Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 52'
These are the personal experiences of several AIDS victims in South Africa, the country with the highest growth rate and the highest percentage of people infected. The problem of AIDS goes beyond the personal factors of a virus that reproduces itself inside the human body. There is a social, political, and economic battle that highlights the contradictions in the practical application of globalization.
"It gives you a trauma to understand the hardness of the avidity of the multinational pharmaceutical corporations. They aggressively defend their billion-dollar profit market while millions of AIDS victims who have no access to drugs die before their time without dignity. Do we have to mention genocide? We are all responsible for one another and if Africa dies, it will be the death of the rest of the world" (Kali van der Merwe).
Biography
film director
Kali Van der Merwe
Director Kali van der Merwe (Johannesburg, South Africa; 1964) founded Other-Wise Media with Youth in 1996, an association for the development of media education projects for street boys and girls in Cape Town. She has also coordinated public-service radio programs for street women and for youths in the Hawequa minors' prison in Wellington.
FILMOGRAFIA
We the Japanese People (1994), Iduma Elingopiyo, the Wound that Does Not Bleed (1998), Who's News? (1999), The Bottom Line (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Kali van der Merwe.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Jonathan Morgan, Kali van der Merwe.
Director of photography: Davide Tosco.
Editor: Dinah Arnott.
Sound: Emily Mokoena.
Music: Madosini, Warrick Sony, Shiyani Ngcobo, Zweni Ngcobo.
Production company: Massimo Arvat per Zenit Arti Audiovisive, corso Giulio Cesare 48, 10152 Torino, Italia, tel. +39-011-2484764, fax +39-011-2486583, e-mail zenit@itbox.net.
Co-production: Raitre, Italia.
Distribuzione e vendita all'estero: Raitrade, via Novaro 18, 00195 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-37498473, fax +39-06-37498220.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Jonathan Morgan, Kali van der Merwe.
Director of photography: Davide Tosco.
Editor: Dinah Arnott.
Sound: Emily Mokoena.
Music: Madosini, Warrick Sony, Shiyani Ngcobo, Zweni Ngcobo.
Production company: Massimo Arvat per Zenit Arti Audiovisive, corso Giulio Cesare 48, 10152 Torino, Italia, tel. +39-011-2484764, fax +39-011-2486583, e-mail zenit@itbox.net.
Co-production: Raitre, Italia.
Distribuzione e vendita all'estero: Raitrade, via Novaro 18, 00195 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-37498473, fax +39-06-37498220.