Galloping Films

Galloping Films
www.gallopingfilms.com
catalogue
2015
NEW FEATURE FILMS
Tailgate
Director: Jai Hogg
Cast: Peter Marshall, Sam
Young
Australia, 2015, 83’
Imprisoned with only a slither of
light, Luke Awakes up in the boot
a moving car. He is desperately
to gain control by attacking the
Driver’s conscious. Death seems
inescapable until they arrive at
their destination and the boot is
opened.
Convict
Director: George Basha & David
Field
Cast: George Basha, David Field
Australia, 2014, 110’
Ray is in prison for manslaughter.
The prison boss does everything
possible to break him. Ray has to
learn how to navigate his way
around the internal politics and turf
wars between the prisoners and
wardens, and find a way to make it
through to keep his sanity and see his fiancé again.
Daimonion
revealed.
Eternity
Director: Alex Galvin
Cast: Elliot Travers
New Zealand, 2013, 78’
Winner Madrid, California Film Festivals
Manning is a detective taking part in a
futuristic computer game. Instead of virtual
reality game, Manning is completely
transported into the game, body and soul
to investigate the most difficult murder
case of his career.
Roaming
Director: Michael Ray Fox
Cast: Rhys Bevan-John, Cory Bowles
Canada, 2013, 80’
Winner Toronto Independent Film Festival
A socially introverted game designer,
William has barely left his house in years.
Once reunited with Olivia, the girl he had
loved since high school, he fights to live
with his condition of undiagnosed Autism.
Apeiron
Director: Fabian Barth
Cast: Marcel Heizmann, Alex
Anasuya
Germany, 2014, 105’
Director: Maria Ruotsala
Cast: Irina Björklund, Sampo Sarkola
Finland, 2013, 90’
When an investigative journalist
returns from Congo to write an
explosive book on uranium exports
to Iraq, people around him begin to
act suspiciously and alarming
information about the
disappearance of his girlfriend is
Umbra runs a institute that investigates evil
with his colleague and lover Iris. His clients
are both criminals and victims. Iris soon
realises how Umbra uses her and his clients
as tools for his obsessive theory: seen from
the perspective of infinity, human life is only
a series random acts of chance with no
meaning whatsoever.
La Sargento Matacho
One Link
Director: Alexey Gorlov
Cast: Vladimir Tolokonnikov,
A. Beishenaliyev
Kazakhstan, 2011, 80’
Director: William Gonzalez
Cast: F. Medina, Damian Alcazar
Colombia, 2013, 90’
Winner Guadalajara Int’l Film Fest.
1948. Rosalba witnesses the
slaughter of her husband and
traumatized, becomes an
instrument of revenge and murder.
For a decade, she pursues her
husband's killers including policeman and civilians.
Poachers hunt and sell endangered
animals. This time they caught the most
valuable specimen. Fate has given them the
opportunity to change their lives. Everyone
has his own needs and secrets. For some
this will be the last hunt, others will lose the
meaning of their lives.
NEW DOCUMENTARY FILMS
The Falconer: Sport of Kings
Saving the Life Keepers
Director: Eddie Brochin
United States, 2013, 52’ & 70’
Director: Jocelyn Demers
Canada, 2013, 52’
2014 Winner Best Director at the
Madrid Int’l Film Festival
2015 Winner Best Producer at
the London Int’l Film Festival
Bees are under-appreciated workers who
pollinate 80% of our flowering crops, so if
they disappear, they could take most of our
insect pollinated plants with them,
potentially reducing humankind to little more
than a water diet.
Eddie Brochin’s desire to become
a master falconer leads him to
Mongolia where he learns to fly
eagles from the descendants of
Genghis Khan.
Grey Wolf: Hitler’s Escape to Argentina
Between the Flags
Director: Gerrard Williams
United Kingdom, 2013, 52’, 94’
Directors: C. Collins, Brandon Fehre
Australia, 2013, 50’
This is a dramatization of Adolf
Hitler's escape to Argentina.
Based on interviews with eye
witnesses and years of research,
the film details the escape of
Hitler to Argentina where he died
demented and betrayed at 'La
Clara' 45 miles from Bariloche at
3pm on February 13th, 1962.
Australia has developed an integrated cost
effective, coastal rescue and surveillance
network. A total of 37,000 trained surf
lifesavers patrol 400 of the country's
beaches during the swimming season.
