André Singer
Historia
André Singer is a British documentary film-maker, as well as an anthropologist. He is currently CEO of Spring Films Ltd of London, a Professorial Research Associate at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, and was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland from 2014-2018.
Born in London, he studied at University Hall, Buckland and then at first Keble College and subsequently Exeter College, Oxford University under Professor Sir E.E. Evans-Pritchard, specialising in Iran and Afghanistan for his doctorate. He started working in television in the early 1970s as a researcher, then as a producer and director for the Disappearing World series at Granada Television, eventually taking over from Brian Moser as the Series Editor.
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Co-Producer
“Nothing is typical for Werner, only the atypical is typical for him.” This is just one of many attempts to characterize Werner Herzog. Documentary filmmaker Thomas von Steinaecker spoke to actors, directors, directors of photography and producers who have worked with Herzog over his long career—including directors Chloé Zhao, Joshua Oppenheimer and Wim Wenders, singer Patti Smith and actors Nicole Kidman, Christian Bale and Robert Pattinson. We also hear from Herzog himself, with extraordinary anecdotes about film locations and shoots, his admiration for Lotte Eisner, and his eternal search for beauty. The interviews are carefully punctuated by archive footage of Herzog never seen before, iconic excerpts from his feature films and documentaries, and his cameos in cartoon series such as The Simpsons. Together they create a kaleidoscopic image of a radical visionary and dreamer, and of his very own “Werner World.”
Executive Producer
In 2014, following a tip-off, a group of journalists exposed a troubled history for indigenous Sámi women, men and children. It revealed generations of negligence, abuse and suffering, supported by a mass of evidence and previously unseen archival footage. As the case goes to court, the community remains defiant against a judicial system whose attitudes highlight fissures in the purported equal treatment of all citizens. The community’s battle aims to break a vicious cycle of racism and to achieve meaningful lasting change for future generations.
Executive Producer
Documentary about space colonization: a voyage across our planet, into the stars and beyond.
Executive Producer
Israel and Palestine: time to call time on the conflict? This Doc Feature is an extraordinary, balanced and heart-wrenching examination of the Isreali-Palestinian conflict - never before presented. Ancient and recent history, geopolitical issues, psychology and a deeply personal journey challenge what we think we know.
Producer
Este extraordinario viaje a través de nuestro planeta y universo explora cómo los meteoritos, las estrellas fugaces y los impactos profundos han despertado nuestro asombro por otros reinos y nos han hecho repensar nuestros destinos.
Director
Mikhail Gorbachev, ex presidente de la Unión Soviética, se sienta con el cineasta Werner Herzog para hablar sobre sus muchos logros. Los temas incluyen las conversaciones para reducir las armas nucleares, la reunificación de Alemania y la disolución de su país.
Executive Producer
After decades of rising house prices, many of the North London Hasidic Jewish community are relocating 50 miles east to the more affordable Canvey Island, Essex: a Brexit stronghold voted 'the most English place in Britain'. This film follows the reactions of the island’s Anglican and agnostic residents as they get to grips with their new neighbours. It has the potential to be a culture clash, but leaders on both sides of the sea wall are determined that good neighbourly relations will prevail. The film follows Chris Fenwick, island native and manager of rock band Dr Feelgood, as he organises a party for both communities with social integration at the top of the menu. With Anglican priest David Tudor and key Hasidic elders on side, can Chris join the new Canvey Island community together in peace and integration?
Producer
El aclamado director Werner Herzog visita varios volcanes activos alrededor del mundo. Herzog y el especialista en volcanes Clive Oppenheimer emprenden una aventura por todo el mundo explorando algunos de los volcanes más conocidos de Indonesia, Etiopía, Islandia y Corea del Norte. Relacionándose con científicos e indígenas de cada zona, buscan entender la compleja y antigua conexión que existe entre los seres humanos y una de las grandes maravillas de la naturaleza.
Executive Producer
A través de la obra cinematográfica de Joshua Oppenheimer sobre los responsables del genocidio en Indonesia, una familia de supervivientes descubre cómo fue asesinado su hijo y la identidad de los hombres que lo mataron. El hermano más joven se decide a romper ese silencio y miedo con el que viven los supervivientes, enfrentándose a los responsables del asesinato de su hermano, algo inimaginable en un país en el que los asesinos siguen en el poder.
