Children of Conflict |
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( English / 25 min.) |
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Country :
UK |
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Production Co. : WTN |
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Producer :
Jennifer Wilson |
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Among the unacceptable faces of
modern warfare is the involvement - and sometimes deliberate
brutalization - of children. WTN's CHILDREN OF CONFLICT
features four stories showing how children are affected by war and
new initiatives to help rehabilitate them. BOY SOLDIERS
examines the war-scarred victims of Mozambique’s 15-year civil war,
NEW GAMES FOR THE STONE THROWERS explores how children in the Gaza
Strip who once formed the front-line of the Intifada - the
Palestinian uprising - are now finally receiving an education.
PLAYING WITH FIRE focuses on the thousands of children who have lost
limbs, been blinded or lost their families as a result of landmines,
and SARAJEVO SURVIVORS features the work of the International
Children’s Institute in Montreal which rehabilitates children from
Bosnia and other areas of conflict. |
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Spoils of War
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( English / 53 min. ) |
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Country :
UK |
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Production Co. :
Central Television |
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Producer/Director :
Toni Strasburg |
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Fifteen years of violent civil war
in Mozambique have left a grim legacy - three million refugees,
widespread habitat destruction, more than 50,000 elephants
slaughtered. SPOILS OF WAR investigates how the war machines
of both sides were financed at the expense of the environment.
Jan Brackenbart, a former South African government official,
describes the vital supply line between South Africa and the
right-wing Renamo rebels: out went thousands of elephant tusks
through South African ports to lucrative ivory markets in the Far
East; in came South African weapons to arm the rebels. With
the end of the war, there are plans to revive the tourist industry
with a new ‘peace’ park straddling the frontier. But will it
take account of the needs of local people? |
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Living with Disaster |
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( English,
French, Bengali, Shona, Tagalog / 26 min. [or 4 x 10 new features] ) |
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Country :
UK |
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Production Co. : TVE in
association with Intermediate Technology |
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Producer/Director :
Damien Rea |
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Over the past 20 years, four
million of the world’s people have been killed by droughts, floods,
earthquakes and hurricanes and close to half the population of the
planet has suffered some form of disruption to their lives.
LIVING WITH DISASTER casts aside the familiar news headlines of
misery and destruction to present the untold story - how relatively
inexpensive investment can reap huge rewards; reducing the cost,
both in reconstruction and in human suffering. In
drought-prone Zimbabwe, farmers have developed their own methods for
coping in the harshly arid conditions; while in the Philippines, the
programme looks at ways to prevent a typhoon becoming a full-scale
disaster. Featuring dramatic archive footage, these and other
stories from Latin America and Bangladesh demonstrate how local
communities can bounce back from the turmoil of natural disasters. |
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Five Realities of the
Future |
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( English / 42 min. ) |
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Country :
UK |
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Production Co. : TVE |
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Producer/Director :
Damien Rea |
The five vignettes that make up
Damien Rea’s film together demonstrate the power of community action
in helping people take
control of their own lives. In Costa Rica, the Bribri people
have fought a successful battle to win back the ancestral lands
wrested from them by Spanish settlers. On the Japanese island
of Ishigaki, the villagers of Shiraho staged a campaign to stop the
government building an airport which would destroy their priceless
coral reef. In India, the villagers of Dhanawas have built
their own gas generators to provide cheap energy. And in
Hungary, a local group on the outskirts of Budapest have set up a
community scheme to monitor, and clean up the heavy metal
contamination of the soil that is the legacy of 40 years of
unregulated industrial development. |
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Pulp Future |
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( English / 45 min. ) |
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Country :
UK |
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Production Co. : BBC |
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Producer/Director :
Mark Dowd |
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In 1994, Senator Tim Wirth of the
US Department of Global Affairs faxed an article from Atlantic
Monthly to every US embassy around the world. The article -
The Coming Anarchy by American journalist Robert Kaplan -
predicted societal break-down and growing chaos worldwide, and so
rattled top United Nations officials that they called a confidential
meeting to discuss its implications. In this BBC Panorama
programme, reporter Steve Bradshaw tests Kaplan’s ideas in locations
in China, Rio de Janeiro and Sierra Leone which can be seen as
laboratories for the future. But the rich, industrialised
world is not immune to chaos either, the film concludes: the social
conditions that give rise to civil breakdown in Sierra Leone’s
Freetown are also replicating |
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