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Brooke Fraser took her inspiration for ‘Albertine’ from a girl she met in Rwanda who had been orphaned by the Rwandan genocide, which claimed 800,000 lives in 1994. Believing that “faith without deeds is dead”, Fraser resolved to tell the orphan's story to the world. A similar determination to be more than just a “voyeur of tragedy” is underlined in Anthony Rose’s elegantly understated video, which deals not in terrible statistics but the humanity of everyday people in Rwanda. ‘Albertine’ won the 2007 APRA Silver Scroll for songwriting.
...it's a song about faith, it's a song about hope, it's a song about love... and it's a song about deeds.– 'Taote Chuck' reviews the Albertine album, Rock and Roll and Meandering Nonsense website, June 2008
Key Cast & Crew
Anthony Rose
Peter Eastgate
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