Between the Flags celebrates 100 years of
surf lifesaving in Australia.
NEW FACTUAL
Wineline
Boats & Bikes
Director: Sebastian Lyte
United Kingdom, 26x30’, 2015
Director: Rick Cavaggion
Australia, 2015, 52’
Finalist Award NY Film
Our show is full of fun and adventure,
outstanding locations, glamorous
presenters, great music and interesting
people with a sprinkling of comedy zingers
throughout. Joshua and Jessica travel
across the USA on an ultra-cool HarleyDavidson motorcycle, having adventures,
reviewing yachts and motorcycles,
undertaking maintenance procedures.
The Australian wine industry is
the world's fourth largest
exporter of wine. WineLine is the
story of the Hamilton family, the
oldest wine family in Australia
dating back to 1837. It covers six
generations of winemakers and
their unique contribution to the
international success of the
Australian wine.
PRE-SELLING (Feature Films)
Mad Mex
Genre: Mockumentary/Drama
Director: Ray Ellingsen
Cast:
Quentin Tarantino
Country: United States
Delivery: 2016
While fictitious, the film will utilize
actual historical events and
interviews with life celebrities and
personalities and interweave
them with the tale of Juan Garcia
who managed to become a huge star and then
mysteriously disappeared at the peak of his career.
City Limits
Genre: Action/Drama
Director: Isaac Caad
Cast:
Angela Kerecz
Eric Etebari,
Country: United States
Delivery: 2016
After the death of Christopher's father, he suddenly
becomes aware that his father was a crime lord. Now that
everything was left to him in the will, his father's enemies
are now his own and he has to do whatever it takes to
survive.
Absolution
Genre: Action/Drama
Director: Wes Miller
Cast:
Elisabeth Rohm
Billy Zane
Malcom McDowell
Country: United States
Delivery: 2016
Laura Ryan is an attorney faced with breaching her professional
ethical duties and blow the whistle against an illegal stem cell
practice by her boss or keep it a secret and protect her ailing
husband who is a beneficiary of the very illegal research she is
considering outing.
Holy Hell!
Genre: Sci-Fi (Animation)
Director: Mike Heffernan
Cast:
Jack Black
Bruce Willis
Country: Australia
Delivery: 2017
Two bank robbers sentenced to eternal
damnation for their sins get a chance to earn a
ticket out of Hell. Along with nine demons they
take an insane road trip through Hell on a door-die mission to save the Universe from the Prince of Darkness
intent on annihilating “every last *!@#!!* atom in Creation!”
El Soborno del Cielo (Heaven’s Bribe)
Absolute Freedom
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lisandro Duque Naranjo
Country: Colombia
Delivery: 2015
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Colm O’Murchu
Country: Australia
Delivery: 2016
LA based Christian zealot Nathan Koch loses his wife, his
faith and his material possessions due bad financial
decisions. He fakes his own death and flies to Australia
where he re-creates himself as an outlaw in the Outback,
saves the world from a major terrorist plot and in the way
finds love.
The new pastor refuses to give Catholic burial to Aimer who
committed suicide. Aimer’s family defies his authority by burying
Aimer in the churchyard. Furious, the pastor refuses to administer
the sacrament to anybody until Aimer’s body is moved away. As a
result, babies are not baptized, weddings are being delayed and
the new dead don’t receive the last rites!
Foto de Familia (Family Picture)
The Heart of a Spy
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Comedy
Joaquin Bissner
Adrián Suar, Bethel Flores
Colombia
2016
Genre: Action
Writer: Jeremy Rigby
Country: Australia
Delivery: 2017
Soo Jin’s mission is to obtain back door computer codes from a
Japanese computer programmer to provoke an unprovoked
Japanese missile attack against North Korea that will force the
South into war alongside the North and will reunify Korea.
Watched by Yuji, a CIA agent, Soo Jin slips into Japan only to
realize she was abducted from Japan as a child by the man she
believed was her father who was the one who killed her Mother!
Peter enjoys refuses to settle down until one day he
meets Alin and discovers that she is his daughter, and is
pregnant! Unprepared to cope with the idea of being a
father, a grandfather, and having Alin, her boyfriend and
his mum in his house, his world collapses. Yet, with the
arrival of the baby, Peter comes to grip with his age and
his role as father and grandfather.
