We are together: from music comes the voyage of a lifetime/ a film by Paul Taylor

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher: New York : Palm Pictures ; ©2007Description: 1 DVD (86 mins.) : sound, color ; 4¾ inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Directed by Paul Taylor, Produced by Paul Taylor and Teddy Leifer
Scope and content: We are together tells the remarkable and moving story of a group of children who overcome hardship and loss with music. Filmed over a period of three years, it is the story of an orphanage unlike any you've ever seen, where the young singers of the Agape Choir lift their voices to create the home and family they so very much need. Life has not been easy for 12-year-old Slindile and her siblings living at the Agape Orphanage in South Africa, where most of the children have lost their parents to AIDS. These toddlers and teens squabble and stumble just like any other youths, discovering themselves and craving stability. Having already borne great hardships, Slindile along with here sisters and baby brother must endure the fact that their elder brother Sifiso had been diagnosed with AIDS and is slowly wasting away due to lack of medical care. And yet, when they lift their voices in song, something extraordinary happens-they overcome their fears, band together as a family and better their lives
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Directed by Paul Taylor, Produced by Paul Taylor and Teddy Leifer

We are together tells the remarkable and moving story of a group of children who overcome hardship and loss with music. Filmed over a period of three years, it is the story of an orphanage unlike any you've ever seen, where the young singers of the Agape Choir lift their voices to create the home and family they so very much need. Life has not been easy for 12-year-old Slindile and her siblings living at the Agape Orphanage in South Africa, where most of the children have lost their parents to AIDS. These toddlers and teens squabble and stumble just like any other youths, discovering themselves and craving stability. Having already borne great hardships, Slindile along with here sisters and baby brother must endure the fact that their elder brother Sifiso had been diagnosed with AIDS and is slowly wasting away due to lack of medical care. And yet, when they lift their voices in song, something extraordinary happens-they overcome their fears, band together as a family and better their lives

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