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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]

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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.

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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]

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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. This desperation is 40 Kevin Street Lower  nally too much for Roy and with the support of Dublin 8 his family and friends he immigrates to Holly- Dublin wood in search of fame, fortune and corrective Ireland surgery. +353 (0)1 405 3484 +353 (0) 478 9376 [email protected]

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Ban the Burka

Original language: English Running time: 22’ Director: Michael Kennedy Country: Canada Producer: Mary Darling Year: 2007 Entered by: Mary Darling Genre: Fiction (Series) Westwind Pictures Title of series: Little Mosque on the Prairie Produced by: Westwind Pictures Home page: www.cbc.ca/littlemosque Broadcast by: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation This programme is one of a series from the Production format: Digital betacam popular Canadian sitcom Little Mosque on the Colour standard: NTSC(4,43) Prairie. Controversy arises in Mercy when a Aspect ratio: 4:03 new woman shows up in town wearing a burka Script writer: Dan Redican (full body covering). Sarah feels it’s oppressive Camera: Mark Dobrescu while Fred just  nds it creepy. Rayyan defends Editor: Trevor Ambrose burkas, saying it’s the woman’s choice to wear it. When Sarah  nds an old law banning face Presenter: Anton Leo coverings in town, she thinks she’s struck a Shopsteward: Jouko Salokorpi blow for women’s rights but when someone close to her gets arrested for the offence, Sa- Contact rah’s not so sure. Westwind Pictures 2 Pardee Avenue Suite 203 Toronto M6K 3H5 Canada +416-516-4414 [email protected] 58

Black Business

Original title: Une Affaire De Negres Director: Osvalde Lewat-Hallade Original language: French/Bamileke Producer: Xavier Carniaux Running time: 90’ Entered by: Osvalde Lewat, Waza Images Country: Cameroon Produced by: Waza Images Year: 2007 Co-produced by: Xavier Carniaux Genre: Documentary Broadcast by: France 5 Production format: Digital betacam “They say Africans are not ready for democracy, Colour standard: PAL so I wonder, have they ever been ready for Aspect ratio: 16:09 dictatorship?” — Wole Soyinka Script writer: Philippe Radoux Bazzini Camera: Daniel Anezin The Operational Command Unit was a special group of law enforcement personnel put in Presenter Osvalde Lewat place by the President of the Republic of Cam- Shopsteward: Carvin Eison eroon, created to tackle rampant banditry in the region of Douala. In the year 2000 alone it was Contact responsible for the disapperance of more than Xavier Carniaux Amip 1,000 people. A few years later, Osvalde Lewat 52 Rue Charlot personalises the question posed in the quote 75003 above. She is preoccupied by these events that Paris she ignored at the time they took place, and France concerned about the families of the victims who +33148874513 are still battling to  nd out what happened to +33148874010 their children, husbands, brothers. [email protected] +33603480657 Mr. Momo, a character in the  lm who defends the victims with determination and courage, de- clares: “As long as it’s black business, an issue of niggers, people don’t care…” The  lm strives to make this injustice a human issue. 59

Black Like Me

Original title: Dans La Peau D’un Noir Director: Renaud Le Van Kim Original language: France Producer: Renaud Le Van Kim Running time: 100’ Produced by: Renaud Le Van Kim Country: France Broadcast by: Canal Year: 2007 Production format: Digital betacam Genre: Documentary Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 This documentary is about racism; about how men, women and children suffer from discrimi- Presenter: Phillippe De Bourbon nation in everyday life. In 1959 white American Shopsteward: Jean Pierre Bekolo Obama writer JH Grif n turned himself into a black man to experience six weeks in the life of black Contact people in the south of United—States. Fifty KM 41 years later, in a rather different environment, rue Des Peupliers 92100 two French families decide to change their skin Boulogne Billancourt colour. The black family turns white and vice France versa. This unique experience opens another +33 1 47 61 84 00 window on racism in France. [email protected] 60

Chakia & Sneakers

Original title: Chakia & Sneakers Director: Marilyn Tan Original language: English Producer: Jean Yeo Running time: 23’ Entered by: Ochre Pictures Country: Singapore Produced by: Ochre Pictures Year: 2007 Broadcast by: MediaCorp Pty Ltd Genre: Entertainment Production format: Mini DV Title of series: Chakia & Sneakers Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 4:03 Parents struggle to understand teenagers. Script writer: Axel Niklasson They will never be able to understand why they Camera: Rong Rong spend three hours in a hair salon just to get Editor: P. Tamizh their hair coloured or why low-cut jeans are Funding sources: MediaCorp Pty Ltd considered high fashion. Teenagers similarly are perplexed and embarrassed by their father’s Presenter: Marilyn Tan choice of Ah-peh shirt and their mother’s pair Shop Steward: Susan Taylor of clogs worn on every special occasion. How they wish they could transform their parents into Contact trendier and cooler beings. In this  lm a mother Ochre Pictures and son do just that – exchange their respective 33B New Bridge Road sense of fashion by dressing each other and in Singapore the process learn something deeper about who 059394 the other is. +65 6324 0859 +65 6324 0901 [email protected] +65 9799 3319 61

