'The Glow Of White Women' is a frank, funny and slyly subversive account of his life from a child in a sleepy Afrikaans town who spent every afternoon in the madressah to a young man in post-apartheid
South Africa where all the rules have been rewritten.
The film is inventively put together using images from vintage magazines, the covers of pulp novels, anatomical drawings and family photographs as well as archive news footage, South African tourism
promotional films and commercials for skin whitening creams. This fast-paced succession of images is matched by an equally imaginative sound track incorporating everything from Cole Porter to a reinterpreted version of the Marie Osmond hit'Paper Roses'.

Yunus Vally traces a path through his life which leads from his early fantasies about the lure of white women pictured in magazines to his obsession with Anneline Kriel, Miss South Africa and Miss World in
1974. A decade later, in 1984, the year South Africa repealed the Immorality Act (which forbade sexual relations between the races) Yunus Vally got himself to Yeoville, Johannesburg - a place of sexual and political freethinkers and declared himself a Trotskyite.'You had to be clever, radical, brilliant and the white girls would come running', he says.

Interviewees include Evita Bezuidenhout, the radical drag queen who will be running for president of South Africa in 2009; Charlene Smith the South African journalist who entered into a public debate with President Mbeki over black male sexuality after she was raped at knifepoint in her own home and - most illuminatingly - Yunus Vally's former white lovers.

Although it's a highly personal take Yunus Vally's story provides a snapshot of how a whole generation of South Africans - both black and white - have been shaped by the past and the pull it still has on their present.

A provocative film about a nice Muslim boy, miscegeny and sexual
mores in modern South Africa by Yunus Vally whose erotic
fascination with white women was formed as a child when a succession of haughty madams trooped to his house to have
their dresses made by his

Director: Yunus Vally
Producers: James Mitchell and Catherine Meyburgh
Executive Producers BBC: Nick Fraser and Jo Lapping
Available - 1 x 78' or 1 x 53'
Produced by Little Bird

For further details please contact Judith Howton (Littlebird)