Fulbright in Namibia

Testimony

In her youth, Vroutje did not listen to her mother. She discovers her own status after her three-month-old son is found to be HIV positive. She maintains a positive healing attitude through her faith and the support of her family.Director: Fetus AkwaakeCamera: Joel HaikaliProduction Manager: Jacqueline Van WykEditor: Festus AkwaakeMusic: Macata Youth Choir, New Creation

Makiti Aftermath

Sixteen-year-old Herlyn never thought it could happen to her. She was just looking for new ways to have fun. But after being raped by an HIV positive truck driver, she found herself desperate and in despair. Now 21, Herlyn finds solace in the fact that she is helping others avoid her fate.Director: Chrisjan AppollusCamera: Sebastian Gowaseb and Erastus KadhikwaProduction Manager: Erastus KadhikwaEditor: Emilio MakabanyaneSound: Emilio Makabanyane and Sebastian Gowaseb

Climbing Kilimanjaro

Elisabeth lives in the informal settlement of Kilimanjaro on the outskirts of Namibia’s capital city. She struggles to provide for herself and her three children with little chance of ever finding meaningful employment. Now, in addition to the burden of poverty, she must come to terms with her HIV status.Director: Natangwe JimmyCamera: Edward KasutoProduction Manager: Reinhilde AusikuEditor: Krischka StoffelsMusic: Elemotho

Kaapena Shikututu Shalulu

Kaalina Ekandjo was diagnosed with the HIV in November 1994. Since then, she has struggled to maintain her life, her dignity, and the integrity of her family in the face of malicious in-laws and the implications of ARV therapyDirector: Elisabeth HihangwapoCamera: Josephina ShikongoProduction Manager: Oshosheni HiveluaEditor: Elisabeth HihangwapoAssistant Editor: Oshosheni HiveluaSound: Martha NamhadiMusic: Toivo Swartz

Steps for the future

This first installment is a trailer for Cecil Moller's 26-minute award winning documentary 'House of Love'. The trailer helps set the context for development of the video series being developed. Surrounded by vast expanses of desert and sea, the small Namibian harbour of Walvis Bay is the unlikely setting in which filmmaker Cecil Moller explores the lives of sex-workers. Dependent for their business on the brief visits of foreign shipping trawlers to this remote port, the women give revealing insights into the choices they have made and why they have made them. Their conflicts with notions of love, sex, sin and redemption become the main themes, while the threat of HIV/AIDS hangs ominously in the background. Find out more about this film at http://www.dayzero.co.za/steps/films/films_26/houseoflove.htm