Children of the Sun

Original title: Children of the Sun Director: Ran Tal Original language: Hebrew Producer: Amir Harel Running time: 70’ Entered by: Lama  lms Country: Israel Broadcast by: Yes doc Year: 2007 Production format: Digital betacam Genre: Documentary - Factual Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 4:03 Children of the  rst kibbutzim in Israel were Script writer: Ran Tal & Ron Goldman born in the early 20th century to youthful par- Editor: Ron Goldman ents, full of hope. They have been called Children of the Sun, because they were consid- Presenter: Amir Harel ered children of the Sun of Nations Revolution Shopsteward: Kethiwe Ngcobo in Israel. They were born into a utopia and were destined to become the New Man. They were Contact educated in a society governed by an Lama  lms ideology that aspired to replace the nuclear 17 Bar Eilan St family with the collective, to subjugate the will 65271 of the individual in favour of the common good Tel Aviv and a life of equality. Israel Children of the Sun tells the story of the jour- +972 3 6850430 ney in search of a society’s memory and the [email protected] concepts that have been passed on from that +972 54 4708295 world. The  lm is a collage comprised of more than eighty amateur  lms, rare footage that was shot at the kibbutzim between 1930 and 1970 and rare recordings and conversations with family and friends. This tapestry creates both a personal and public story about one of the most fascinating myths of the Zionist movement in the Land of Israel. 62

Clickers - Flying

Original title: Klikkerek - Repules Director: Attila Bordán Original language: Hungarian Producer: Kata Horváth Running time: 14’ Entered by: MTV Hungarian Television Co Country: Hungary Produced by: MTV Hungarian Television Co Year: 2007 Broadcast by: MTV Hungarian Television Co. Genre: Youth Magazine (Series) Ltd. Title of series: Clickers Production format: Betacam SP Home page: www.mtv.hu/magazin/musor Aspect ratio: 4:03 Script writer: Ervin Králik We are clicking like hell - one topic leads us to Animator: István Kaposvári, Attila Lecza, another. This programme is just like sur ng the Erik Vidos Internet, except you don’t have to mess about Editor: Attila Bordán with the mouse and you press the remote con- trol only in the beginning. Short, pacy sketches Presenter: Attila Bordán and computer animation take the viewer from Shopsteward: Jouko Salokorpi immortality to the relationship between horses and donkeys; from TV sets to the theory of Contact relativity; or from the seven-headed dragon to Ltd. Szabadság tér 17 Janet Jackson’s boob blooper. 1054 Budapest Hungary +36 1 373 5373 [email protected] 63

Dawson: Code Orange

Original title: Dawson: Code Orange Director: Yves Levesque & Michel Rochon Original language: French Producer: Helénén Leroux Running time: 40.35’ Entered by: Societe Radio-Canada Country: Canada Produced by: Societe Radio-Canada Year: 2007 Broadcast by: Société Radio-Canada Genre: Documentary Production format: Digital betacam Title of series: Decouverte Colour standard: NTSC(4,43) Home page: www.radio-canada.ca/decouverte Aspect ratio: 16:09 Script writer: Michel Rochon What really happened on September 13 2006, Camera: Pierre W. Mainville in the emergency room at Montreal General Editor: Eric Lemyre Hospital? As soon as it learned that a crazed shooter was on the rampage at nearby Dawson Presenter: Yves Lévesque College, the hospital mobilised its staff. Several Shopsteward: Claudia Schreiner victims’ lives were saved due to the skills and quick action of the paramedics and the Montreal Contact General Hospital personnel. Producer Yves Societe Radio-Canada Lévesque and journalist Michel Rochon walk 1400 Rene-Levesque E H2L2M2 us back through the drama and the  ght to stay Montreal (Qc) alive via a faithful re-enactment put together Canada with the people who were really there. +514 597-6609 [email protected]

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Dictionary

Original title: Sanakirja Director: Laura Joutsi Original language: Finnish Producer: Atro Lahtela Running time: 23’ Entered by: YLE - Finnish Broadcasting Country: Finland Company Year: 2007 Produced by: YLE - Finnish Broadcasting Home page: www.yle. /agicola Company Broadcast by: YLE TV 1 In Dictionary, people who employ words profes- Production format: Digital betacam sionally talk about a word that is especially Colour standard: PAL important to them for one reason or another. A Aspect ratio: 16:09 single word leads to revelations about personal histories, intimate secrets and observations Presenter: Laura Joutsi & Atro Lahtela of the world we live in. One hundred people, Shopsteward: Luca Paiva Mello including authors, translators, researchers, songwriters, thespians and others intoxicated Contact by the magic of language come together to YLE - Finnish Broadcasting Company share the wonder of words. Each two-minute Radiokatu episode is a gift from the word’s selector to the 5 00240 viewer and can be seen each day on TV, the in- Helsinki ternet, or listened to on radio or WAP-equipped Finland handsets. The programme was produced to +358 9 1480 2403 mark the 450th anniversary of the passing of monica.bergman@yle. Mikael Agricola, a famous founding  gure of the Finnish literary world. 65

