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THREE Winter Highlights 2004 - Africa Kicks
Africa
Kicks embraces the continent of Africa in a provocative season
of programming made exclusively for 主播大秀 THREE.
Kicking
off with coverage from the African Nations Cup, the season
presents a series of intelligent documentaries which challenge our
preconceptions about this vast continent and offer a fascinating
insight into the lives of some of its 690 million people.
A
Picture Of Africa
London
based photographer Perou has shot Jarvis Cocker and Terence Stamp
and had work published in Dazed and Confused and GQ.
For
A Picture Of Africa he travels to the continent to capture a range
of contrasting images - including diamond divers in Namibia, ostracised
drag queens in Vintook, Albinism in Soweto and death-metal lovers
in Morocco.
It
is part travelogue, part magazine shoot, part personal journey.
(BJ-O)
African Footballers' Wives
It's
several thousand miles from Old Trafford and there isn't a mock
Tudor mansion in sight - this is Footballers' Wives African style.
From
the sun of Nigeria to the rain of South London, the film follows
a number of league footballers and their dual lives including Charlton
Athletic player Mark Fish and his wife, who are known as Posh and
Fish back home.
Playing
in Europe brings fame and fortune to African players and their families
on a level that surpasses even Posh and Becks.
But
fame costs as their extended families expect financial support and
charities in their home country want the publicity that only their
overseas ambassadors can bring. (RI)
The
Rubber Man
Reporter
David Akinsanya drives a truck of condoms through South Africa and
asks why, despite a safe sex campaign, there are 1,500 new HIV patients
per day.
He
meets fatalistic youths who "live fast, die young" by
not using a condom and truckers who pay prostitutes more for condom-free
sex. (KR)
Africa
Ship
Presented
by a new talent, Tash Monie, the powerful Africa Ship follows the
emotional and physical rollercoaster for patients and staff on board
a hospital ship run by Christian missionaries off the coast of Sierra
Leone.
Thousands
of people trek to Freetown, Sierra Leone to be treated for conditions
ranging from cancer, blindness and clubfoot to facial disfigurement
and HIV but not everyone can be treated.
Africa
Ship follows the life-changing decisions that are made on this hospital
ship and their effect on both staff and patients. (CC/EF)
Football
Magic
Travelling
to Africa, actor John Simm investigates the role of the juju man
in African football.
This
role is seen as the most important member of the team, even above
the star striker, manager or chairman.
Juju
is big business in African football and most African teams, at both
club and national level, keep an official witch doctor on their
staff.
These
men are seen as so important to the success of the team that in
some cases clubs have chosen to pay higher wages to the juju man
than the players.
These
two films looks at the fall-out when 21st century football collides
with centuries-old African tradition. (BJ-O)
The
Devil's Footpath
Journalist
June Arunga travels from the top of Africa all the way down to the
bottom, showing that by crossing from one country into its neighbour
there is a continuous path of war through Africa.
Travelling
through Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic
of Congo, Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, June contrasts
the experiences of the people she meets and the greed of the perpetrators
of the wars in which they suffer. (KR)
Booty
Queens
How
is beauty defined in today's South Africa?
What
has been the effect of foreign notions of beauty on a country that
only emerged from apartheid a decade ago?
Why
are young African women starting to suffer from Western eating disorders?
Through
focusing on the work of four South African modeling agencies and
a casting agent, this absorbing documentary explores differing African
and Western notions of beauty, and provides an insight into the
changing faces of South African society in the 21st century. (BJ-O)
Nollywood
Nigeria
is the biggest movie maker after Hollywood and Bollywood with up
to 54 new titles released in just one week.
The
films don't run in cinemas, but are released on video from a central
depot in Lagos with hundreds of tapes flooding the streets every
fortnight through shops, market sellers and street vendors.
Producers
aim to recoup their initial investment within a week of the films
hitting the street.
Nick
Moran travels to the country in an attempt to make a short movie
in three weeks having only a couple of days to find his actors,
production staff and extras on the streets of Lagos.
His
movie will be reviewed by Nigeria's top film critics and more importantly
the producers will be keen to see if it sells. (KR)
African
Nations Cup
Knitting
together the Africa Kicks season of documentaries, 主播大秀 Sport presents
as-live coverage from Tunisia of the 2004 African Nations Cup on
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Africa's
premier football competition, the 24th in the tournament's history
involves sixteen teams from around the continent.
With
increasing numbers of African players in the British leagues, the
tournament will be of huge interest to sports fans.
(JM)
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