Director
Film sobre el recientemente descubierto documental, rodado en 1945 por el director Alfred Hitchcock y Sidney Bernstein -que luego sería fundador de Granada Television-, sobre los campos de concentración nazis liberados por las fuerzas aliadas. Con imágenes de archivo rodadas entre otros por el ejército británico, soviético y norteamericano, un documento con el fin último de mostrar las evidencias de los terribles crímenes de los nazis en los campos de exterminio. A pesar del apoyo inicial al proyecto de los gobiernos de Estados Unidos e Inglaterra, el film fue archivado y olvidado hasta que, 70 años después, fue restaurado y completado por iniciativa del Museo Imperial War. Un documental dirigido por André Singer, productor ejecutivo del aclamado documental “The Act of Killing”.
Executive Producer
An examination of the claims made for Uri Geller's career in espionage.
Executive Producer
En 1965 hubo un golpe de estado en Indonesia. Miles de comunistas, reales o presuntos, fueron asesinados por escuadrones de la muerte. Unas décadas después, el pasado pervive y un relato se perpetúa. Pero nada será igual después de este filme.
Producer
Part of a series of opera shorts by different directors. Herzog combines O Soave Fanciulla ("Oh you vision of beauty" from Puccini's La Boheme) with images of harsh life in Africa. The varied body of work was produced to celebrate six years of Sky Arts' season sponsorship of ENO and both organisations' commitment to widening the appeal of opera. Set to recordings by ENO Orchestra conducted by ENO Music Director Edward Gardner, they feature singers Peter Auty, Geraint Dodd, Mary Plazas and Mark Stone.
Producer
La película trata sobre un extraterrestre (interpretado por Brad Dourif) que llegó a la Tierra varias décadas atrás en el tiempo desde un planeta océano (La salvaje y azul lejanía), tras haber experimentado este una glaciación. Su testimonio revela que su raza ha intentado durante años formar una comunidad en la Tierra sin ningún éxito.
Executive Producer
Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.
Co-Executive Producer
Documental basado en la vida de Kurt Gerron, un judío alemán cabaretero y actor de cine en la década de los 20 y los 30, quien fue enviado al campo de concentración Theresienstadt, donde se le encomendó escribir y dirigir una película propagandística nazi. (FILMAFFINITY)
Executive Producer
Retracing the footsteps of the beloved Paddington Bear, Stephen Fry travels to the Cloud Forests of Peru in search of the rare Spectacled Bear.
Executive Producer
En los años 50, Werner Herzog compartía piso con Klaus Kinski, un diabólico ególatra. Kinski padecía repentinos e injustificables arrebatos de ira o locura, durante los cuales podía llegar a destrozar el mobiliario del apartamento. La terrible personalidad de Klaus fascinó a Werner y entre ambos nació una estrecha amistad que se fue al garete durante el rodaje de la película "Aguirre, la cólera de Dios". (FILMAFFINITY)
Executive Producer
El veterano piloto germano-americano Dieter Dengler creció en una Alemania reducida a escombros debido a la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Recuerda cómo los aviones aliados bombardeaban su patria, cómo surgió entonces su admiración por los pilotos, que lo llevó a convertirse en uno de ellos. A los 18 años, Dengler emigró a América y se unió al ejército que partía para Vietnam. Durante una misión, fue derribado, cerca de Laos, y encerrado en un campo de prisioneros. Fue torturado, encadenado y encerrado en una celda de bambú, donde planeó su fuga.
Executive Producer
The creator of Pakistan has long been a controversial figure. The film tries to unravel his personality with interviews and footage never before aired.
Director
Bronislaw Malinowski changed the way that field studies were carried out. He worked on a remote group of Pacific islands—the Trobriands—and lived for long periods among the people he was studying. A brilliant linguist, he quickly learned their language and later published books which brought the islanders to life. The idea that native peoples were primitive savages was altered for good with Malinowski's insight into their mastery of their world.
Director
Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard’s Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande—based on fieldwork conducted in Sudan in the 1920s and 1930s—is one of the classic texts of social anthropology. Fifty years later anthropologist John Ryle and film-maker André Singer—among the last of Evans-Pritchard’s students—revisited Zandeland, in Western Equatoria province of Southern Sudan, for Granada Television’s Disappearing World series. They recorded the continuities in Zande culture and the changes since Evans-Pritchard’s time.
