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Social and Political Documentaries
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GREY WOLF: Hitler�s escape to Argentina
Genre: Historical Docu-Drama
Length: 52�, 2x50� or 90�
Year of Production: 2010-11
Director: Gerrard Williams
Cast: Dante Venesio, Petro Guggiani, Maria Heller, Martin Gianola, Alexia Moya, Alejandro Fain
History tell us that the most despised man of the 20th century, Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva, killed themselves in the hell of the surrounded Fuhrerbunker in Berlin in 1945. But across Argentina, in the files of the FBI and in the words of the following eyewitnesses, a different story appears, a story that will change everything we have ever been taught about Adolf Hitler and make it impossible to believe the official story about anything, ever again.
This is a dramatization of real events - the untold story of Adolf Hitler's escape to Argentina at the end of WW2.
Based on interviews with eye witnesses in Argentina and years of detailed research, the film covers events from Hitler's escape by air from the ruins of Berlin on April 28th, 1945, to Fuerteventura on the Canary Islands and then by U-boat to Argentina where he died tormented, demented and betrayed at a small house, 'La Clara', forty five miles from San Carlos De Bariloche in the Argentine Andes, at 3pm on February 13th, 1962.
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Atomic Confessions
Director Katherine Aigner
Country Australia
Runtime 50
Year 2007
Australian Atomic Confessions reveals the compelling unknown story of the twelve British atomic bomb tests in Australia seen through the eyes of Aboriginal elders, atomic ex-veterans, experts and the Premier of South Australia. “
�That uranium belongs to us� says Uncle Kevin, �we knew about that long before the white man came here, it�s our responsibility, it�s part of the Dreamtime��
With the building of a new 500 million dollar nuclear reactor in a Sydney suburb, the expansion of more multi-national uranium mines, the associated poisoning of the Great Artesian Basin – a pristine natural water reservoir under the desert – and the community opposition to having an international nuclear waste repository ‘in our backyard’, the fight is on … which future will we choose?
�My two grandchildren have spina bifida and my daughter also has cancer � I�m just wondering if it comes from those tests?� an atomic ex-veteran widow asks.
Australian Atomic Confessions � a film everyone should see.
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Why Me
Director: Rick Cavaggion
Year: 2006
Runtime: 56'
Country: Australia
Language: English
Why me? is touted as one of the "most compelling" films on the subject of the Stolen Generations. Why me? tells the stories of five stolen children who as adults are trying to get on with their lives. Powerful re-enactments of key moments from the 1950s and 60s establish an emotional link to the journey of the children. It becomes clear what cost Aboriginal people paid for a government policy of forced removal. As much as Why me? documents the pain and suffering of being an outsider wherever you are, it also shows how these people struggle to find a direction in their lives, their courage and hope. But Why me? is also a documentary about the work of Link-Up, an organisation dedicated to bringing together members of the Stolen Generations with their parents, siblings and relatives.
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A Loving Friend
Director Kerry Negara
Country Australia
Runtime 77'
Language English
Year 2009
While ‘ordinary’ pedophiles are despised, many artist pedophiles are excused, continuing to enjoy admiration. With a focus on the Australian artist Donald Friend who lived in Bali Indonesia, A Loving Friend uncovers a circle of feted Western artist pedophiles who have operated in vulnerable communities across Asia and Australia since the 1930’s. While the Catholic Church is reluctantly facing the exposure of its pedophile culture, the art world is yet to do the same.
A Loving Friend reveals attitudes within influential art circles that will shock some viewers – the accepted notion of a ‘bad’ and a ‘good’ pedophilia with Asian and Indonesian children, where the artist is seen as culturally nurturing and caring, causing no harm. Western artists who resided in Asia, such as the Australian Donald Friend, German Walter Spies, and Canadian Colin McPhee successfully groomed and seduced not only the communities they exploited, but also the arts establishment who have bought into the romanticized versions of their lifestyles.
Filmed over 4 years and with access to communities in Bali and the art world in Australia, director and presenter Kerry Negara brings previously ‘off limits’ conversations to the screen with an insight that will unsettle.
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YOGA, INC.
Director: John Philp
Year of Production: 2007
Length: 73'
Format: Mini-DV and DV-cam
Country: United States
Language: English
Yoga has transformed from an ancient spiritual practice into a competitive, commercialized, multi-million dollar industry. And for a practice rooted in renunciation, yoga sure is making some people very rich. Can yoga survive> this war between the sacred and the profane with its good karma intact?
