I will repost an article from Deutsche Welle World Blog - I did a Google Translation as its in German.
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Dates with good prospects
Caption: Wolfram Huke and Mercy Murugi planning a joint documentary in Kenya
One of the ways this is called "Global Speed Matching". One can imagine that as speed dating, but just mainly to business level. Everyone has got three minutes time, compared to its move into the spell that put him a flea in his ear. In Wolfram Huke and Mercy Murugi it worked pretty well. Wolfram Huke that the name of the Kenyan could not notice right away, had nothing to do with it, but with its sensory overload, as far as personal data. "With some I've already talked three times, but they must tell me every time, where they are," admits the choice of the Munich-meekly.
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"On the post production of my first feature film, I had almost forgotten that I had applied for the campus," quips Mercy Murugi. Her film is called "Togetherness Supreme" and is playing in Africa's largest slum, Kibera, a slum in Nairobi. Their production company has a film school in this slum. Wolfram Huke and here comes into play. He studied at the Academy for Television and Film Munich and has his first diploma film submitted to the campus, "cheerfulness eV" called the documentary. He accompanied the large fair of a small town in Thuringia - Hukes hometown, which is lost youth.
Murugi and Huke have tried both a sense of home movies. And on the lookout for new projects, they are now've found that: The first step could be that the German director in the film school in the slums are workshops. A bit like the "Meet the Expert" Sahnestücke at the "Berlinale Talent Campus". As a second step, a joint documentary film is planned over the people of the Ogiek, who live in Kenya in the Mau Forest and should be expelled. Wolfram Huke immediately makes the "Dine & Shine" whiz dinner with Dieter Kosslick and Heike Makatsch: The following day is the deadline for a research grant that might cause him to Kenya.
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