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| Official Website |
| Status: |
Opens in Theaters May 13th, 2011
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| Genre: |
True Life Drama |
| Cast: |
Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge and introducing Oliver Litondo as "Kimani Maruge" |
| Director: |
Justin Chadwick |
| Writer: |
Ann
Peacock |
| Producers: |
Richard Harding, Sam Feuer, David M. Thompson
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| Co-Producer: |
Trevor Ingman
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| Exec Prods: |
Joe Oppenheimer, Anant Singh, Helena Spring, Norman Merry
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| Partners: |
Nat Geo
Films, BBC
Films, Origin Pictures |
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Awards: |
Best Film at the Palm Beach Film Festival, Audience Choice Award at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, Sedona Film Festival and Runner-Up to the People's Choice Award at Toronto Film Festival, Director's Choice at the Sedona Film Festival
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| Logline: |
In a remote Kenyan primary school hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One new applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school: Maruge, a Mau Mau veteran in his eighties who is desperate to learn to read.
Maruge was inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest first grader ever in January 2005. |
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