Don’t Say A Word

Original title: Sin decir nada Director: Diana Carolina Montenegro García Original language: Spanish Producer: Centro de Producción y Asesoría en Running time: 14’ Comunicación - Universidad del Valle Country: Colombia Entered by: Centro de Producción y Asesoría Year: 2007 en Comunicación - Universidad del Valle Genre: Fiction Produced by: Centro de Producción y Asesoría en Comunicación - Universidad del Valle So a is driven by a strong attraction to her very Broadcast by: Señal Colombia - Programme cute classmate, Vero. So a begins to photo- mea Ópera Prima graph Vero. One day the pictures are uncov- Production format: DVCAM or DVCPRO ered and Vero is initially shocked, but soon Colour standard: NTSC(4,43) begins to change her mind about So a, who Aspect ratio: 4:03 since suffering an accident has been bullied Script writer: Diana Carolina Montenegro and teased by her peers. García Camera: Juan David Velásquez Editor: Paul Donneys

Presenter: Diana Carolina Montenegro García Shopsteward: Lidia Piechoto

Contact Centro de Producción y Asesoría en Comuni- cación - Universidad del Valle Calle 13 # 100 - 00 Edi cio 383 Piso 5 Meléndez Cali - Valle Colombia +57 2 3302150 +57 2 3302150 [email protected] 66

Everlasting

Original title: Vechnyi Director: Irina Vasilyeva Original language: Russian Producer: Alexsander Radov Running time: 19’ Entered by: Studio FF Country: Russia Produced by: Studio FF Year: 2007 Broadcast by: GTRK “Culture” Genre: Documentary Production format: Betacam SP Colour standard: PAL Sentenced to death, the former public prosecu- Aspect ratio: 16:09 tor and murderer Vyacheslav Sharaevsky knew the procedure of execution and without fear Presenter: Irina Vasilyeva waited for death. But now the fear has come, Shopsteward: Victor Carrera he has understood, that there is a God and that death will not be as absolute as he has always Contact believed. Studio FF 1-st Hutorskoi per.4 of.1 117287 Moscow Russia + 7 495 6856986 + 7 495 6856986 [email protected] 67

Fairytale of Kathmandu

Original title: Fairytale of Kathmandu Director: Neasa Ni Chianain Original language: English, Gaelic, Nepalese Producer: David Rane Running time: 60’ Entered by: RTE Country: Ireland Produced by: Vinegar Hill Productions Year: 2007 Broadcast by: RTE Genre: Documentary Production format: Digital betacam Home page: www.fairytaleofkathmandu.com Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 As a student, director Neasa Ní Chianáin  rst Script writer: Neasa Ní Chianáin encountered Irish poet, Cathal Ó Searcaigh. Camera: Tristan Monbureau The charismatic  gure of Ó Searcaigh cast a Editor: Declan McGrath & Una Ní Dhonghail spell on her: his poetry spoke of the land, the Funding sources: Irish Film Board, RTÉ, North- pain of lost love, and loneliness. Years later and ern Ireland Screen, Media programme by then his neighbour in Donegal, the director accompanies Ó Searcaigh to his spiritual home, Presenter: Neasa Ni Chianain Nepal, and  lms him there. For a decade, the Shopsteward: Susan Taylor poet has made annual trips there, basking in the culture and repaying its hospitality by spon- Contact soring Nepalese youth in their studies. In this Vinegar Hill Productions impoverished society, he is regarded as a god. Ireland Through the camera lens, the fairytale shines: +353 74 9180730 boy after boy speaks warmly of the poet, of his [email protected] generosity. He basks in the attention and talks frankly about love, friendship and the innocence of the Nepalese. But the more Ní Chianáin learns about Ó Searcaigh’s Nepalese life, the more she discovers a different tale, and feels impelled to enter her own  lm and question his motives, confronting him on camera. The an- swers she receives are surprising, and surpris- ingly honest. 68

Field Report From a Common Man

Original title: Folkereportere I Felt Director: Truels Zeiner-Henriksen & Original language: Norwegian Knut Kollandsrud Running time: 18’ (4x4.30) Producer: Truels Zeiner-Henriksen Country: Norway Entered by: Sherpa Film Norway AS Co Year: 2007 Produced by: Sherpa Film Norway AS Co Genre: Documentary - Factual Broadcast by: Norwegian Broadcasting Title of series: Folkereportere I Felt Corporation Home page: www.sammenforbarn.no/folkere- Production format: Digital betacam portere Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 AIDS has orphaned more than 15 million chil- dren worldwide. Every day 6000 children lose a Presenter: Truels Zeiner-Henriksen & parent and 1400 children die from AIDS-related Per Jordal illness. Four Norwegian civilians, two men and Shopsteward: Karen Michael two women, were chosen to travel to Zambia and Malawi. Their mission: to make personal Contact video reports of the experience and their Sherpa Film encounters with children affected by HIV/Aids. Norway AS Neubergsgt. 14 0340 They were accompanied by a professional cam- Olso era crew, but none of the four had any experi- Norway ence working as a television reporter. 004722554010 The aim was to create video diaries exposing truels@sherpa lm.no their emotions during their encounters with +04791348248 these children as part of the annual Unite for Children fundraising campaign, arguably the most extensive and popular charity drive in the country and televised by the Norwegian Broad- casting Corporation. The projects bene ting from the campaign are situated in Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Ukraine, Jamaica and Vietnam. 69