Esak Garcia is a star on the burgeoning competitive yoga circuit, racking up cash prizes and edging ever closer to snagging an endorsement deal. But Esak�s ultimate goal is the Olympics, a dream instilled in him by his guru, Bikram Choudhury. Bikram�s supporters applaud his crusade to have yoga recognized as an Olympic sport. His detractors are horrified. It�s typical of the controversies that surround the �Bad Boy of Yoga�. Bikram has also copyrighted his popular yoga style. Those who teach �Bikram yoga� without playing by his rules are hit with crippling copyright infringement fees. So a group of yoga studio owners take Bikram to court to pose an important legal question; can anyone �own� yoga?
In today�s yoga world only the marketplace has real meaning, where everything is up for grabs, from yoga shoes to chakra panties. The new mantras are Standardize and Supersize. In the race to cash in yoga chains (�McYoga�?) are popping up everywhere, putting the smaller studios out of business. No wonder purists are scratching their heads. Is nothing sacred?
Greed, lust, ego and the search for enlightenment all come together in this original, irreverent portrait of spiritualism and capitalism colliding head on..
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MISHA VS MOSCOW
Director: John Philp
Year of Production: 2009
Length: 60'
Format: XdCam
Country: United States
Language: English and Georgian
Georgian president Mikheil "Misha" Saakashvili finds himself ostracized by his western allies and facing demands to resign following a disastrous war with Russia. With exclusive access to Saakashvili, his inner-circle and his most vocal critics MISHA VERSUS MOSCOW asks whether Saakashvili can regain his crown as the darling of international politics or whether the war has torpedoed for good any chance of peace in the region.
Saakashvili exploded onto the world stage five years ago, swept to power during a peaceful uprising known as the Rose Revolution. The Bush administration promoted Georgia as a �beacon of liberty�, but the honeymoon didn�t last long. In November 2007 Saakashvili shut down an independent television station and ordered riot police to disperse street protestors. His critics began calling him oppressive and authoritarian.
Then came August 2008, when separatist tensions that have simmered since Georgia gained independence from the Soviet Union finally exploded. Acting on reports that Russian troops were advancing into Georgia�s Moscow-backed breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Saakashvili ordered his military to attack. Russia retaliated on South Ossetia�s and Abkhazia�s behalf. With little support from the Bush administration, NATO or the European Union, Georgia suffered a humiliating defeat. And the world wondered whether it was time for Saakashvili to go..
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LAST YOIK IN SAAMI FORESTS?
Director: Hannu Hyv�nen
Year of Production: 2006
Length: 59'
Format: Mini-DV and DV-cam
Country: Finland
Language: Finish with English subtitles
The conflict between forestry and nature conservation in Finland has been constant during last 20 years, when this invasion has reached more and more of the last remaining wildernesses. The traditional, freely grazing reindeer herding, dependent of the old growth forests, has been loosing its resources but complaint and protests haven�t been able to stop this process.
In early 2005 Saami reindeer herders made an alliance with Greenpeace which established its Forest Rescue Station in the wilderness of Inari. The situation got even more dramatic when a group of loggers built their own camp, "Antiterror infocamp," near Greenpeace�s forest station. The international pressure mobilized by Greenpeace made Finnish forest company Stora Enso to stop buying the wood from conflict areas. And so Finnish state owned company Mets�hallitus has stop the cuttings.
In May Greenpeace decided to remove the camp, since it achieved its aim: to stop the logging. Yet, Stora Enso announced in July 2005 that it will start again buying wood from Mets�hallitus, from trees coming from the conflict forest. Mets�hallitus started logging again in August.
Kalevi Paadar, a Saami reindeer herder from Nellim, lodged a complaint to the United Nations� Human rights commission. He claimed that logging in his home village violated their right to continue their traditional way of reindeer herding based on free grazing. The United Nations asked Finland to stop cuttings. The cutting break continued till May 2007 when Mets�hallitus started logging again, this time in the wilderness of Kessi.
This documentary follows the conflict between reindeers and loggers and also seeks a middle path between preserving the culture of the original inhabitants and the urge for development in this case in Finland.
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LAST YOIK IN SAAMI FORESTS?