PRE-SELLING (Documentaries)
Eating with the Ancestors
Directors: Alejandro Valenti &
Geoff Tanner
Format:
6x52’
Countries: Australia/France
Delivery: 2017
A large helping of mystery and
adventure, a soup spoon of history, a
pinch of archaeology, a good helping
of cooking, and just a small amount
of new technologies. Mix all the ingredients and you will
never see food we eat today in quite the same way again.
Terminal Power
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Carlos Alperin
Dr. Jerrold M. Post
52’ & 80’
Australia and Ireland
2016
Historical events are influenced by the psychological, emotional
and physical wellbeing of our political leaders. Strong, clear and
balanced minds and bodies help political leaders take the right
decisions at the right times. But what happens when illnesses and
traumas can make them take wrong decisions that can cost the
lives of millions of people, can provoke wars and financial
disasters?
LIBRARY
ACTION / PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
To Hell With a Bullet
Director: Vick Wright
Cast: Timothy Murphy, R. Blevins
Unites States, 2013, 107’
2013 Winner Action Int’l Festival
Billy is a rock singer who scores
drugs to feed his cocaine habit.
After being fired by his band for
losing his voice he seeks the
advice of Dr. Devyril who promises
to return his voice to its prime if Bill
will give him everything!
The Fugue
Director: Michael Morris
Cast: Aleece Jones, Ryan
Caldwell
United States, 2012, 71’
When Alena is attacked while
jogging she is rescued by a
mysterious presence that pulls her
attacker into an abandoned well.
Shell-shocked, she tries to
understand who did that.
The Absent
Bad Bush
Director: Samuel Genocchio
Cast: Viva Bianca, Jeremy Taylor
Australia, 2009, 85’
When Ophelia finds the farmhouse where
her sister Maggie is living with Weaver she
expects to find a peaceful haven. But when
she is left alone with Weaver, she realises
that his charming exterior covers a
psychotic personality.
Oral Fixation
Director: Jake Cashill
Cast: Tempany Deckert, E. Parker
United States, 2009, 90’
Winner Long Island Int’l Festival
Rachel is obsessed with her dentist. So
when he refuses to continue treating her,
her fragile psyche cracks and she sets out
to make him part of her life and if entitles a
few murders along the way, so be it.
Pink Teddy
Director: Sage Bannick
Cast: Yvonne Zima, J. Blanc
United States, 2011, 80’
Director: Tez Frost
Cast: Tez Frost, Liran Shachar
Australia, 2008
When Oscar finds out his parents
are trying to kill him for insurance
money he makes a breakfast that
will their' last. When he is released
from prison he finds his twin
brother Vincent accused of
murdering his students.
Policemen Jeff Szeto takes money to
cancel large power bills for factories, until
his clever scams are put at risk when
financial investigator Kaiser uncovers his
lucrative scheme and forces him to
investigate his superior.
Arnolds Park
Room 36
Director: Jim Groom
Cast: Brian Murphy, Paul Herzberg
United Kingdom, 2005
Director: Gene Teigland
Cast: Tac Fitzgerald, Jim Detmar
United States, 2007, 103’
Francis Larson is forced to
confess to a murder that he didn’t
commit. When he is freed nobody
recognises him and together with
his rich eccentric uncle they
meticulously plan Frank's return to
Arnolds Park to bring the real killer to justice.
Nominated Hitchcock British Fest. Award
In room 36 a salesman prepares for the
arrival of a prostitute. In room 38 a
professional hit man awaits the arrival of
an MP delivering classified information.
The number 8 of 38 gets broken and looks like 36 creating havoc
and a deadly battle of wits.
COMEDY
The Scandalous Four
Director: Christianne van Wijk
Cast: Chris Buttler, Alastair Lock
United Kingdom, 2010, 106’
Winner LIFF & LA Movie
Awards
Penelope is forced to marry
Jonathan who is more interested
in his butler than in her. The
butler finds a way of reuniting her with the love of her life
and manages to hire him as the gardener. Two secret
affairs lead to scandalous situations.
The Cost of Living
him.
Girl Clock
Director: Jennifer Ussi
Cast: Veronica Neave, Queenie Zandt
Australia, 2010, 82’
Christine, Miki and Margo have been
friends for 20 years and now they face the
fickle whims of middle age. Miki’s vaguely
visible laughter lines have taken large
proportions in her mind, Margo is
desperately trying to empty her nest and
Christine suddenly wants a BABY!
