Swinging addis - long teaser | Dirk Van Den Berg

-> password for STAGE32 members: outremer "Without our donations Ethiopia would be dead..." This is most common prejudice most of us have about this part of Africa. Ethiopia is still synonymous for all the other countries of the world that the public associates with hunger and hopelessness, and very little space for anything else. This film wants to change that. We will show the new Ethiopia, a land of opportunity, with people of great firmness to pursue their goals. And we focus on the ability and ambition of the young generation. While we will not deny the country’s problems, we choose not to put them in the center of the film, rather focusing on the potential and prospects of a country that wants to be lead Africa into a new Africa - and in many ways already does. director: Dirk van den Berg DoP: Henrik Sauer art project Addis Ababa: Olivia Furtwängler filming in Addis Ababa between December 2013 and January 2014 delivery in early 2014 Chance. Challenge. Change. These are the three thematic pillars of this film. We show people who seize opportunities, confront challenges and bring about change. This film will be a double-portrait of the city: on the one hand the people during daytime, pulling heavy wooden carts with towering banana trees for miles until they reach the ‘Merkato’, Africa’s largest open-air market, where they sell their goods for only a few cents. And on the other hand nighttime, when Addis puts up her makeup and dresses in glitter and glamor, and the same people sing, dance, make music and enjoy parties, like in Buenos Aires or Istanbul. The double-portrait of contemporary Addis and Ethiopia will show the well-known "heavy-duty Africa" and provide insights of the mostly unknown "new Africa".