Ice Cream in Rwanda

Rob Fruchtman

KMO interviewed Rob Fruchtman, the director of the film Sweet Dreams on Saturday, August 9th, 2014 . They spoke in front of a live audience in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn for the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. In this episode of the C-Realm Podcast, Rob describes what it was like to spend time in Rwanda 17 years after the 1994 genocide which claimed the lives of roughly one million Rwandans. His film details how a group of women, both Hutu and Tutsi, first formed a drumming troupe to help them put the horrors of their past behind them, and then, with the help of two Brooklyn business owners, opened Rwanda's first ice cream shop. It was an improbable project and an enormous achievement.

There were some young documentary filmmakers in the audience, and you can find their work at ReelWorks.org.

Music by Ingoma Nysha.