Director: Hannu Hyv�nen
Year of Production: 2006
Length: 59'
Format: Mini-DV and DV-cam
Country: Finland
Language: Finish with English subtitles
The conflict between forestry and nature conservation in Finland has been constant during last 20 years, when this invasion has reached more and more of the last remaining wildernesses. The traditional, freely grazing reindeer herding, dependent of the old growth forests, has been loosing its resources but complaint and protests haven�t been able to stop this process.
In early 2005 Saami reindeer herders made an alliance with Greenpeace which established its Forest Rescue Station in the wilderness of Inari. The situation got even more dramatic when a group of loggers built their own camp, "Antiterror infocamp," near Greenpeace�s forest station. The international pressure mobilized by Greenpeace made Finnish forest company Stora Enso to stop buying the wood from conflict areas. And so Finnish state owned company Mets�hallitus has stop the cuttings.
In May Greenpeace decided to remove the camp, since it achieved its aim: to stop the logging. Yet, Stora Enso announced in July 2005 that it will start again buying wood from Mets�hallitus, from trees coming from the conflict forest. Mets�hallitus started logging again in August.
Kalevi Paadar, a Saami reindeer herder from Nellim, lodged a complaint to the United Nations� Human rights commission. He claimed that logging in his home village violated their right to continue their traditional way of reindeer herding based on free grazing. The United Nations asked Finland to stop cuttings. The cutting break continued till May 2007 when Mets�hallitus started logging again, this time in the wilderness of Kessi.
This documentary follows the conflict between reindeers and loggers and also seeks a middle path between preserving the culture of the original inhabitants and the urge for development in this case in Finland.
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Mad Morro
Director: Kelrick Martin
Year of Production: 2008
Country: Australia
Length: 49'
Format: HDV
Ratio: 16:9
James is an Australian Aboriginal who was been behind bars for his entire adult life. In prison he has become a hardened survivor of the system, strong of mind and quick with his fists - earning himself the nickname Mad Morro. Now he is only weeks away from release and has chosen to go home and stay with his Mum.
Debbie, like most mothers, sees her boys through rose coloured glasses. She remembers the heartache of seeing her sixteen-year-old son in court. Debbie has struggled for years with her other boys Rick, Brad and Brent. Family rifts have given way to dysfunction, crime and violent assaults � much of it stemming from James� sentence. The family all feel James' return will be a catalyst for a harmonious life together, but Mad Morro has other plans.
James wants to be everything his family has hoped, but he knows no other life aside from that behind bars. His aim is to return to some type of normal life � a career, a good woman, a family of his own, and to find peace. It is a search that sees attempted love, a battle with his own personal demons, and both the help and hindrance of his own family.
Following James and his family upon his release, this is a powerful, confronting and dramatic story about familial love and bonding, and how the effect of prison can either reinforce or break apart that relationship.
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THE LAST SAILORS
Director: Neil Hollander
Country: United States/France
Narrator: Orson Wells
Runtime: 3x52�
Language: English
Year: 1985
Awards
Filmed in 15 countries over a 2-year period, the film documents the lives of working sailors, a vanishing breed that will soon die out. Those who still hoist canvas and set out to gain their livelihood from the sea, fishing, trading or carrying cargo are rapidly being left in the wake of technology. The sailing ship as a work ship has all but disappeared, and the final days of this long sailing era are not peaceful ones. Beneath the surface there is a quiet violence as what was ceases to be. Ways of life are in conflict, and even the sea is not big enough to keep them all afloat.
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THE GOLDEN ROAD TO MANDALAY
Director: Neil Hollander
Country: United States/France
Runtime: 52�
Format: DigiBeta
Language: English and Burmese
Year: 2006
Beyond the reach of the world�s press, in the far north of Burma, a gold rush has been quietly gathering force, sending out ripples of rumors, creating a magnet whose force can be felt throughout the country.
The lure is almost irresistible: When the rivers are low, their empty banks reveal gold-bearing sand, riches just waiting to be scooped up, instant wealth there for the taking. Truth rarely matches fantasy, especially after it has passed from mouth to mouth and from one end of the country to the other. But in this case, some of the tales are indeed fueled by fact. There is gold to be found on the Irrawaddy and along the Chindwin. Men and women have become rich, perhaps not overnight, but certainly within the space of a few months.
Women appear to be at the head of this gold rush, the owners of many of the claims and the rigs which suck up the ore from the river bottom � market sellers or housewives one day, women of wealth the next.
