In Funny Ladies, we watch four smart and witty role models — Cathy Guisewite, Nicole Hollander, Lynda Barry and “Brenda Starr’s” Dale Messick — share their creative process. Viewers will find themselves looking at the comics, and the world, in a new way. This film would…
Author, educator, and artist Daniel Quinn is best known for his novel, ISHMAEL, winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship established to encourage authors to seek 'creative and positive solutions to global problems.' Since 1992, over 1.5 million copies of ISHMAEL have been printed in more than…
It seems obvious to most people that crime and social order are opposites. But more than a century ago French sociologist, Emile Durkheim, suggested that it wasn’t that simple. This film looks at the introduction of Zero Tolerance Policing in New York, the imprisonment of Dr Jack Kevorkian…
Hate Crime is high profile now. But, Professor Neil Chakraborti argues, the cases of violent hate crime we see in the media are just the tip of the iceberg: things like verbal abuse, bullying, threats, and damage to property have become just another part of everyday life for many people. This…
Independent filmmakers Silke Schranz and Christian Wüstenberg travelled round the fifth continent for 100 days in a camper van. With no commercial bias, they show in spectacularly beautiful pictures all the things they found in Australia that were exciting, awe-inspiring and exotic. "Australia…
Die unabhängigen Filmemacher Silke Schranz und Christian Wüstenberg waren 100 Tage mit dem Camper auf dem fünften Kontinent unterwegs. Ohne Kommerzbrille auf der Nase zeigen sie in sagenhaft schönen Bildern, was sie dort unglaublich spannend, beeindruckend und exotisch fanden. "Australien…
1000 Kilometer zu Fuß entlang der Küste von Sagres über Lissabon bis Porto Eigentlich wollten die Filmemacher Silke Schranz und Christian Wüstenberg nur den Wanderweg Rota Vicentina laufen, aber aus geplanten einhundert Kilometern wurden am Ende eintausend. Die wunderschöne…
SYNOPSIS: Ten-year-old Dujuan is a child-healer, a good hunter and speaks three languages. As he shares his wisdom of history and the complex world around him we see his spark and intelligence. Yet Dujuan is ‘failing’ in school and facing increasing scrutiny from welfare and the police. As…
Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula is the site of major clashes between the indigenous Mayan people and the Spanish colonists, which is reflected in its attractions. The Simmons learn about Mayan history at the huge pyramid complex of Chichen-Itza, where they research the acoustics on a Mayan ball court,…
Travel to the Pacific side of Mexico to the town of Huatulco and its famous seven bays. Rescue sea turtles, rope swing waterfalls in the jungle, and learn about how the locals live. Go tubing down a river to the ocean, exploring the wild jungles and scenery of this undeveloped area. Dine beachside in…
Recorded in 1983 during a ten-day gathering in Vanuatu, a newly independent island nation in the south Pacific that had recently declared itself a nuclear-free zone, this program takes a look at the Pacific-wide movement towards independence and de-nuclearization. Testimony is presented by Pacific…
The acclaimed film that the Trump Organization tried to suppress. Investigative journalist Anthony Baxter travels between the Presidential race and the timeless Scottish countryside to explore the troubling confrontation between a feisty 92-year-old Scottish widow and her family and Donald Trump. “There…