Slippery Slope
Director: Veronica Craven
Cast: Azmyth Kaminski, A. Hoyte
United States, 2010, 75’
Director: Sarah Schenck
Cast: Dan Fogler, Jim True-Frost
United States, 2006
When George wants to collect his
pension he realises that he became
the victim of a corporate collapse
that leaves him and his wife
penniless. But when he remembers
that he has a life insurance policy
he hires a killer to pretend killing
A feminist director desperate for cash to
finish a documentary takes a job
directing a porn film. She brings her
feminist ideals to the porn set and the
experience awakens her slumbering
sexuality, arousing the suspicions of her
husband and threatening her marriage.
The Makeover
The West Wittering Affair
Director: Colm O’Murchu
Cast: Lara Cox, Martin Dingle-Wall
Australia, 2009, 90’
Hollywood makeover guru Brad
Holloway is blackmailed by Patricia
Bartlett, a ruthless journalist.
Patricia gives Brad a "mission
impossible" makeover. He must
prove his skills by making Rodger,
a socially challenged, computer
nerd, irresistible to women.
Cuba Libre
Director: Raimundo García
Cast: Luis Vázquez, Daniel
Huarte
Spain, 2007, 86’
When a family of squatters is
violently evicted thanks to an
overzealous reporter, a reckless
car chase leads them to the
doors of the Cuban Embassy in
Madrid where a media frenzy has
begun following Fidel Castro's announcement of Cuba's
first democratic elections.
Director: David Scheinmann
Cast: David Annen, Rick Bacon
United Kingdom, 2006, 92’
See what happens when a group of
friends have a weekend away in the
country. This is the moment of truth for
4 uptight 30-something London
professionals, which propels their
chaotic love lives on an emotional
roller-coaster in this romantic sexcomedy of errors.
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
Director: Dough Miles
Cast: K. Baker, Martin Friederichs
United States: 2002, 80’
This re-dubbed parody uses footage
from the science fiction B-movie Killers
From Space. The soundtrack has been
replaced with campy dialogue and
added a few new scenes to make the
film about a group of aliens who want to
turn the whole world gay.
DRAMA
The Sunset Six
Bijuka
Directed: Ashtar Sayed
Cast: Amit Purohit, Arti Rautela
India, 2012, 74’
Director: Jeremy Stanford
Cast: Lulu McClatchy
Australia, 2013, 85’
Lalli attempts to escape from an abusive
arranged marriage. After she is forced to
stand trial for fleeing, she is gang raped by
the village Councilmen. Lalli is now
serving a life sentence for killing her
husband who kept her bound and gagged
while they rape her.
Riff is a songwriter who walked
away from his smash hit band in
1987. Now he has a new band.
They have been rehearsing for 9
months without playing a single gig
and the players are getting restless.
They expected much more, much
sooner.
Delinquent Dancers
Queens! Destiny of Dance
Director: David Atkins
Cast: Seema Biswas
India, 2011, 112’
Director: Samit Kakkad
Cast: Sachin Khedekar
India, 2012, 94’
Best Picture, Best Director LA Film
Awards
Best Choreography Zee Gaurav
Festival
These 9 boys in a juvenile home
run by a tyrant warden dance for
passion, for hope. Exorcising their
past demons, the boys who society
has written off, reach out for the
stars. Will their rebellion pay off? Will they become
masters of their destinies?
My Last Valentine in Beirut
Director: Salim El Turk
Cast: Lorraine Kodeih
Lebanon, 2012, 84’, 3D
A prostitute meets a film director
who convinces her to film her life
by planting hidden cameras at her
home. One day she is found dead
by her clients who wonder if she
committed suicide or was she a
virtual character in an unfinished
film by a crazy director.
Mukta is a transgender and the best
dancer in a palace. That is until a
beautiful young girl, enters their life and
her amazing dancing skills enrage Mukta
and provokes jealously and rivalry
between them.
Kill Kill Faster Faster
Director: Gareth Maxwell Roberts
Gil Bellows, Lisa Ray, Esai Morales
United Kingdom, 2008, 97’
Winner HD Festival for Best Feature
After serving a long stretch for his
wife's murder, a producer options the
play Joey wrote in prison. A love
triangle starts when Joey falls for his
new employer’s ex-con wife, and enters
into a doomed affair.
