Research Catalog

Title

Waiting / a film by Marie-Claude Harvey.

Publication

New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harvey, Marie-Claude
• National Film Board of Canada.
• First Run/Icarus Films.

Description

1 videocassette (33 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.

Summary

"Waiting chronicles the remarkable dignity of a people in a truly desperate situation. The people of the town of Alek have run out of food. The grain crop has been consumed, and enemies have stolen their livestock. Desperate, the people appeal for hunger relief. One hundred and forty five tons of grain are air-dropped into Alek, but there is a problem: without enough relief workers to distribute the food properly, there might be a riot. For a week, as the food sits on the ground, everyone, the starving Dinkas, and the well-fed aid workers, waits for relief"--Container.

Subjects

• Dinka (African people) > Social conditions
• Alek (Sudan) > Social conditions
• Short films
• Documentary films
• Food relief > Sudan > Alek

Genre/Form

• Documentary films.
• Short films.

Credits (note)

• Cinematographer, Marie-Claude Harvey ; editor, Michel̀e Hozer ; composer, Marco Giannetti ; produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

System Details (note)

• VHS.

Call Number

Sc Visual VRA-350

OCLC

38180837

Title

Waiting / a film by Marie-Claude Harvey.

Imprint

New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1996.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videocassette

Performer

Narrator, Marie-Claude Harvey.

Credits

Cinematographer, Marie-Claude Harvey ; editor, Michel̀e Hozer ; composer, Marco Giannetti ; produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

System Details

VHS.

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Added Author

Harvey, Marie-Claude, film director.

National Film Board of Canada.

First Run/Icarus Films.

Research Call Number

Sc Visual VRA-350