In Development
We are looking for broadcast commissions, co-productions, investment and funding from an eclectic range of potential partners. Please contact us for more information.
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Us Now - working title
1x 1hr creative documentary exploring the possibilities for government in the age of Web 2.0
Citizen collaboration on a huge scale, made possible by the internet, is starting to address some of the biggest challenges our government faces – on one hand climate change and obesity, on the other, citizen isolation and disenchantment with politics. Government cannot tackle these issues without the active participation of the citizens – a new relationship must be brokered. Us Now tells the stories of people who are solving their own problems publicly and together. In the process they are solving the big problems that we all share. The film is not just about the literal power of the Internet; we ask what are people’s motivations for involvement? To what extent are these models for larger scale social organisation? And what does this mean for government? Us Now takes us inside the homes, minds and projects of the pioneering users and creators of new web-based networks. It charts the progress of these projects as their scope becomes ever broader and the volume of users gives them even greater influence.
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
For eight years following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, history was not taught in Rwandan schools. Over the last 4 years, historians and educators have tried to re-introduce history into the curriculum with limited success. The problem is that history has been so manipulated to justify political actions that impartial accounts of Rwanda’s history are very hard to come by. Started by the Belgian Administration 150 years ago and then inflamed by Hutu figure heads for the last 50 years, the social structure of Rwanda has been divided into Tutsi elite and Hutu labourers. Archaeologists are finding evidence to prove that this division into distinct ethnic groups was never the case.
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.
