Credits

Youth producers

Gor

Average rating

(3.40)

Organization

Manana Youth Center

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Reviews

Here's some info on the film: Dinner Time was shot by a team from the Manana Youth Center in Yerevan, Armenia, in the summer of 2006. They were preparing for the Irmas Media Summit in LA and each team had to make a short film on one of the UN MDGs. The Manana team chose "poverty". Gor, the producer, thought that the best way to show poverty in just a few minutes is to show a poor family at their dinner table. The film was shot in Vanadzor town. The blocks you see in the film are called "jungles". After the 1988 earthquake those people who lost their shelters were moved to this town, where they received small cabins to live in until the government would build new houses for them. Shortly after that the Soviet Union collapsed and that is why many families still live in those cabins today. People live in very bad conditions in the "jungles". For example, the whole neighborhood has only one toilet and one source of water. The people in the film are the Poghosyan family. They have many children, the only income they have is that their eldest son (he's not in the film) looks for empty bottles in the trash bins and sells them. The film had no budget at all, it wasn't funded. You can see the logo of the Tufenkian Foundation in the film as they helped the producers to find these people and get in contact with them.

Chris Schuepp  |  November 03, 2008

While this piece was disturbingly thought-provoking and will stay with me for a long time, the lack of any concrete information about the people was frustrating; it seemed like a call to action, but what can be done if we don't know who to help? Are they refugees in some faraway camp, or the poor who live alongside us?

Heidi Whitus  |  October 12, 2008

This piece gives many thoughts to think about, wonderful

Margarita  |  October 10, 2008

Thought provoking

Kristi Rendahl  |  October 09, 2008