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Title Taking root : the vision of Wangari Maathai / a film by Lisa Merton and Alan Dater ; produced and directed by Lisa Merton and Alan Dater ; a Marlboro Production
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 80 min.)
Summary Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai tells the inspiring story of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and its founder Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The U.S.- educated Professor Maathai discovered her life's work by reconnecting with the rural women with whom she had grown up. Their lives had become intolerable: they were walking longer distances for firewood, clean water was scarce, the soil was disappearing from their farms, and their children were suffering from malnutrition. Maathai thought to herself, "Well, why not plant trees?" She soon discovered that tree planting had a ripple effect of empowering change. Countering the devastating cultural effects of colonialism, Maathai began teaching communities about self-knowledge as a path to change and community action. The women worked successively against deforestation, poverty, ignorance, embedded economic interests, and violent political oppression. They became a national political force that helped to bring down Kenya's 24-year dictatorship. Through TV footage and chilling first person accounts, Taking Root documents the dramatic confrontations of the 1980s and '90s as the women of the Green Belt Movement confront human rights abuses and environmental degradation. Cinema verité footage of the tree nurseries and the women and children who tend them brings to life the confidence and joy of people working to improve their own lives on their terms. Taking Root captures a world-view in which nothing is perceived as impossible and presents an awe-inspiring profile of Maathai's unstoppable and courageous thirty-year journey to protect the environment, defend human rights, and promote democracy
Notes Title from title frames
Originally produced in 2008
This version produced by New Day Films
Credits Editors, Mary Lampson, Tom Haneke, Jim Klein, Alan Dater ; original music, Samite ; cinematographer, Alan Dater
Performer Commentary, Wangari Muta Maathai, Naomi Kabura Mukunu, Leah Kisomo, Lilian Wanjiru Njehu, Rebah Wasike, Kamoji Wachiira, Moses Ndiritu Muta, Njogu Kahare, Kang'ethe Mungai, Ngorongo Makanga, Vertistine Mbaya, Nyakweya Ngunjiri, Njehu Gatabaki, Ruth Wangari Thungu, Reverend Peter Njenga, Lilian Muchungi, Fredrick Njau, Major General Njuki Mwaniki
Notes In English and Swahili with English subtitles. Closed-captioned
Full Frame Women in Leadership Award, Documentary Film Festival ; Best Feature Length Film Directed by a Woman, Nashville Film Festival, 2008 ; Best Documentary Feature, Honorable Mention, Nashville Film Festival, 2008 ; Amnesty International Human Rights Award, Durban Film Festival ; Harold & Margret Blank, Award for Storytelling, Vermont International Film Festival, 2008 ; Audience Award Winner, Projecting Change Film Festival, 2008 ; Green Cinema Award, Maudi Film Festival, 2008 ; Prix du Public, RIDM, 2008 ; Prix EcoCamera, RIDM, 2008
Subject Maathai, Wangari.
SUBJECT Maathai, Wangari fast
Subject Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya)
SUBJECT Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya) fast
Subject Tree planters (Persons) -- Kenya
Women conservationists -- Kenya
Women politicians -- Kenya
Nobel Prize winners -- Kenya
Nobel Prize winners
Tree planters (Persons)
Women conservationists
Women politicians
Kenya
Genre/Form documentary film.
Internet videos
Biographical films
Documentary films
Environmental films
Feature films
Nonfiction films
Documentary films.
Biographical films.
Nonfiction films.
Internet videos.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentaires.
Films biographiques.
Films autres que de fiction.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Form Streaming video
Author Merton, Lisa, film director, producer.
Dater, Alan, film director, film producer, director of photography.
Maathai, Wangari, interviewee.
Lampson, Mary, editor of moving image work.
Haneke, Tom, editor of moving image work.
Klein, Jim, 1948- editor of moving image work.
Samite, composer (expression)
Marlboro Productions (Firm), film production company.
New Day Films, film distributor.
Kanopy (Firm), publisher.
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