Giltaek’s Children

Original title: Giltaek’s Children Director: Jeonghoon Cho Original language: Korean Entered by: Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) Running time: 59’ Produced by: Korean Broadcasting System Country: Korea, South (KBS) Year: 2007 Broadcast by: Korean Broadcasting System Ch 1 Genre: Documentary - Factual Colour standard: NTSC(4,43) Home page: www.kbs.co.kr/1tv/sisa/kbsspe- Aspect ratio: 16:09 cial/vod Script writer: Yoonjung Jung Camera: Sangyoon Lee This is a story about a collection of poetic works Editor: Jeonghoon Cho written by children attending school in a tiny and depressed mining town in South Korea in Presenter: Jeonghoon Cho the tumultuous and chaotic period of the early Shopsteward: Jo Raknes 1980s. The programme traces the lives of the student poets and later encounters many of Contact them as adults. Their writing as children reveals Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) their thoughts, their love-hate relationships with #18 Yoido-Dong their fathers, and their perspectives on growing Youngdeungpo-Gu KBS up in an impoverished environment. As present- International Relations Team 1 day adults they are re-introduced to their writing 50-790 and consequently to their lives and the times Seoul they spent writing as children. Their pasts mirror Korea, South the state of Korean society and in particular the +82-2-781-1461 lives of miners, the vocation most of them have +82-2-781-1496 entered into, in a neglected part of the country. [email protected] 70

He Isn’t But He Is

Original title: He Isn’t But He Is Director: Vahid Chavosh Running time: 35’ Country: Iran Presenter: Aleriza Shahrokhi Genre: Fiction - Animation Shopsteward: Carvin Eison

This creative and re ective documentary is a true story about a martyr’s daughter in Iran, who is torn between the admiration and loving memory of her father and her own values and beliefs. She uses the world of animated  ction to bridge the gap between her father’s world and that of her own reality, creating a means of a post-mortem communication with him. The structure of the  lm attempts to present the  lmmaker as neutral on this very sensitive topic. But what are his true values and is it possible for anyone with a western mindset to understand how a person becomes a martyr? By producing a  lm that is dedicated to the patient wives of all martyrs is the  lmmaker in some way supporting the act of the martyred? By consequence is it possible that some will think that giving voice and position to this  lm is indirectly supporting its conclusions. 71

Hello, Willy!

Original title: Hello, Willy! Director: Evgeny Golynkin Original language: Russian Producer: Evgeny Golynkin Running time: 44’ Entered by: Klio XXI Country: Russia Produced by: Klio XXI Year: 2007 Broadcast by: Ekaterinburg, Festival Genre: Documentary Russia Production format: Betacam SP Twenty years ago he could be seen in the Colour standard: PAL streets of Moscow and pedestrian subways Script writer: Evgeny Golynkin playing the trumpet. Today you can meet him Camera: M.Kamionskiy on the streets of Cologne in Germany. He calls Editor: S.Kuzmin himself a Prussian baron, former Gulag prisoner and one of the best trumpeters in the world. Presenter: Raisa Malova He is many years old, he has many names and Shopsteward: Jean Pierre Bekolo Obama many lives. Contact KLIO XXI Nicolo-Yamskoy pereulok 2 14 Moscow Russia +7 495 917 5122 [email protected] 72

Hoshi Shinichi’s Short Shorts

Original title: Hoshi Shinichi’s Short Shorts Director: Kazukho Mochizuki & Hiromi Mogi Original language: Japanese Producer: Akemi Yamamoto Running time: 50’ Entered by: NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corpora- Country: Japan tion) Year: 2007 Produced by: Telecom Staff Genre: Documentary Co-produced by: NHK Enterprise, Inc Production format: HD 2007 marked a decade since the death of Hoshi Colour standard: NTSC(4,43) Shinichi, one of Japan’s most original and acer- Aspect ratio: 16:09 bic writers. His ever popular Grownup Fairytales freshly recreated here by young artists, are still Presenter: Hiroya Okado resonant of his trademark wit and eccentricity. Shopsteward: Claudia Schreiner This omnibus of short segments gives us fresh perspective on Shinichi’s wit and satire. Each Contact segment uses creative techniques to bring the Telecom Staff Forest author’s stories to life and give us satiric peeks Kita Aoyama Bldg. 3-10-3 at the future. Kita-Aoyama 107-0061 Tokyo Wonderful Life (Clay Animation): Nowadays Japan many of our needs are attended to by ma- +81 3 5455 5873 chines. These devices ful ll the promise of a [email protected] future of consummate convenience. But there is an ironic pitfall.

