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- Against all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
- Actress Emma Hutton is determined to help find her friend Hope a perfect match but in doing so, she accidentally tramples on several hearts. When Emma realizes she herself has always loved her good friend Gray, Emma learns love works best when she doesn't meddle with it. A charming romance inspired by Jane Austen's "Emma."
- TV SeriesA longitudinal documentary following five young women from around the world as they pursue their dreams of becoming professional soccer players.
- Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel Buchmann decided to travel the world for one year, his backpack full of dreams. After ten months on the road, he arrived in Kenya determined to discover the African continent. Until he reached the top of Mount Mulanje, Malawi, his last destination.
- A young girl who lives with her grandmother is forced to sell bananas in the streets for survival after her school is closed due to sanitation issues and corruption. We see her struggling, as she suffers various forms of abuse from the ones who are supposed to protect her.
- In the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Doctors Without Borders struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions.
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle take a trip to Africa to oversee the charity he started 15 years ago. He has a chance to walk in Diana's footsteps, meet Desmond Tutu, and see how he has improved lives in the villages.
- With only a library book as his guide, 14-year-old William Kamkwamba sets about building a wind turbine in his Malawian village.
- A look into the lives of Malawi's 1 million plus orphans in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. It offers hope and real solutions to the challenges that people face living in extreme poverty.
- Cape Town. On his 25th birthday, Anselm starts a journey across Africa on a bicycle with two friends. After they arrive in the scorching Kalahari Desert, the trio suddenly splits. His friends fly home while Anselm decides to continue the ride up north - alone. Cautious at his vulnerability to his surroundings at first, he gains confidence and learns to adapt to the various cultures and their way of life. Step by step his incredible path unfolds and leads him through 15 countries of the African continent and to extraordinary encounters. His bicycle becomes his gateway to local life: it invites communication and enables him to found and support projects that promote rural youth. His conviction to travel by his own strength, camp in unimaginable places and rely on intuition, leads him to exceptional adventures, but also to acutely experience fundamental issues. Besides night-time encounters with lions or hippos and repeated malaria and typhus infections, he struggles with water provision, discrimination and corrupted officials. He still faces the ultimate challenge - riding 3.000 kilometers through the Sahara against the relentless North Wind. After a year, 15.000 kilometers and 15 travelled countries, having fallen in love with this multi-facetted world, his journey faces an unpleasant end - ironically by people that would protect him against the "dangerous" continent.
- Harsh seasons determine life or death, testing creatures against crocs, droughts, and more. Survival demands cunning as predators lurk in waters and along banks. In this predator's world, witness the struggle for life unfold.
- This is the story of a man's bravery to cover the world at war, and what it takes to get images published for the world to see. This is Jason P. Howe's story of survival and change.
- WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? is a controversial documentary about why after 50 years of Western involvement, billions of dollars in foreign assistance and countless promises, Africa is still so poor. The film tells the story of 3 brothers and a cousin who travel across Africa in an attempt to understand one of the great problems of our time, the failure to end poverty in Africa. Shot on location in 12 countries, WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? transports you into the shocking and heart wrenching world of African poverty and the multi billion dollar aid and development industry dedicated to fighting it.
- CNN's International award-winning weekly show, will present from countries across the continent to take viewers on a journey through Africa, exploring the true diversity and depth of different cultures, countries and regions. A continent as seen through the prism of the mediums of art, music, travel and literature.
- Narrated by Academy Award® winning actress Meryl Streep, SHOUT GLADI GLADI celebrates the extraordinary people who rescue African women and girls from obstetric fistula, a medical condition that can turn them into reviled outcasts. Directed by Adam Friedman and Iain Kennedy, and filmed in Malawi and Sierra Leone, the film spotlights the quest of Ann Gloag, the indefatigable philanthropist and former nurse who drives the movement to save these vulnerable women, and presents the patients as they tell stirring tales of their struggles and triumphs. Everything culminates with the exuberant Gladi Gladi ceremony, a singing and dancing blowout that marks the day the women and girls return home cured.
- One member of a group of disillusioned British expatriates living on the banks of an African river decides to go down the river on his own.
- The ADVENTISTS 2 is a new documentary film that tells the dramatic story of Seventh-day Adventists and their commitment to medical mission work. It is the sequel to the highly successful film - The ADVENTISTS - currently airing on Public Television stations. The ADVENTISTS focused on the background of Seventh-day Adventists and how their understanding of the body as the "Temple of God" has made them some of the healthiest people on the planet. Now The ADVENTISTS 2 goes beyond our borders to profile organizations and individuals whose faith commitment has propelled them into some the world's most challenging health issues.
- Malawi is suffering from years of severe drought, causing widespread hunger, violence and social dislocation. A non-profit is building wells in villages across Malawi, hoping to tap into aquifers before conditions get worse.
- A nature documentary reality series that focuses on African wildlife and its natural habitat featuring a safari tour guide named Ushaka who takes viewers on an adventure throughout the "dark continent".
