Good fortune / Transient Pictures ; a film by Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine.

UN Habitat promises better housing to residents of the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Meanwhile in the Kenyan countryside, Dominion Farms, a private U.S. company, hopes to elevate the local standard of living by converting pastures and farmland into rice fields. By taking their camera directly to th...

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Uniform Title:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Corporate Authors: Transient Pictures (Firm)
PBS Video
Other Authors: Levine, Jeremy
Van Soest, Landon
Language:English
Swahili
Language and/or Writing System:
In English, with some dialogue in Swahili and Dholuo, with English subtitles; optional subtitles in English (SDH).
Published: Brooklyn, NY : [Place of publication not identified] : Transient Pictures ; Distributed by PBS, [2010], ©2010.
Edition:[Widescreen version.].
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Genre:
Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD

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