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Film Screening @ USC, Taper Hall of Humanities, located on the corner of Main St. that runs through middle of campus.
Q&A with Director/Producer Louise Hogarth
View the trailer at: www.dolfilms.org/promo.html
Join UNICEF@USC and NextAid as we show a film that highlights the problem of AIDS in South Africa and offers a realistic glimpse into the lives of children affected by this horrible disease.
Angels in the Dust is a story of hope and healing in the face of a staggering crisis. AIDS is leaving entire South African villages decimated and thousands of children orphaned, with no adults to raise them. The inspiring story of Marion Cloete, a university-trained therapist who— with her husband and three daughters— fearlessly walked away from a privileged life in a wealthy Johannesburg suburb to build Botshabelo, an extraordinary village and school that provides shelter, food, and education to more than 550 South African children.
Angels in the Dust is the true story of Marion and the orphans she cares for. The stories of the children are interwoven with the dramatic parallel saga of the orphaned elephants of Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa. The longtime government practice of culling— brutally killing adult elephants to control herd sizes— has torn apart the complex social fabric of elephant culture, a fabric that is not unlike that of the traditionally close-knit African village before Apartheid. Because the elephant society has been torn apart by culling, orphaned elephants have grown up exhibiting unusually violent behavior, such as attacking and goring rhinos. In the last few years, elder female elephants have been re-introduced into the Pilanesberg population in the hopes of resocializing the young. The experiment is working— and it offers a resonant reflection of the healing taking place for the human children being “reparented” by Marion at Botshabelo.
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