In Development
We are working on broadcast commissions, co-productions, investment and funding from an eclectic range of potential partners. Please contact us for more information.
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Beads on One String - working title
1 x 1hr doc about people who are finding common threads between the worlds religions.
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Organised religions are a powerful divisive force. Religion has justified conflict, war and general hostility between different believers in god throughout history. But could common ground be found in a belief of god even though that "God" comes in different forms. Beads on one string will follow the efforts, motivations, failures and successes of people from different religions trying to bridge religious divides by dropping the 'oragnised' from religion and concentrating on what matters.
Making History, Cooking History
After the war, schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina became the new fighting grounds for separate ethnicities and history lessons became tools to breed nationalism. Schoolbooks are stuffed with communist myths and nationalist texts. History textbooks have biased accounts of key events in history. These books, when compared closely, tell the history of the Former Yugoslavia in three different ways. Catholic, Islamic and Orthodox. Croat, Bosniak and Serb. To bridge the differences, an NGO has started a border crossing project, aimed at breaking the single view approach to history. The project brings 20 historians and history teachers from all over the region, to develop a common history of the period of Tito’s Yugoslavia.
1x52 min observational doc showing the compromises and negotiations made to write history.
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Georgian Dance
Following the three generations of dancers from a Georgian dance group we plot the history and explore the meaning of different traditional Georgian dances. Georgia is a crossroads between East and West. It has a cultural diversity reflected in its dance through competition, sword play and rhythm. George, an elderly, highly respected dancer, is forced to stop dancing. His knees wont hold him anymore and must give way to Vakhtangy, the rising star of Georgian dance. George turns to teaching young Mzia as she tries to learn the basics of the different routines.
1x 52 min creative doc with Georgian director Besarion Giogobiani
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Piecing Together Rwanda's Past
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A Radio presenter, a PhD student and a Historian are challenging over 100 years of misrepresentation in Rwanda. Radio in Rwanda plays a hugely important part in getting news to the rural edges of the country. Leading up to and during the genocide in 1994, now notorious radio broadcasts from ‘Radio Rwanda’ helped stir up a population to attack their neighbours. Broadcasts claimed that Tutsi were foreigners and should be forced home. Historical propaganda was used to justify the massacre of nearly 1 million people. In Rwanda today, a very sensitive revolution is taking place. Through the gentle efforts of Professor Kanimba and archaeologist John Giblin, Rwandan history is being re-written and this less divisive past is presented on national radio.
1 x 52 min doc
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Indigo
A three part series of 52 min documentaries on the magic, culture, obsession and history of the natural dye Indigo. -
Voices of Kenya
Voices of Kenya is an on-going mobile video-workshop and cinema. Equipped with digital projection and production equipment, a Voice of Kenya vehicle travels the provinces making and screening films with different communities in cities, towns and villages. A small team of practising filmmakers, teachers and artists from Kenya will establish video workshops for individuals and groups who live in each urban or rural locality. Their collaborative aim: a series of short animations, dramas and documentary films distinctive of each place.
