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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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War Takes

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  • Patricia Castano and Adelaida Trujillo
- from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival 2003 website
"For over four years, three Colombian filmmakers turned their cameras on themselves, using personal stories to expose the tough reality in their violent, war-ravaged country. According to these filmmakers, Colombia has been functioning for many years in the gray area between legalism and lawlessness. Their portrayal does not aim to confirm the image the outside world has of Colombia as a hotbed of excessive political violence and drug traffic, but instead draws out the beauty and warmth amidst the larger turmoil within their homeland. The humor borders on surreal as the film moves between conversations in the jungle with guerrillas to elegant dinner parties with society's elite. War Takes allows the real lives of its heroes, forever changed by war, to break through the stereotypes, forcing us to rethink our own conceptions, or misconceptions, of the beliefs and values by which these Colombians live."

To read a review of this documentary, by Educational Media News Online, please click here.

Publisher/Producer: Faction Films in association with Citurna for ZDF Das Kleine Fernsehspiel
Length: 75 minutes
Original version: Spanish. English & German subtitles.

World Distribution (except Germany / France / Austria / Latin America):
Faction Films - Sylvia Stevens
sstevens@factionfilms.co.uk
OR faction@factionfilms.co.uk

Latin America
Citurna Productions
citurnas@cable.net.co

Germany / France / Austria
ZDF - Public Channel
Burkhard Althoff - Commissioning Editor
Althoff.B@zdf.de