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Madonna's Gardener Directs Her AIDS Film

Posted Apr 26, 08 7:52 PM CDT in Arts & Living,  Gossip 

(Newser) – Madonna tapped a director whose work she knew well for her new documentary about AIDS orphans in Malawi, People reports. Nathan Rissman "was my gardener. He was my carpenter," she said. And his home videos of her kids "were amazing."

Titled I Am Because We Are, the film chronicles Madonna's first meetings with a boy in Malawi, and shows the country's shocking realities. The reality of Rissman's new career is a shock to him, too. "I have to pinch myself all the time," he said.

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Malawi schoolchildren listen to the teacher in a packed classroom in the village of Chiseka, outside Lilongwe, Malawi.   (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Madonna and Director Nathan Rissman arrive at the premiere of the documentary film "I Am Because We Are" during the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.   (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
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Madonna hold her son David Banda in her arms as she pose for photographers with her daughter Lourdes.   (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
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