To really understand China, you have to get to know its people! Winston "SerpentZA" Sterzel travels across China’s first tier cities – Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen – meeting the cities’ most fascinating people, including a racy nude photographer, a mosquito…
Young people discuss media stereotypes and their effects. Young people discuss the adverse effects of the sexual stereotypes which bombard them. They talk about how hard it is to develop their own personality and to make friends when they don’t conform to media and advertising images. Directed…
In this feature-length documentary, Donald Harington, ‘America’s greatest unknown writer,’ describes the origins of Stay More, the fictional Ozark village where he sets his novels. Harington shares his childhood memories of the tiny town of Drakes Creek (the model for Stay More) and…
A short film for the general public about how a hospice works. and the particular approach to dying adopted by St. Christopher's controlling pain and enhancing the quality of the life that's left.
Arthur Pearson started St Dunstan's during the 1914-18 war to help servicemen who had been blinded, and today (know known as Blind Veterans UK) many hundreds of blind people live in the homes and benefit by the holidays this charity provides. Support and training is given in a home-like atmosphere.
In 1978, three months after the death of comedy icon, Charlie Chaplin, his body disappeared from its grave in Corsier-Sur-Vevey, Switzerland. Examining Magistrate, Jean-Daniel Tenthorey and the Swiss Police had no clues to follow only ridiculous rumours. It would be quite some time before the robbers…
Written & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos 2010 Have you ever asked yourself where does the fish you eat come from? If you had, you would be controlling a huge pirate industry which commits a crime in your dish! The ever-rising demand for fish in the international market has driven European and…
The heartwarming story of a group of dedicated volunteers who take on the city they love so they can preserve the ball field they call home. Their beloved Tiger Stadium was demolished, but the baseball diamond remained. Led by Tom Derry, this rag-tag group of baseball fans decided to take action…
Master thief, or visionary artist? When a celebrated sculpture briefly went missing from a Rodin exhibition in Santiago, the “theft” turned out to be a provocative statement, masterminded by a precocious art student. His actions sparked a public outcry and a furious debate on the nature…
In the style of Exit Through the Gift Shop, Stealing Rodin is a critical and humorous statement about Art and the market around it. The documentary traces the story of Luis Onfray’s artistic and criminal act. In 2005, the Palace of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile, hosted a collection by…
In 1996, the German nuclear engineer Karl-Heinz Schaab was accused of selling secret information to Iraq. With this data, which had been stolen by Schaab, about the nuclear centrifuge, Saddam Hussein obtained an indispensable link in the process of the production of nuclear arms. But was Schaab a shrewd…
Priorities for research - why is more spent on nuclear energy than solar power? Why is more money spent on researching nuclear energy than solar? There are complex political and historical reasons, but this film seriously questions our priorities. Solar includes wind, water and biomass: these sources…
