A BUSHMAN ODYSSEY

A project in Cape Town, South Africa by Richard Wicksteed
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One Bushman family's struggle to survive genocide, dispossession and post-apartheid freedom in South Africa.
Backers: 134
Average Pledge Per Backer: $287

Funded: $38,500 of $38,000
Dates: Apr 20th -> Dec 31st (15451 days)
Project By: Richard Wicksteed
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Latest News

A BUSHMAN ODYSSEY rough cut

June 11th - via: kickstarter.com
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read. (Read More)

CLIP FROM A BUSHMAN ODYSSEY ROUGH CUT; & ASSAULT ON BUKS KRUIPER

February 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear friends and supporters of A BUSHMAN ODYSSEY, This update features a clip from the rough cut of A BUSHMAN ODYSSEY, and a news update on a recent brutal assault on Buks Kruiper, by a security guard at an Upington store. See... (Read More)

SHOOT & EDIT UPDATE

December 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read. (Read More)

Botswana shoot, and into the edit ...

October 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
IntroSince our last update we've been to Botswana to film Jon and Buks Kruiper with Nharo San/Bushman traditional healers; and for the past weeks have been logging, translating and preparing the edit script from the roughly 70 hours of footage shot... (Read More)

Dawid Kruiper's funeral and the path forward ...

July 20th - via: kickstarter.com
WE TRAVELLED to the Kalahari for Dawid Kruiper's state funeral on June 30, 2012, and stayed on with the Kruiper family and Bushman community after everyone had left, sharing their sense of loss, and mourning, and their determination to continue... (Read More)

State Funeral for Dawid Kruiper

June 26th - via: kickstarter.com
http://za.news.yahoo.com/africas-most-famous-bushman-leader-state-funeral-180341043.html We will attend Oupa Dawid's funeral this weekend and report back here next week. Kind regards to all backers and supporters of A Bushman Odyssey Richard... (Read More)

Red Sand

June 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Dawid Kruiper's funeral will take place in the red sands of the Kalahari on June 30th, 2012, near Andriesvale in the Northern Cape. For details please leave message here ... Oupa Dawid left his story for us in A Bushman Odyssey, to be posthumously... (Read More)

Farewell to Dawid Kruiper

June 13th - via: kickstarter.com
It is with great sadness and a sense of unspeakable loss that we report the death of Dawid Kruiper, beloved traditional leader of South Africa's Bushman (San) peoples. Oupa Dawid died in hospital in Upington this morning, after several weeks of... (Read More)

Oupa Dawid hospitalized

June 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Bushman Odyssey backers and supporters, Dawid Kruiper has been hospitalized in Upington, Northern Cape - he has had a suspected stroke and was briefly in a coma. Doctors say he is now out of danger. He was visited in hospital today by a senior... (Read More)

YOU DID IT!

May 20th - via: kickstarter.com
It's official from Kickstarter - post-production costs for A BUSHMAN ODYSSEY are now funded! Thanks to YOU, the 134 committed backers of our Kickstarter campaign, and the many, many people who helped network this project to viral levels: YOU made it... (Read More)

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