Good news for the fans of Umhambi! My short film is an official selection at the Croatian One Minute Film Festival from May 27-29, 2010.
Featuring the wonderful Tholakala Mbombo, the beautiful folks at the Hillcrest AIDS Centre and the riveting voice of Gcina Mhlope, the film gives audiences a glimpse of living with AIDS in rural South Africa. It's a story about searching for hope.
The one minute film is based on the Little Traveller dolls created for Woza Moya, the Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust's income generation program outside Durban in the the province of KwaZulu Natal. Since it's world premier in 2007, Umhambi has been seen internationally as an official selection in several film festivals, and screened in art galleries and design exhibitions.
The Little Travellers have made their way into the world, and the dolls have enabled beadworkers to feed their family, provide fresh water, buy medicine, connect electricity to their homes, pay school fees and purchase school uniforms.
"The Little Travellers HIV/AIDS project is totally inspired,” says Stephen Lewis, Board Chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. “I endorse it every stitch of the way. It raises consciousness in Canada and hope in Africa. In my mind's eye, I can just see the women of Hillcrest (a project the Stephen Lewis Foundation strongly supports) beading, and spectacularly artful "Little Travellers" emerging. Then the sales are made in Canada, and money flows to the heroic women and children and families battling the pandemic on the ground. What could be a better act of human solidarity? Buy one, buy two, buy dozens. They speak to the best of the human spirit. "
Please, take a look at Umhambi, share it and visit the Hillcrest AIDS Centre's site to see what other incredible projects they have.
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