2h 15min | Language | Producer Director
KAWOMERA
Plant, Pray, Partner for Peace
In the remote town of M'bale, Uganda is a unique, interfaith community of coffee farmers who are Ugandan Jews, Muslims and Christians. They came together to export coffee for peace and religious harmony in an area containing the highest concentration of Jews and Muslims in Central Africa.
In Bugandan, they are called “Peace Kawomera,” (Delicious Peace.)
KAWOMERA: Plant, Pray, Partner for Peace is a documentary Produced and Directed by Photographer and Film Maker; Marla Mossman that tells this unique story of an interfaith collective. By interviewing local Rabbis, Ministers, and Imams, Mossman explores their traditions, cultural acceptance, respect and understanding and tries to ascertain how they have ended their fears of these different practices, so a new way of Peace is revealed.
CREDITS
Directed and Produced by Marla Mossman
Photographs by Marla Mossman
Director of Photography: Stephen Digges
Video by: Stephen Digges, Marla Mossman & Karina Musivney
Post Produced and Edited by Tammy Han
Online Edit by Tammy Han
Scripting by Charles Digges
Sound by Andre Raffington
Music by:
Akuseka Takuwa Kongo Group:
( Live Performance )
( Let All Religions Unite )
( The Benefits of Coffee )
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"Adon Olam" by Abayudaya congregation from the recording entitled Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish People of Uganda,
SFW40504, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) (c) 2003.
UNDER PERMISSION 2014-2022. Current License permission pending 2023.
"Lekhah, Dodi" by Abayudaya congregation, solo by J.J. Keki from the recording entitled Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish
People of Uganda, SFW40504, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) (c) 2003.
UNDER PERMISSION 2014-2022. Current License permission pending 2023.
Cast in order of appearance:
J.J. Kekki
Imam Rasheid
Father Ambo Byusam
Solomon Nyamugawa
Rabbi Gershom Sizoumu
Leah Shul
Shira Absesiga
Rabbi Enosh Keke Minah
Sheikh Mohammed Mussa
Chris Omir
Acknowledgments for generous help and support:
Peace Kawomera
Namabwa Mosque
St. Marks Anglican Parish
Abuyadya Moses Synagogue
Second Womens Synagogue
Bilal Mosque
International Rescue Committee & Uganda IRC
Protea Guest House, Mbale
Mbale Hotel
Kampala Cultural Center
ISSA
William Griffin - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
John Schaffer & New Sounds WNYC
Fairway Supermarkets
Beans Table Coffee
The entire community of Mbale
The New York Foundation for The Arts (NYFA)
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© MARLA MOSSMAN 2024
VIDEOS, TEXT & PHOTOGRAPHY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
ABOUT
The New York Foundation for the Arts is the Fiscal Sponsor of the Peace Caravan Project.
All donations are tax deducible to the full extent of the law.