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Master Positive / director & editor, Kelly Kowalski. Not afraid / directed by Carla Hoffmann.
LIBRA VHS RA643.86.A356 S74 2001 tape 17
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Steps for the Future (Series) ; tape 17.
- Steps short films.
- Steps short films
- Steps for the future ; tape [17]
- Language:
- English
- Khoisan (Other)
- Subjects (All):
- HIV-positive persons--Namibia.
- HIV-positive persons.
- AIDS (Disease)--Namibia.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Namibia.
- Short films.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (15 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cape Town, South Africa : Day Zero Film & Video : [South Burlington, VT] : California Newsreel [distributor], [2001]
- Language Note:
- Master Positive is in English and Nama, with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Master Positive tells the story of a Namibian coffin maker. This film follows Master Positive as he constructs a proto-type papier-mache coffin and makes his first sale. Dealing with death in his job and confronting his own HIV status, Master Positive explains through humor and courage how he has become a master of positive living. The second story, Not afraid, tells the story of Cathy from Namibia. She is an HIV positive mother who recently lost a baby due to a lack of access to treatment.
- Notes:
- Produced with the partnership of YLE Finland.
- This video comprises two short films: Master Positive, produced by Mamokobo Video and Research, 8 minutes long ; and, Not afraid, produced by Mubasen Film & Video, 7 minutes long.
- Contains:
- Not afraid
- OCLC:
- 52886531
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