Official Selection – Global Peace Film Festival 2015

      We were very excited to receive great news today - an invitation to screen at the Global Peace Film Festival   in Orlando, FL, Sept. 28-Oct.4. We look forward to sharing this inspiring Kenyan story and connecting with local organizations and other peacebuilders. From the festival website: The…

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“Documentary Slum Tour” – Nairobi

The following post comes from Willis Adika Adeya, Chairman of Kariobangi Mirror in Nairobi, Kenya.  Kariobangi Mirror  is a community based organization providing platforms for citizen journalists, artists, and activists a space to nurture and maximize their potentials and amplify their voices. Several months ago, filmmaker Kenny Dalsheimer contacted me…

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“Peace in Our Pockets” Screenings in Kenya and Nicosia

We are very happy to have completed Peace in Our Pockets  this past Feb. 2015 and having the film roll out internationally in diverse settings. The film website has also been redesigned to highlight how the film is being used as a tool for change by peacebuilders and how screenings…

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Project News from Screening Partner in Kenya

The following article comes via Building Peace, an online magazine from Alliance for Peacebuilding. The film references the tension and violence in this part of Kenya at a time when I was shooting the film. We are looking forward to March screenings organized as part of Una Hakika, a project…

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February Screenings

We are excited to share about two screenings this month. Aweil, South Sudan Helena Puig Larrauri and Michaela Ledesma, co-organizers of Build Peace, reached out to us to bring the film to their good work in South Sudan. Helena wrote: The project in Aweil will introduce a group of people to…

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Post-Production Update – Film Music Part 1

One of my favorite parts of the post-production process is working with composers and musicians on film music. When I began working on Peace in Our Pockets, I listened to a good bit of traditional and contemporary Kenyan music. From hip hop infused tracks, to sparse compositions performed on traditional…

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First Classroom Screening at UC-Berkeley

Thanks to Professor Tetsushi Ogata at UC-Berkeley for reaching out to us for our first university screening of the rough cut. In October Professor Ogata showed the film in his class, "Conflict Resolution, Social Change and Cultures of Peace" class, an upper division course taught in the Peace and Conflict…

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Rough Cut Screening: UNDP-Sudan & the Social Good Summit

Last week Yusra Salim at UNDP-Sudan reported back on the rough cut screening of PEACE IN OUR POCKETS at their first ever Social Good Summit. I appreciated Yusra and her colleague Margunn for reaching out to me and arranging for a screening during this busy peacebuilding conference. A focus of…

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