Hayley Mueller 5min
The smell of hay, candy-floss, strange dancing bears. The circus is a surreal space into which most people escape from their ‘normal’ daily lives. Meet someone who lives only within this space. No longer in the circus, Uwe still carries its ideals into his life: he refuses to conform to society’s expectations of him and has found himself a space on its fringes, close to nature and living a lifestyle which suits him.
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Jade Menenzies 5min
Siyanda Futhu-Futhu is a young aspiring Kwaito artist. Although he has won various awards over the years, none have been more important than the award he recently received – the Cacadu Achievers Award. With this award he gets a once in a lifetime opportunity to record in the Miriam Makeba Centre of Performing Arts. Working in the centre with a host of trained professionals and state of the art equipment, he produced his very first 10 track album. Watch Siyanda as he discusses his music career so far.
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Lindsey Thorpe 5min
It is unnatural not to have fear. Overcoming that fear makes you a stronger and more courageous individual. Joos Vos, from EP Skydivers in Grahamstown knows all about fighting fear. In this short documentary Joos takes Kirsten, a first time skydiver on the flight of her life. Will she find the strength to flee or will she soar?
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Ashley Nash 5min
“If girls were meant to fly the sky would be pink…” Reflected in this popular quotation is the notion that female pilots are in some way inferior to their male counterparts. ‘Fly Girls’ challenges this assumption by observing why the aviation industry is male-dominated and also looks at how women cope with this. Eva Njambi and Leanne Whitfield from 43 Air School in Port Alfred shared their views.
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Pippa Erlich 5min
The Knysna elephant is an integral part of the area’s culture and history. They have captured the imaginations of artists and writers and the attention of various environmentalists. At the beginning of the millennium, it was thought that the original herd of over 500 animals had been decimated to a point where there was only one old matriarch left. Modern researchers have suggested that there are more.
Forest Phantom explores the mysterious connection between humans, the elephants and the forest in which they live, through the attitudes and stories of people who have been connected to them during the last 50 years.
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Rulleska Singh 5min
With South Africa’s HIV instances soaring and stigma towards the disease on a high, this piece aims to highlight that people with HIV are no different. Using love as the example, Love in a time of HIV follows a couple who fell in love and are both HIV positive; their hopes, plans and life. I hope that this piece will be a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, the manageability of HIV and the hope of a stigma-fee South Africa.
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