FYI- If you are in the Chicago area, there will be a screening of Pumzi and I'll be doing a reading/booksigning on August 1st at the Dusable Museum.
Here is the Facebook announcement where you can learn more about the event.
Info about Pumzi:
Pumzi, 2010, KenyaA 20 min
Sc-Fi film about futuristic Africa, 35 years after World War III “The Water War”.Directed by Wanuri KahiuNature is extinct. The outside is dead. Ashalives and works as a museum curator in one of the indoor communities set up bythe Maitu Council. When she receives a box in the mail containing soil, sheplants an old seed in it and the seed starts to germinate instantly. Ashaappeals to the Council to grant her permission to investigate the possibilityof life on the outside but the Council denies her exit visa. Asha breaks out ofthe inside community to go into the dead and derelict outside to plant thegrowing seedling and possibly find life on the outside.
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