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•	According to a 1999 UNICEF report from the United Nations Children’s Fund, “…by the end of the year 2000, a cumulative total of 13 million children…lost their mother or both parents to AIDS, and 10.4 million of them (were) under the age of 15.”

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*I am an adult orphan who lost her mother to HIV/AIDS in 1996. Shouting Silent* explores the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic through my eyes.** I journeyed back home in search of other young women who have lost their mothers to HIV/AIDS and who are now struggling to raise themselves and, in many cases, their siblings on their own. In Shouting Silent, Renee and I lyrically interweave these young women's unsettling stories with highly stylized imagery to help convey my own painful memories as well as reveal an entire generation of young people who are growing up without parents on account of the devastating effects of the AIDS pandemic. We use testimonials to reveal the painful reality of many young women in Africa who are simply and quickly slipping through the cracks of society. *** FILM CREDITS: This film was made possible by a grant from The Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation Special thanks to Camille Cosby and Charlayne Hunter-Gault

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