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48 4 Original title: 4 Director: Tim Slade Original language: English, Japanese, Finnish Producer: Tim Slade, Joann Buggy Running time: 52’ Entered by: SBSI Country: Australia Produced by: Vast Productions Genre: Documentary Broadcast by: SBS Home page: www.4themovie.com Production format: Shot on HDCam but screens in DigiBeta, Beta SP Four seasons. Four continents. Four brilliant Colour standard: PAL musicians. One extraordinary journey. In four Aspect ratio: 16:09 corners of the globe, in the four seasons, four Script writer: Tim Slade & Joanna Buggy outstanding violinists guide us on an extraordi- Camera: Pieter de Vries (ASC) nary journey through their four distinct home- Editor: Lindi Harrison lands. From the springtime blossoms of Japan, Funding sources: Film Finance Corporation into the blistering heat and thunderstorms of an Australia, NSWFilm and TV Of ce, ITVS (USA), Australian summer, from a joyful autumn in New YLE (Finland), SBSI (Australia), NHK (Japan) York, to the unforgiving cold and human warmth of a Finnish winter. The resonant and much- loved music of Antonio Vivaldi’s Presenter: Tim Slade The Four Seasons and the timeless stories they Shopsteward: Karen Michael tell, form the backbone to this bold and engag- ing celebration of friendship, homeland and the Contact cycles of life. Vast Productions PO Box 228 1335 Potts Point NSW Australia Tel: + 61 410 495 205 Fax: + 61 2 85881248 Email: [email protected] 49 113 Original title: 113 Director: Talgat Bektursonov Running time: 53’ Country: Uzbekistan Presenter: Talgat Bektursonov Genre: Drama Shopsteward: Graeme Isaac As a school essay 113 is a rather ambitious project. Not because it is a large project, but for the dramatic intensity necessary to com- municate to an audience a story with only two characters, a prisoner, and his warden. This is no ordinary prison. The warden continu- ously observes the captive through a television circuit and punishes him when he breaks one of the unidenti ed rules that govern his captiv- ity. The two characters communicate by deeds rather than words. 50 A Place Called Home Original title: A Place Called Home Director: Tim Greene Original language: Zulu Producer: Roberta Durrant & Portia Gumede Running time: 24’ Entered by: Paw Paw Films Country: South Africa Produced by: Paw Paw Films Year: 2007 Broadcast by: SABC 1 Genre: Fiction Production format: Mini DV Colour standard: PAL A Place Called Home is about Maxwell, a writer Aspect ratio: Other in search of a story. In his search for authentic- Script writer: Portia Gumede & Thomas Hall ity he is drawn into the world of the homeless. Camera: Natalie Haarhoff Here he discovers a group of aspirant writers Editor: Melanie Jankes-Golden who eke out a living by selling articles to a homeless peoples newspaper. He offers to Presenter: Akin Omotoso teach them and in return gains insight into their Shopsteward: Jean Pierre Bekolo Obama world. Maxwell’s world and writing is trans- formed and in uenced by the disparate group Contact who all come into the space with strange and Paw Paw Films powerful stories. 116 New Church Street Tamboerskloof 8001 Cape Town South Africa Tel: +27 21 422 4466 Fax: +27 21 423 0144 info@pawpaw lms.co.za portia@pawpaw lms.co.za +27 83 228 0914 +27 83 747 9361 51 A Prime Minister - Ten Years Behind the Scenes Original title: Ordforande Persson Director: Erik Fichtelius Original language: Swedish Producer: Ingemar Persson Running time: 58’ Entered by: Sveriges Television Country: Sweden Produced by: Sveriges Television Year: 2007 Broadcast by: Sveriges Television, SVT Genre: Documentary - Current Affairs Production format: Digital betacam Title of series: A Prime Minister- Ten Years Colour standard: PAL Behind the Scenes Aspect ratio: 16:09 Home page: www.svt.se/persson Camera: Erik Fichtelius Editor: Paolo Rodriquez A documentary that goes to the heart of the Funding sources: Swedish Television Swedish government. Erik Fichtelius, a SVT (Swedish Broadcasting Corporation) senior Presenter: Erik Fichtelius political correspondent interviewed former Shopsteward: Karen Michael Prime Minister Göran Persson regularly during his tenure. Persson spoke candidly about his Contact feelings and frustrations, his meetings with Sveriges Television, other leaders, his private life and his political SVT 105 10 friends and enemies. His honesty and open- Stockholm ness shocked the nation. The series was Sweden viewed in whole or in part on television and the +46-8-784 00 00 internet by more than 3 million people – half the [email protected] adult population of Sweden – making it one of the most popular documentaries in SVT history. Fichtelius, was recently awarded the Stora Journalistpriset, one of the most prestigious journalism awards in Sweden for the series. The documentary stirred a heated discussion within the Swedish society when it was re- vealed that Fichtelius conducted the interviews secretly, while working as a political reporter at SVT. 52 A Son’s Sacri