Learning on ScreenRwanda & Juliet
- Synopsis
- RWANDA & JULIET is a feature-length documentary that follows ivy league professor emeritus Andrew Garrod to Kigali, Rwanda, where he mounts Romeo and Juliet with Rwandan college students from both Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds. Twenty years have passed since the 1994 Genocide that left 1,000,000 Tutsis dead. Predominantly orphans, the cast of young Rwandans, tackle their country’s past and their own future as hopes, expectations, pasts, personalities and cultures collide as opening night approaches.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada
- Medium
- Film
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 2016
- Duration
- 88 mins
Credits
- Director
- Ben Proudfoot
- Producer
- Andrea Batista
- Cinematographer
- David Bolen; Doug Burgdorff
- Writer
- Ben Proudfoot
- Music
- Nicholas Jacobson-Larson
- Contributor
- Andrew Garrod
Additional Details
- Production type
- Documentary/Educational/News
- Plays
- Romeo and Juliet
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Rwanda; Untrained actors; Student productions
Distributor
- Name
Breakwater Studios
- rwanda@breakwaterstudios.com
- Phone
- (902) 405-4440
- Address
- 5174 Bishop Street
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Canada
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