Africa-Press – Tanzania. STUDENTS from four Dar es Salaam-based schools meet at the National Museum auditorium today to watch the Samira’s Dream documentary film that aims to enlighten them how to face the daily life challenges.
It also encourages the youth to strive towards attaining their educational dreams.
The students who attend the show come from Kisutu, Mikwambe, Benjamin Mkapa secondary schools and others are from Bunge Primary School.
The film began premiere from October 16th to November 7th this year.
The event which took place in Dar es Salaam last month brought together about 1,800 students from the schools and has been organized under the auspices of Wentworth Gas Limited Tanzania (WGL), a gas exploration and production company working in Southern regions of Tanzania.
“Through its corporate social responsibility policy, WGL has pledged to support the education and health sectors.
With this focus in mind, WGL has decided to support showcases of Samira’s Dream film to ensure more youths watch the film, get education,” a press statement signed by WGL’s Country manager Tanzania Richard Tainton said.
Speaking to reporters, Samira Masoud, and the movie’s main character said Samira’s Dream is a film that describes her life and the challenges she experienced in her upbringing as a girl, childhood marriage she went through at a time and finally managing to fulfill her dream.
She said it was not easy for her as a child having lost her mother at a tender age and continued chasing her dream of being a teacher.
She is now a teacher by profession and works at Sister Island School in Zanzibar as the head of the school. Nino Tropiano a film maker from Italy started to document her life when she was in secondary school when he was searching for one of the many cases of the girls in l Zanzibar and the Tanzania Mainland.
“It is a film that tells about my childhood, especially the challenges I encountered to reach this stage of life. It portrays a great lesson for youths, especially girls who are determined to struggle to achieve their dreams,” she said.
For his part, Tropiano the producer of the film said that this is the first film produced in Tanzania using Kiswahili language because he was interested in the language and the social and cultural environment of Tanzania.
He said his goal is not only to make films, but to ensure that filmmakers get enough education and make educational films to help others.
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