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1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 min.) ; 167108300 bytes |
| Summary |
In the unlit rooms of the bullet-pocked Kabul Secondary School of Fine Arts, music students persist with broken instruments, no books, no syllabus and no specialist teachers. After 30 years of conflict and a loss of musical rights during the Taliban regime, the musical culture of Afghanistan has been devastated. Despite all the rebuilding in the country, little has been done for music. In the midst of this despair, Melbourne-based Afghan musicologist Dr Ahmad Sarmast returns to Kabul determined to create the first National Music Institute of Afghanistan.Wanting his students to 'hold the future of the country in their hands' Dr Sarmast recruits orphans and working kids off the streets, convinced that music education will transform their lives. But attending classes means they can't work the streets supplementing their families' meagre incomes. Survival threatens the students' new found chance at an education.Disruptive building renovations mean classes are conducted in the yard or tents; the timetable is in chaos and the small group of teachers revolt. Dr Sarmast is stretched in every way as his dream threatens to derail. and working in a war zone presents its challenges.The Doctor and his students persevere and things look brighter when the first international specialist teachers arrive. But where are the promised instruments? The students have pinned their hopes on Dr Sarmast, but can he do what he says he can? Or are they empty promises?PRODUCTION DETAILS:DR SARMAST'S MUSIC SCHOOL is produced by Circe Film Productions in association with ABC TV, Screen Australia and Film Victoria. Writer & Director: Polly Watkins; Producer: Beth Frey. ABC Commissioning Editor: Tarni James |
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Broadcast 2012-07-10 at 22:05:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: G |
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Orphans.
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School music -- Instruction and study.
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School music -- Study and teaching.
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Civil rights -- Songs and music.
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Afghanistan -- Kabul.
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Streaming video
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Sarmast, Ahmad, contributor
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