ce Original title: A Son’s Sacri ce Director: Yoni Brook Original language: English Producer: Musa Syeed Running time: 27’ Entered by: ITVS Country: United States Produced by: Foment Film LLC Year: 2006 Broadcast by: ITVS Production format: Mini DV Genre: Documentary Colour standard: NTSC(3,58) Title of series : Independent Lens Aspect ratio: 4:03 Home page: www.pbs.org/independentlens/ Script writer: Musa Syeed sonssacri ce/ Camera: Yoni Brook Editor: Mary Manhardt At rst glance, Imran Uddin is just another 27- Funding sources: CPB/ITVS, Hartley Film Foun- year-old New Yorker struggling to take over his dation, Cinereach, Unity Productions Founda- family’s business— a “pick-your-own” slaugh- tion, Harvard Pluralism Project terhouse. The son of an immigrant, Imran must confront his mixed Bangladeshi-Puerto Rican Presenter: Yoni Brook heritage and gain acceptance from his father’s Shopsteward: Victor Carrera conservative Muslim community. On one of Islam’s holiest days, Eid-al-Adha, also known Contact as Qurban, Imran must lead a sacri ce that will Foment Films LLC de ne him as a Muslim, as an American and 124 W 60th Street as a son. The event draws hundreds of families #10M 10023 to the Uddins’ slaughterhouse in Queens. This New York becomes the stage for the unfolding of a human USA drama in which Imran’s myriad identity is meas- +917 250 2762 ured against notions of the perfect Muslim/ son/ [email protected] man. 54 Awaiting for Men Original title: En attendant les hommes Original language: Arabic Director: Katy Lena Ndiaye Running time: 56’ Producer: Aurélien Bodinaux Country: Mauritania Entered by: Neon Rouge Year: 2007 Produced by: Neon Rouge Genre: Documentary Co-produced by: Télévision Nationale de Home page: www.neonrouge.com Mauritanie Broadcast by: RTBF Oualata, a red city on the far edge of the Sahara Production format: Digital betacam desert. In this haven, a frail rampart against the Colour standard: PAL sand, three women practice traditional painting. Aspect ratio: 16:09 They decorate the walls of the city. In a society Script writer: Katy Ndiaye apparently dominated by tradition, religion and Camera: Herman Bertiau men, these women unreservedly express them- Editor: Yannick Leroy selves and in doing so comment freely on the Funding sources: OIF, RTBF, Belgian Film relationship between men and women. board and Department of Foreign Affairs Presenters: Arelien Bodinaux & Katy Lena Ndiaye Shopsteward: Eunjoo Kim Contact Neon Rouge 3 Petite rue des Secours 1030 Bruxelles Belgium +32 2 219 35 75 [email protected] 55 Bad Vibe Original title: Trapped Inside the Cellphone Director: Filipe Fonseca Original language: Portuguese Producer: Bruno Canas Running time: 4’ Produced by: Não há Rebuçado Country: Portugal Broadcast by: Sic Radical Year: 2007 Production format: Mini DV Genre: Fiction - Series Colour standard: PAL Title of series: Ma onda Aspect ratio: 16:09 Home page: www.maonda.net Script writer: Filipe Homem Fonseca & Bruno Canas Two friends, Eduardo and Filipe, ght over the Camera: Bruno Canas, Rui Simões, Filipe love of a woman with strange powers. Their Homem Fonseca weapons are the everyday hi-tech objects: Editor: Filipe Homem Fonseca & Bruno Canas cellphones, mp3 players, desktop and laptop computers. Half the earth exists in a digital form Presenter: Filipe Fonseca inside Upload, the virtual world that electronic Shopsteward: Victor Carrera documents have to pass through while travelling from one cellphone or computer to Contact another. Eduardo and Filipe end up trapped Não há Rebuçado inside Upload. The only chance to get out is Calçada dos Barbadinhos 112 -2º through the software-entity keeper of the portal 1170-047 between the two worlds. The avatar of this Lisboa entity is mysteriously similar to Lena, the girl Portugal the two friends are ghting over. Are they con- +351 91 413 42 44 nected? [email protected] 56 Badly Drawn Roy Original title: Badly Drawn Roy Director: Alan Shannon Original language: English Producer: Mark Cumberton Running time: 22’ Entered by: JAM Media Country: Ireland Produced by: JAM Media Year: 2006 Broadcast by: RTE Genre: Documentary - Animation Production format: Digital betacam Colour standard: PAL In a working class suburb of Dublin, we meet Aspect ratio: 16:09 Roy, Ireland’s only living animated character. Script writer: Alan Shannon & Frank Shannon He was born in 1972 into an ordinary live action Camera: P J Dillon family. This y-on-the-wall documentary lm Editor: Scott McDonnell allows us exclusive access into Roy’s life where Funding sources: Framework Scheme - Irish we learn of the prejudices he must overcome on Film Board, Arts Council & RTE a daily basis. Roy is intelligent but unfortunately for him he is badly drawn. The lm charts his Presenter: Mark Cumberton increasing desperation at failing to gain steady Shopsteward: Jo Raknes employment. His animated body prevents him from securing regular manual jobs and his poor Contact rendering has seen him rejected from count- JAM Media less animation auditions.