UPTV celebrates World Television Day with international programs
UPTV brings you programs not only from our own community but from around the world on a regular basis, including several on Sunday, November 21, to celebrate World Television Day.
World Television Day was proclaimed as a world holiday by the UN General Assembly to encourage global exchange of television programs focusing on peace, security, economic and social development, and the enhancement of cultural exchange. Television has served as a medium of global communication, entertainment, and household culture around the world since its invention in 1929.
THE DISH is a wry and powerful documentary about the power of television from Mohammad Rasoulof, one of Iran’s most skilled documentarians. Satellite TV is illegal in Iran but it is also the nation’s secret obsession. Satellite dishes are everywhere; but ever careful to protect the populace from immoral outside influence, the Morality Police force entry into homes wielding wire cutters and sledgehammers, spoiling the fun. THE DISH airs Sunday at 11:30 am and will repeat several times during the following week.
At 9:30pm Sunday evenings UPTV viewers see the regularly-scheduled series AFRICAN SCHOOL and INDIAN SCHOOL. These programs from England’s BBC FOUR capture the daily lives, concerns and personalities of young Africans, young Indians, and their teachers. AFRICAN SCHOOL presents stories of celebration and challenge that will rekindle memories of school years: teenage romance, exam pressure, football tournaments, special needs teaching, religion and sex education. But in Masindi, school life is played out against the challenging issues faced by Uganda: local HIV rates run at 7% and the conflict in northern Uganda has forced people to flee into Masindi district. INDIAN SCHOOL explores what's it like to grow up in a country with the largest child labor force in the world, an ancient caste system and a film industry bigger than Hollywood.
Airing at 11pm Sunday is the beautiful 1958 film CAIRO STATION (PG) from legendary director Youssef Chahine, who uses Cairo's main railroad station to represent all of Nasser-era Egyptian society. Chahine received international recognition for this classic masterpiece of repression, madness and violence among society's marginalized. The film will also be rebroadcast several times during the following week.
UPTV is the television service of the City of Urbana, providing governmental, educational and public access television to, and by, the local community. It is available on Comcast Channel 6 to over 40,000 homes in Urbana, Champaign, Savoy, Bondville, Philo, Ogden and St. Joseph, as well as in Springfield, Decatur and Danville on ATT U-Verse Channel 99. The complete program schedule is at www.urbanaillinois.us/uptv. For more information, contact UPTV at 217-384-2452 or at uptv@urbanaillinois.us.
