Made in Ethiopia lifts the curtain on China’s historic, but misunderstood impact on Africa and explores contemporary Ethiopia at a moment of profound crisis. It throws audiences into two colliding worlds; an industrial juggernaut fueled by profit and progress, and a vanishing countryside where life is still measured by the cycle of the seasons. It challenges us to rethink the relationship between tradition and modernity, growth and welfare, and the development of a country and the well-being of its people.
Biography:
Xinyan Yu is an Emmy-nominated journalist and documentary filmmaker from factory floors in rural Ethiopia to wildfire zones in Hawaii, she specializes in investigative storytelling. Xinyan has directed and produced work for PBS, BBC, Channel News Asia and NHK. She is a New America National Fellow and a Brown Girls Doc Mafia Sustainable Artist fellow.
Max Duncan is an award-winning filmmaker, cinematographer and journalist whose work has appeared on platforms including the BBC, PBS, The Guardian, The New York Times and Al Jazeera. He has reported widely across China and Asia—including multiple trips to North Korea—as well as in Africa, Europe and Latin America. He has won a World Press Photo Award.
Tamara Dawit is an Ethiopian-Canadian filmmaker and alumna of Berlinale Talents and EAVE. She has produced notable films through her company Gobez Media, including Girls of Latitude, Grandma Knows Best,Finding Sally, and Alazar. In 2021, Tamara was a TIFF Producer Fellow and received both the Doc Institute Vanguard Award and the Gordon Parks Award for Black Excellence in Filmmaking. She is also a Chalmers Arts Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow.