Tracing Cowboys
Ashes from the Sky
Director: José Antonio Quiroz
Cast: Celso Bugallo, Gary Piquer
Spain, 2008, 92’
Director: Jason Wulfsohn
Cast: Megan Edwards, Eileen Dietz
United States, 2008, 94’
Winner Tokyo, FCMA and Goya Awards
A young Englishman obsessed with
Cowboys and becoming a Country
and Western singer travels down to
Mexico in search of his missing
girlfriend during the festival of The
Day Of The Dead.
Pol’s camper van breaks down in a town
that lies in the shadow of a power station.
Forced to stay in town while the repairs
are carried out, Pol falls in with local
farmer Federico who fights against the
detrimental effects of the power station
on the town.
Shattered
Director: Joseph Rassulo
Cast: L. Bartilson, Janina Gavankar
United States, 2008, 94’
Dennis is unhappy in his marriage,
Jordan splits from his partner, Harry
is angered with his family and Ben
loses a custody battle. All five
stories intersect as each man tries
to salvage what is left of their lives.
Monkey Puzzle
Director: Mark Forstmann
Cast: Ryan Johnson, Socratis Otto
Australia, 2008, 90’
Dylan takes his best friend Carl and
three others on a trek to find the
world's rarest tree. As they descend
into the harsh ravines and canyons,
the wilderness closes in on them.
They come face to face with
haunted pasts, unrequited love and
fear of intimacy.
Brooklyn Lobster
Director: Kevin Jordan
Cast: Danny Aiello, Jane Curtin
United States, 2005, 94’
Official Selection Toronto Int’l Film
Festival
A Martin Scorsese Presentation
The lobster family business faces grave
financial troubles. The Giorgio family must
find a way to hold on to the business.
Under pressure, each member of the family is forced to take a
new tack in their personal relationships
GAY
Nude Study
The World Unseen
Director: Stefan Popescu
Cast: Jackie Alixander, Kathryn Foran
Australia, 2010, 87’
Director: Shamin Sarif
Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth
United Kingdom, 2007, 82’
In the wilds of arctic Canada, a young
filmmaker desperate to leave her old self
behind meets an alluring local girl who
changes her life. A sensual and gritty journey
through the depths of desire.
Winner Dallas, Miami and Tampa Festivals
Amina has broken all the rules of the
apartheid by running a café with Jacob, a
‘coloured.’ When she meets Miriam, a
traditional wife and mother, their unexpected
attraction pushes Miriam to question the
rules that bind her.
I Can’t Think Straight
Yours Emotionally
Director: Shamin Sarif
Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth
United Kingdom, 2008, 82’
Director: Sridhar Rangayanr
Cast: Premjit, Jack Lampart
United Kingdom, 2006, 86’
Winner Dallas, Miami and Tampa Festivals
Brits Ravi and Paul travel to India where
they meet Murthy and Anna an older gay
couple that have lived together for over 20
years. When Ravi falls for Mani who is
betrothed to be married he turns to the
older couple for advise and help but
traditions die hard in India.
Tala is about to get married. But she falls in
love with Leyla who is dating Ali. As the
wedding day approaches, Tala cracks and
Leyla ditches Ali.
Tan Lines
Director: Ed Aldridge
Cast: Jack Baxter, Roger Smith
Australia, 2007, 96’
Midget rides big waves and parties with
surfers. When he meets Cass, Midget dives
head into a lusty romance. When their
romance is discovered, Midget has to
navigate between his friends' reaction and
his newfound love.
HORROR
Cut Print
Someone’s Knocking at the Door
Director: Nathaniel Nose
Cast: Ele Bardha
United States, 2012
Director: Chad Ferrin
Cast: Vernon Wells, Noah Sega
United States, 2009, 80’
A group of ambitious filmmakers offer an
active serial killer complete anonymity and
a worldwide platform from which to display
his work in exchange for genuine footage
of his grisly crimes.
Returning to the medical school where they
were test subjects decades ago, a pair of
outrageously twisted serial killers use
shockingly brutal sex acts to start killing off
a group of drugged-out med students.
The Maniac Project
Director: N. Andrew Elliot
Cast: Katherine Bell
United Kingdom, 2010, 75’
Winner Accolade Competition
A criminal identifies a financial opportunity.
