NFB Collection
Azzel
197928 min 29 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Guy L. Coté
Production: Peter HollanderPeter McCawJ.-P. Olivier Fougères
Script: Marthe Blackburn
Co-produced by the NFB and the World Food Program of the United Nations (Food and Agriculture Organization).
Azzel is the name of one of the first schools for nomads opened by the Niger Department of National Education. The film describes the traditional nomadic lifestyle of the Tuareg and the changes brought about in the lives of the children attending the government-run boarding schools.
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Subject categories
- Developing Countries > Africa - West AfricaEducationFamily LifeIndigenous peoplesInternational Development and Service AgenciesYouth
- Education > Child EducationForeign Countries
- Food and Food Industries > Food HabitsForeign AidSocial Agencies and Programs
- Social Studies > Communities in Canada/World
- Media Education > Film and Video Production
- Geography > Human Geography
- Health/Personal Development > Problem Solving/Conflict Resolution
Credits
- director
- Guy L. Coté
- producer
- Peter Hollander
- Peter McCaw
- J.-P. Olivier Fougères
- commentary
- Marthe Blackburn
- photography
- Roger Rochat
- sound
- Yves Gendron
- sound editing
- Gilles Quintal
- Alain Sauvé
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- Adrian Croll
- narrator
- Ousseynou Diop