More Time

Thandi is only a teenager, ready for anything and ripe for falling in love. She's a girl flirting with womanhood and the township beckons. But, she still has to find out the dangers when David, the schoolboy Mister Magic, coolly sweeps her off her feet. As her life spins out of control and beyond her parents' reach, Thandi has to learn that playing with love may mean playing with her life.

More Time is the story of what happens to a township girl when she realizes that falling in love is not so simple. The danger of love is not just about unwanted pregnancies. In a time of AIDS, it is about life itself. And that means changing the way teenagers like Thandi think - and feel - about sex and sexuality. 

More Time will appeal to teenagers, the "HIV-free generation," who face similar choices - and to parents who are afraid of what the future holds for their children. 

In its first week of release this film won three MNET awards: Best Film, Best Actress and Best Editing, and three Southern Africa Film Festival awards: Best Film, Best Actress and OAU Best Acting. It has also won Best Film at the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Best Teen Film at the National Black Programming Consortium, Best Film at National Council on International Health, a Director's award in Milan and the Jury International Professional Grand Prix at the 14th International Festival of Young People at Laon, France and the Young Jury Award at the Ecrans Jeunnes Festival in Reunion. 

Available worldwide in English, Setswana and Swahili, 16 and 35mm film, inquire for prices.

VHS NTSC and PAL - 90 minutes. T-shirt, poster, cap, 35mm and VHS PAL trailer also available.

Produced by Media for Development Trust with support from NACP-Zimbabwe, NACP-Botswana, DANIDA, CIDA, SIDA, CIDA-SAT, NORAD, Anglo American Corp

Zimbabwe, UNICEF, Redd Barna and MFDI.