Children from around the world have been sending in questions that will be answered on Friday by a panel. This unique Scholastic event gives childrens a challenge to help save mountain gorillas. It will be live broadcast through schools in USA. To watch the 1 minute animations called gorillasodes made by children from Rwanda and USA watch here
I’ll be bringing more news and pictures from New York over coming days.
Tags: Bill Clinton, Gorillas, Gorillasodes, Miza, mountain gorillas, Scholastic, wildlifedirect
Rwandan children make Gorillasodes
Category: Gorillas | Date: Jul 01 2008 | By: admin
”Looking for Miza” looks like it’s going to be a major success. One of the best things we did during this trip to Rwanda was to get the two boys who created the Hipposodes to work with Rwandan children to create two new animations called “gorillasodes” at the Rwanda Cinema Center in Kigali.
We worked with Eric Kabera – the maker of the genocide film “100 days” and inventor of Hillywood - Rwanda’s version of Hollywood.
Caleb was the youngest - only 8!
Planning narratives and music
Going a bit crazy
Joe Summerhays taught the kids to use Istop motion to make the animation - which was quite laborious!
The partially finished product was absolutely amazing. The 2 day workshop attracted about 10 kids and 5 government ministers!
I hope that these pictures reveal the concentration, broken by some intense playfulness.
By the end of the 2 days the two American boys were pretty strongly bonded with their Rwandan counterparts.
Thanks to everyone, Craig, Bill, Joe, Eric Kabera, all the kids, Beth and Jennifer who sorted out no end of logistics, and Jocelyn, a Rwandan cinematographer who captured everything as it happened - I can’t wait to see the Making Gorillasodes”.
Look out for the Gorillasodes on You tube in a few weeks time, and at the Tribeca Film Festival next spring!
Tags: Eric Kabera, Gorillasodes, Joe Summerhays, Rwanda cinema center, Tribeca film festival
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