Shoulder Diplomat (Readers Theatre): Perched on everyone’s shoulders in the future is an animatronic parrot. Its intricate IC-chipped brain takes our frank, otherwise rude mutterings and translates them into minor masterpieces of polite discourse.

The Gift (Animation): Global nuclear war has erupted. Aliens have sent down a creature. Mankind unites to  ght off this terrifying intruder but what do they achieve?

The Tangle (One-Man Play) An average working man waiting for his train is surprised to be the target of two different assassins.

My Precious Watch (Animation): A man has deep affection for his watch. One day, incon- ceivably, the time piece is slow, causing him to miss his bus for a long-awaited vacation.

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Ijon Tichy’s Star Diaries

Original title: Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot Director: Dennis Jacobsen Original language: German Producer: Sabotage Film GmbH Running time: 15’ Entered by: ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernse- Country: Germany hen) Year: 2006 Produced by: Sabotage  lm Genre: Fiction- Series Broadcast by: ZDF Title of series: Planet of the Reserves Production format: DVCAM or DVCPRO Home page: www.zdf.de/ihalt Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 A technical error in his cooling bed chamber Script writer: Oliver Jahn makes Ijon Tichy wake up after a long trip Camera: Randa Chahoud through space, 30 years older. Halluzinelle, his Editor: Sylvain Coutandin analogue companion, does not know anything about mortality and therefore his problem Presenter: Alexander Bickel seems completely irrelevant to her. In order Shopsteward: Luca Paiva Mello to survive the return trip Tichy needs a spare part and lands on the planet of Enteropien. Contact Soon enough Tichy physically experiences the Sabotage Film enormous fantasy the local population comes GmbH Kastanienallee up with while trying to counter the meteorite 56 10119 shower that has been going on for thousands Berlin of years. Germany +49 30-44030890 karsten@sabotage- lms.de 75

I’m Not the Indian You Had In Mind

Original title: I’m Not The Indian You Had In Director: Thomas King Mind Entered by: Big Soul Productions Inc. Original language: English Produced by: Big Soul Productions Inc Running time: 5’ Broadcast by: Bravo Country: Canada Production format: Digital betacam Year: 2007 Colour standard: NTSC(4,43) Genre: Short Film (Live Action) Aspect ratio: 16:09 Home page: www.bigsoul.net Script writer: Thomas King Camera: James Kinistino This short  lm challenges the stereotypical Editor: James Kininstino portrayal of First Nations peoples in the media. Thomas King narrates this spoken-word short Presenter: TBA that offers an insight of how First Nations peo- Shopsteward: Jo Raknes ple today are changing old ideas and empower- ing themselves in the greater community. The Contact actors, in typical urban attire are juxtaposed Soul Productions Inc. against the loincloth-wearing, tomahawk wield- 401 Richmond St. West, ing Natives of yesterday’s spaghetti westerns. Suite B102 M5V 3A8 Through the use of stock footage, language, Toronto and common artifacts the viewer is encouraged Canada to examine the profound role that these one- +416-598-7762 dimensional media representations have played [email protected] in shaping their perspectives of an entire group of people. The man living next door, the woman working in the next cubicle, or the stoic wood carving in front of the cigar store – which Indian did you have in mind? 76

Interferenze

Original title: Interferenze Director: Zoe D’Amaro Original language: Italian Producer: Amber Bordewijk Running time: 11’ Entered by: Godmother Films Country: Italy Produced by: Godmother Films Year: 2007 Co-produced by: STEPS International Genre: Documentary Broadcast by: ZDF ARTE Title of series: Why Democracy? Production format: DVCAM or DVCPRO Home page: www.whydemocracy.net Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 Freedom of speech is an essential element of Script writer: Zoe D’Amaro democracy. In our contemporary democracies, Camera: Riccardo Tonni is there space for the practical exercise of such Editor: Marco Della Coletta an inviolable right or is its guarantee a utopian constitutional ideal? In 2002, pirate local TV stations started to spring up across Italy, in Presenter: Zoe D’Amaro response to the lack of public television and Shopsteward: Victor Carrera the oligarchic control over this most powerful medium. Interferenze is the intriguing story of Contact what became known as the Telestreet network. Godmother Films It is told through the personal experience of the Korte Leidsedwarsstraat members of Orfeo TV, the pirate station that ini- 121017RC tiated the movement. The programme is part of Amsterdam an international project called Why Democracy? Netherlands + 31207853890 info@godmother lms.com + 31648467459 77

