The bungee jumping at Victoria Falls in Zambia is world-famous. I decided to seize the day while filming for the 2010 MOVE documentary in Zambia and do it. The bungee jump was pretty much what I expected. You can see footage of the bungee jump on my personal blog (http://ericepperson.blogspot.com). This rope swing on steroids, that became part of the package deal, was surprisingly more intense.
While filming a story about the water crisis in Zambia last month, we spent a lot of time with a young girl named Abigail and her family. Josh Hall got to know her younger siblings while shooting a scene outside her house. He even gave them some tips on lighting.
On Location in Zambia: Lunchtime at the Mackenzie school
Early this fall, a small film crew went to Zambia in Africa to uncover the story of hope that is currently emerging from the midst of the water crisis. What we saw blew our minds. It wasn’t just the fact that there was a huge need in Zambia. What really impressed us was the number of people and programs that were stepping up to make a difference. One of these programs was the feeding program at a little school in the Mackenzie neighborhood, a slum outside the city of Ndola. Only some of the kids in Ndola go to school. Many don’t because they lack the resources, or sometimes adult encouragement, to make it to the classroom everyday. The feeding program at Mackenzie goes above and beyond the norm. The people there work to serve lunch to as many kids, students or not, as possible everyday.
