ELECTIONS & ERECTIONS

REGION: ALL. LANGUAGE: ENGLISH. RUNNING TIME. 85MINS. RATING: 13. PIETER DIRK UYS'S PHENOMENAL ELECTIONS & ERECTIONS IS A PERSONAL JOURNEY THROUGH THE MINEFIELD OF FEAR AND FUN ON THE EVE OF SOUTH AFRICA'S MOST CRUCIAL GENERAL ELECTION. HE CELEBRATES THE TWO ISSUES THAT WERE ILLEGAL FOR MOST FO HIS LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA: DEMOCRACY AND SEX. HE USES HUMOUR HIS WEAPON OF MASS DISTRACTION, AND COMPARES TODAY'S FREEDOM OF SPEECH TO THOSE YEARS OF NO FREEDOM, HOWEVER THERE WAS ENOUGH SPEECH TO HELP END A BRUTAL SYSTEM AND USHER IN A YOUNG DEMOCRACY. THROUGH ALL THIS THERE WAS ALSO LAUGHTER. TODAY, THE ISSUES OF THE NEXT PRESIDENT AND A NEW GOVERNMENT IS NOT MAKING SOUTH AFRICANS LAUGH. THE TSUNAMI'S OF RECESSION, ECONOMIC WOES, CRIME, CORRUPTION AND DENIALISM MERGE WITH THE ZUNAMI OF COMRADE JACOB'S DRAMATIC JOURNEY TO THE MOST POWERFUL POSITION IN THE LAND. NOTHING SEEMS TO BE FUNNY ANYMORE. NOW IT'S TIME TO LAUGH! PIETER DIRK UYS INVITES YOU TO SHARE THAT SHOWER WITH HIM AND HIS CHORUS LINE OF POLITICIANS AND PEOPLE, DEMOCRACY AND SEX ARE BOTH FREELY AVAILABLE IN SOUTH AFRICA AND EACH CARRIES THE WARNING OF DANGER. COME LEAD THE PARADE OF LAUGHTER AT FEAR.