Filmmaker: Film ‘Optimistic’ Despite ‘Bump in the Road of Kenya’s History’

Wayland Patch 9/20/11: Filmmaker: Film 'Optimistic' Despite 'Bump in the Road of Kenya's History'. To a land far, far away, Wayland resident John Michalczyk took a video camera, a script and a curiosity about how a once “very enviable, democratically stable country” could erupt in a moment into virtual war zone where heinous bloodshed, rape and violence would displace 300,000 people and leave more than 1,000 dead. In 1997, Michalczyk, a documentary filmmaker and Boston College fine arts professor, began working on a series of films about conflict resolution around the world. In January 2011, he turned his lens on Kenya for the ninth film in the series.

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