Bouncing Cats
Directed by: Nabil Elderkin  -   75 min.  -   USA / Africa
Uganda has been called on of the worst places on earth to be a child. In the South, children face threat of poverty and disease. In the North, these threats are inflamed by a brutal mindless war inflicted by the LRA that has divided families, displaced millions and led to the abduction and mutilation of ten's of thousands of children with the deterioration of identity and culture.

Bouncing Cats is the inspiring story of one man's attempt to create a better life for the children of Uganda using the unlikely tool of hip-hop culture wit the focus on break-dance.

In 2006, Abrahmz Tekya, an AIDS orphan, created the Break Dance Project Uganda - B.P.U. The dream was to establish a workshop teach kids about B-Boy Culture. Based in Kampala, Uganda, and recently expanding permanent regular classes in Gulu, Northern Uganda, Abrahmz teaches classes three times a week to over 300 hundred kids from all parts of the city. Many children are homeless, and few can afford proper schooling, yet the walk from miles away to attend these free classes. As Abrahmz says, 'This is where many people's pride is. It's a skill that no one can take away from us.'

An invitation by Abrahmz, Crazy Legs, one of the founding members of the seminal Roc Steady Crew, visited Uganda with the intention of leading B-Boy classes. What he discovered was both heartbreaking and inspiring.

10:00 pm
Saturday, August 21, 2010
The Carter Center in the Zaban Room


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