Angels in the Dust

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| director = Louise Hogarth

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| released = {{Film date|2007}}

| runtime = 95 minutes

| country = South Africa

| language = English

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Angels in the Dust is a 2007 South African documentary film by filmmaker Louise Hogarth.{{cite news

| last = Tucker| first =Neely | title ='Angels in the Dust': A Documentary Too Moving to Wither | newspaper = The Washington Post| date =12 October 2007 | url =https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/11/AR2007101102311.html | access-date =16 May 2015 }} The film follows Marion Cloete, a university-trained therapist who leaves behind her life of privilege in Johannesburg to build Boikarabelo, a village and school that provides orphaned children with shelter, food and education.{{cite web| title =Official website| url =http://www.takepart.com/angels| access-date =16 May 2015 }} The stories of the orphaned children are paralleled with the orphaned elephants of Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa.

Reception

Angels in the Dust won the 2007 Emerging Pictures/Full Frame Audience Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.fullframefest.org/festival/awards.php |title=Full Frame 2007 Award Winners |work=Full Frame website |access-date=2007-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070501112534/http://www.fullframefest.org/festival/awards.php |archive-date=2007-05-01 |url-status=dead }} It also won an Audience Award at the Encounters South African International Documentary Festival in 2008. It is produced by Dream Out Loud Films and Participant Productions.

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