Untold Secrets About Albinism is a short film by Muloki Peter from Uganda (2023). Part of the Focus on Ability International Short Film Festival, it addresses perceptions and prejudice surrounding albinism and disability. The film draws attention to stigma, stereotypes and medical questions, and raises issues of advocacy, viewpoint and identity across ages from teenagers to young adults and adults. Without assuming a storyline, this work invites audiences to consider how society sees and treats people with albinism. It fits the festival’s aim to highlight the abilities, experiences and achievements of people with disability and encourages thoughtful discussion after the screening.
prevented them from sunshine. I'm Peter Geek, the Executive Director of Source of the Nile Union of Persons with Albinism, an organization that advocates and provides practical services to persons with albinism. Today, persons with albinism are being abused, so this day we are there to raise awareness about the condition, but also to reflect on the achievement, but also on what is being, what is needed by persons with albinism. So that's why we're today here and joined by different people with albinism from different parts of the world. Albinism is not known by many people, you know, that's why there were lots of misperception and other people thought that maybe when you have albinism in your source of wealth, they take it another way of thinking that maybe if you get any body parts of person with albinism, you may become rich faster. Those myths have really put the lives of persons with albinism in a very terrible situation, even to think that they are not human enough to be in a society because people are looking at them as a source of wealth. As an organization, we're trying so much to demystify the myth and misperceptions attached to the condition, but also empowering persons with albinism in different ways in their livelihood, improving the education status, seeing that they can get jobs just like anyone else, but also improving their health status. As persons with albinism, our skin misses melanin, which exposes us to the sun quickly, which later brings cancerousness, and this can be prevented by putting on a wide-brimmed hat, just like mine, long-sleeved clothing, but also putting on the sunscreen lotions, and using cryo-gun, the machine that we use to freeze precancerous cells. As an organization, we've worked so hard to try to reduce the rate of skin cancer among persons with albinism, and more so in Ubusoga sub-region. However, the machine that we started with, the cryo-gun, was getting old, and today on the International Albinism Awareness Day, we were able to launch a new one, which we think will help us to reach more other districts. However, this is an NGO, we are just a small NGO, to help us to, you know, to mitigate the skin cancer, because if you really see the precancerous cell and freeze it using the cryo-gun, it kills it and gives you a chance of not getting cancer. As persons with albinism, yeah, many still people misunderstand us and think that we are not human enough, and they don't include us in many issues in societies, but this is my appeal to you, to know that we are all created in the image of God, we are the same people. You know, being white doesn't mean that I'm less human, I'm just human, just like you, have the same feeling, just like you, can fall sick, just like you, so we are all the same people. In fact, if they mute and just hear only my voice, you may not know that I have albinism, so that means that we are the same. If you find the two skeletons of the so-called normal person and this person with albinism, all the skeletons are the same, so what we all need is love, acceptance and being included in all things, just like anyone else.
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