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Title:

Good fortune [videorecording] : sometimes our best intentions cause more harm than good / a film by Transient Pictures ; directed/produced by Landon Van Soest ; produced by Jeremy Levine.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

Distributed by PBS,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

1 videodisc (DVD) (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Slums--Nairobi--Nairobi--Video disc (DVD).
Kibera (Nairobi, Kenya)--Video disc (DVD).
Poor--Nairobi--Nairobi--Video disc (DVD).
United Nations Human Settlements Programme.--Slum Upgrading Facility--Video disc (DVD).
Dominion Farms--Video disc (DVD).
Economic development projects--Nairobi--Nairobi--Video disc (DVD).
Economic assistance--Nairobi--Nairobi--Video disc (DVD).
Documentary films--Video disc (DVD).
DVD-Video discs.

Other Authors:

Van Soest, Landon.
Griffin, T.
PBS Video.

Notes:

Special features: deleted scenes.

Summary:

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 the communities affected by these two ambitious development projects, the filmmakers discover what these do-gooder institutions can't seem to, why their presence is unwelcome by the very people they are trying to help.

ISBN:

160883302X
9781608833023

UPC:

841887013055

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)