KIBERA SMILES AGAIN - Script
01:00 ITV, JECINTER ADHIAMBO, KIBERA INHABITANT (SWAHILI)
“I see a head, someone laughing… another one is pouting…so I don’t know what is going on. But I am happy to see them up there.”
01:16 ITV, IMALDER AOKO, KIBERA INHABITANT (SWAHILI)
“I actually don’t understand, I have come from far…because when I was at the far end, I could see them arranged here. So I have taken my time to come and see what it’s all about. I can see one is angry, another one is laughing… and another is smiling”
01:32 SHOT OF PICTURES OF FACES OF WOMEN DISPLAYED ON A RAISED GROUND
01:34 VARIOUS SHOTS OF THE PICTURES ON ROOF TOPS
01:42 WIDE AERIAL SHOT OF KIBERA SLUMS 01:46 TITLE “PICTURES FROM TRAINS
01:46 ITV, JR, PHOTOGRAPHER (ENGLISH)
“I chose women in the whole project, I think that through the woman’s condition you can know much more about the culture of the country.”
01:54 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI (KISWAHILI)
“I wanted my picture to be taken because it was my first time for my picture to be taken.”
02:00 VARIOUS CLOSE-UP SHOTS OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI’S FACE
02:07 SHOT OF JR HOLDING A SKETCH PAPER
02:08 ITV, JR, PHOTOGRAPHER (ENGLISH)
“My name is JR and I come from France and I am 25 years old. I chose Kibera because I Heard about Kibera so much in the media even outside the country and also during the post election, so I wanted to come and see by myself who are the people behind Kibera.”
02:29 SHOT OF ROWDY YOUTHS BURNING TYRES ON THE ROAD IN KIBERA
02:36 SHOT OF POLICE CHASING THE YOUTH WHILE FIRING IN THE AIR
02:39 VARIOUS SHOTS OF JECINTER ADHIAMBO OUTSIDE HER SHANTY
02:46 ITV, JECINTER ADHIAMBO, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
"I lost three members of my family. I lost three children. I was worried because people were being killed. My neighbor’s daughter was killed on this spot after a gun was fired at the railway tracks. People ran into the houses, but we did not have a gate so we were worried about our children."
03:07 VARIOUS SHOTS OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI WITH HER CHILDREN OUTSIDE THEIR SHANTY
03:11 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI (KISWAHILI)
“We were unable to find any food to eat… water was hard to find and bullets were being fired in the air and there was a lot of chaos. So when we in our houses we were just risking our lives”
03:32 REVERSE SHOT OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI
03:35 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI (KISWAHILI)
“I have lived here in Kibera for 12 years”
03:41 SHOT OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI IN HER HOUSE
03: 53 ITV ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“I live with my family”
03:56 SHOT OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI WITH TWO OF HER CHILDREN
03:58 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“I have seven children"
04:03 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“I don’t have a job. I look for Casual jobs so that I can fend for my family.”
04:03 CLOSE-UP SHOT OF AMOJONG EREBOI’S FEET
04:10 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“I would like to start a business because I am not well educated. I only completed my primary education, so I cannot get a job. I would like to do some business so that I can take my kids to school.”
04:23 SHOT OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI’S HAND
04:25 ITV, JR, PHOTOGRAPHER (ENGLISH)
“Whatever the struggle is, they always fight and they fight for reasons; sometimes its for the poor, sometimes for their children, sometimes for their family and when I met women in the post conflict situations of Liberia and Sierra Leone, where there has been such a story story, you cant imagine that after a story like that they would give a face or smile like that”
04:47 VARIOUS CLOSE UP SHOT OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI’S FACE
04:51 SHOT OF JR AND HIS COLLEAGUE
04:52 CLOSE UP SHOT OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI’S FACE
04:53 ITV, JR, PHOTOGRAPHER (ENGLISH)
“I would like to show other visions of those women because behind that, of course there is hope and there are feelings and that’s what I want to show, sort of, and I think that what they also want to show, that’s why they get so expressive”
05:04 VARIOUS SHOT OF THE PICTURES ON ROOFTOPS 05:10 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“So I saw it was good to have my picture taken because it might be a miracle that even us women will be examples in the future”
05:30 ITV, JR, PHOTOGRAPHER (ENGLISH)
“And so we chose the roofs that can be seen from the sky, Google maps for example, from the plane and also the train, so that the pictures would travel … and we did it here in this place so that when the people walk, the whole day they can actually see it on the trail line, they can also the roofs with the faces. For me the faces of Kibera of the women portray strength, energy, you know, the struggle and I see that you can see it through the eyes. At the same time you know it’s a mixture of hope and fear and also of happiness and weakness. I see that that’s all part of human beings and the women here, they were proud to have their full hope for the people to know their story. They say ‘I want people to know what is my life ”
06:27 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“I really enjoyed myself because it will be an example to other people when they see that a poor woman can smile like that, that’s why I had my picture taken for the rest of the world to see.”
