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Synopsis
Using limited resources in a challenging refugee camp environment, radio journalist, Mary Monday, must bring stories to her audience. Mary must devise ingenious ways to circumvent camp difficulties in order to fulfil her obligation. She records, edits and sends her content through to her editor right from the only equipment she possesses – a phone and palm-sized solar charger. After arguing with her 4-year-old daughter, who never wants her to leave for work, Mary struggles to make stories using only the smartphone. Finding stories in Africa’s largest refugee camp, where the population is opposed to the media, she walks long distances and many hours around the camp trying to find someone who would agree to give her interviews. Being given interviews is not enough, finding good signal reception via her phone is near impossible. In the absence of reliable transport, Mary faces struggles with commuting between her refugee camp and her community radio station, which is located sixty-five kilometres away in the nearest town where she must appear to read the evening news, a radio program that her audience is eagerly waiting on. By all means, either with a hired motorcycle or an unreliable bus, Mary must take this perilous journey. After work, at the radio station, she returns home to start home chores.
Cast
Ochan Hannington, Ochan Hannington, Don Edkins, Mary Monday