When Toulouse invites himself in Tanzania

The Chief of tribe Nn 'on' will be the red thread

Marion documentary. © Jan / IntoPicture

Remember you some time ago the last days of registration to AVI International Scholarship, which allows everyone to enhance a project of solidarity trip and receive, if the project is selected, aid amounting to € 1000.

Give a voice to those that are never heard

For the 2014 edition, 63 projects were selected. Following lengthy discussions within the jury, three winners have had the chance to win the Grail; among them, Marion Longo, young Toulouse 21 years, launched the challenge to make a documentary film on the Hadzabe, a nomadic people of hunters and gatherers of the Tanzanian northern ethnic culture is very little known and threatened a day disappear to tourism and the Government always slightly more encroaching on their land.

Hadzabe

Student in ethnology and sociology, Marion has already seen its project be selected by the film festival of travel of the Grand camp, where she had the opportunity to be in residence, and thus to receive aid in the pursuit of its objective. Defining itself as a "little girl still naive and inexperienced", which has only a few trips under his belt, Marion Longo however proof of a beautiful force of character and desire without fault, encouraged by these rewards that are akin to material aid only to of sincere moral support.

A project mixing will, realism and hope

Occupied by his studies and a "food" job, Marion had to find time and strength to advance his project whatever the cost, despite the administrative constraints and the need to learn to handle the camera, write a screenplay and make a film the expectations of all, which is a reflection of the reality. The difficulties inherent in the size of the project, and against which the girl learns to cope: "When everything starts to get complicated and that fatigue points, I remember just the feeling of serenity that had invaded me arriving there, the confidence that I had naturally to this group Hadza and freedom I felt in every fibre of my body"

Therefore in December that the student will return on the field, this time for several months, in order to realize this beautiful film project that it hopes to then disseminate as widely as possible. Voiceover without artifice, it will only give the floor to the Hadzabe people, who will be able to freely explain its situation, its fears that one day his ethnic group disappear, his powerlessness in the face the constant reduction of the land on which it operates since almost forty thousand years.

Congratulations to Marion for this very nice outpouring of solidarity, and good road to it as well as the two other winners of the scholarship AVI International!