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Yosef Haimanot's - Mothersland :-
They ended up in the care of the social services. He was aged thirteen and didn't speak a word of English.
Between 1988 and 1991 he attended school but he didn't complete his studies because of the general difficulty
of the English language. A few years later; when he felt that he had a better understanding of English he went to
college to study performing arts.
He then went on to do a course in media communication, where he discovered that he had an affinity with the
moving image. This led him to take a degree in 'Film' followed by a MA in the same subject. In the process he lost
his own language and his family.
A documentary film about a young filmmaker who goes
back to his home country Ethiopia after 21 years in
exile. He backtracks his journey step by step showing
the places that he lived during the early years of his
life.
He was born in 1975 and lived through the civil war
and the famine of 1984, which he witnessed first-hand
as a child. In 1988 at the age of thirteen he and his
brother climbed an anchor chain and stowed away on
a Greek ship which was bound for the UK. While
onboard they were discovered and imprisoned until the
ship reached its destination. There, they were handed
over to the immigration officers.
Film music composer and production company - David Beard Music Production - Supplying music and sound design to commercial multimedia. Specialising in composing music and sound design for the moving image, David Beard Music Production creates original music for film, TV, corporate video, commercials, games, dance, theatre and Podcasts.
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