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Good Fortune
Screening in the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

June 24 @ 6:30pm 
Walter Reade Theater @ Lincoln Center
Directed by Landon Van Soest; Produced by Jeremy Levine & Landon Van Soest
Good Fortune explores how massive, international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit. Through intimate portraits of two Kenyans battling aid organizations to keep their homes, the film presents a unique opportunity to experience foreign aid through the people it is intended to benefit. In the rural countryside, Jackson's farm is being flooded by an American investor who hopes to alleviate poverty by creating a multi-million dollar rice farm. In Nairobi, Silva's home and business in Africa's largest squatter community are being demolished as part of a United Nations slum-upgrading project. With a broad scope and intimate style, the film portrays surprising stories of human perseverance. Filmmakers Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine will be present. Good Fortune was a selection of IFP's Spotlight on Documentaries at Independent Film Week 2007, where it won The Fledgling Fund Award for Socially Conscious Documentaries.
Also screening in Human Rights Watch are IFP members Anne Aghion's My Neighbor, My Killer and Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy, and Paco de Onis' The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court. Tickets on sale now.

Location Name:  Walter Reade Theater@ Lincoln Center

Address: New York, NY