Official Synopsis
A 10-minute participatory documentary made by a freshly trained-in-filmmaking group of young Kenyan Maasai women and men from the Maasai Mara, sharing their firsthand observations on climate change, changing seasons, land privatization, and cultural transformation.
Biography
Filmmaker(s): A group of young Maasai pastoralists, Joana Roque de Pinho and Nic Tapia.
Joana Roque de Pinho is an environmental anthropologist and visual ethnographer at the Centre for International Studies (CEI, Iscte-Lisbon University Institute) and at CICS.Nova, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), in Lisbon, Portugal.
Related Academic Publication
Roque de Pinho, J..
(2013).
Shooting climate change in the Maasai Mara: Aesthetics and Expectations in Participatory Filmmaking with Kenya Pastoralists.
Anthropology Now
, 5
(2)
, 74–90.
https://doi.org/10.1080/19492901.2013.11728404
Roque de Pinho, J..
(2020).
The Year People Helped Zebras to Stand Up: Climatic Variability and Extreme Weather Observed and Portrayed by Kenyan Maasai Pastoralists.
In Welch-Devine, M., Sourdril, A., Burke, B. (eds.),
Changing Climate, Changing Worlds. Ethnobiology.
.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37312-2_8
