Short FilmsSeveral short films are now available on dvd/vhs. All you have to do is place an order now! Among the films on offer are: PositiveBrian is about to marry his sweetheart Jacquline and decides he wants to know his HIV status before tying the knot. But Brian and his father Lambert go for the HIV test without Jacquiline knowing. Brian tests positive. With little knowledge of the disease and having failed to get professional counseling upon receiving the result, Brian is devastated by his status. For Brian being HIV is a “death sentence”. His father does not make it any easier as he begins to ill-treat his son. On the other hand Jacquiline is inquisitive wanting to know when the two will marry. Brian has no courage to reveal his status.
A Creative Native Production (2001).
Producer: Daves Guzha;
Director/screen playwright: Dylan Wilson-Max;
Story: Walter Muparutsa. Face to FaceWhat does a young scriptwright do when he suddenly finds himself torn between two women and two cultures? Farai, an excellent scriptwright had the answer…write about his torture with the two women who are also from two different cultures - one white, one black. Farai is given the black girl who has yet to start secondary school, as a way of appeasing avenging spirits. At the same time the white woman, Wendy, is pregnant. In between the writing of the script Farai is confronted by problems which he has to deal with in real life and for his script. But the script is even made more easier for him as more characters join in. - A Creative Native Production (2002) Producer: Daves Guzha; Director: Gordon Mawuru; Playwright: Stephen Chifunyise LifeIn Life Tarambawa’s wife maiTino drives her husband to his mother’s home where she abandons him never to return. He is HIV positive and keeps their two children away from him. A widow, Gogo struggles with Tarambwa’s upkeep. She sells her clothes and household property to raise money for Tarambwa’s medication. Life evokes soul searching in every respect.
A Creative Native Production (2003)
Producer: Daves Guzha;
Director: Prudence Uriri;
Screenplay: Leonard Matsa. MasiiwaA Love for Life: This is a documentary on the life of the world acclaimed sculptor, Dominic Benhura. The play starts on the sobering sequence touching on the early pre-natal circumstances of Benhura, in his early childhood in both Murewa and Tafara in Harare. The story opens up to showcase the artist as a highly talented young sculptor developing and scaling dizzy heights becoming a force in international contemporary sculpture.
A Creative Native Production (2005)
Producer: Daves Guzha;
Writer/Director: Tawanda Gunda Mupengo. Stage PlaysSome of the most evocative and controversial stage plays to come out of Zimbabwe are now selling on dvd/vhs among them Super Patriots and Morons, Pregnant with Emotion, Update and Muramu. Super Patriots and Morons In the play the characters struggle to get their voices heard…whether it is the voice of the youths, women, the elderly or just ordinary citizens. The play explores questions: When will the citizens take personal action to bring about change in their society? How can citizens make government accountable to the people? How should individuals deal with political and economic points of view that differ from their own? The script was inspired by the coverage of the relevant stories in the news media and the viewpoint of civic bodies including public debate. In a way the play is a comedy of errors where people in an imaginary country, ruled by an out-of-touch dictator, laugh at their own social, political and economic blundering. But the iron-fisted ruler sees his opponents as enemies that must be stopped. The play had been staged in Zimbabwe before without raising the ire of government but was banned during the 2004 Harare International Festival of the Arts. Rooftop Promotions is not only challenging the ban but the whole constitutionality of the Act invoked to stop the play.
Written by: Raisedon Baya and Leonard Matsa.
Directed by: Calle Kjellgren.
Produced by: Daves Guzha.
Cast: Daves Guzha; Walter Muparutsa; Chirikure Chirikure; Mandhla Moyo and Joyce Mpofu. Pregnant with Emotion The play is a realistic reflection of the political environment in Zimbabwe and draws mainly on current events and emotions. But the play’s poetic crafting and spiritual characteristic separates it clearly from Super Patriots and Morons that tackles purely the political elements in the broader socio-political context. Pregnant with Emotion is a story of a woman who is pregnant for 13 months. The baby, who speaks through the woman, is refusing to be born until the country’s socio-political problems are solved. Evocative poetry by the celebrated poet Chirikure Chirikure reflects the obtaining socio-political environment. But when blended with the wailing mbira, by the accomplished female instrumentalist, Chiwoniso Maraire, the fusion symbolizes the agony of a nation under siege. Overall the play is a balanced and fair criticism of a nation bedeviled with festering problems. In Zimbabwe the play has been crafted to stimulate public debate and engage civil society in open debate on the problems saddling the nation. The play has left the critical Zimbabwe private press wondering how the production had escaped government censure to this day. Other observers believe the government was becoming more tolerant to criticism and had allowed the play to run.
Written by: Edgar Langeveldt and Raisedon Baya.
Produced by: Daves Guzha.
Cast: Chiwoniso Maraire; Joyce Mpofu; Chirikure Chirikure; Mandla Moyo; Walter Muparutsa and Daves Guzha.
Update The comedy looks at Zimbabwe and its challenges. It openly nourishes with happenings around the world. Edgar has all issues moulded into a political as well as a satirical stand up comedy. he surely makes you see bad situations in a much lighter way. It makes you laugh your lungs out. Strange Bedfellows Racial tension is dealt with extensively in the play. During rehearsals two characters (One Black and the other White) get emotional and ignore the script as they exchange bitter words on the racial tension in the country, Zimbabwe. The two characters get the real test during a scene in which they are supposed to kiss. Written by Stephen Chifunyise Produced by Daves Guzha Cast: Daves Guzha, Georgina Godwin, Helge Skoog How to Order
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