06:40 VOX POP, FEMALE KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“I saw the photos of the eyes when they came, they were carrying certain things but I didn’t know what they were for. But when I came back in the evening I found the pictures displayed and when a looked a could actually see the eyes in the pictures”
06:54 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“The eyes show that there is joy coming to the world, so whenever I look up I see that joy is coming to the world… and also to our Kibera”
07:10 SHOT OF TWO MEN CARRYING A LUGGAGE AS THEY RUN THROUGH IN AN ALLEY
07:10 ITV, JR, PHOTOGRAPHER (ENGLISH)
“The population has been understanding the project some did not, so they are asking what is this about, what is the benefit to the community; a lot of questions that are good because it creates talks, you know and people try to get their own feeling about it, how they see the project and I think that is very interesting, I think we even came with something that’s going, we say that’s what we do, we do it for the people if they don’t want it they can take it off. It’s actually their reaction that is more interesting than ours.”
07:41 VOX POP FEMALE KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“The first picture shows the anger she had during the violence, but I don’t understand if that picture is about the post election violence. The second one shows happiness because of the victory we got through the election of Obama.In the third one, she is smiling because she is happy about the peace that was mediated by Kofi Annan”
08:03 VOX POP FEMALE KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“This is great progress, I feel very happy. We discuss the pictures throughout the evening with the neighbors”
08:10 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“When I got out of my house and saw my picture was up their had great happiness in my hear…because it’s a miracle to see myself up there and I never expected to be there."
08:21 ITV, JR, PHOTOGRAPHER (ENGLISH)
“I use the streets, since eight years that I have been doing this and I sue the street so that everybody could benefit from art and so its enough that people who don’t go to museums or galleries, I bring it to the streets so that, you know, you don’t have to pay the entrance of a museum or gallery to see art. Art is something that can give hope and happiness or comments and reactions that give happiness to people… so I don’t see why even people of Kibera should not benefit from art"
END
01:00 ITV, JECINTER ADHIAMBO, KIBERA INHABITANT (SWAHILI)
“I see a head, someone laughing… another one is pouting…so I don’t know what is going on. But I am happy to see them up there.”
01:16 ITV, IMALDER AOKO, KIBERA INHABITANT (SWAHILI)
“I actually don’t understand, I have come from far…because when I was at the far end, I could see them arranged here. So I have taken my time to come and see what it’s all about. I can see one is angry, another one is laughing… and another is smiling”
01:32 SHOT OF PICTURES OF FACES OF WOMEN DISPLAYED ON A RAISED GROUND
01:34 VARIOUS SHOTS OF THE PICTURES ON ROOF TOPS
01:42 WIDE AERIAL SHOT OF KIBERA SLUMS 01:46 TITLE “PICTURES FROM TRAINS
01:46 ITV, JR, PHOTOGRAPHER (ENGLISH)
“I chose women in the whole project, I think that through the woman’s condition you can know much more about the culture of the country.”
01:54 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI (KISWAHILI)
“I wanted my picture to be taken because it was my first time for my picture to be taken.”
02:00 VARIOUS CLOSE-UP SHOTS OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI’S FACE
02:07 SHOT OF JR HOLDING A SKETCH PAPER
02:08 ITV, JR, PHOTOGRAPHER (ENGLISH)
“My name is JR and I come from France and I am 25 years old. I chose Kibera because I Heard about Kibera so much in the media even outside the country and also during the post election, so I wanted to come and see by myself who are the people behind Kibera.”
02:29 SHOT OF ROWDY YOUTHS BURNING TYRES ON THE ROAD IN KIBERA
02:36 SHOT OF POLICE CHASING THE YOUTH WHILE FIRING IN THE AIR
02:39 VARIOUS SHOTS OF JECINTER ADHIAMBO OUTSIDE HER SHANTY
02:46 ITV, JECINTER ADHIAMBO, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
"I lost three members of my family. I lost three children. I was worried because people were being killed. My neighbor’s daughter was killed on this spot after a gun was fired at the railway tracks. People ran into the houses, but we did not have a gate so we were worried about our children."
