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I Am Because We Are DVD
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Release Date: 10/20/2009 Original Release: 2009 Format: DVD Rating:Not Rated Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable) UPC: 829567063521 Studio: Arts Alliance America
Education/General Interest, Documentary, Poverty, Africa
Description
In the African nation of Malawi, disease, poverty and famine have taken a horrible toll, especially on young people--in a country of 12 million people, one million are orphaned children. In 2006, pop singer Madonna began studying the crisis in Malawi, and decided to use her wealth and celebrity to help. She helped finance the construction of a home for orphans, founded a relief organization called the Raising Malawi Orphan Care Initiative, and she and her husband adopted a boy from Malawi, David Banda Mwale, whose mother had died. Now Madonna has written and produced I AM BECAUSE WE ARE, a documentary about Malawi that attempts to demonstrate at the need for action by profiling eight children growing up without parents; these youngsters long for a better life and strive to remain optimistic about the future despite the long odds fate has set against them. The film also features interviews with a number of people working to alleviate the ongoing tragedy in Malawi, including Bill Clinton, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs and leaders of a number of leading relief and charitable organizations. I AM BECAUSE WE ARE received its North American premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
DVD Features
Region 0 Note: Photo gallery Deleted scenes Extended interviews
The second poorest country in the world. A place where 66% of the population exists on less that $1 a day. A place where children cannot go to secondary school because they don't have the $10 per... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