He rounds up 9 of the most notorious killers
to battle in a custom built, camera
saturated, wooded arena. So begins The
Maniac Project, the greatest, grind-house
style, exploitation, snuff movie ever
conceived.
Zombie Beach
Director: Mukesh Asopa
Cast: Mukesh Asopa, Rick Cordeiro
United States, 2010, 71’
Winner Canada/Las Vegas Festivals
Centuries ago, a deal was struck between
the heroes of the good and the evil. The
beach you visited was sanctioned to the
evil. There, the undead could walk like
living beings among us.
Fear House
Director/Writer: Michael Morris
Cast: M. Montgomery, Monique Barr
United States, 2008, 86’
Relatives and colleagues of reclusive
writer Samantha Ballard track her to an
isolated home in the California desert
where they discover her some 9 months
later severely traumatized. She greets
them with a grim announcement that they
will die if they attempt to leave the house.
SCI-FI
Strange Frame
Director: G. B. Hajim
Alan Tudyk, Tim Curry, Tara Strong
United States, 2012, 98’, Animation
Puzzlehead
Director: James Bai
Cast Stephen Galaida, Robbie Shapir
United States, 2005, 81’
Winner Big Island & Dragon Con Festivals
Winner Austin Fantastic Film Festival
Naia is a feisty singer who falls in love with
saxophonist Parker on one of Jupiter's
moons. They form a band and fight for their
freedom as slaves. This is a world of space
pirates and genetic mutations infused with
music.
A lonely scientist in a barren future builds a
robot companion, an exact likeness of
himself. He trains him to play chess, clean
house and spy on Julia, a salesgirl whom
the scientist has been secretly coveting.
One Way Ticket
Director: Paul Din
Cast: Irina Yusupova
Russia, 2011, 80’
Winner Best Picture Shocker Festival
Eva misses her dead daughter and will do
anything to reverse the car accident that
killed her. The grandson of Nicola Tesla
offers to help Eva to bring her daughter
back by using a time machine.
Gene X
Director: Martin Simpson
Cast: Ayse Tezel, Patrick Magee
Australia, 2006, 94’
A young research scientist discovers the
cure for cancer. But an international
pharmaceutical company steals the formula
before he finds there's a flaw. Is the cure
worse than the disease? And how many
deaths will the cover-up cost?
The Mind Snatcher
Director: Bernard Girard
Cast: Christopher Walken, Ronny Cox
United States, 1972, 94’
Christopher Walken in his first lead role
stars in this dark film. A scientist works on a
way of quelling overly aggressive soldiers
by developing implants that directly
stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain.
DOCUMENTARIES
The 500 Stolen Babies
Genre: Political/Social
Director: Alexander Valenti
Countries: France/Argentina
Year: 2013 – Duration: 52’& 93’
Winner FIPA D’Or, FIGRA, Europa Awards
In 1976-83 Argentinean’s ruling military
imprisoned pregnant women, allowed them
to give birth, killed them and stole their
babies. 35 years later, the grandmothers of
these babies have successfully traced 107 of
them through genetic matching.
The Power of Drama
Homeless in LA
Genre: Social
Directors: Taylor Golonka, S. Zelinsky
Country: United States
Year: 2012 - Duration: 52’ & 70’
A stark contrast between the glamour of
Hollywood and the reality of the boulevard of
broken dreams, this film chronicles the plight
of a few of the destitute and disenfranchised
humans that can be found living on the streets
and underbelly of Los Angeles.
Surfing with the Enemy
Genre: Human Interest
Directors: Mike Thurber & Gary Meeker
Country: United States
Year: 2012 - Duration: 53’
Genre: Sports/Social
Directors: Scott Braman, Adam Preskill
Country: United States
Year: 2011 - Duration: 52’
When drama teacher Cristina Kokubo
realised how silent the Braille Institute was,
she decided to do something about it. These
blind people were so traumatized when they
heard their voices out loud, that it took them
months to vocalize a single word.
A group of surfers from Havana struggle to
establish a niche for their sport in Cuba.
Guided by Eduardo Valdes, founder of the
Havana Surf Association, the filmmakers travel
across the island chasing waves in a forbidden
paradise just miles from their own border.
