Projects matching: Andi Reiss

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In the UK, euthanasia and assisted death is illegal. However, recent landmark cases have highlighted the issues surrounding assisted death and may be shifting public opinion in the direction of greater freedom. Yet it is one of the most challenging and complex debates of our time, with varied viewpoints presenting society with difficult questions, for which there are no easy answers. In a world of idealised autonomy, legislation providing for assisted dying in the UK might, if ethically acceptable, not be risky. But we do not live in that world and there are wider implications to this most complex of issues. The arguments, both for and against a change in the law are nothing if not complicated, but one thing is for sure, these legal challenges are not going to go away, and more people are taking advantage of Switzerland’s rather coarsely coined ‘suicide tourism.’ Whatever you conclude, however, these most recent legal challenges come nearly 20 years after the issue was first voted on in the House of Commons.

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Described as a 'Waiting for Godot with Chavs', this dark comedy centres around four teenage rudeboys who find themselves in purgatory, having stolen a car and passed into the void by way of a fatal car crash.

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Based upon a series of true stories Cargo is the intense tale of four refugees escaping from Croatia to the UK in the back of a truck in the early 1990s. It was shot in only ten days in January 2003 at Pinewood Studios and emphasises that refugees, regardless of where they have come from or from what economic scenario they are escaping, are desperate people resorting to desperate measures.

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Special Delivery is a 30 minute documentary about the work of Ray Greaves; one man, who, in his big white van delivers hope to the Children of Chernobyl. This forty eight year old former miner, from Doncaster, has spent the past nine years raising money and collecting aid for the Zelenei Gai Children's radiation rehabilitation centre in Chernigov, near Chernobyl. To the doctors and nurses there, Ray is the reason they can continue with their treatment of young victims of the 1986 nuclear disaster. To the kids he's the English Santa Claus.