03:07 VARIOUS SHOTS OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI WITH HER CHILDREN OUTSIDE THEIR SHANTY
03:11 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI (KISWAHILI)
“We were unable to find any food to eat… water was hard to find and bullets were being fired in the air and there was a lot of chaos. So when we in our houses we were just risking our lives”
03:32 REVERSE SHOT OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI
03:35 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI (KISWAHILI)
“I have lived here in Kibera for 12 years”
03:41 SHOT OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI IN HER HOUSE
03: 53 ITV ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“I live with my family”
03:56 SHOT OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI WITH TWO OF HER CHILDREN
03:58 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“I have seven children"
04:03 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“I don’t have a job. I look for Casual jobs so that I can fend for my family.”
04:03 CLOSE-UP SHOT OF AMOJONG EREBOI’S FEET
04:10 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“I would like to start a business because I am not well educated. I only completed my primary education, so I cannot get a job. I would like to do some business so that I can take my kids to school.”
04:23 SHOT OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI’S HAND
04:25 ITV, JR, PHOTOGRAPHER (ENGLISH)
“Whatever the struggle is, they always fight and they fight for reasons; sometimes its for the poor, sometimes for their children, sometimes for their family and when I met women in the post conflict situations of Liberia and Sierra Leone, where there has been such a story story, you cant imagine that after a story like that they would give a face or smile like that”
04:47 VARIOUS CLOSE UP SHOT OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI’S FACE
04:51 SHOT OF JR AND HIS COLLEAGUE
04:52 CLOSE UP SHOT OF ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI’S FACE
04:53 ITV, JR, PHOTOGRAPHER (ENGLISH)
“I would like to show other visions of those women because behind that, of course there is hope and there are feelings and that’s what I want to show, sort of, and I think that what they also want to show, that’s why they get so expressive”
05:04 VARIOUS SHOT OF THE PICTURES ON ROOFTOPS 05:10 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“So I saw it was good to have my picture taken because it might be a miracle that even us women will be examples in the future”
05:30 ITV, JR, PHOTOGRAPHER (ENGLISH)
“And so we chose the roofs that can be seen from the sky, Google maps for example, from the plane and also the train, so that the pictures would travel … and we did it here in this place so that when the people walk, the whole day they can actually see it on the trail line, they can also the roofs with the faces. For me the faces of Kibera of the women portray strength, energy, you know, the struggle and I see that you can see it through the eyes. At the same time you know it’s a mixture of hope and fear and also of happiness and weakness. I see that that’s all part of human beings and the women here, they were proud to have their full hope for the people to know their story. They say ‘I want people to know what is my life ”
06:27 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“I really enjoyed myself because it will be an example to other people when they see that a poor woman can smile like that, that’s why I had my picture taken for the rest of the world to see.”
06:40 VOX POP, FEMALE KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“I saw the photos of the eyes when they came, they were carrying certain things but I didn’t know what they were for. But when I came back in the evening I found the pictures displayed and when a looked a could actually see the eyes in the pictures”
06:54 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“The eyes show that there is joy coming to the world, so whenever I look up I see that joy is coming to the world… and also to our Kibera”
07:10 SHOT OF TWO MEN CARRYING A LUGGAGE AS THEY RUN THROUGH IN AN ALLEY
07:10 ITV, JR, PHOTOGRAPHER (ENGLISH)
“The population has been understanding the project some did not, so they are asking what is this about, what is the benefit to the community; a lot of questions that are good because it creates talks, you know and people try to get their own feeling about it, how they see the project and I think that is very interesting, I think we even came with something that’s going, we say that’s what we do, we do it for the people if they don’t want it they can take it off. It’s actually their reaction that is more interesting than ours.”
07:41 VOX POP FEMALE KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“The first picture shows the anger she had during the violence, but I don’t understand if that picture is about the post election violence. The second one shows happiness because of the victory we got through the election of Obama.In the third one, she is smiling because she is happy about the peace that was mediated by Kofi Annan”
08:03 VOX POP FEMALE KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“This is great progress, I feel very happy. We discuss the pictures throughout the evening with the neighbors”
08:10 ITV, ROSE AMOJONG EREBOI, KIBERA RESIDENT (KISWAHILI)
“When I got out of my house and saw my picture was up their had great happiness in my hear…because it’s a miracle to see myself up there and I never expected to be there."
08:21 ITV, JR, PHOTOGRAPHER (ENGLISH)
“I use the streets, since eight years that I have been doing this and I sue the street so that everybody could benefit from art and so its enough that people who don’t go to museums or galleries, I bring it to the streets so that, you know, you don’t have to pay the entrance of a museum or gallery to see art. Art is something that can give hope and happiness or comments and reactions that give happiness to people… so I don’t see why even people of Kibera should not benefit from art"
END