21st CENTURY Television series

21st Century

CROSSING THE DIVIDE (13'48")

ANCESTRAL WATERS: PHILIPPINE INDIGENOUS GROUP ASSERTS RIGHT TO SEA AND LAKES (8'04")

Africa's Sahara...home to some of the world's most beautiful landscapes. It's also home to the continent's oldest running territorial conflict. For more than thirty years, the fate of Western Sahara has been in dispute...leaving tens of thousands of Western Sahara refugees in camps that straddle its border. For decades, families have been divided. But now, there's a very special programme that reunites them.

Many of the world's 370 million indigenous people face a difficult struggle to claim their ancestral territories. Their struggle is even harder when these places aren't found on land, but on water. Yet some tribes are now winning recognition of their right to ancestral waters thanks to a pioneering group in the Philippines: the Tagbanua people of Coron Island.

ABOUT THE SERIES
UNTV's series of 12 x 26' news-magazine programmes puts a spotlight on the world's most underreported stories. Each episode features 2-3 character-driven, human interest stories that reflect some of the most important issues affecting the world, and our lives today. Our cameras offer unique and often unparalleled access to people and places and stays to bring you the stories as they unfold over time, long after other news outlets leave. From the child labour situation in Tanzania to the woman's struggle in Afghanistan, from the poverty streets in Somalia to the frontline of the guerilla war in Colombia, this series brings home the stories viewers care about, but rarely see. Presented as a fully-packaged programme, and also available by feature segment (approximately 8' each), 21st Century incorporates narrative storytelling with balanced, accurate reporting and is adaptable to local languages. Currently fifty international broadcasters air the magazine monthly, including BBC World and RTVE.

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