White black boy /
In Tanzania, albino body parts and blood are used in magic potions created by witch doctors and are sold for huge amounts of money. To protect albino children, the government sends them to boarding schools, far away from their families. Here they live more or less abandoned in a world without adults...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English with English subtitles. |
| Published: |
Zürich, Switzerland :
First Hand Films,
2012.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | In Tanzania, albino body parts and blood are used in magic potions created by witch doctors and are sold for huge amounts of money. To protect albino children, the government sends them to boarding schools, far away from their families. Here they live more or less abandoned in a world without adults, small children taking care of even smaller. Following Shida through his first year at his new home, we see from a child's pespective the consequences of being hunted and unwanted. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed June 29, 2020). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (58 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:57:07 |
| Awards: | Nominated 2013 Bodil Awards, Bodil for Best Documentary Nominated 2013 Göteborg Film Festival, Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary |
| Production Credits: | Producer, Jacob Oliver Krarup ; cinematographer, Talib Rasmussen ; editor, Rasmus Stensgaard Madsen. |