Writer
"Generation 9/11" is an intimate film driven by the stories and personalities of its protagonists, who were born in the wake of a global tragedy which, for them, was also deeply personal. But it is also the story an entire generation that has been shaped by the attacks and their aftermath.
Director
"Generation 9/11" is an intimate film driven by the stories and personalities of its protagonists, who were born in the wake of a global tragedy which, for them, was also deeply personal. But it is also the story an entire generation that has been shaped by the attacks and their aftermath.
Writer
Documentary feature & TV hour filmed in run-up to Eurovision 2012 in Baku, contrasting the Azerbaijan's glitzy image to their grim human rights record through personal stories.
Director
Documentary feature & TV hour filmed in run-up to Eurovision 2012 in Baku, contrasting the Azerbaijan's glitzy image to their grim human rights record through personal stories.
Writer
What might it be like to be a horse? Not just any horse, but a top-end racehorse in Ireland? This is the question Horses explores, following three promising, charismatic horses over the course of one rather difficult racing year, bringing us into their world and revealing their distinct individual characters. Beautiful, unusual, and highly entertaining, the film combines the drama of a sports movie with the exploration of an ancient human obsession, offering a subtle critique of humanity's quirks on the side. (Storyville)
Director
What might it be like to be a horse? Not just any horse, but a top-end racehorse in Ireland? This is the question Horses explores, following three promising, charismatic horses over the course of one rather difficult racing year, bringing us into their world and revealing their distinct individual characters. Beautiful, unusual, and highly entertaining, the film combines the drama of a sports movie with the exploration of an ancient human obsession, offering a subtle critique of humanity's quirks on the side. (Storyville)
Director
Qatar is said to be the world's richest country, while competitive debating is said to be a training ground for future world leaders. So when the Qatari Emiress charged two recent Oxford graduates with creating the country's first national debate team and taking them to the world championships, the stakes were high. This documentary follows the journey of five ambitious teenagers as they are initiated into the cut-throat subculture of competitive high school debate. Training in London, Doha and New York, they learn more about the world as they hone their debating skills. (Storyville)
Director
A fast-paced, feature-length documentary which goes beyond the tinselly glamour of Bollywood to expose the industry's rather less alluring underbelly. The Mumbai film industry has long been rumoured to be associated with crime syndicates. The connection was publicly established when, in July 2007, one of India's superstars, Sanjay Dutt, was convicted of possessing firearms which were linked to India's 9/11 - the day in 1993 when Mumbai suffered 13 terrorist bomb blasts in the space of two hours. As full of sudden reversals as any thriller, this documentary follows Sanjay Dutt as he makes Shootout In Lokhandwala, his last film before being sentenced. He plays a real-life Mumbai police officer, AA Khan, who became a local hero after a fatal shootout with criminals in which 1,400 rounds of ammunition were fired. The documentary subtly underlines the ironies of this situation and has as colourful a cast of its own as any Bollywood movie. (Storyville)
Director
There was a time, not so long ago, when multi-national corporations saw the developing world merely as a source for natural resources and cheap labor. No longer. In recent years, corporations have opened back offices in countries where costs are low and ambition is high, most notably in India. The companies that house and staff these offices are known as BPOs Business Process Outsourcing companies. Office Tigers is set in the crème de la crème of BPOs, a multi-national company that provides high-end support work to the worlds top legal firms, investment banks, and consultancies. It takes us inside the closed world of corporate outsourcing. It introduces us to ambitious and charismatic Office Tiger employees, models for the new global economy, and the Americans who strive to guide them in their quest to join the ranks of the global business elite. The results are mixed often comic, occasionally brilliant.
Editor
O que acontece quando um grupo de cabeleireiros da América viaja para Cabul com a intenção de dizer às mulheres afegãs como fazer cabelo e maquiagem? Este documentário otimista e envolvente acompanha um projeto de desenvolvimento único: uma escola de beleza nova e brilhante, financiada em parte por pilares da indústria da beleza, que ensina as técnicas mais recentes de corte, coloração e permanência de profissionais e aspirantes a cabeleireiros e esteticistas afegãos. Os professores americanos, todos voluntários, incluem três afegãos-americanos que voltam para casa pela primeira vez em mais de vinte anos. A Academia de Beleza de Cabul oferece um raro vislumbre da vida das mulheres afegãs e documenta o processo pungente e muitas vezes humorístico através do qual mulheres com experiências de vida muito diferentes aprendem umas sobre as outras.
Producer
O que acontece quando um grupo de cabeleireiros da América viaja para Cabul com a intenção de dizer às mulheres afegãs como fazer cabelo e maquiagem? Este documentário otimista e envolvente acompanha um projeto de desenvolvimento único: uma escola de beleza nova e brilhante, financiada em parte por pilares da indústria da beleza, que ensina as técnicas mais recentes de corte, coloração e permanência de profissionais e aspirantes a cabeleireiros e esteticistas afegãos. Os professores americanos, todos voluntários, incluem três afegãos-americanos que voltam para casa pela primeira vez em mais de vinte anos. A Academia de Beleza de Cabul oferece um raro vislumbre da vida das mulheres afegãs e documenta o processo pungente e muitas vezes humorístico através do qual mulheres com experiências de vida muito diferentes aprendem umas sobre as outras.
Director
O que acontece quando um grupo de cabeleireiros da América viaja para Cabul com a intenção de dizer às mulheres afegãs como fazer cabelo e maquiagem? Este documentário otimista e envolvente acompanha um projeto de desenvolvimento único: uma escola de beleza nova e brilhante, financiada em parte por pilares da indústria da beleza, que ensina as técnicas mais recentes de corte, coloração e permanência de profissionais e aspirantes a cabeleireiros e esteticistas afegãos. Os professores americanos, todos voluntários, incluem três afegãos-americanos que voltam para casa pela primeira vez em mais de vinte anos. A Academia de Beleza de Cabul oferece um raro vislumbre da vida das mulheres afegãs e documenta o processo pungente e muitas vezes humorístico através do qual mulheres com experiências de vida muito diferentes aprendem umas sobre as outras.
Director
On October 23, 1998, a sniper carrying a high-powered rifle assassinated Dr. Barnett Slepian in his home, altering forever a family, a community, and the bounds of our imaginings about anti-abortion violence. This horrific act punctuated a decade of escalating harassment and violence against women’s heath care providers – a decade marred by murders, assaults, death threats, stalking, clinic blockades, arsons, bombings, and chemical attacks. How do these events affect the personal and professional lives of abortion providers? What motivates them to continue their work in the face of such terrorism?
