TVE (Television Espanola) 24Horas – June 9, 2010 (First showing of various repeated showings of reportage)
In connection with the South African World Cup, TVE 24Horas ran a 15 minute reportage featuring Fernando Parreno, MSF Pediatrician and Joanna Stavropoulou, Director of Positive Ladies in which they discussed the situation of HIV in Africa and the stigma associated with it. They focused on the movie as an interesting example and discussed the issue of HIV and women in Africa.
Weblink: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/todos/temas/informativos/3.html#797712
Description of program in Spanish: Profundizamos sobre la situación del SIDA en África, especialmente en Zimbabue, con la ONG Médicos sin Fronteras. Para hablar de una iniciativa muy especial están en el programa Joanne Stavropoulou, directora del documental “Positive Ladies” y Fernando Parreño, de Médicos sin Fronteras. Joanne nos cuenta que en Johannesburgo han organizado un ‘mundialito’ con mujeres seropositivas que han aprendido a jugar al fútbol.
CNN.com (November 19, 2009)
Title: HIV+ Soccer Team Scores against Stigma
Coverage of the movie by CNN.com with an article written by the Director and also hosting the movie trailer and a photo gallery. The article focuses on behind the scenes stories of filming the movie. The story, part of CNN’s Vital Signs program, was featured on CNN’s front page when it came out and was its top story.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/19/positive.ladies.football.zimbabwe/index.html
SKY.NEWS.com (November 12, 2009)
African Women Use Football to Beat HIV Hatred
by David Williams
In the SKY News coverage the article focuses on the significance of the Football Ladies fight against stigma. On the page one can see the trailer and also a video clip of an interview of the film’s director.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Positive-Ladies-Soccer-Club-Documentary-HIV-Positive-Women-Use-Football-To-Beat-Haters-In-Zimbabwe/Article/200911215451777?lpos=World_News_Third_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region__6&lid=ARTICLE_15451777_Positive_Ladies_Soccer_Club_Documentary%3A_HIV_Positive_Women_Use_Football_To_Beat_Haters_In_Zimbabwe
Media Coverage in Brazil (January 29-30, 2010)
Globo Sports Channel
The national broadcast channel Globo Sports ran a seven-minute segment about MSF by using the story of the movie. It interviewed an MSF Brazilian doctor who has worked in Zimbabwe, in the Epworth project, and showed many shots from the movie. Also, on the tv channels website it ran a story about the movie and MSF and ran an interview with the movie’s director.
Metro Newspaper
Metro Newspaper is one of the largest circulation newspapers in the world. In most countries where it is published it is given for free at metro train stations. An article was written by Elisabeth Braw and was run by various of the newspapers country editions in February 2010. Among the countries where the article appeared where Chile, Mexico, Ecuador and Portugal. For an example of the article please see the following: http://www.readmetro.com/show/en/Lisbon/20100203/1/22/
Media Coverage in Greece
There was extensive media coverage of the movie and its premier in Greece, with a total of 32 media mentions. A highlight of the main ones are made below.
Television
SKY TV Channel: Interview of Film Director and MSF Greece Director of Communications Nondas Paschos together with excerpts of the movie. An eight-minute piece was played morning news 30/11/09, morning and evening 01/12/09 and the whole movie was played evening 01/12/09.
ERT (Satellite) (30/11/09): Interview of Film Director and two segments of movie of about 2 minutes each, total piece about 8 minutes.
Radio
Radio Athens 9.84 (27/11/09): Interview of Film Director who discussed how the movie came about and the issues surrounding HIV.
Athens International Radio 104.4 (01/12/09): Interview of Film Director.
Newspapers
City Press (01/12/09): Interview of Film Director. (Free circulation mass newspaper). http://www.citypress.gr/index.html?action=article&article=71293
Eleftherotypia (01/12/09): Interview of Film Director. http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=107428
Websites
SKY.gr (01/12/09): Includes interview with Film Director. http://www.skai.gr/articles/news/culture/ΌτανημπάλαπαίρνειτοAIDS/
Cosmo.gr (01/12/09): Includes interview with Film Director and the movie trailer. http://www.cosmo.gr/News/256914.html
Announcements of the Film Premier were also run in: Kathimerini Newspaper (Greek and English Section), Exothos (Magazine), Express (Newspaper), Athinorama (Magazine)