Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford Department for International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford
OX1 3TB
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The director, Salim Amin will introduce the film and follow it with a Q&A session.
ABOUT
Salim Amin is the chairman of CameraPix a media company based in Nairobi and London
http://www.camerapix.com/
TRAILER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXdPizc51So
SYNOPSIS
This movie immortalizes the inspirational legend that was Mohamed Amin AKA “Mo”; a Kenyan who became the world’s most famous photojournalist. Mo, photographer and frontline cameraman extraordinaire was the most famous photo-journalist in the world, making the news as often as he covered it.
His coverage of the 1984 Ethiopian famine proved so compelling that it inspired a collective global conscience and the greatest act of giving in the 20th century. He served as both the inspiration and as a catalyst for Band Aid, USA for Africa and Live Aid. His reporting shamed the world into action and undoubtedly rescued a country from absolute destruction by famine.
Mo’s remarkable life was cut tragically short in November 1996 when hijackers took over an Ethiopian airliner forcing it to crash land in the Indian Ocean killing 123 passengers and crew. Mo died on his feet as he attempted to negotiate & reason with the terrorists.