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My People, My Land (Working Title)

Sponsored Project

  • Jialing Zhang, Director/Producer
  • Alexandra Codina, Producer
A group of Nigerian women perform a Chinese dance in traditional orange-colored Chinese dress.

About the Project

Chinese investors create one of the largest industrial zones in West Africa, where thousands of locals earn their livelihood at the risk of losing what they value most - sacred land, religious practices, and identity. Through verité scenes, the film follows both Chinese investors who dream of turning a backwater town into West Africa’s manufacturing epicenter and local community leaders who question the high price of survival in a country of profound inequity.