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Shooting with Mursi

Director: 
Ben Young
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Duration: 
54Min
Year of production: 
2009
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Cinematography: 
Ben Young
Sound: 
Ben Young
Editing: 
Ben Young
Production: 
Ben Young
Synopsis: 

The film tells the story of one of Africa's most isolated tribes - the Mursi - through the eyes of one of its members Olisarali Olibui, who carries in one hand a Kalashnikov and in the other - a camera. A pastoralist tribe living in an area of Ethiopia the size of Wles, the Mursi are surrounded by potential threats - fourteen other tribes, proposals to build a national park, and a new road bringing tourists.

"Shooting with Mursi" provides a compelling, and at times disturbing, insight into the life of a people whose culture, in the words of Olisarali, faces extinction.

Bio Director: 

Ben Young has edited and directed numerous films about people in the remotest regions of the world. He lived with Wodaabe in Niger and spent 2 months in the Amazon. "Making the film Shooting with Mursi with a member of the community opened my eyes in a way that normal observational documentary making can't. Olisarali is a natural, both in front of and behind the camera."

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