Screening at this year’s Newport Beach Film Festival in California, Tunahaki is a documentary film showcasing nine orphans who use their dance and acrobatic skills to change their lives. The film is directed by Mason Bendewald.
Synopsis:
Tunahaki is the extraordinary story of nine gifted orphans and their journey from Africa to America and back. The story begins at an orphanage called Tunahaki, in Tanzania at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
We meet Abdul, a young man walking down a dirt road to school, he’s thankful for what he has despite his lot in life. Abdul and the other children are talented acrobats, a skill they have learned from “Teacher-David”, a poor man who runs the orphanage. David gives the children hope for a future.
Scott Fifer, an American takes a volunteer vacation and ends up at Tunahaki. Scott falls in love with the children and makes a...
Synopsis:
Tunahaki is the extraordinary story of nine gifted orphans and their journey from Africa to America and back. The story begins at an orphanage called Tunahaki, in Tanzania at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
We meet Abdul, a young man walking down a dirt road to school, he’s thankful for what he has despite his lot in life. Abdul and the other children are talented acrobats, a skill they have learned from “Teacher-David”, a poor man who runs the orphanage. David gives the children hope for a future.
Scott Fifer, an American takes a volunteer vacation and ends up at Tunahaki. Scott falls in love with the children and makes a...
- 4/16/2011
- by Cynthia
- ShadowAndAct
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