{"id":16206,"date":"2015-11-15T00:43:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T07:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/?post_type=film&#038;p=16206"},"modified":"2015-12-01T12:23:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T19:23:49","slug":"imba-means-sing","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/film\/imba-means-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"Imba Means Sing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elmuseocultural.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-16388\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/el-museo-e1446217224112-150x35.gif?resize=150%2C35\" alt=\"el-museo\" width=\"150\" height=\"35\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #2cb8ac;\">Showtime: Saturday\u00a0Dec 5th, 4:30 PM<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0at el Museo Cultural de\u00a0Santa Fe &gt; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketing.us.veezi.com\/purchase\/681?siteToken=YzixG7Wg7U%2BtijsfRnIPnA%3D%3D\">Buy Tickets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 1px solid #000;\" \/>\n<p><em>Imba Means Sing<\/em> is a character-driven, heartfelt story of resilience and the impact of education. The film follows Moses, Angel and Nina from the slums of Kampala, Uganda through a world tour with the Grammy-nominated African Children&#8217;s Choir. Their story is an intimate look at the inner workings of the Choir and how each child processes the joys and challenges of their life-changing opportunity.\u00a0We are the only film crew ever to secure all-access to the members of the African Children&#8217;s Choir.<\/p>\n<h4>website: <a href=\"http:\/\/imbafilm.com\">imbafilm.com<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMBA MEANS SING Trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/63089658?h=4b6513cd4f&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And: Omukwaano Means Love<br \/>\nReview of the documentary IMBU MEANS SING, submitted by Uganda<br \/>\nBy Laura K. Marsh<\/p>\n<p>Gratitude is the smile of an African child.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not trying to be overly sentimental here, but it is impossible not to feel the palpating gratitude and love radiating off of the children in the documentary IMBU MEANS SING.<br \/>\nThis is a film for families. Take your kids and realize what our country looks like to an African child from a dirt-floored house in a single water-pump village.<br \/>\n\tUganda as a country has had its share of devastation. As we saw depicted in the 2006 film version of THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, dictator Idi Amin murdered his own people, slaughtered his country\u2019s wildlife, and held the government hostage under his rule in the 1970s. I was in Uganda for a conference and travel the year Forrest Whitaker was portraying the self-proclaimed royal. And even at that time, the country was still limping its way back to some version of normalcy all those decades after Amin\u2019s violent reign.<br \/>\n\tPeople in the US are currently getting an idea of east African politics in Broadway\u2019s BOOK OF MORMON, where two (white) Missionaries are sent to a small village in northern Uganda. There they encounter famine, poverty, and AIDS, which are prevalent throughout today\u2019s Uganda. While BOM is meant to be shocking and silly, there are unfortunately abundant examples of human suffering in a region where the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army, the notorious group that forces youth to participate in terrorist activity, holds sway.<br \/>\n\tAnd then there is IMBU MEANS SING. This documentary shows what the power of positive thinking, love, teamwork, music, and determination can do in the smallest and poorest of village regions, in spite of all the hardships.<br \/>\nThe premise of the film is a children\u2019s \u201cshow choir\u201d (think GLEE) made up of children from Uganda. They must compete to make the team and then must practice to qualify to go on an international tour. Once they have completed the tour, they come back home to Uganda, and use the funds raised for proper schooling.<br \/>\n\tWe follow all of the children \u2013 aged 7 to 12, but particularly a 10-year old boy and girl \u2013 along the path from village to the US and back again. The kids were stunned and excited about the differences in their culture and ours, especially when they got to do home stays.<br \/>\n\tI witnessed this kind of African amazement with US culture first-hand when Kenyan family of mine came here to sing as part of a Quaker group. They landed in Des Moines, Iowa\u2026and were terrified. In Des Moines! There were \u201ctoo many white people and machines for everything!\u201d Things super normal to us, like baked potatoes, were strange food to them. \u201cAmericans must be very busy,\u201d Kazira confided, \u201cbecause they don\u2019t even have time to peel their potatoes!\u201d<br \/>\n\tThe children in the choir easily adapted to the oddities of foreign travel, and were always so thankful for everything from a hug to new clothes. And when they tearfully, excitedly returned home to their meager villages, they happily spread their joy, earnings, and experiences with their families. No one regretted going on the trip. More importantly, no one regretted coming home to the village.<br \/>\n\tI wish there was a way for US children to be shipped off to poor African villages for home stays, where they would learn to carry fresh water to the house, sleep in a bed with other people, cook food from animals and vegetables they have to buy in open-air markets, and where they would always feel loved and included even though they were so very different.<br \/>\n\tCan\u2019t drop your kid off in an African village? Then take them to see this film. You will feel more alive for doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime: Saturday\u00a0Dec 5th, 4:30 PM\u00a0at el Museo Cultural de\u00a0Santa Fe &gt; Buy Tickets Imba Means Sing is a character-driven, heartfelt story of resilience and the impact of education. 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