Raise My Hands
A Tribute to Nelson Mandela
Year
2012
Credits
Directed and edited by: Frank W. Kelly
Written and produced by: Elliot V. Kotek
Photography by: Scott McDermott
Music by:Dermot O'Mahony
We Hold the Power
On Nelson Mandela’s birthday, photographer Scott McDermott captured famous faces – e.g. Clint Eastwood, Robert DeNiro, Forest Whitaker and Morgan Freeman – raising hands to pledge to improve their planet. In Kelly’s film, writer Elliot Kotek ponders the real-life and character experiences
behind these simple digits – war, peace, violence, freedom, fame, disease – each represented in the lines made, in the hands we raise.
A simple gesture. At the right moment. Can change the world.
