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Children of Conflict
( English / 25 min.)
Country : UK
Production Co. : WTN
Producer : Jennifer Wilson
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Among the unacceptable faces of modern warfare is the
involvement - and sometimes deliberate brutalization - of
children. WTNs
CHILDREN OF CONFLICT features
four stories showing how children are
affected by war
and new initiatives to help rehabilitate them. BOY
SOLDIERS examines the war-scarred victims of
Mozambique’s 15-year civil
war, NEW GAMES FOR
THE STONE THROWERS explores how children in the
Gaza
Strip who once formed the front-line of the Intifada
- the Palestinian
uprising - are now finally receiving an
education. PLAYING WITH FIRE
focuses on the
thousands of children who have lost limbs, been blinded
or
lost their families as a result of landmines, and
SARAJEVO SURVIVORS
features the work of the
International Children’s Institute in Montreal
which
rehabilitates children from Bosnia and other areas of
conflict.
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Spoils of War
( English / 53 min. )
Country : UK
Production Co. : Central Television
Producer/Director : Toni Strasburg
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Fifteen years of violent civil war in Mozambique have
left
a grim legacy - three million refugees, widespread
habitat
destruction, more than 50,000 elephants
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slaughtered. SPOILS OF WAR
investigates how the
war machines of both sides were financed at the
expenses of the environment. Jan Brackenbart, a
former South African
government official, describes the
vital supply line between South Africa
and the right-wing
Renamo rebels: out went thousands of elephant tusks
through South African ports to lucrative ivory markets in
the Far East; in
came South African weapons to arm the
rebels. With the end of the war,
there are plans to revive
the tourist industry with a new ‘peace’ park
straddling the
frontier. But will it take account of the needs of local
people?
Living with Disaster
( English, French, Bengali, Shona, Tagalog / 26 min.
[or 4 x 10 new features] )
Country : UK
Production Co. : TVE in association with
Intermediate Technology
Producer/Director : Damien Rea
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Over the past 20 years, four million of the world’s people
have been
killed by droughts, floods, earthquakes and
hurricanes and close to half
the population of the planet
has suffered some form of disruption to their lives.
LIVING WITH DISASTER casts aside the familiar news
headlines of misery and destruction to present the untold
story - how relatively inexpensive investment can reap
huge rewards; reducing the cost, both in reconstruction
and in human suffering. In drought-prone Zimbabwe,
farmers have developed their own methods for coping
in the harshly arid conditions; while in the Philippines,
the programme looks at ways to prevent a typhoon
becoming a full-scale disaster. Featuring dramatic
archive footage, these and other stories from Latin
America and Bangladesh demonstrate how local
communities can bounce back from the turmoil of natural
disasters.
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