Coleen Mcglaughlin

Scenarios from Africa is a community mobilisation, education, and media process designed to improve the lives of those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and reduce HIV incidence. Non-governmental organisations and community-based organisations throughout sub-Saharan Africa work in partnership with educators and the media to organise contests inviting young people to put forward ideas for short films about HIV/AIDS. The winning ideas are selected by multidisciplinary juries, adapted through dialogue with local communities, and transformed into communication resources by leading African film directors.

Broadcast throughout the continent and used at community level in a range of languages, compilations of the Scenarios films are available from Global Dialogues on the following regional, multi-language DVD sets (and may be requested by colour code and format type):

• Red DVD set, PAL format (with languages of the Sahel region of Africa): all 33 films in English, French, Portuguese, Wolof, Pulaar, Dioula, and Moorè, and dialects of 18 of the 33 in Hausa and 2 of the 33 in Chadian Arabic.
• Blue DVD set, PAL format (with languages of the Great Lakes region of Africa): all 33 films in English, French, Portuguese, Lingala, Kinyarwanda, and Kiswahili.
• Green DVD set, PAL format (with languages of the West African Gulf of Guinea region): all 33 films in English, French, Portuguese, Twi, Mina, Fon, Yoruba, and Igbo.
• Green DVD set, NTSC format (for use in North America), all 33 films with soundtracks as above.
• Green DVD set, PAL format with Anglophone sign-language interpretation on screen: the first 28 films with soundtracks as above.

A Film Users' Guide is available to accompany the DVDs.

To request a copy of the films, or for further information, please write to info@globaldialogues.org

Wolof, Pulaar, Moorè, Twi,Igbo, Yoruba, Fon, Mina, Akan, Dioula, Lingala, Kinyarwanda, Kiswahili, English, French, and Portuguese; dialects including 18 of the 33 in Hausa and 2 of the 33 in Chadian Arabic; and Anglophone sign-language interpretation on screen

Email from Daniel Enger to Soul Beat Africa on October 27 2006 and March 30 2007, respectively, and to The Communication Initiative on March 27 2009; and Global Dialogues website on January 29 2007 and March 26 2009.