- In a thrilling follow-up to Beyond Siberia (2 x 60'), this documentary follows 16 motorbike riders across 20,000 grueling kilometers through Africa. For 80 days, they battle blazing heat, treacherous roads, suffocating bureaucracy and bone-crunching crashes, attempting to join a very elite group of people to have conquered this journey. Riding the vast Savannah's and witnessing the world's greatest wildlife spectacle on the African plains, the riding gets tough as they battle through gravel, sand, dirt and spectacular lightning storms across Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. It's an incredible journey of vast sandy deserts, high mountain passes and never-ending Savannah's on roads and tracks which are among st the most dangerous in the world.
- New Award-winning environmental Feature Documentary offers Hope and Solutions for our Planet.
- Following Lazarus Chigwandali, a street musician with Albinism from Malawi as he teams up with a London-based music producer to record his debut album.
- Award-winning documentary about humanity's WISEST response to climate change, species extinction, the depletion of critical natural resources and income inequality. This independent documentary examines how our economic and financial system connects all these issues, and offers SOLUTIONS, which could be implemented immediately.
- In Kenyan offices and Malian farms, in Moroccan tea houses and Nigerian huts normal people of various backgrounds go about their day. For them, life in the developing world isn't about desperate squalor or improbable triumph; it's a complex, imperfect existence at odds with the stunning pictures beamed out from African safaris or the sad stories written to spur donations to Western aid groups. On a single day at the messy juncture of tradition and modernity, six people from different geographic and cultural backgrounds describe six versions of the African story.
- Bridging Waters is a docudrama series that explores the lives of those who reside along Southern Africa's majestic rivers.
- Raised in Malawi, Napoleon Dzombe grew up to teach his people how to live lives more fully.
- Traveling with a medical aid organization and joined by his mother and two friends, director Brian Ekdale discovers that the African country of Malawi, although deeply plagued by poverty and HIV/AIDS, is not a place abandoned by hope.
- A retired Los Angeles policeman (Wayne Crawford) travels to Africa to work as a bodyguard for a rare black rhino.
- DZALEKA in Dowa, Malawi is the largest refugee camp in Africa, accommodating over 35,000 people from across the continent. But through the power of dance, a chance at a better life for the young people presents a glimmer of hope.
- Intimate Portraits: African Football Stars is an interactive talk show featuring in-depth interviews on location with the top brass of African soccer players. Three of the best players will be selected from the 20 countries battling it out in the 2010 edition of the Africa Cup of Nations. The players will be interviewed about various aspects of their personal lives in a bid to paint an "intimate portrait."
- Namuli is a community-backed film about the spirit of exploration and what happens when a team of rock climbers, biologists, and conservationists set off on an unconventional expedition into one of the world's least-explored and most-threatened habitats-- Mount Namuli, Mozambique.
- Young pen pals from Colorado and Malawi exchange letters, pictures and videos.
- It follows the journey of four young people as they uproot their lives and move from Dzaleka Refugee Camp to Canada for post-secondary education. In the first half of the film, the young students are preparing for what their new lives might look like and managing expectations for what is to come. On the other side of the world, their sponsors are preparing for their arrival with a mixture of excitement and nerves. As the film progresses, the students arrive in their new home as permanent residents of Canada, and start to face the realities that this opportunity brings. The unique stories of Tamasha, Blaise, Anicet, and Elisa are portrayed in this documentary that seeks to inspire and move young Canadians to get involved with WUSC's Student Refugee Program.
- Exclusive behind-the-scenes access to Joyce Banda, Malawi's first female president, as she visits supporters in the south of the country, flies to Brussels to meet key donors, and enjoys a cup of tea for Mother's Day. Undaunted by the prospect of leading her country, claiming 'all African women carry heavy loads', Banda says she is keen to encourage people to speak freely and wants, by the end of her term, the Malawian people to be living better lives.
- Standing tall in her accusations of theft and corruption that she levels against Malawi's ruling elite, Helen Singh passionately lays out her dogged plan to help put the country back on its feet through strategies involving common sense, justice, and transparency. The film's quiet and dignified manner reflects Helen's own character, and our journey from meeting her until the end of the film, is full of shocking revelations about the misdeeds of those who have forcibly taken the reins and led the country into near-ruin.
- Out of a population of 15.9 million, over one million people are living with HIV or AIDS in Malawi. The epidemic affects all sectors of society. Due to consistent taboos against talking about HIV/AIDS, few people get tested or make their status known. In the SALIMA PROJECT, a group of Malawian actors learn and use participatory theatre techniques to open community dialogue about the stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS.
- A Malawian family struck with poverty seeks to have children but their situation does not permit. The woman later follows a path that changed their lives forever.
- A young man risks everything to become the first Malawian Paraglider Pilot.
- Shines a light on the stigma and discrimination suffered by women living with HIV/AIDS in Malawi.
- Mini-series for children about Bhatso and his sister Emily who lives in Malawi in Africa.