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Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Chiefly Oleander in Zambia
Like all oleanders, Thevetia peruviana is beautiful and toxic. In parts of Africa, it’s utilitarian, too.
Yellow Oleander, a Peruvian native, grows in Zambia
Photo: Paul Stekler
Paul Stekler, “chief” of the University of Texas film department, kindly kept HFP in mind on a recent trip to Zambia. Paul spent about a week in the Luangwa River valley, advising and assisting Iskra Valtcheva and Miguel Alvarez as they filmed the Chiutiki Basic grade school. Founders Erinn McGurn and Guy Baron have undertaken several ambitious building efforts for the 1500 local students, their teachers and families and are now expanding to other school projects in the region, a ripe subject for documentary film.
But Paul generously broke from moving pictures to take several stills of “yellow flowers” for us in Mfuwe.
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