Projects in categories: Documentary

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Nora Meyer, a British Jew, accompanies New York’s ‘Friends Of Israel’s Defence Force’ on their annual military tour of the West Bank; a bizarre journey to the very heart of 21st Century Zionism.

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Salt of the Earth explores one facet of Trinidad's culture through this ancient music tradition called Parang and the ones who make it survive, the parrenderos and Holly Betaudier, a fantastic television producer and presenter.
 
The music sets the pace for the discovery of the island's beauty, its history, its landscapes and its people. This is a journey into Trinidad's past to better understand how an English speaking country has managed to keep and continue a Spanish tradition imported hundreds of years ago.

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Sex, Needles and Roubles takes us on a journey to the cold winter nights of St. Petersburg where we meet with some of its young drug addicted prostitutes. Through poignant real-life stories and interviews with leading figures in the fight against AIDS, corrupt policemen-pimps and discriminating doctors, this documentary seeks to understand how AIDS reached such alarming proportions over the last decade. This is a crisis which has catapulted Russia into being the country with the fastest spreading epidemic of AIDS in the world today.

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Champions aren't made in Gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

The Day of the Fight is a behind-the-scenes documentary on Manchester's boxing gyms, Following professional boxers such as the Undisputed Light Welterweight Champion of the World (IBF/WBU) Belts -Ricky the 'Hitman' Hatton and Michael Gomez, and trainers such as Billy Graham, Kerry Hayes Bobby Rimmer, from Phoenix camp and Brian Hughes MBE Moston Collyhurst Gym.
Its not all about Fight Night!

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Dan has always wanted to be the fastest man on four wheels. This comic documentary charts his bid to take on the big boys. In a milk float.

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The last in the Fish in the Machine trilogy. A yellow puffer fish, caught in a world of mirrors, flickers from colour to high contrast black and white, in syncopation with the percussive rhythms of gamelan music. Suddenly, the video changes tone, incorporating an extract from a television broadcast with rather more political and social consequences for us all.

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An exploration of both guerilla film-making and the use of DVD. Nine short films on the theme of intuition form the basis of a DVD that displays every stage of production. A comedy for all fellow guerilla film makers to enjoy, or revel in their own superiority!

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In 1971 the experimental film maker Anthony Stern travelled to Afghanistan with his 16mm film camera. The footage was lost for almost 30 years. Rediscovered in 2003, if forms the basis of this impressionistic film-poem, with an original soundtrack provided by the world fusion musicians 'Equa'.

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They have been hangouts for bohemians, bikers and office boys, but the classic London cafe - steamy, formica-clad, with wooden banquettes and booths - is fast disappearing as rents rise and tastes change. These three films follow four cafes on the verge of closure: They are worlds of their own, a form of social club for the regulars who have been going there for twenty years, and an imtegral part of London culture that may not be around much longer.

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The filmmaker returns to her hometown - Stowmarket - a sleepy backwater in rural Suffolk where nothing much ever happens. As she sits with her camera in the local taxi office, a variety of characters pass through - from restless children and old school friends to drunken squaddies. While they sit and wait for their taxis to arrive they share their dreams, desires and disappointments.

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In 1948 during the Greek civil war, 28 thousand children, Greek and Macedonian, were taken from their villages by the communist-led Democratic Army and raised in orphanages in Eastern Europe. The Greeks never allowed the Macedonian children back. 50 years later the 'children' marked the anniversary of their journey. They dance and sing and yearn for their lost villages. The Greek civil war has faded into history, but the Macedonian 'children' remain its forgotten victims.

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In 2003, on his way home to Berkshire Ben Brown, 18, was hit by an intercity train traveling at 220 km/h. He recovered in no time despite the chance of losing his life at it's highest.