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Baobab Around the World

  • COUNTRIES
  • Bangladesh
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cameroon
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Ghana
  • India
  • Kenya
  • Malawi
  • Mali
  • Mexico
  • Nicaragua
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Rwanda
  • South Africa
  • Sri Lanka
  • Swaziland
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Uganda
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe
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    Baobab Productions Inc. shoots around the world in DV digital format. We have aquired an extensive library of footage. Most of the scenes in our library are rural, showing people at their daily work, though we do have some urban footage. We currently have material from the following countries (listed alphabetically). 
    Bangladesh - Dhaka streets with rickshaws, traffic, trains, rural farm scenes, fish ponds, fishing, rice planting. Sunset over Ganges river, various pastoral landscapes, boats on Ganges river. 
    Burkina Faso* - village life in a compound near Ouagadougou. Farming - millet harvest on desert edge. Town scenes in and around Bobo Dioulassou.
    Cameroon - Banana and plantain growing, market
    China - Beijing street scenes, including parks, children, traditional activities (bird displays); evening activity in Wangfujing district of Beijing (traditional fast food carts). Tianan Men square, Forbidden City, Summer Palace. Rural and town scenes from farm regions east of Beijing as well as scenes from northern China, including saw mills, logging operations and town and people visuals. 
    Colombia* - market scenes, buying and selling of produce, beans, the village square; Bogota downtown, also considerable footage at the Institute of Immunology showing biotechnology research; agricultural activities including hillside bean farming, pesticide spraying and preparation; mountain scenics; cassava processing, small cheese factory.
    Costa Rica - Banana and plantain processing and packing, markets
    Dominican Republic - Rural scenes in San Juan district, including bean and tomato farms, roadside vegetable sellers, rural landscapes, pesticide application. 
    Ecuador* - mountain scenics from southern Ecuador around Loja, southern Ecuador; the market in Loja; farmers working bean and other plots; evening in a village; volcanoes near Ibarra in northern Ecuador; Andes mountain scenics from northern Ecuador. Scenes of indian village life on mountain top near Tixan 
    Ghana - rural compounds; market in Navrongo, showing cassava, preparation of local food, sale of live goats and chickens; landscapes; baobab trees, crocodiles.
    India - Wholesale banana market in Trichy, southern India. Banana plantations.
    Kenya* - Kenya coast on the Indian Ocean both north and south of Mombassa; rural compounds in Kilifi; the Mombassa ferry; Amboseli National Park showing elephants, hippos, other wildlife and Kilimanjaro; town scenes along the Mombassa-Nairobi highway, Nairobi National Park including cheetahs, lions, zebras and baboons. Nguruman escarpment area. Kakamega district, including views of Kakamega forest; laboratory visuals at ICIPE (International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology). Visuals from farms near Maseno, maize, intercropping etc.
    Malawi - Rural scenes on farms near Lilongwe, ground nuts, pounding, food perparation, village life. Rural scenes near Zomba - bananas, fish ponds, vegetable gardens
    Mali - Dry season, landscapes, baobab trees, farms, dust devils, donkey carts carrying forages and wood.
    Mexico - The great pyramids of the sun and moon at Teotihaucan near Mexico City; rural scenes near Oaxaca, maize farmers.
    Nicaragua - banana and plantain growing
    Peru - Inca ruins near Cusco; Corpus Christi celebrations in Cusco square; Andes mountain scenics; villages in Andes. 
    Rwanda - landscapes in northern district near Rwewere, Kigali market. 
    South Africa* - Johannesburg skylines
    Sri Lanka - shore birds, crocodiles in Bundala National Park, rice farming, land perparation, irrigation reservoirs, people using water.
    Swaziland* - rural landscapes, wildlife and birds.
    Tanzania - Tengeru Market near Arusha ; landscapes near Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Mount Meru; banana growing; health scenes, dispensaries, hospitals, malaria, mosquitoes; town scenes (Ifakara)
    Thailand - Tropical jungle scenes, banana processing co-operative, river markets.
    The Philippines* - villages in central Luzon; milling and dehulling rice for village use, transplanting rice into flooded fields; street scenes in Los Baños; the Visayan town of Matalom. Mountain scenes in Northern Luzon (Quirino province), farms and landscapes in Claveria, Mindanao, remains of tropical mahogany forest long since logged over. Banana plantations in southern Mindanao, banana markets and street sellers in Davao and Luzon.
    Uganda - Rural scenes including sweet potato planting and harvest, cassava preparation; school children; Kampala markets; landscapes around Mount Elgon area; banana growing and harvesting, making banana beer and liquor; 
    Zambia* - Lusaka skylines. Landscapes near Chipata, maize fields, landscapes
    Zimbabwe* - landscapes and rural scenes north-east of Harare. Harare skylines, Shona stone carvers. Worshippers in Pentecostal church. Sorghum growing - threshing, milling, landscapes in region near Bulawayo

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