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Aaron Kopp
Aaron Kopp is a US-based cinematographer and film director who grew up in Eswatini. Life Kopp shot and co-produced '' Saving Face'' (2012), the Oscar-winning documentary about acid attacks in Pakistan. He and his partner Amanda Kopp shot for ''The Hunting Ground'' (2015), about sexual assault on American college campuses. Aaron and Amanda Kopp's 2017 movie '' Liyana'', eight years in the making, is a mix of documentary and animated fable. A 'story within a story', about a young girl rescuing her twin brothers from kidnappers, emerges from a storytelling workshop in Likhaya Lemphilo Lensha (New Life Homes) orphanage in Kamfishane, Shiselweni Region. ''Liyana'' is executive-produced by Thandiwe Newton, who heard about the project through filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.Marlow SternThandie Newton on the 'Tragedy' of Trump and Her 'F*cking Awful' Time Exposing Hollywood Abuse ''Daily Beast'', 11 October 2018. Filmography As director * ''Likhaya'', 2009 * '' Liyana'', 2017 As ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eswatini
Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its north, west, south, and southeast. At no more than north to south and east to west, Eswatini is one of the smallest countries in Africa; despite this, its climate and topography are diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry lowveld. The population is composed primarily of ethnic Swazis. The prevalent language is Swazi (''siSwati'' in native form). The Swazis established their kingdom in the mid-18th century under the leadership of Ngwane III. The country and the Swazi take their names from Mswati II, the 19th-century king under whose rule the country was expanded and unified; its boundaries were drawn up in 1881 in the midst of the Scramble for Africa. After the Second Boer War, the kingdom, under the name of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |