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Date: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:42 PM
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Chifu
New York City

From: Landon Van Soest <landon@xxxxx>
Date: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:28 PM
Subject: PBS Development Videos



I am the director of Good Fortune, a feature documentary about the
challenges of
large-scale international development in Kenya. The film has won
several awards
and will have it's broadcast premiere in primetime this summer on PBS.
You can
see more about the film here: http://www.pbs.org/pov/goodfortune/ and
here:
http://www.goodfortunefilm.com

I recently received support to produce a series of short videos that
delve
deeper into the challenges of international development and highlight
the work
of more effective development efforts. We've had a great response to
the project
so far, and are coordinating efforts with POV (the strand of PBS
airing the
film), Link TV, viewchange.org, and the Center for Global Development.

I would love the opportunity to shoot a brief interview with you
(approx. 30
minutes) for the project. Good Fortune goes into the politicization of
a UN
sponsored slum-upgrading project in Kibera, Nairobi and follows a
resident of
Kibera through the fateful 2007 elections crisis, so I would love to
get your
unique perspective on the role of local government in international
development
efforts. The ultimate goal of the videos is to give viewers a more
effective,
informed way to get involved in development, and I would love to hear
about an
organization that you consider to be exemplary. I will be traveling to
East
Africa at the end of May and will have to opportunity to shoot a short
profile
of an organization of your choosing.

Thank you for your consideration, I look forward to speaking with you
soon.

Landon Van Soest


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Landon Van Soest
Transient Pictures
250 W 49th Street, Suite 805
New York, NY 10019