Tshoper Kabambi: A Filmmaker's Dream
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🗓️ 11 March 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Carrying a television with a VHS player to school every day became second nature for Tshoper Kabambi. He and his classmates studied film by watching movies on that little TV, discussing everything from lighting to plot. Kabambi believed that if he could learn to tell a story through film, he could finally tell the story of the Congo through the eyes of someone who has lived it.
"What I want is to show my people how beautiful they are—to show them how they can change their situation.”
Show Notes:
1:40- Life in the Congo
4:37- Conversion Through Dreams
13:02- A Latter-day Saint
15:07- A Big Ticket Premiere
18:20- The Power of Film
24:39- The Significance of Your Story
27:00- Challenges and Blessings as a New Member of the Church
29:34- What Does It Mean To Be “All In” the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
31:00- Testimony in French
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| 0:00.0 | A Swedish film director once said film as dream, film as music, no art passes our |
| 0:07.7 | conscience in the way film does and goes directly to our feelings deep down into |
| 0:13.0 | the dark rooms of our souls. This week we have a special treat for you as we |
| 0:19.4 | have two episodes coming, both from filmmakers, one an indie Congolese filmmaker |
| 0:25.4 | looking to emerge in the industry and the other a producer for Disney. In 2012 as |
| 0:33.8 | the film he was seeing finished, Chopin Kabambi remained in his seat. A custodian |
| 0:40.1 | encouraged him to leave the theater but he replied, please I've never been in a |
| 0:45.1 | movie theater before. Chopin believes there is power in stories and power in film |
| 0:51.2 | and he is determined to tell his own story and the story of his people through |
| 0:56.2 | film. He also believes in dreams and it was a series of dreams that led him to |
| 1:02.0 | join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Now he is truly living the |
| 1:07.5 | dream with a film heart of Africa premiering in America this week. |
| 1:14.5 | This is All-In, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question what does it |
| 1:20.1 | really mean to be All-In the Gospel of Jesus Christ? I'm Morgan Jones and I am |
| 1:25.4 | so grateful to be here today with Chopin. Tell me your last name. Kabambi. I'm glad I |
| 1:31.7 | didn't even try to pronounce that one. That would have gone really well. I'm just |
| 1:35.6 | working on mastering your first name then we'll move on to the second. |
| 1:38.7 | That sounds good for me. Perfect. Well I am so excited. We have you here all the |
| 1:44.8 | way from the Congo. That's where you live. Is that right? I live in Congo in |
| 1:49.6 | Kinchasa. I live in Kinchasa. Okay. So tell listeners I imagine most people |
| 1:55.0 | listening to this podcast are like me and have never been to the Congo. So tell |
| 1:58.7 | us a little bit about what life in the Congo is like and kind of the political |
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