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White Volta
Director: Timothy Edzeani Doh
Status: Length:“White Volta” is a story of child labor and poverty in Ghana and one mans campaign to change it. The film follows former child slave Annan...
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Untitled Ramin Bahrani Gold Documentary
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Status: Length:The Untitled Ramin Bahrani Gold Documentary explores a centuries-old obsession with gold and the way an unstable economy has brought it to the forefront...
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Shadow Girl
Director: Maria Teresa Larrain
Status: Length:How do you keep your voice as a visual artist when you’re losing your sight? “Shadow Girl”
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Ntsika: The Pillar
Director: Alette Schoon
Status: Length:“Ntsika: The Pillar” explores what it takes to bridge the divisions of race and class in South Africa today. The film follows a white...
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Logs of War
Director: Anjali Nayar
Status: Length:Can sustainable logging kick-start Liberia’s post-war economy? Silas Siakor, a man who risked everything to cut off warlord Charles Taylor from...
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I, Afrikaner
Director: Annalet Steenkamp
Status: Length:Set in rural South Africa, where land issues are contentious, this film looks at what a person’s connection to land means. “I, Afrikaner”...
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I RIDE 4 KEVIN
Director: Lucy Walker
Status: Length:“I Ride 4 Kevin” tells the story of a sport and the risks that athletes face in reaching the pinnacle of their profession. This is Kevin...
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Beyond the Wave
Director: Kyoko Miyake
Status: Length:“Beyond the Wave” brings a personal perspective to the national crisis of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. Filmmaker Kyoko Miyake travels...
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Alt Orgs - Sustaining the Human
Director: Patricia Murphy
Status: Length:In a collapsing economy what can individuals and companies do for a more sustainable and mutually beneficial future? “Alt-Orgs” provides...
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Alliance School
Director: Paul Taylor
Status: Length:“Alliance School” is a film about acceptance and sexuality in America. The story is told through one of a handful of GLBT schools in the...
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Fish Fight Europe
2011 Director: William Anderson
Status: Length:Over a million tonnes of edible fish are thrown back into European waters every year, dead. Fishermen hate doing it, but are forced to by EU regulations....
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How to Survive a Plague
2011 Director: David France
Status: Length:How to Survive a Plague is an astounding untold story of patient activism and innovation — about AIDS survival, not death — which has...
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TURKEY CREEK
2011 Director: Leah Mahan
Status: Length:SHORT:
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TURKEY CREEK tells the story of a group of determined Mississippians struggling to save their endangered Gulf Coast community in the face of... -
I…Afrikaner
Director: Annalet Steenkamp
Status: Length:I Afrikaner, is the filmmaker’s journey into trying to understand her family’s unbreakable connection to the land. Set in rural South...
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Femme à la Camera
Director: Karima Zoubir
Status: Development Length:“Woman with a Camera” follows the life of an illiterate, divorced woman determined to work as wedding videographer in Casablanca despite...
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Rollaball
Director: Eddie Edwards
Status: Development Length:ROLLABALL will be an inspiring film that proves that physical limitations
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The Flying Pilot
Director: Peggy Mbiyu
Status: Development Length:The flying pilot is a story about a young man who has had a childhood dream to build a plane that he will fly in the African sky. He now wants to...
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Who Is Dayani Cristal?
Director: Marc Silver
Status: In Production Length:An anonymous body is discovered in the Arizona desert. The only identifying feature is a tattoo reading ‘Dayani Cristal’. To unravel...
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Director: Alison Klayman
Status: In Production Length:Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is an intimate portrait of an international art star during two tumultuous years of his life. A "dissident artist"...
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One Meal at a Time
Director: Alessandra Populin
Status: Development Length:Can a new cooking-stove help save the planet? Inventor Nat Mulcahy thinks so. ‘One Meal at a Time’ follows him across the world as he...
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The Island of Derek Walcott
Director: Ida Does
Status: Development Length:A portrait of St. Lucian poet, playwright and visual artist Derek Walcott. The film visits the Nobel Prize winner in his native country, taking his...
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Heralds from the Big World
Director: Tatyana Soboleva
Status: Development Length:‘Heralds from the Big World’ is a film about selflessness and generosity in Northern Russia. This film follows a group of Russian doctors...
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Haiti, Billions for a Refoundation
Director: Raoul Peck
Status: Development Length:‘Haiti, Billions for a Refoundation’ illuminates the complexities of the Haitian rebuilding effort. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck takes...
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Charlie PELE
Director: F.Simiyu Barasa
Status: Development Length:‘Charlie PELE’ is a study of inspiration through creativity in Kenya. Charlie is only one year old, but he inspires Kenyan youth to make...
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Bidesia in Bambai
Director: Surabhi Sharma
Status: Development Length:‘Bidesia in Bambai’ is a story of music, migration and mobile phones. This film follows the plight of two ambitious singers in Mumbai...
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African Ninja
Director: Banker White
Status: Development Length:‘African Ninja’ is a film about survival, hope, and the transformative role that creativity plays in the rehabilitation of war-affected...
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A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
Director: Ben Russell and Ben Rivers
Status: Development Length:‘A Spell to Ward off the Darkness’ is an enquiry into the possibilities of a spiritual existence within an increasingly secular Western...
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The E-Team
2011 Director: Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman
Status: Development Length:The action of the film THE E-TEAM will be driven by the high-stakes investigative work of Anna Neistat, Fred Abrahams and Peter Bouckaert, three key...
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What's Going On?
