On Thursday 25th October, 2012 Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership’s premiere'd the Inside Story Movie at the Kenya Film Festival.The full feature-length film, Inside Story,
brings together an all-star, pan-African cast in a compelling story of
football, young love, and a twist of science has a two-fold mission:
entertaining audiences while also educating them about HIV/AIDS.
Directed by RolieNikiwe (TshaTsha, The Lab, Intersexions)
and filmed in Kenya and South Africa, Inside
Storystars Kevin Ndege Mamboleo (Changing
Times) as Kalu, a gifted footballer who moves from rural Kenya to urban
Johannesburg to follow his dream and support his family. His path becomes more
challenging when he falls in love with the coach’s daughter, Ify (Kendra
Etufunwa), and subsequently finds out he is HIV-positive. Mamboleo and Etufunwa
(Jacob’s Cross) are joined by
international stars including Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Hotel Rwanda, 24) as Kalu’s mentor and tough-as-nails coach,
FanaMokoena (Blood Diamond, Hotel Rwanda)
as the ruthless team owner, and Regina-Re as Kalu’s mother, Miriam.
Produced by Curious
Pictures South Africa
(now Quizzical Pictures)
with the support of the
U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),
the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID), Chevron, Discovery Communications,
Access
Bank, the South African Department of Trade and Industry,SEACOM
and the Joint United Nations
Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Inside Story reaches
across class and educational boundaries through a compelling story of sports,
love and ill fates. The film, which has been selected for 12 international film
festivals to date, won Special Jury Recognition at the 2012 Pan African Film
Festival and was honored with the Zuku Award for Best African Film at the 2012
Zanzibar International Film Festival.
Inside Story
will be available to audiences across sub-Saharan Africa later this year and
early 2013 through theatrical, broadcast, online and grassroots platforms.
This movie is bound to be a thriller and to inspire conversations especially among the teenage and young adult population in Kenya who are at high risk of contracting the disease due to to a notable trend and heightened risk of engaging in casual sex. Its definitely a must watch movie for everyone who cares not only about their own lives but also of the larger community. If you watch it , please share your thoughts on as many platforms and social forums as you may be able to .
Twitter: @ThePowerofTV and #InsideStory
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