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Coming Up ... in January 2008 |
 Hard Christmas - Reunited
We're also premiering new documentaries from Oxfam - Nowhere Else to Go about the Masaai communities in Tanzania, More Food on the Table goes to Honduras, an update on life under Eva Morales in Bolivia in the Revolution You Didn't See, and the progress of the Changemakers in South Asia.
31 Dec - 6 January
Hard Christmas - Reunited - Tues 1st Jan @ 9pm
Reunited follows three women in their quest to find the mum or dad they have never known. Carol, Julie and Christine risk uncovering long buried family secrets and lies in their separate journeys to find a parent who left home when they were still young.
 More Food on the Table
Desperately poor, landless communities in Honduras are struggling to feed their families. This films shows how lives can be transformed with the help of investment in small plots of land. One successful model is a cooperative that now exports organic coffee to Europe.
Hard Christmas - Runaways - Thurs 3 Jan @ 9pm
Laura, 15, has run away from home over 150 times in the last two years. She has just been placed in a children’s home in Lancashire after her behaviour spiralled out of control. Director Julia Stovell follows the teenager over five months as she continues running away and putting herself at enormous risk.
Hard Christmas - Skint - Sat 5 Jan @ 9pm
Vernon Burgess, Birmingham's most famous Big Issue seller, is homeless again and spent last Christmas inside a psychiatric unit. This year he is hoping to busk his way to a better Christmas, but he needs a busker's licence, a guitar and a catchy song if he is going to succeed. Can willing guitar teacher Trev help him succeed.
 Nowhere Else to Go
21 Frames Per Second - Mon 7 Jan @ 9.30pm (repeated on Tues 8 Jan @ 8am)
Follow Dylan, a cinema attendant with Down’s Syndrome, as he begins to question the world around him and becomes fascinated with his only escape to the outside world - film. He begins to dream of freedom and, despite heavy opposition, he can’t escape the lure of independence. After his boss allows him to watch a film, he takes an even bigger step and goes outside of the cinema – on his own – to do some exploring…
Nowhere Else to Go - Wed 9 Jan @ 9.30pm (repeated Thurs 10 Jan @ 8am)
The Maasai people of Tanzania have for generations herded their livestock across the spectacular landscapes of the Serengeti plains and the Ngorongoro highlands. However, their way of life has come under severe pressure. In this film, the issues facing the Maasai are explored by Rahab Kenana, a Masaai woman and Oxfam programme officer, as she travels between communities, revealing the enduring strengths of Masaai culture.
The Spiral Cage - Sat 12 Jan @ 8.30pm (repeated on Sun 13 Jan @ 6.30am)
Al Davis is an artist who has turned his own story of overcoming disability into a comic book autobiography. In this remarkable portrait of a life made stronger by disability, Al is at the forefront of a new wave of British comic book artists. He also met a woman whose love helped him accept his body and the spina bifida he was born with. They now share their life together.
14 - 20 January
 Revolution You Didn't See
Oxfam's Peter Murphy travelled to Bolivia in 1999 to capture on film a revolution that many people in the UK weren’t aware of. The film captured Bolivia’s indigenous Chiquitano people, in the town of Concepcion, as they began efforts to re-claim their ancestral land. Murphy returned to the region in 2006 to discover that it has produced dramatic changes in the country.
21 - 27 January
Changemakers - Wed 23 Jan @ 9.30pm (repeated on Thurs 24 Jan @ 8am)
This documentary shows how ordinary men and women in South Asia are working together to end marital violence against women. For many years, ‘Change Maker' Beauty Ara suffered abuse at the hands of her husband. She's now determined to prevent other women from suffering like her. This film follows Beauty as she persuades local couples to address their differences without resorting to violence.
For further information contact us at info@communitychannel.org
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