Best international reporting in the broadcast media showing a concern for the human condition
AWARD DATE: 2010
AWARD NAME: The Carl Spielvogel Award 2010
AWARD RECIPIENT: Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Transient Pictures for American Documentary/POV on PBS
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Good Fortune”
Good Fortune is an insightful look at the everyday life of average people in Kenya, presented against the backdrop of globalization and western notions of progress. It is compelling, breathtaking, moving, and it challenges conventional wisdom about what people in poor countries need from the world outside their own. It allows one woman to be representative of a culture, and treats her eloquent criticism of the failures of international aid in Africa with the kind of respect normally reserved for the suppliers of that aid.
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