Pos­i­tive and Preg­nant, a short film, shot and pro­duced in T&T, will be aired on CNC3 tonight at 9.30 as part of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Film Com­pa­ny's (TTFC) TV Film Fes­ti­val 2011. The docu­d­ra­ma ad­dress­es one of the crit­i­cal is­sues re­sult­ing from the spread of HIV/Aids in the Caribbean, the trans­mis­sion of the virus from moth­er to child. Pos­i­tive and Preg­nant show­cas­es Ali­cia, a young, ed­u­cat­ed and am­bi­tious woman who has a lot go­ing on in her life, es­pe­cial­ly now that she finds true love in her new boyfriend Mar­vin.

The pas­sion of love leads to risky sex­u­al be­hav­iour and she soon finds out that she is preg­nant. Things take a turn for the worst as a pre­cau­tion­ary test leads her to dis­cov­er that she is al­so HIV pos­i­tive. Dis­traught, dev­as­tat­ed, an­gry and los­ing hope quick­ly, she comes clos­er to see­ing each wak­ing mo­ment of her life as a step clos­er to death. But is there re­al­ly no rea­son to hope? This ground­break­ing docu­d­ra­ma promis­es to an­swer this ques­tion and more. The 24-minute film pro­vides im­por­tant in­for­ma­tion con­cern­ing HIV test­ing, stig­ma and dis­crim­i­na­tion and the pre­ven­tion of moth­er to child trans­mis­sion of HIV/Aids (PMTCT).

Pos­i­tive and Preg­nant fea­tures an en­sem­ble cast and stars Jea­nine Lee-Kim, Du­ane Dario Dixon, along with sup­port­ing per­for­mances from Pauline Mark, Ly­lah Per­sad and Nao­mi Abi­o­la. Lo­cal HIV/Aids ad­vo­cate Lor­na Hen­ry al­so makes a spe­cial ap­pear­ance. The docu­d­ra­ma is the first ma­jor pro­duc­tion un­der­tak­en by the Walk­er Lela Foun­da­tion for Women's Em­pow­er­ment, a non­prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion which aims to im­prove the qual­i­ty of life of women and chil­dren from all walks of life through sup­port pro­grammes and out­reach. The film was di­rect­ed by Sta­cy Lela and pro­duced by Can­dice Lela-Rol­ing­son, co-founders of the women's foun­da­tion. The film is the first film pro­duc­tion for screen­writer Ny­ron Rol­ing­son, as well as Wood­brook-based ForceFed Pro­duc­tions, which is cred­it­ed for the video pro­duc­tion.