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A Walk to Beautiful

A film by Mary Olive Smith

Ethiopia, 2007 (85 minutes)

Stories of five Ethiopian women who suffer from devasting childbirth injuries embark on a journey to reclaim their lost dignity...

SCREENINGS:

St. Anthony Main

4/23 Thurs. 7:15 PM

Director Present!

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OAK ST. CINEMA: MON MAY 4th 7:15 PM

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Synopsis
A Walk to Beautiful tells the stories of five Ethiopian women who suffer from devastating childbirth injuries and embark on a journey to reclaim their lost dignity. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, these women are left to spend the rest of their lives in loneliness and shame. They make the choice to take the long and arduous journey to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in search of a cure and a new life.

"A Walk to Beautiful was truly a labor of love for everyone at Engel Entertainment. Our field crews even took months of lessons in Amharic, the Ethiopian language, from one of our interns who happened to be of Ethiopian descent."
                                 
Thanks to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), for making this film available.

(In Amharic;  English subtitles) 

 
About the Director
Mary Olive Smith, director, producer and cinematographer to introduce the film!  Winner of the Int'l. Documentary Association's Best Documentary award in 2007 (beating Oscar nominees Sicko and Taxi to the Dark Side); A Walk to Beautiful is Mary Olive's feature-length directorial debut, after her many citations and major tv plaudits.  For her documentary work, she traveled to Sub-Saharan Africa five times to make A Walk to Beautiful.