The Company

A Tent Filled with Wild birds presentation Created by Maggie Betts, Ben Selkow, Joedan Okun, Benjamin Prager. Executive producer, Roland Betts. Directed, compiled by Maggie Betts.With: Mutinta Mweemba, Abarcon Mweemba, Patrick Nchimunya, Matildah Mweemba. (Tonga dialogue)Sober highlighting on funereal, "The Company" is really a painterly, poetic docu in regards to a polygamous family in Zambia the mother and father are Aids-positive, the ladies are pregnant and everything is so dysfunctional that giving birth is really a mixed blessing at best. It's difficult to suggest what else helmer Maggie Betts may have completed with a topic she clearly likes you. However the movie's tirelessly morbid tone is not likely to have it much play, ill serving its tries to raise awareness about Africa's Helps crisis and methods to prevent infant Aids. Utilizing a surfeit of portraiture along with a score too melodramatic for that film's overall aesthetic, Betts informs the storyline of Mutinta Mweemba, the 2nd from the three spouses of Abarcon Mweemba, a player within the village of Keemba as well as an easy villain. His spouses -- who include Brenda, the first one to die, and Matildah, the final to obtain examined -- perform the work Abarcon struts while seated. The household's a lost cause, so any dramatic tension is supplied by the fate of Mutinta's unborn baby, a reveal pulled out to the stage of absurdity.Camera (color, HD), Kat Westergaard editor, Flavia p Souza music, Daniel Burns, David Della Santa. Examined on DVD, New You are able to, August. 16, 2011. (In DocuWeeks, Tribeca Film Festival.) Running time: 88 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com