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Slum City
Duration: 50 mins
Format: HD
Year: 2008
Language: English voice-over and subtitles.
Slum Dog Millionaire is a true adaptation of the reality of the slums ofDharavi, in the heart of Bombay. There is nothing subtle about Dharavi, one of the biggestslumsin the world. The sight, smell and sound coming out of Asia’s biggest slum are in your face. So are the numbers. The 530-acre land produces 200,000 wallets, handbags and briefcases every year. There are 1000 garment-making workshops employing 40,000 people and the 1000 pottery units have an annual turnover of around US$4 million.
Dharavi is also nothing if not enterprising; entrepreneurship sprouts on the roadside and developing inside tine sheds that can barely hold three grown-ups. Money is made if there is an opportunity to make it and openings are created and expanded. And each section has a guru, an individual who arrived here with dreams in his eyes and the shaped a world out of those dreams.
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4 CHOSEN
Directed By: Jon Doscher
Narrated by: Montel Williams
Country: United States
Runtime: 48 Mins
Language: English
Year of Production: 2008
2008 Awards
This is a true story of courage and survival that began when the dreams of four young black men were suddenly shattered in a hail of bullets on April 23, 1998. Danny Reyes was a burgeoning college basketball star when he set off on a road trip in a rented minivan with Jarmaine Grant, Keshon Moore and Rayshawn Brown, intending to go from New York to North Carolina to a basketball talent showcase, where their skills would be seen by college recruiters. They never made it past Exit 7A on the New Jersey Turnpike.
Without just cause or provocation, two New Jersey state troopers pulled them over and fired 13 shots into the van, seriously injuring three of the boys. The fight had just begun for Danny and his friends. Enlisting the help of attorney David Ironman, the boys fought for justice. Together they broke open one of the largest racial profiling cases in American history.
In an epic story that stretches all the way to Washington DC and involves such prominent individuals as Christie Todd Whitman, Johnny Cochran, and Al Sharpton, 4CHOSEN is the personal tale that makes the events so remarkable. The shooting brought the four young men together; forever connected by memories of the horrible event. Danny also became close friends with David Ironman, who relentlessly pursued justice above all else.
Ironman’s investigation exposed the disturbing truth behind racial profiling, as well as the corrupt police officers that put it into practice that night on the Turnpike. Fighting against a stone wall of opposition from government and state agencies, Ironman gave hope back to Danny and the boys at a time when almost all hope was lost.
Danny and the three other boys rose from the ashes of their dreams and made remarkable lives for themselves - discovering that it takes more than bullets to destroy the human spirit.
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The Love Market
Director: Shalom Almond
Country: Australia
Runtime: 52’
Language: English
Year: 2008
2009 Awards
 Winner Best Feature Award at South Australia Screen Awards
Winner of Best Documentary Award at the St Kilda Film Festival
Winner of IF Audience Award at the St Kilda Film Festival
In the highlands of North Vietnam lies the remote town of Sapa, home to a mosaic of colorful hill tribes. Sapa opened to tourism in the late 1990’s and now roughly 200 hill tribe girls aged 7 – 18 years live independently on the streets of Sapa to sell embroidery.
A few years ago Australian film maker Shalom Almond visited Sapa as a tourist and became friends with four Hmong girls. The girls are savvy, street smart and dream of life beyond selling souvenirs. But how will these young girls survive the leap from remote tribal culture to 21st century Asia? Over the next three years Shalom returns to Vietnam with her camera to find out.
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Torn By Terror
Country: Singapore
Runtime: 23 Mins
Language: English
Year of Production: 2006
A wave of attacks in southern Thailand forced the government to stop blaming "bandits" and acknowledge, for the first time in decades, that Islamic separatist militants were operating in the country. On 05 January 2004 Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra declared martial law in the region, consisting of the provinces of Satun, Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat. The south of Thailand has historically served as a dumping ground for corrupt and/or incompetent civilian and military officials. This has been further aggravated by the population's ethnic make-up, predominantly Thai Muslims, which has produced a major degree of alienation intensified by government misadministration.
Since 2004, more than 1,300 people have been killed. As militants fight for independence from the central government, villagers in Yala, Patani and Narathiwat have started to arm themselves, learn how to shoot and patrol the streets. Even monks are hiring bodyguards
Unravel the reasons behind the violence in this documentary film.
