Imana

Featured on National Geographic's Short Film Showcase: nationalgeographic.com/video/shorts/she-escaped-genocide-in-her-homeland-now-she-returns-to-help/
Imana Truyers was born in Rwanda right before the genocide broke out in 1994, from a Hutu father and Tutsi mother. Through a series of fortuitous events and thanks to a Belgian nun, she was able to make it out of the country alive and was adopted into a Belgian family right before chaos ensued. She returned back to her home country for the first time in 2015, where she was able to see her family and the life that she almost had.
She now runs an NGO called Thousand Hills of Hope, which supports medical and schooling projects throughout Rwanda. To learn more about her organization and to contribute, please visit thousandhillsofhope.be.
Featured on National Geographic's Short Film Showcase: nationalgeographic.com/video/shorts/she-escaped-genocide-in-her-homeland-now-she-returns-to-help/
Shout out to Hayley Morris for this amazing paper animation.
CREW:
Director/Editor - Spencer MacDonald & Eva Verbeeck
Producer - Eva Verbeeck
Cinematography/Sound Design/Color - Spencer MacDonald
Animation - Hayley Morris
Fabrication - Hayley Morris & Polina Zakharova
Audio Mix - Matteo Di Giulio
MUSIC:
"So Diyara" by Sagna Guire Ramata & Niama Kouyate
"An Accumulation" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Distance 3" by Evelyn Glennie
"Visions of Light" by Evelyn Glennie
"Melted Crystal" by Kikagaku Moyo
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