We Thought He Had a Black Heart
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
Length: 03:01
Through their journey down Letaba road, Brandon, Keith, and Jameel quickly realise that appearances may not be the entire story and that there is much more to their neighbours than they think.
Youth reporters Brandon (14), Keith (13) and Jameel (11) live and attend school in Manenberg – a poor residential area on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa beset by high levels of unemployment, substance abuse, gang activity and violence. For the past year they have been coming to the local Community Centre to attend weekly radio workshops with the Children’s Radio Foundation.
"We Thought He Had a Black Heart" was produced by Clemence Petit-Perrot for the 2012 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge, a collaboration with EveryBlock, which invited anyone and everyone to produce short audio works featuring at least two neighbors, a color in the title, and three consecutive seconds of narrative silence.
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Through their journey down Letaba road, Brandon, Keith, and Jameel quickly realise that appearances may not be the entire story and that there is much more to their neighbours than they think.
Youth reporters Brandon (14), Keith (13) and Jameel (11) live and attend school in Manenberg – a poor residential area on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa beset by high levels of unemployment, substance abuse, gang activity and violence. For the past year they have been coming to the local Community Centre to attend weekly radio workshops with the Children’s Radio Foundation.
"We Thought He Had a Black Heart" was produced by Clemence Petit-Perrot for the 2012 Third Coast ShortDocs Challenge, a collaboration with EveryBlock, which invited anyone and everyone to produce short audio works featuring at least two neighbors, a color in the title, and three consecutive seconds of narrative silence.
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