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Inside the Jemaah Islamiyah
Country: Singapore
Runtime: 23 Mins
Language: English
Year of Production: 2006
INSIDE THE JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH shines the spotlight on the most feared terrorist group in Southeast Asia - Jemaah Islamiyah. This militant Islamic organization is dedicated to the establishment of an Islamic State in Southeast Asia. Jemaah Islamiyah was added to the United Nations Committee's list of terrorist organizations linked to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Who are the militants behind the masks?
In this documentary, a former senior commander reveals how he was recruited and how he trained some of the region's most notorious bombers. Terrorism expert Sidney Jones also weighs the success of the arrests of key organisation members and the continuing threat posed by the group.
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I, Woman
Country: Singapore
Runtime: 6x23 Mins
Language: Original languages with English subtitles
Year of Production: 2001
This series looks at how women from 6 Asian cities cope with society's demands and expectations from the cultural world to the corporate ladder, which reflects both the liberation and suppression of women.
This documentary series illuminates women’s inner strength that has helped sustain families and clans through decades of turmoil and turbulence in Asia. And through their life stories, we record the verve and the willpower that is at once uniquely feminine, yet universal.
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Sacred Ground
A Film by Kim Mavromatis
Country: Australia
Runtime: 55 Mins
Language: English
2007
 
2008
5 years in the making, this observational documentary captures Quenten Agius and his family fighting to save what is left of their ancient heritage and culture.
This multi-layered film is a microcosm of what is happening to Aboriginal peoples all over Australia. In the lucky country, 40,000 years of ancient heritage, culture and traditions are being swept away – it’s a national disgrace. Quenten and his family are witnessing the desecration and destruction of the last remaining heritage and cultural sites on their traditional lands (Adjahdura Land - Yorke Peninsula, South Australia) - sites that are vital to their Dreaming stories and cultural beliefs - stories and beliefs that have been handed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.
From the opening scenes, the discovery of human skeletal remains in the middle of a multi-million dollar housing development, to the thought provoking climax, this is a contemporary story - challenging, enriching and emotional - that takes us into an Aboriginal world that is rarely seen or heard.
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Raul the Terrible
Director: David Bradbury
Producer: Carlos Alperin
Runtime: 52 or 80 min
Country: Australia
Language: English
 
 
Raul Castells was born in the city of Rosario, birthplace of the legendary Che Guevara. He is a walking, talking, pushing, barging force of nature. He fights the Government. He fights big business. He invades buildings and occupies casinos. And he has good reason.
In December 2001, there was a seismic shift in Argentina’s economic and political landscape. The Government devalued the currency and froze people’s savings - effectively pushing the middle class into the even larger pool of unemployed working poor.
Currently, there are 20 million people below the poverty line. 25% of children suffer malnutrition and up to 17,000 a year die from it. The average Argentinian does not have a job, a roof over their head or any means to provide for their family.
With intimate and often dangerously close access, Raul, the Terrible is a warts-and-all portrait of a man driven to change the world and a frightening insight into the politics of poverty.
Available worldwide.
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My Home, Your War
Directed By: Kylie Grey
Country: Australia
Runtime: 52 Mins
Language: English
Shot in Baghdad over three years – before, during and after the Coalition attack on Iraq, My Home – Your War takes us inside the home of an Iraqi family as they deal with the disruptions and terrors of war as it affects their daily lives.
Layla Hasan, 40, husband Yasir and teenage son, Amro live in the district of Adhamiya, the heartland of Sunni Muslim resistance against US forces in Baghdad. Layla is a middle class Iraqi woman. Striking and intelligent, Layla speaks four languages, she had little choice when she was hand-picked to work as a translator for Saddam’s regime. When the US forces arrived she hoped they might offer a path to freedom.
Yet now the war is testing her most intimate relationships.
Meet her shy teenage son who she suspects is working with the anti-US resistance; her steady but workaholic husband: and her once radical sister who is becoming increasingly conservative and religious as the chaos of Baghdad fuels her insecurities. Layla, herself, becomes more personally isolated as the war progresses and she dreams of escaping to another country.
The hallmarks of the turbulent years in Baghdad, the invasion, the looting, the capture of Saddam, the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal, and the beheadings of foreigners by Islamic militants are images that are familiar to viewers across the world.
