Unbreakable Hope

in the Maasai Mara

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About the Film

Unbreakable Hope in The Maasai Mara explores the impact of educational and healthcare initiatives that changed – and continue to change – the challenging lives of tribal peoples in the Maasai Mara of Kenya. The 60-minute feature documentary focuses especially on the large Maasai communities and their traditions.

Female students of the WE-Charity sponsored high school and College describe the arduous struggle to escape the dangers of female genital mutilations and the practice of being forced into marriages at puberty.

The film demonstrates how education, and especially continuing education, empowers the young men, women and families who frequently face economic adversities in their rural communities. While celebrating the many positive aspects of Maasai tribal customs, the documentary juxtaposes the benefits of education as a most crucial contribution to an individual’s and a people's rise from poverty.

The film also illustrates how the WE Charity hospital delivers all aspects of pre-and post-natal care and offers free or low-cost healthcare to over thirty villages and communities in a vast region of the Maasai Mara – all to build and promote hope in a world that may seem hopeless to the eyes of people in the so-called developed world.

Ultimately, the documentary counters and opposes the denigratingly false and misconstrued statements that were aired in an episode of the Fifth Estate, the long-established program of the much-respected Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Directors Biography

V. Tony Hauser, Co-Director, Executive Producer
V. Tony Hauser is a Toronto-based documentary filmmaker. A renowned portrait photographer for +40 years, primarily in Canada and the U.S., he has also travelled to most continents to photograph varied indigenous peoples. In 2019 he was named a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition of his photography work. 

www.vtonyhauser.com

Nicolas Lehmann- Editor,
Co-Director

Nicolas Lehmann is a Toronto-based film and commercial editor. Originally from Alberta, he met V. Tony Hauser at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity while working on their first short-form documentary film, Dancing Darkness (2020). Their friendship and paired creativity inspired several more short form works, leading to the creation of Unbreakable Hope in The Maasai Mara (2024).

www.Lehmannmedia.com

V. Tony Hauser
is a Toronto-based documentary filmmaker. A renowned portrait photographer for +40 years, primarily in Canada and the U.S., he has also travelled to most continents to photograph varied indigenous peoples. In 2019he was named a Member of the Order of Canada in recognition of his photography work. 

Nicolas Lehmann
is a Toronto-based film and commercial editor. Originally from Alberta, he met V. Tony Hauser at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity while working on their first short-form documentary film, Dancing Darkness(2020). Their friendship and paired creativity inspired several more short formworks, leading to the creation of Unbreakable Hope in The Maasai Mara (2024).

www.Lehmannmedia.com

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