Flora M’mbugu-Schelling
Flora M'mbugu-Schelling is a Tanzanian documentary filmmaker, best known for her film These Hands.
Flora M’mbugu-Schelling
- Name
- Flora M'mbugu-Schelling
- Birthplace
- Tanzania
- Education
- Tanzanian School of Journalism
- Occupation
- documentary filmmaker
- Known for
- her film These Hands.
- Languages
- English · Swahili
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Flora M'mbugu-Schelling is a Tanzanian documentary filmmaker, best known for her film These Hands.
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• Name — Flora M'mbugu-Schelling • Birthplace — Tanzania • Education — Tanzanian School of Journalism • Occupation — documentary filmmaker • Known for — her film These Hands.
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Born in Tanzania, M'mbugu-Schelling studied at the Tanzanian School of Journalism before doing further study in Germany and France. Her debut film, Kumekucha (1987), won a gold medal at the New York International Film Festival. These Hands documents the work of Mozambican refugee women, breaking rocks in a quarry in Tanzania.
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• Kumekucha [From Sun Up], 1987 • These Hands, 1992 • Shida and Matatizo, 1993
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