World AIDS Day Boradcast Of Videovision Entertainment’s Academy Award® Nominated Yesterday
The multi award-winning film, YESTERDAY starring Leleti Khumalo will be broadcast on free-to-air channel, e.tv on Thursday, 1 December 2016 at 8:30pm to commemorate World AIDS Day. There will be a repeat broadcast on Friday, 2 December at 02:50am.
Produced by Anant Singh and directed by Darrell James Roodt, the film follows the plight of a rural woman, Yesterday, who falls ill and discovers that she is HIV positive. Her husband, a migrant mineworker, refuses to accept her condition and she is left to fend for herself and her young daughter, hoping that she will survive long enough to see her child go to school.
YESTERDAY, is acknowledged as a ground-breaking film, as it was shot entirely in isiZulu and was the first ever South African film to receive an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Foreign Language Film.
