Jessica Beshir's film life is getting very interesting.
Here is my recent post (I've added the pertinent links at the bottom).
Beshir's film Faya Dayi was awarded $25,000 by Film Independent's ("Our mission is to champion creative independence in visual storytelling and support a community of artists who embody diversity, innovation and uniqueness of vision") Spirit Award:
The Film Independent Spirit Awards is the premier awards event for the independent film and television community.
Each year, the Spirit Awards brings together top talent from throughout the world of film and television. In addition to traditional categories such as Best Feature and Best Director, the Spirit Awards features a number of unique honors such as Best First Screenplay and the John Cassavetes Award (best feature under $500,000). Last year, the show introduced five new categories honoring outstanding TV storytelling and performances.
What WILL Beshir do next? Of course, the normal thing to do with all this money is to thank those Oromo youth, on whose backs she made this film, while living her comfortable life in her smart Brooklyn apartment.
I hate to repeat myself, but how about a drug rehabilitation centre, or even better, join forces with the half-Oromo (half-Amhara) prime minister of Ethiopia, PM Abiy, and pitch in her dollars for these Ethiopian youth?
Interesting!
"Great work undertaken so far in Oromia region to grow 130,000 hectares of low land wheat through irrigation. This current progress of a total 300,000 hectares planned, greatly demonstrates our import substitution aspirations and capacity." [Source of image and text]