Emergency Exit
Genre: Social/Gay
Director: Mathieu Orcel
Country: Argentina
Year: 2012 - Duration: 62’
Argentina may lead South America in terms of progressive social
politics – but the gap between cultural mores and recently accorded
rights to gays and lesbians is palpable. A toxic atmosphere
encompassing Catholicism and machismo, the complexity of coming
out is further compounded by class, historical and rural-urban
divides, as well as aboriginal-settler tensions.
Hoon Capital
Genre: Social
Director: Aaron Stevenson
Country: Australia
Year: 2011 - Duration: 52’ & 86’
With a blend of ‘Mad Max' and the seamy
underbelly of suburbia, Hoon Capital takes
you on a journey into a vilified subculture
where the car culture, attracts bogans, hoons
and blokes strap in for the short ride to
impoundment.
Behind Closed Doors
The 10 Conditions of Love
Genre: Adult/Health
Director: Jeff Jaffers
Country: Australia
Year: 2010 - Duration: 8x30'
Genre: Political/Social
Director: Jeff Daniels
Country: Australia
Year: 2009 - Duration: 54’
This program takes a “no holds barred” look at the lives of the
disabled. It covers new ground as the sex lives of disabled
people has rarely been explored by the mainstream media and
this series gives an informative, revealing and often controversial
insight into this world. The series goes inside a brothel, a strip
club, even a BDSM dungeon as we uncover the facts
surrounding how the disabled are accommodated by the sex
industry.
A love story - of a woman, a man, a family,
a people and a homeland. It is the story of
Rebiya Kadeer, China's nightmare. To her
people she is a leader; to China she is a
terrorist.
Monster Camp
Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs
Genre: Human Interest
Director: Cullen Hoback
Country: United States
Year: 2007 - Duration: 81’
Genre: Social/Human Interest
Director: Alison McMahan
Country: United States
Year: 2006 - Duration: 53’
This is a rare and fascinating glimpse into the world of live
action role playing. At NERO, for 48 consecutive hours,
software engineers, department store managers and high
school students by day, transform themselves for one
weekend each month into warriors, sorcerers, dwarves and
lizard people.
In 1970 Touj Soeurly became a Khmer-Rouge soldier, rising to the
rank of Commander. In 1989 he stepped on a landmine and lost a
leg. He decided to leave the military and do something for former
soldiers and civilians who had also become amputees, many of
whom end up as beggars in the streets. Soeurly helped creating a
village to give some of the amputees of Cambodia, who were
shunned outcasts in their society, a place where they could live
and work.
Yoga Inc.
Raul the Terrible
Genre: Social
Director: John Philp
Country: United States
Year: 2007 - Duration: 73'
Genre: Social/Political
Director: David Bradbury
Country: Australia
Year: 2005 - Duration: 52’ & 80’
Yoga has been transformed from an ancient spiritual practice
into a competitive, commercialized, multi-million dollar industry.
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. His
detractors are horrified.
Raul Castells 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. 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.
CHILDREN
Baby Animals
Genre: Children/Animals
Country: Australia
Year: 2013 - Duration: 13x30’
The Schneider brothers are animal crazy and have all sorts of
wildlife living in their house and backyard. After a busy week at
school, Lewis, Nelson and Clancy spend their weekends handling
and playing with large exotic reptiles, holding cuddly Koalas,
wrestling with Crocodiles and hop like Kangaroos. Learn all about
incredible animals which are presented in a fun and informative
way.
Adventures of Little Herbert in Mushroomland
Genre: Stop Motion Animation
Director: Natasha Guruleva
Country: United States
Year: 2006 - Duration: 62' & 82'
Herbert is a 10 year old boy who dreams about being good
enough to play baseball with the other kids. One day he is
magically transformed and ends up in the Land of Mushrooms,
the size of a mushroom! Wearing a magical mushroom cap he
meets many remarkable characters, builds friendships and
becomes the child he always wanted to be.
All About Animals
Genre: Children/Animals
Country: Australia
Year: 2011-2013 - Duration: 29x30’
Created and hosted by 9 year old award winning animal advocate
Olivia Todd, and co-hosted by her 15 year old brother Jake Todd,
they travel around Australia meeting an extensive range of
interesting animals from all kinds of different pets to endangered
species to native Australian animals and exotics. Using a fun and
interesting format, the pair deliver their key messages of
responsible pet ownership and animal welfare to their audiences
to educate their viewers about animals.
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