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Technorati“We need more than just goodwill statements that end up shelved somewhere. We need action, mechanisms of implementation and monitoring to bring about real, sustainable changes to the situation,” he concluded.
Since its release last year, Shock Waves has been garnered awards including “Film Most Likely to Change the World Award” at Detroit Docs 2007, the CIDA Award for ”best Canadian documentary on international development,” and most recently the WACC-SIGNIS human rights film award.
Radio Okapi, which was praised by the filmmakers as “a precedent that can serve as an example for all countries that are zones of conflict,” first went on the air on Feb. 25, 2002, and is the first national radio in the history of the huge Central African country.
As of last month, eight regional stations cover the entire territory, and newscasts are broadcast in five languages to the 450 ethnic groups that make up the nation.
The station was created by the United Nations, under whose protection it operates, and the Hirondelle Foundation, a Swiss NGO composed of journalists who set up radio stations in zones of conflict.
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More information about Shock Waves at InformActionFilms.com.
