Intersexions is an episodic educational drama series that shows how our lives intersect and criss-cross with others’ in ways we don’t even know about. As soon as we become sexually active, we are immediately locked into a human web with complete strangers.
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Intersexions is a different series unlike any other ever produced in this country,” says General Manager Ray Nkwe. . Our roots keep us real and remind us of our responsibility to make the most of our freedom. Our ‘tell it like it is’ approach ensures that we remain Mzansi’s authentic storyteller.”
From the opening episode the series goes back in time, revealing a complicated sexual network that was set in motion with Mandisa and DJ Mo’s affair five years earlier. Viewers will experience the lives and situations of the different characters that place them at risk of contracting HIV.
“The most remarkable thing about Intersexions is that its stories demonstrate how communities and individuals are much more connected than they think,” says the Managing Director of JHHESA, Patrick Coleman.
The series has 68 leading actors, hundreds of locations around the country, 25 individual stories all exploring relationships across age, class, sexual orientation and race.
“The onus is on each individual to take responsibility for their sexual choices. Intersexions does not judge; it simply tells stories that show how the risk of being infected with HIV is always waiting for an opportunity to take root. We can minimise infection by becoming more conscious of our sexual choices and our everyday decisions,” says producer Karima Effendi, of Curious Pictures.
“What Intersexions does, through the medium of highly entertaining drama, is to educate us that the only way that we can protect ourselves, our loved ones and even those we have never met, is by being honest with each other, making serious decisions about how we live our lives – and by all being aware of the obvious and not-so-obvious intersections in the greater human network,” says Pontsho Makhetha, head of SABC Education’s public information and social development unit.