Hadithi za Kumekucha: Fatuma - Trailer from Jordan Riber on Vimeo. “My films are frequently about public health, HIV, gender rights, anti-corruption for two reasons-these are issues I care about, and these were things I could get funded.” Riber’s work inspired and mentored locals in filmmaking and acting, creating a culture of film. "There are a handful of Tanzanian filmmakers who embraced our approach to telling local stories, which was a lot more based in everyday reality than most popular Tanzanian films are.” The result are lush films, rich in texture and color, beautifully crafted and simultaneously socially conscious and deeply personal. He trained his crew locally and cast his films with local talent. “We had cousins who went to Western, and it seemed like a good place for me.”Īfter Western, Riber returned to Africa. Riber applied to Western after his sister had started. “My mother edited on a Steenbeck in the living room when I was a kid.” Growing up with film in his veins and Africa as his home made him a compassionate and resourceful storyteller. Fairhaven College alumnus Jordan Riber (’04) has been on a long journey from Zimbabwe to Tanzania to Fairhaven back to Tanzania back to Bellingham, collecting stories and telling them in the way his parents taught him-on film.
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