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Faced with the environmental devastation of his homeland, an Ethiopian man takes positive action while searching for hope.

This is the 2nd video in a 3-part series we produced in partnership with Eden Reforestation Projects. You can find out more about Tesfaye and their work at edenprojects.org.

WINNER Best short film - International Fest of Cinema & Technology
WINNER - Best film - High Desert shorts International Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Phangan Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION - Reel Earth Festival

Directed by Brent Gudgel at Chronicle Project.

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  • Brian Van Peski 1 year ago
    Excellent and beautiful piece. I've put this on the doc channel!
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  • Amine Kouider 1 year ago
    Very beautiful!! Very effective, I was feeling in me the energy building up. This is what Africa and the world needs, PEOPLE LIKE TESFAYE!!!. I have many Ethiopian friends and I'll make sure to share this with them. Thanks again.
    Amine
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  • Doug Beatty plus 1 year ago
    Beautiful
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  • express49 1 year ago
    Very welldone!
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  • Jan van der Meer plus 1 year ago
    Absolutely great project and a very good document which the whole of Africa needs to see! If you don't mind I put this on DVD and show or leave it where people need to see this. Have you tried SABC yet? Have you put this clip on YouTube also? Lines are not at Vimeo needed speed in Africa!
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  • kahve 1 year ago
    a brillant film, brillant project. totally superb.
  • Dmitry Revenko 1 year ago
    mok
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  • Martijn Doornenbal 1 year ago
    Great project. It's very cool that this is their own project! Hopefully things will change in Ethiopa by people like Testfaye.
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  • ZipZero 1 year ago
    great work. very inspiring.
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  • Nabil Kazerouni 1 year ago
    So so so so wonderful!
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  • Steve Muskie 1 year ago
    A very good video. I hope they succeed. I'd like to see the results in 20 years.
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  • Chronicle Project 1 year ago
    Thanks for the kind words everyone. If you want to get involved with the guy in the film check out edenprojects.org. The donations go to support Tesfaye and his workers.
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  • Nicely done. Beautiful camera work and a story worth watching. Thanks for posting an edifying story about GOOD things happening in our world.
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  • John Schimke 1 year ago
    Awesome Piece!
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  • Kasi Viswanath 1 year ago
    Very very nice video with a good storyline. The camera work is very good.
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  • Kent Truog 1 year ago
    stunning.
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  • brian ombonga 10 months ago
    very inspiring story. This should be seen by lots of people.
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  • Ocarina 9 months ago
    Powerful project!
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  • Allison F 7 months ago
    so well done! the last shot was absolutely beautiful
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