Jerusalem is Proud to Present

Original title: Yerushalayim Geaa Lehatzig Director: Nitzan Gilady Original language: Hebrew, English, Arabic, Producer: Galia Bador Yiddish Entered by: Nitzan Gilady Running time: 82’ Produced by: Bador Productions Country: Israel Broadcast by: Channel 8 - Noga Communica- Year: 2007 tion & Channel 2 - Keshet Genre: Documentary Production format: Betacam SP Home page: www.cinephil.co Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: Other In the summer of 2006, Jerusalem was to host, Script writer: Nitzan Gilady for the  rst time, the World Gay Pride gather- Camera: Nitzan Gilady ing, which was to culminate in the traditional Editor: Danielle Avitzur gay pride parade. The planned events stirred Funding sources: Channel 8 - Noga Commu- turmoil in the politically complex city, with nications, Channel 2- Keshet, Keren Makor, Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious leaders Miphal Hapais banding together in an uncompromising battle against what they said would “de le the holy Presenter: Nitzan Gilady city”. On the other side stood the activists of the Shopsteward: Luca Paiva Mello Open House, Jerusalem’s LGBT community centre, who had planned the events. Steadfast Contact in the face of the heated and violent anti-gay Bador Productions sentiment, they had to deal with threats to much 14/a Eli Cohen 66849 more than just their right to march. Hod Hasharon Israel +972-52-3888925 [email protected] 78

Just an Ordinary Jew

Original title: Ein Ganz Gewoehnlicher Jude Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel Original language: German Producer: Hubertus Meyer-Burckhard, Claudia Running time: 88’ Schröder, Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt Country: Germany Entered by: Norddeutscher Rundfunk/ Year: 2004 Redaktion Fernseh lm Genre: Fiction Produced by: Polyphon Broadcast by: ARD When asked to speak in front of a school class Production format: Digital betacam about his Jewish identity, Emanuel Goldfarb, Colour standard: PAL born 1945, questions the usefulness of this Aspect ratio: 16:09 task. His letter of decline develops into taking Script writer: Charles Lewinsky stock of the German-Jewish relationship and Camera: Carl-Friedrich Koschnick his own past. A monologue. Editor: Hans Funck

Presenter: Claudia Schroder Shopsteward: Bill Gilcher

Contact Polyphon Jenfelder Allee 80 22039 Hamburg Germany +04066885331 [email protected]

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Khumbul‘ekhaya

Original title: Khumbul‘ekhaya Director: Nonhlanhla Dlamini Original language: Zulu Producer: Nonhlanhla Dlamini Running time: 48’ Entered by: Urban Brew Studios Country: South Africa Produced by: Urban Brew Studio Year: 2007 Broadcast by: SABC Genre: Factual Entertainment Production format: DVCAM or DVCPRO

Khumbul’ekhaya is a touching docu-reality Colour standard: PAL series. In the show we track the journeys of Aspect ratio: 4:03 South Africans on quests to trace long-lost relatives, locate estranged family members and Presenter: Retsepile Makamane, Nonhlanhla heal long standing feuds that have caused rifts Dlamini, Khulile Nxumalo and pain. Shopsteward: Carvin Eison

Contact Urban Brew Studios Harley Street Randburg Johannesburg 2000 South Africa +27 11 285 6000 +27 11 285 6000 +27 73 173 1850 [email protected] 80

Last Man Standing

Director: Jay Taylor Original title: Last Man Standing Producer: Cameron Balbirnie Original language: English Entered by: BBC London: Factual Running time: 56’ Produced by: Cameron Balbirnie Country: United Kingdom Broadcast by: BBC Three Year: 2007 Production format: Digital betacam Genre: Other Colour standard: PAL Title of series: Last Man standing Aspect ratio: 16:09 Home page: bbc.co.uk/last_man_standing Presenter: Simon Winchcombe & Last Man Standing is a hugely ambitious series, Serena Davis which takes six young athletes to live with Shopsteward: Claudia Schreiner indigenous people all around the world. They learn indigenous sports and compete with local Contact people and each other. While training with the BBC London Factual Media Centre community the athletes live with local families 201, Wood Lane and take part in all aspects of every-day life. W12 London The series breaks new ground by introducing United Kingdom an anthropological perspective to the reality TV + 208 7525252 format. It uses sport to connect people across [email protected] cultures, providing an opportunity for quick and powerful bonding. The degree of mutual respect between the indigenous people and the athletes is extraordinary. 81

Magic Cellar — The Tortoise and the Elephant

Original title: Magic Cellar— The Tortoise and Director: Frida Kharas the Elephant Producer: Morula Pictures Original language: English Entered by: South African Broadcasting Running time: 11’ Corporation Country: South Africa Produced by: Morula Pictures Year: 2006 Co-produced by: Chocolate Moose Media Inc Genre: Fiction - Animation Broadcast by: South African Broadcasting Title of series: Magic Cellar Corporation Home page: www.magiccellar.tv Production format: Betacam SP Colour standard: PAL The Magic Cellar is Africa’s  rst 3D animation Aspect ratio: 4:03 production. The shorts are designed to give African children an understanding of their own Presenter: Lerato Moruti culture. For the  rst time South African children Shopsteward: Victor Carrera will see and hear themselves re ected in an animated series. The shorts are based on Afri- Contact can folktales, collected in part from interviews 24 Ditton Avenue conducted with elders in villages across South Auckland Park Africa. In this episode titled The Tortoise and 2092 the Elephant, the elephant wants to eat all of Johannesburg the tortoise’s food. The tortoise challenges the South Africa elephant to a running race. The winner gets to +2711 482 1152 keep the food. With the help of his friends, the [email protected] tortoise wins the race. The elephant learns the importance of sharing. 82

