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The Lost Girls of South Africa
Channel 4 Dispatches: Sunday 23rd May 9pm

As the world looks to South Africa for the World Cup, this timely and emotive feature-length documentary explores world-record levels of child rape and sex abuse. In a country where a child is raped every three minutes, and where AIDS continues to spread with epidemic ferocity, we follow four girls aged 11-13 as they struggle to come to terms with the crimes committed against them and fight the social stigma that comes with the abuse.

The Slumdog Children of Mumbai has been nominated for three craft BAFTAs

Nick Read nominated for Factual Photography BAFTA (Slumdog Children of Mumbai) Nick Read nominated for Factual Director BAFTA (Slumdog Children of Mumbai)
Jay Taylor nominated for Factual Editing BAFTA (Slumdog Children of Mumbai)

This is the sixth year running that True Vision films have been BAFTA nominated,

Children of Gaza
Channel 4 Dispatches: Monday 15th March 8pm

In January 2009, over 1300 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, around 300 of them children. When the ceasefire was declared, BAFTA winning film-maker Jezza Neumann arrived to follow the lives of 4 children over a year. Through their eyes, and in their words, Children of Gaza gives us a unique insight into the impact of war on vulnerable young minds.

Jobless
BBC One Tuesday 9th March 10:35pm

As the unemployment statistics once more start to head up, BAFTA winning film-maker Brian Woods takes us behind the numbers to the people they represent.
Filmed throughout 2009, and seen in part through the eyes of the children, Jobless tells the interwoven stories of several families, across the length and breadth of Britain as both husbands and wives cope with losing their jobs, in most cases for the first time in their lives.

Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children
BBC FOUR Monday 1st March 2010, 9pm
Shot entirely undercover over the course of nine months, this beautiful but tragically moving film tells the stories of three children growing up in today's Zimbabwe.
Grace (12) rummages through rubbish dumps in Harare to find bones to sell for school fees.
Esther (9) must care for her baby sister, and her mother who is dying of HIV/AIDS.
Obert (13) pans for gold to make enough money to buy food for himself and his gran, while dreaming of somehow getting the education he craves.
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The Slumdog Children of Mumbai
Channel Four Dispatches: Thursday 21 January 9pm
The Slumdog Children of Mumbai tells the moving stories of Deepa, Salaam, and twins Hussan & Hussein. Four children caught up in the maelstrom of life on the streets and in the slums of Mumbai. Filmed over three months, throughout the monsoon, by award-winning film-maker Nick Read, we witness the bravery, resourcefulness and extraordinary resilience of these children, as they grow up long before they should.


Into That Good Night - Friday December 4th, 7.35pm, Channel Four
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Touching, tender film debut by director Chris Eley for First Cut, centred on patients in a London hospice ... who take part in a photography project." Radio Times

Chosen nominated for the Broadcast Best Documentary Award,
and the Mental Health Media Best Documentary and Best Campaign Awards
The men from Chosen - Tom, Mark & Alastair - award the Speaking Out Award, at the Mental Health Media Awardsπ


Read their response to the award, click on Speaking Out

Brought Up By Booze: A Children in Need Special
Broadcast 10.45pm 11th November BBC One
See it again 8pm 3rd December BBC Three
"Insightful, moving and, at times, unexpectedly uplifting; the surprisingly endearing Best Jr makes an empathetic and thoughtful interviewer" The Daily Mail

3MW: Kids Who Care
9th -12th November Channel 4
A series of short films telling the stories of four young carers. What's it like having to look after your poorly mum or dad?

Bulgaria's Abandoned Children-Revisited
was broadcast on 15 Oct 2009 BBC4
Read From Kate Blewett, Director of Bulgaria's Abandoned Children.

Chosen wins the 2008 RTS Award for
Educational Impact in the Primetime Schedule -Single Programme

“A revelatory and dignified film… which explored paedophilia by allowing three highly articulate middle-aged men to tell their own stories of having been groomed and serially abused by teachers in the same independent school as they were growing up.”

Chosen wins the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Single Documentarychosen

Chosen has been nominated for the BAFTA and the RTS Award for Best documentary,
and Mum Love Drugs has been nominated for the BAFTA for Best Current Affairs.

This is the fifth year running that True Vision films have been BAFTA nominated,
and the first time we have had two nominations in two different categories.

If you'd like to learn more about the music on most of our films and the musicians that created it, go to the their website at www.scrtmusic.com

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