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  • A Chance for Peace (2017)
  • 60 min | Documentary
A Chance for Peace (2017)
60 min | Documentary
Kenya's post-election violence received little coverage in the mainstream US media. Six-hundred thousand people were displaced and nearly 2,000 people died, but it was treated as a throw-away story, summarized as "just another tribal ...See moreKenya's post-election violence received little coverage in the mainstream US media. Six-hundred thousand people were displaced and nearly 2,000 people died, but it was treated as a throw-away story, summarized as "just another tribal conflict in Africa." But the narrative of the barbaric Africans wasn't the whole story - and Tyler, an 24-year-old resident of California, knew that. He knew that because he had volunteered in Kenya in the months leading up to the election. His host father, Emmanuel Leina just so happened to be running for Member of Parliament. The then naive art student became an impassioned campaign speaker. It wasn't until Tyler return to California that the violence breaks out in Kenya. With limited news coverage, Tyler relies on Facebook to connect with Emmanuel. Each day is uncertain. Will Emmanuel survive or be killed? Thus emerged the documentary filmmaker. Risking everything, Tyler sets out to tell the story of peace he knew no one else would cover. What he saw would stay with him for 9 years until the completion of A Chance for Peace could be realized. When Tyler arrived in Kenya, three unsung heroes emerged. One, a vagabond street artist turned peace messenger; the second, a rural clinic nurse turned medical marvel; and the third, a Maasai pioneer in education transforming the future of his community literally from the ground up. Part travelogue, part testimony, part coming-of-age, A Chance for Peace shows us what it look like when we don't accept peace as just the absence of violence. The men, women, and children in this film collectively challenge the preconceived notions of Africa as hopeless and desperate and create a new identity of hope and action by will and faith alone. But with entire communities relying on them, how sustainable can it be? Before the answer to that question can be answered, Tyler first must undergo his own crisis to find out - a crisis that takes him all over the world from the slums of Nairobi to the streets of Cairo to learn about peace and to dismantle the misguided media narrative of Africa as "The Dark Continent." Written by Tyler Batson See less
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Tyler Batson
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Tyler Batson
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Frank Kraljic
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Tyler Batson | Yassin Koptan
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