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Photo credits:
Frederick Rendina (top), Frederick Rendina (middle),
Bruno Sorrentino (bottom)
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Back to School
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 at 9 P.M.
The centerpiece of WIDE ANGLE's Season Five is the second installment in the multi-year documentary project, "Time for School." In 2003, WIDE ANGLE profiled children in seven countries -- Afghanistan, Benin, Brazil, India, Japan, Kenya, and Romania -- as they started their first year of school, often despite great odds. Three years later the series returns to visit each child, filming the first update on their progress in school. The children are endearing, and their contrasting lives provide rich insight into the disparities of opportunity around the globe: more than 100 million children worldwide are out of school.
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Producer/writer Judy Katz produced and wrote WIDE ANGLE's 2003 film, "Time for School." An award-winning producer for NOVA, CHILDREN'S TELEVISION WORKSHOP, and other PBS series, Katz was also the originating producer of EXPLORER JOURNAL for National Geographic Television. Under her supervision from 1992-1995, EXPLORER JOURNAL became a mainstay of National Geographic Explorer's two-hour weekly magazine show. Katz's independent film, AND BABY MAKES TWO, aired on the PBS series INDEPENDENT LENS.
The individual segments were shot and field produced by award-winning global filmmakers:
Bangkok-based Polly Hyman (Afghanistan) lived in Afghanistan from 2002 - 2004, when she filmed and directed two documentaries, SHADOWS and MALALAI -- a film profiling the life of the first policewoman in southern Afghanistan.
Paris-based Hervé Cohen (Benin and India)'s recent work includes UNE AUTRE VIE, an autobiographical film about the history and exile of Algerian Jews. His documentary ELECTRIC SHADOWS, about traveling movie projectionists in China, received first prize in the Oberhausen Film Festival, the Leipzig Film Festival, the Estonian Film Festival, and Montecatini in Italy.
U.S.-based Frederick Rendina (Kenya) recently produced and shot TURNING THE TIDE: TSUNAMI VOLUNTEERS, for the Discovery Network Travel Channel. His stories on the South Asian American response to the tsunami won a special South Asian Journalist Association Award. While based in Dakar, Senegal, Rendina produced and directed for National Geographic ON ASSIGNMENT and Associated Press Television News (APTN).
London-based Bruno Sorrentino (Japan and Romania)'s film A SAUDI SLAVE, a report on the abuse of housekeepers in Saudi Arabia, won the Royal Television Society Award, Rory Peck, and the One World Broadcasting Society Award. His RIVERS OF SAND, about an environmental catastrophe in Mali, won the Geneva International Prize for Television. Sorrentino's GROWING UP GLOBAL, winner of the Chicago International Television Award, is an on-going project charting the lives of children across the globe.
Alexandre Lima (Brazil) is based in Rio de Janeiro. His documentary credits include Assistant to the Director of Jose Padilha and Felipe Lacerda's celebrated film, BUS 174, about a Rio bus hijacking; and Assistant to the Director of the award-winning ESTAMIRA, an observational documentary about a schizophrenic woman living in a Rio landfill.
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