{"id":882,"date":"2010-12-26T15:08:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T23:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.africanfilmfestival.org\/?p=882"},"modified":"2011-01-10T13:33:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:33:34","slug":"burning-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/burning-in-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"BURNING IN THE SUN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this documentary, Daniel Dembele returns to his homeland in Mali to start a business building solar panels, a logical move for a country lacking affordable energy but blessed with endless sun. In rural parts of Mali, where 99 percent of the villagers live without power, having access to solar power would be a dream come true. Just as important, being able to grow such a business locally, without the international strings of dependency attached, is extremely important for Africans in general. This inspirational young man shows how it is possible.<\/p>\n<p>In English, French, and Bambara with English subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>Director Cambria Matlow will introduce the film and answer questions following the screening.<\/p>\n<h3>Trailer<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tr_AsZSAg6o\" frameborder=\"0\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this documentary, Daniel Dembele returns to his homeland in Mali to start a business building solar panels, a logical move for a country lacking affordable energy but blessed with endless sun. In rural parts of Mali, where 99 percent of the villagers live without power, having access to solar power would be a dream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mali","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}