This Is Normal
Derek Watson/USA
(22 min)
Arkansas Premiere
Every morning nearly half of the world’s population will wake up and walk 6km round trip on average to fetch water from open and contaminated sources. This drinking water attributes to waterborne-diseases that kill up to 2 million children every year. It is a crisis that hardly registers on the international agenda. This is normal.
This Is Normal weaves together 3 stories: Dick Greenly a successful American-businessman; Petronella a mother of 8 in rural Zambia; and Jimmy Kamfwa a well-driller in Samfya, Zambia. Each are looking for new life and find it through a hand-drilled well on an island in the middle of Lake Bangweulu.
- Grand Jury Prize for Short Documentary at deadCenter
- Best Short Doc at the Sarasota Film Festival.