An interview with director Takeshi Fukunaga of new feature film about Liberian rubber workers

From Africa is a Country Thu Jul 10 2014, 17:00:55

Last month a friend posted a link to the Kickstarter page for Out of My Hand, a feature film shot primarily in Liberia. The plot follows a rubber tapper named Cisco who, after taking part in a heated labor dispute that goes nowhere, attempts to move to New York city where he becomes a cab driver. [...]

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