Bad Timing, a weblog devoted to the making of the first feature film in Zambian history. (Zambia is, of course, my favorite sub-Saharan nation.) With the obligatory companion blog on…the making of the film about the making of the first feature film in Zambian history. So, so meta.
I’d exchanged emails with Jabbes Mvula, the director, a few weeks back. He decided he wanted to get into filmmaking after the death of his three-year-old son in 2001. So I was very sad to read that another of his children died last month. That to me is the biggest gap between a place like Zambia and the developed world: the frequency with which people bury their dead. (I wrote a story about it back in 2004.)
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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