BETWEEN THE RAINS PRODUCTION.
ROCKY ROAD To reduce the amount of equipment around that would distract the community, the film was shot largely handheld on a Canon EOS C300 Mark III
F or centuries, humanity has stood upon the precipice of awareness. Climate change, melting glaciers and rising seas, unusually hot summers, dwindling forests and vanishing species remain resounding refrains in any environmental address. In this grand tapestry, the African continent stands as a storied backdrop, with its parched lands and age-old droughts causing constant consternation for the tribes that inhabit drier regions, like the Turkana-Ngaremara people in north Kenya. These communities have already begun to experience the consequences of climate change. Nowhere is this devastating story told better than in Between the Rains , winner of the best documentary category at the Tribeca Festival in June. The nomadic people’s way of life and relationship to nature are threatened by extreme drought, and these changes are rapidly altering their culture in the dry periods between rainfall. The film was blessed with rich local knowledge and experience. Co-director, DOP and editor Andrew H Brown partnered with Moses Thuranira (co- director/producer), a journalist and local activist who has devoted his life to ensuring the communities in Kenya’s northern region have a voice.
Samuel Ekomol (producer) is an activist and science teacher, born and raised in the village where the documentary is set, while Naomi Kambura (producer) is an environmentalist, advocate for climate change action and teacher also based in the north of the country. Residing by a secluded river deep in rural Kenya, one society endures the repercussions brought about by an erratic and severe climate. The Turkana- Ngaremara people have adopted an agrarian lifestyle. But as grazing land and water resources in Kenya continue to decline, inevitable clashes and a significant deterioration of pastoral
“Climate change poses an immediate threat to the Turkana community”
11. AUGUST 2023
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