2011 Director: Penny Woolcock
Status: Development Length:Inner cities are little war zones in which small wars are fought. Gangs of young men stab and shoot each other for straying into the wrong postcode. ...read more -
Laureates
2011 Director: Kenneth Gyang
Status: Development Length:From the suburbs of Lagos, Accra, Cairo, Nairobi and Johannesburg, 5 African youths undertake a visual odyssey of the 13 Nobel prize laureates Africa...
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The Last Song
2011 Director: Katia Paradis
Status: Development Length:'The Last Song' is the tale of ordinary mothers who, one day, for a matter of life of death, turn themselves into composers. The...
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Cal Summits
2011 Director: Luis Ilizarbe
Status: Development Length:After beating cancer Eduardo Gold formed a partnership called ‘Peru Glaciers’ which, in 2009, won one of 20 prizes (from 150,000 submissions)...
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Armenia Wants A Piece of the North Pole, and the South Pole too
2011 Director: Vardan Hovhannisyan
Status: Development Length:Armenia Wants a Piece of the North Pole… and the South Pole, too! It is a humorous hook film, which will document how Two Armenian comedians...
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Speed Sisters
2011 Director: Geoffrey Smith
Status: Development Length:In a country where movement is heavily restricted, motor racing has become hugely popular, especially with the recent arrival of the ‘Speed...
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Shattered Pieces of Peace
2011 Director: Nonhlanhla Dlamini
Status: Development Length:Two young women publicly announce their love for each other in Swaziland. The media, the churches and ordinary people vilify the couple because...
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Black Out
2011 Director: Eva Weber
Status: Pre-Production Length:Synopsis
Every day during exam season, as the sun sets over Conakry, Guinea, hundreds of school students begin a nightly pilgrimage to the...read more -
We Are Many
2011 Director: Amir Amirani
Status: In Production Length:The story of the biggest peace march in human history. On 15 February 2003, in over 800 cities around the world, 30 million people protested against...
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Barefoot Engineers
2010 Director: Jehane Noujaim
Status: In Development Length:Barefoot Engineers will interweave Bunker Roy's work on the international scene-- taking his message to opinion leaders, raising money, challenging...
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Oil & Water
2010 Director: Francine Strickwerda & Laurel Spellman Smith
Status: In Production Length:When Hugo Lucitante was 10 years old, his tribe made a desperate decision. Fearing extinction, they sent Hugo to be educated in the U.S., in hopes...
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Moving Windmills: The William Kamkwamba Story
2009 Director: Tom Rielly
Status: In Production) Length:William Kamkwamba is a remarkable young man from Wimbe, a small rural village in Malawi, Africa. In late 2001, while his family was battling life-threatening...
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Town of Runners
2010 Director: Jerry Rothwell
Status: In Production Length:Long-distance running is a way of life in the Arsi region of Ethiopia. In a country well-acquainted with poverty, famine and war, world-beating athletes...
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Higher Ground
2010 Director: Jon Shenk
Status: In Production Length:Higher Ground is a dramatic feature documentary that lifts the issue of global warming out of the theoretical and into the personal. President Mohamed...
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$H*T!
2009 Director: Annika Gustafson
Status: In Production Length:$H*T! is an auteur, character-driven film following radical solutions that turn human waste into green energy, and the pioneers who drive them. Filmed...
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A Small Act
2009 Director: Jennifer Arnold
Status: Completed Length:When Hilde Back sponsored a young, impoverished Kenyan student, she thought nothing of it. She paid roughly $15 dollars per term to keep Chris Mburu...
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Ham Without Borders
2010 Director: Danielle Shcleif
Status: In Development Length:Jamón ibérico: Spanish salt-cured ham made from the black-hoofed, free-range Iberian pig. It’s said a 2000-year old fossilized...
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Kasai
2010 Director: Claude Haffner
Status: In Development Length:From her family home in, Alsace, Claude Haffner embarks on a quest for her African identity. Born in 1976 to a French father and a Congolese mother...
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Look at My India
2010 Director: Pramod Mathur
Status: In Development Length:Again and again, as I travelled across India, I have seen abject poverty and compulsions that have induced a kind of fate with no choices in the hands...
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Taste of Revolution (Formerly: Natural Wine for a Happy Life)
2010 Director: Philippe Gasnier
Status: Early stage of development Length:What is a natural wine?
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A fermented grape juice, produced as naturally as possible, and which takes into account the specificities of terroir.
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Ping Pong
2010 Director: Hugh Hartford
Status: In production Length:Les D'Arcy (UK) is 89, he's a 14 times cancer sufferer and 12 times world table tennis champion. Rune Forsberg (Sweden) is 85, he's the...
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Teenage
2010 Director: Matt Wolf
Status: In development Length:Based on a groundbreaking book by the seminal punk journalist Jon Savage, Teenage is an unconventional historical film about youth culture before...
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The Devil's Lair (Formerly: The Wretched of the Rainbow)
2010 Director: Riaan Hendricks
Status: In Development Length:More than 3000 prisoners are released back into South African society every month. Their criminal record denies them the opportunity of finding meaningful...
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Odin’s Raven’s Magic
2010 Director: Nick Fenton
Status: In development Length:The film of “Odin’s Raven’s Magic” is a modern retelling of an ancient Icelandic saga. A visual poem inspired and accompanied...
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Croaked
2010 Director: Lucy Cooke
Status: In Development Length:The world’s frogs are in a major crisis. Since the 1990’s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite suddenly...
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DRAGONSLAYER
2010 Director: Tristan Patterson
Status: Complete Length:“There’s a bunch of empty pools and a bunch of f*cked up houses. That’s why I’m here. I’m here to skate. But besides...
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