Mindstorm

Director: Eva Larsson Original title: Hjarnstorm Producer: Eva Larsson Original language: Swedish Entered by: Sveriges Television,SVT Running time: 29’ Produced by: Sveriges Television,SVT Country: Sweden Broadcast by: Sveriges Television, SVT Year: 2007 Production format: Other Genre: Infotainment Colour standard: PAL Title of series: 2007 Aspect ratio: 16:09 Home page: svt.se/hjarnstorm Script writer: Henrik Fexeus Camera: Jonas Andersson, Bengt Carlsson, Do you think you have full control over your Emma Elofsson, Kalle Nordberg brain and your senses? How conscious are Editor: Kalle Norberg, Fredrik Agne, Eva Lars- you of your behaviour and why you do certain son things? Mindstorm combines science and entertainment in an innovative television format. Presenter: Eva Larsson & Henrik Fexeus Host Henrik Fexeus introduces examples of Shopsteward: Lidia Piechota how easily we are manipulated by our sur- roundings. By adjusting the packaging of items Contact in a shop, he makes everyone buy the same Sveriges Television product and highlights the mechanisms that SVT Box 288 601 04 govern the choices we make. He also points Norrköping out the rhetoric used by politicians to convince Sweden us of one point of view or another and the body +46 21 00 00 language that says more than we can imagine. [email protected] This programme , dressed up in an entertaining [email protected] and contemporary format, attempts to reach viewers who wouldn’t normally watch scienti c content. 83

Mississippi Cold Case

Original title: Mississippi Cold Case Director: David Ridgen Original language: English Producer: David Ridgen Running time: 85’ Entered by: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Country: Canada Produced by: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Year: 2007 Broadcast by: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Genre: Documentary Production format: Mini DV Home page:www.cbc.ca/sunday/2007/02/021 Colour standard: NTSC(3,58) Aspect ratio: 16:09 Filmmaker David Ridgen works with Thomas Script writer: David Ridgen Moore to crack this civil-rights-era cold case. Camera: David Ridgen Long forgotten, and over-shadowed by the Editor: Michael Hannan famous white victims of the Mississippi Burning Funding sources: CBC TV murders, the case of African Americans Henry Dee and Charles Moore has gone nowhere Presenter: Michael Claydon for decades. In 2005, Ridgen and Moore  nd Shopsteward: Karen Michael new evidence and personally confront Klans- men long thought dead. They doggedly push Contact of cials to reopen the investigation and in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation process ignite the story into a national and 205 Wellington Street international  restorm. As a direct result of their West M5V 3G7 efforts, Klansman James Ford Seale goes to Toronto trial, is convicted and given three life sentences. Canada Thomas Moore and Henry Dee’s family come +1 416 205 5524 full circle when, after the trial, they are asked for [email protected] forgiveness by one of the Klansmen involved in +1 416 529 0183 the brutal killings. 84

Mountain Shadow

Original title: Umthunzi Wentaba Presenter: Micky Dube Original language: isiXhosa Shopsteward: Jean Pierre Bekolo Obama Running time: 48’ Country: South Africa Contact Year: 2006 Kwa Flights of Fancy Genre: Fiction - Series 18 Centre Road Walkerville Ndoda has always been a model son, but when 2094 his idolised cousin dies during his Xhosa man- Johannesburg hood initiation ceremony, Ndoda  nds himself South Africa torn between his father’s steadfast tradition and +27 84 616 5001 his mother’s very real fear. Will he risk death for [email protected] a life worth living? +27 84 616 5001 85

