BGuthrie Photos: AFI -- "Difret" (w/Zeresenay Mehari and Mehret Mandefro)

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Description of Pictures: DIFRET
Q&A with filmmakers Zeresenay Mehari and Mehret Mandefro
From executive producer Angelina Jolie Pitt comes the award-winning drama DIFRET, based on the inspirational true story of a young Ethiopian girl and a tenacious lawyer embroiled in a life-or-death clash between cultural traditions and their country’s advancement of equal rights. When 14-year-old Hirut is abducted in her rural village’s tradition of kidnapping women for marriage, she fights back, accidentally killing her captor and intended husband. Local law demands a death sentence for Hirut, but Meaza, a tough and passionate lawyer from a women’s legal aide practice, steps in to fight for her. With both Hirut’s life and the future of the practice at stake, the two women must make their case for self-defense against one of Ethiopia’s oldest and most deeply rooted traditions. DIFRET paints a portrait of a country in a time of great transformation and the brave individuals ready to help shape it.
DIR/SCR Zeresenay Berhane Mehari; PROD Mehret Mandefro, Leelai Demoz. Ethiopia/U.S., 2014, color, 99 min, DCP. NOT RATED

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. DIFRE1_151030_032.JPG: Todd Hitchcock (AFI)
2. DIFRE1_151030_086.JPG: ???, Zeresenay Mehari, and Mehret Mandefro
3. DIFRE1_151030_210.JPG: Zeresenay Mehari
4. DIFRE1_151030_221.JPG: Mehret Mandefro
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