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| Funu-Jëm? ("where do we go from here") | |
 | Funu-Jëm is a documentary about the men and women who have founded and sustained Kaani-Gui, a neighborhood theater/dance troupe. Witness the joy that flows from them as they discover their own talents; watch them struggle in rehearsal to create socially relevant dances and songs to accompany the plays they perform in the most rural villages. |
| Funu-Jëm is also the name of the troupe's best known play; like all their works, it is educational and provocative: it is about AIDS. Watch Kaani-Gui perform, on stages of sand, a drama that introduces the most basic facts of AIDS and HIV transmission to audiences whose lifestyles seem to have changed little over the last hundred years. Listen to the Chief Medical Officer of the district of St-Louis describe the unique impact of their performance on the villagers, measurably changing their sexual and hygienic behavior .... saving lives. |
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On our website, you can learn more about our project, see some samples, read Kaani-Gui's play, meet the troupe, and find out how you can help support them. Our documentary is fiscally sponsored by the the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA.) Your contribution through NYFA is tax-deductible. Please visit our contact page to get in touch. | |