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For the shooting of One Size Fits All this little guy made my kushasha (dirty) pair of Adidas shine. Sure, I paid him the habesha (indigenous) price – in Addis Ababa you can get your shoes polished for 1 birr (0,06 euro cents). But I gave him a special ferenji (stranger) tip: shiny flip flops!
Filed under: One Size Fits All, lucvankemenade.nl | Tags: One Size Fits All
After five exhilirating weeks of shooting, the magic words have been heard on the streets of Addis Ababa: ‘It’s a wrap!’
While the carefull process of editing starts, we wouldn’t want to exclude you of all the amazing images we collected.
Click here for a peak at some still images from the already legendary documentary One Size Fits All.
Enjoy!
De toekomst van oorlog op het Afrikaanse continent lijkt verzekerd.Vooral in het oosten van het donkere continent lopen irritaties steeds hoger op. Nu is ruzie in deze explosieve regio niets nieuws.
Denk aan de tribale strijd in Oost-Congo, het grensconflict tussen Eritrea en Ethiopië en de heilige oorlog van moslimterroristen in vrijstaat Somalië. Maar er is meer dan etniciteit, territorium of religie om voor op de vuist te gaan. Wat te denken van grondstoffen en energievoorraden? En wat te denken van water? (more…)
Filed under: lucvankemenade.nl | Tags: Broken Flowers, Jeffrey Wright, Meles Zenawi, Syriana
It is time for a free consult to Hollywood, Nollywood, Bollywood or maybe – in the near or far future – Bolewood film makers.
Editor’s note: For those of you who have never been to Addis (why haven’t you?): Bole is the posh part of town. That’s why Ethiopia’s film industry should be called Bolewood. Credits go to the owner of a photo shop with the same name in Getu Building.
If you would want to make a feature length movie about (more…)
This week the One Size Fits All (OSFA) crew went to the mountains just outside of Addis Ababa to film teenage running stars Abebe and Afternake.
These young athletes come from a small village near the Ethiopian capital and train like maniacs. They get up early every morning to either run in the mountains or work on their stamina on the stairs of Meskel Square. All this to achieve their one big goal: becoming the new Kenenisa Bekele or Haile Gebrselassie (more…)
