Women and children working a green field in rural Tajikistan

Selected Work / Earth Water

NGO · field · Tajikistan

Earth Water

A short promo film from rural Tajikistan, made with Earth Water International and the World Food Programme. Fields, schoolyards, kitchens, and the road between them. The work of feeding a place, seen in the place.

The camera stays with the people who keep it going — hoeing the rows, sitting the school meal, riding the last stretch of road. Not a talking head in Dushanbe office.

Goal

To show the program as it is done for the real people living and working it. Earth Water's primary aim is to help those in need in many areas of the world. For their work in Tajikistan, the goal was to highlight the incredible succes of their fundraising and contribution to the UN World Food Programme.

Outcomes

A film the Earth Water International can use for years to come — the field, the school, the actual people being helped everyday by their effors.

Directed by
Brendan O’Brien
For
Earth Water International
Location
Tajikistan

Film

Stills

  • A man hoes potato rows against poplar trees and green hills
  • A woman works the soil with a shovel while a child crouches beside her
  • A reservoir and green hills seen through tall grass
  • A switchback road winding through dry hills
  • A village sign for Shingovad on a mountain road
  • A vehicle on a dirt road beside a dry riverbed, seen from another car
  • A hand holding dried peas from an open sack
  • A boy with a bucket strapped to a bicycle, leaning against an adobe wall
  • A schoolgirl in uniform eating from a bowl
  • A World Food Programme land cruiser parked on a muddy track
  • Schoolchildren and visitors gathered on the steps of a rural school
  • A classroom in rural Tajikistan, visitors standing with pupils at their desks

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