VOA标准英语2012--'Slum Film Festival' Showcases Urban Stories
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(八月)
'Slum Film Festival' Showcases Urban Stories
The festival is a community-based event, featuring films by and about people living in urban slums, screened in the open air. The event allows filmmakers to show their work to residents of the areas where the stories take place.
Robert Kodingo works with a foundation that trains budding filmmakers in Kibera, Nairobi's largest slum. He helped organize the festival.
"[The] Slum Film Festival was just a platform for some of these local productions that are done by people from a disadvantaged population, to give them a voice and enable them to express what they do best," Kodingo explained.
Kibera filmmaker Max P.V. says, in her films, she shows there is more to slum life than violence and poverty.
"Most people make the mistake of, they hear slum, and all they think is negative," she explained. "They think guns and ammunition 1, people dying, children being beaten up, girls being raped 2, I mean, that's not really what the slum is all about."
Film production anywhere is complex. But filmmakers from the slums face special challenges. Budgets are small or non-existent. The lack of resources means filming is done on-location instead of sets.
Max says cooperation is key to making these films.
"You find most young filmmakers come together and work together, so you'll find somebody has a camera somewhere, somebody has sound equipment somewhere, so you just come together and work on projects together," she added.
Emma Phillips works in Nairobi. She came to Kibera for the first time to attend the festival. "You are actually getting an insight into something that you're standing 3 in the middle of," Phillips noted 4. "So it's kind of like this non-obstrusive way of going into peoples' houses. It's not like a touristic thing."
American screenwriter Dwayne Johnson-Cochran teaches a film workshop in Kibera. He says his students have the potential to write scripts that are just as interesting as some of those produced by Hollywood.
"They come from an area that doesn't have a lot of money, and so the trials and tribulations 5 of day-to-day are in the stories they're writing," Johnson-Cochran added.
Organizers say the festival hosted more than 1,000 moviegoers over the week-long event. Robert Kodingo is pleased with this year's festival. "There is some great talent within the slums, and I think that if we just keep pushing the right buttons, five years from now, we're going to have some of the best films produced from Kenya, but with a concept that originated from Kibera slums, or Mathare slums, or any other slums within Kenya," Kodingo explained.
- A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition.几辆吉普车上的弹药已经用光了。
- They have expended all their ammunition.他们把弹药用光。
- A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
- We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致，不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
- The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
- Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
- the tribulations of modern life 现代生活的苦恼
- The film is about the trials and tribulations of adolescence. 这部电影讲述了青春期的麻烦和苦恼。 来自《简明英汉词典》