In this film we see these events from a different perspective, from the inside, from the point of view of a Sunni Muslim family living through them. Layla and her family give a revealing insight into the contrasting ways war and regime change strain close relationships, nurture extremism and change a family’s destiny.
My Home – Your War is not only a historical document of an important time in the history of the Middle East. It is a personal account of how these changing times are playing out in Arab women’s lives, and how Iraqi women have become the first casualties of democracy denied.
Available for Australia and New Zealand only.
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Gold World Medal for Best Documentary in New York, USA
Australian TV Atom awards for Best Documentary-Social & Political Issues
Australian TV Atom awards for Best Documentary - Human Story |
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The Blood of My Brother
Director: Andrew Berends
Cast: Sara Simmonds, Jake McDorman, Matt Vodvarka
Runtime: 81 min
Country: USA/Iraq
Language: English
The Blood Of My Brother takes the view gehind the scenes of one Iraqi Family's struggle to survive amidst the carnage of the growing Shia insurgency.Nineteen-year-old Ibrahim struggles to provide for his family when his older brother is shot and killed by an American patrol. With scenes of fighting and death on the streets of Baghdad, THE BLOOD OF MY BROTHER is the closest most viewers will ever come to being in Iraq; kneeling in prayer amidst a thousand Muslim worshippers, feeling the roar of low-flying Apaches, riding atop a sixty-ton tank, driving with masked resistance fighters to attack American positions, fleeing the threat of an overwhelming response, the blood in the street, a tank on fire, or the cold, distant stare of a dead Iraqi fighter..
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Born Female
Duration: 1 X 52 minutes
Available with separate language tracks and English subtitles
Three brothers decided to make a career out of fighting trafficking, AIDS and female foeticide.
Against the apathy of social service agencies and the authorities, the three men went against conventions and prejudices and rescue girls from their abductors, teach prostitutes about AIDS prevention and villagers about conmen in the trafficking trade.
Available for Australia, New Zealand and Latin America only.
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Fagin and Oliver - The Asian Twist
Duration: 1 x 50'
English subtitles.
They started working on the streets of Indonesia at a mere 6 years of age. They left the warmth and familiarity of their village life to a hostile city environment to find work, so as to support themselves and send money back to mum and dad.
We go into the lives of the street children of Indonesia - Fitri, Robin, Nina and the rest of their friends, to get a feel of the lives they lead on the streets. Their courage and determination to survive amidst the odds against them is amazing.
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No One Needs to Die
Duration: 1 X 52 minutes
English subtitles
Health care - a universal nightmare far governance. Bring in 1 billion people and the magnitude of the responsibility is unimaginable. This documentary gets personal because one of them lost his wife in a road accident because there were not enough ambulances and the hospital did not care enough. So Kushwaha, a 38 year-old lawyer, created his own 'On-line Ambulance Service" for accident victims because he believes that no one has to die. He takes this one step further by picking up the helpless and homeless found in the city and builds shelters for the mentally challenged who have been abandoned by their families. This is a story of unbelievable courage of an individual determined to turn a personal tragedy into a communal good.
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The Skinheads of Asia
Duration: 1 x 52'
English subtitles.
Hadi became a smneaa when he was in his twenties. Today, he is the leader of the skinhead generation in Indonesia. Not ashamed or apologetic for his chosen lifestyle, Hadi brings us into his world of tattoos, body piercings and fixed ideologies. Why are young Indonesian men and women joining him? What is their quest in life? The story also takes us to Hanover, Germany, where skinheads originated. How is the German skinhead different from their Asian counterpart?
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With These Two Hands
Duration: 1 x 52'
English subtitles.
AIl she wanted to do was to save children from being married off by their families. She spent ten days explaining to them why this practice was not good for the children. But on the eve of the planned marriage, a man came to her house and hacked at her head and arms, leaving her hands hanging by mere threads of skin and flesh. Shakuntala Verma, a government social worker, became Instantly handicapped. Find out more about this courageous woman and her undaunted crusade against child marriages in this shocking documentary.
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Trafficking - Demand & Supply
Duration: 1 x 52'
English subtitles.
Child trafficking has been a problem for over three decades. Millions of children - boys and girls - have been subjected to untold abuse and shame. Our story reveals three kinds of trafficking: direct kidnapping of children from their parents, use of trickery to con young girls into prostitution and lastly, a 'voluntary' entrapment - a form of trafficking disguised as legal marriages.
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