NEW YORK — Lazarus Chigwandali, a Malawian street musician with albinism, was once lured into a car. It sounds surreal — but it is the reality that people with albinism face in parts of Africa. Chigwandal’s life story is the centre of “Lazarus,” the new short documentary playing at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The United Nations have said themselves that persons with albinism face extinction if nothing’s done about it.”Chigwandali’s escape from his hard life has been music. Even while they were filming “Lazarus” in Malawi, the director said abductions occurred, as did attempted abductions.

Source: National Post May 02, 2019 17:37 UTC