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In a 2009 evaluative study of the Scenarios from Africa films in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, secondary-school students wrote the following about The Champions: “This film, using a humorous approach that works well, provides a lot of essential information about HIV and also about STIs.” “This film shows that every person, regardless of what he does in life, must raise awareness about HIV among his colleagues, classmates or friends.” “I feel that the film The Champions should be shown far and wide, because raising awareness in workplaces will help the workers to know how HIV is spread and how one can fight against that disease. Those workers, in turn, will be able to inform others, including their own children.” |
The Champions
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Summary: Two car mechanics, owners of their own garages, challenge one another to a game-show duel: whose staff can do a better job of mastering the facts of HIV/AIDS? The hilarious final comes down to penalty-shot questions on the tricky topic of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). And the winner is….
Sample topics for discussion:
1) Why is it so important that employers make sure that their employees are well-informed about HIV/AIDS?
2) If a friend of yours told you that he/she might have an STI, could you tell him/her where to go to have it treated?
Directed by Fanta Régina Nacro, Burkina Faso (on the right on the photo); based on original ideas by Abdoul-Razakh Cissé, aged 22, Burkina Faso (on the left), and Facely Jefami Millimono, aged 19, Guinea
- Length: 14 minutes 57 seconds
- Production date: 2004
- Shot in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Currently available in: American Sign Language, Dioula, English, Fon, French, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Kiswahili, Lingala, Mina, Mooré, Portuguese, Pulaar, Twi, Wolof, and Yoruba.
Please click here to view and download photos from the shoot of the film The Champions.
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