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A Kalahari Family, Part V
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Secondary Title:
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: Death By Myth
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Filmmaker Name:
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John Marshall
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Film Length:
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90 min
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Film Year:
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2002
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Duration:
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76-90 min
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Decade:
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2000s
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Series:
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!Kung series
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Subtitle Language:
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English subtitles
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Color:
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color
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Namibian independence attracts vast amounts of international aid, but development programs no longer benefit Ju/'hoan farms. We witness the power of the "Bushman myth." This myth - a belief that Ju/'hoansi live uniquely in harmony with nature and are born to hunt. Promised great wealth, Ju/'hoansi vote to establish a nature conservancy. When their profits are a meager 75 Namibian dollars ($10.50 US) each, Ju/'hoansi ask, "Where is all the money going?"
About A Kalahari Family
A Kalahari Family is a five-part, six-hour series documenting 50 years in the lives of the Ju/'hoansi of southern Africa, from 1951 to 2000. These once independent hunter-gatherers experience dispossession, confinement to a homeland, and the chaos of war. Then as hope for Namibian independence and the end of apartheid grows, Ju/'hoansi fight to establish farming communities and reclaim their traditional lands. Through depiction of their efforts of the Ju/hoansi to participate as farmers in the contemporary economy and advocate for their rights to do so, the series challenges stereotypes of primitive and unchanging "bushmen."
The five films in the series are:
SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Best Environmental TV Series, FICA - International Festival of Environmental Film & Video, Brazil, 2003
Special Prize: Homage to the Films of John Marshall; Bilan du Film Ethnographique, Paris, 2003
Grand Jury Award, Best in World Cinema, DC Independent Film Festival, Washington DC, 2003
Basil Wright Film Prize, RAI 8th Ethnographic Film Festival, England, 2003
Jury Award, Athens Film Festival, 2003
Environmental Anthropology Prize, CineEco Festival, Portugal, 2003
Best Film, Jury Award, XII International Festival of Ethnographical Films, Nuoro, Italy, 2004
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