If television has accustomed us to watching other nation’s life, it is mainly through major events of International news! What’s going on once the newscast is over? What do we know of those nations’ daily life, their culture, their perceptions f things? How do we perceive their television? To what extent do we impose our own beat and ways of producing? Soon direct broadcast satellites will flood the airwaves all over the world. Is “wired-world” communications a one-way street? Who will be imposing on who? Are we at the beginning or at the end of two-way communications? Fade in... or fade out? GAYELLE, a fast-paced journal of contemporary Trinidadian culture, celebrates the right of a nation to project its own image. BEAUTIFUL KINSHASA presents one’s city with the surprising diversity. Could only a resident discover it that way? A Danish producer worked with TV-makers in Bangladesh to dramatize the hard fact that in Bangladesh, thirteen is YOUNG, BUT OLD ENOUGH for a girl to marry... if she hopes to survive. A British writer-director listens to the extraordinary stories of the people of Bogota. In NADA, the same people relive those experiences in dramatic form.
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This film was made primarily by young people, some of whom were working in the film industry for the first time. The film is about young people in Great Britain and a… -
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GAYELLE is the kind of programme that each public television network should make: a reflection of a community’s artistic and cultural life style. Apart from… -
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For a girl in the third world, marriage is not a question of love. For the 13 year-old Tasleema in Bangladesh, marriage is necessary for the survival. YOUNG –BUT…