Their Story: ITLP 2009
Everyone who has been agrees that going to Tanzania is transformative, and documentary filmmaker Robert Poole
was charged with perhaps the most difficult task of all -- to bring that experience back for everyone.
From the excitement of the students to the enthusiasm of
the teaching artists, Bobby has returned with a beautiful portrait of ITLP's summer in Africa.
No Limitation on Education
Bobby Poole also mentored his assistant and ITLP alumnus, Calvin Michael, in a making his own original three minute film -- a story about a babu
(grandfather) who is illiterate and decides to go to primary school to learn to read.
Calvin wrote the script, cast the show with a friend's babu in the lead role -- and created a wonderful story....
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"This kind of arts programming has the potential to revolutionize education in Tanzania."
Augustine Mahiga
Tanzanian Ambassador to the United Nations & ITLP Board Member