Mr Dial has Something to Say

Original title: Mr Dial has Something to Say Director: Celia Carey Original language: English Producer: Celia Carey Running time: 60’ Entered by: Glassworld Films Country: United States Produced by: Glassworld Films Year: 2007 Co-produced by: Alabama Public Television Genre: Documentary Broadcast by: Alabama Public Television Home page: www.aptv.org/AS/MrDial/index.asp Production format: HDCAM Colour standard: NTSC(3,58) This  lm investigates the current historical Aspect ratio: 16:09 problems of classism and racism in the elite Script writer: Christopher Holmes American visual art world by following the dra- Camera: Jared Shull/Chris Tomberlin matic and disturbing story of Thorton Dial, a 79 Editor: Matt Whitson/Jake Slaney year-old African American artist from Alabama’s Funding sources: National Endowment for the Black Belt, a region still populated by families Arts, Wyatt and Susan Haskell of former slaves. The  lm explores Dial’s art and life and his ‘discovery’, in the 1980s, by Presenter: Celia Carey William Arnett, a white art historian. As Dial’s Shopsteward: Claudia Schreiner work was about to explode onto the art scene a catastrophic, defamatory pro le appeared on Contact the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes leading to Glassworld Films death threats against Arnett and cancellations 1054 Lakeview Crescent of every Dial exhibit planned around the world. 35205 Through this documentary journey, questions Birmingham AL arise: What is the meaning and history of this United States movement? Who are the artists and why do +1 800 919 1193 they create? Has African-American improvisa- celia@glassworld lms.com tional visual art been disregarded by the main- stream art world as less important? Have terms such as “outsider”, “visionary,” “primitive,” “folk,” “self-taught,” and “naïve” – all of which have been applied to this particular style – down- graded the importance of this art? An incredible soundtrack, produced by local artists and avail- able online, accompanies the  lm. 86

Naked on the Inside

Original title: Naked on the Inside Director: Kim Farrant Original language: English Producer: Ian Walker Running time: 55’ Produced by: Magic Real Country: Australia Production format: Digital Betacam Year: 2006 Aspect ratio: 16:09 Genre: Documentary Funding sources: Film Finance Corporation Home page: www.magicreal.com.au/nake- Australia, SBS TV Australia, Showtime US, dontheinside/ Sundance Channel US, CBC Newsworld Canada, Off The Fence Five extraordinary people from around the world reveal their bodies and share their se- Presenter: Ian Walker crets in a unique documentary that explores our Shopsteward: Carven Eisson obsession with body and self-image. In Taiwan, a female Sunday school teacher lives a covert Contact life as a man, binding her double-D-cup breasts [email protected] each day before going off to work. In Queens- +61 0414 851 533 land, Australia, a mother of two  ghts the breast cancer she feels she unconsciously created by hiding an affair from her husband. In San Fran- cisco, a supermodel obsesses to achieve bodily perfection, while a 350-pound “fat activist” comes out big loud and proud. And in the UK a critically acclaimed dancer with no legs falls head over heels in love for the very  rst time. It’s ultimately a mediation on the soul. Bold humorous, heartfelt and quite unlike anything you’ve seen before. 87

News Wars What’s Happening to the News

Original title: News Wars on the PBS series Director: Stephen Talbot Frontline Producer: Stephen Talbot Original language: English Entered by: Cam Bay Productions Inc Running time: 90’ Produced by: Cam Bay Productions Inc Country: United States Broadcast by: Frontline on PBS Year: 2007 Production format: Digital betacam Genre: Documentary Colour standard: NTSC(3,58) Title of series: News Wars Aspect ratio: 16:09 Script writer: Stephen Talbot and What’s Happening to the News is the third Lowell Bergman programme in the four-part Frontline series Camera: Ben McCoy called News War, a critical examination of the Editor: Andrew Gersh US news media. This episode focuses on Funding sources: Richard and Rhonda the economic pressures on television news Goldman Foundation & Nathan Cummings divisions and daily newspapers, as well as the challenges and opportunities posed by Presenter: David Fanning the Internet. The programme opens with the Shopsteward: Pal Sipos success of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show , a parody of cable and network TV news. Contact Including interviews with Ted Koppel and Dan Cam Bay Productions, Inc. Rather, the programme reviews the decline in 149 Fairmount St. 94131 TV news standards and confronts the president San Francisco of ABC News with questions about his current United States programme meming. It goes on to investigate +1 415 282 5129 the promise and the shortcomings of news +1 510 643 1286 on the Web and goes inside the embattled steve@ world.org newsroom of the Los Angeles Times, one of the few US newspapers still covering major national and international stories. It tells the story of two dedicated editors, John Carroll and Dean Baquet, who face pressures from their corpo- rate bosses in Chicago to deliver higher pro ts and cut costs by retrenching reporters.

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Night Lodgers

Original title: Hospedes da Noite Director: Lícinio de AzevedoI Original language: Portuguese, Creole Producer: Abdul Manafe Running time: 53’ Produced by: Ebano Multimedia Country: Moçambique Production format: Beta Digital Year: 2007 Script writer: Licínio Azevedo Genre: Documentary Camera: Karl De Sousa Title of series: The State of Things Editor: Orlando Mesquita Home page: www.mar lmes.com Presenter: Licínio de Azevedol Founded in 1953 and boasting 370 rooms Shopsteward: Bill Gilcher and a huge swimming-pool, the Grande Hotel was the architectural pride of the city of Beira, Mozambique. Poorly managed, the hotel was closed down ten years later and gradually be- came a ruin. Today, the derelict building serves as a shelter for nearly 3,500 homeless people. Two former employees revisit the site where the hotel once stood. 89

Nosaltres

Original title: Nosaltres Director: Moussa Toure Original language: French, Catalan, Spanish Producer: Jean Mino Running time: 71’ Entered by: Canal France International Country: Senegal Produced by: Canal France International Year: 2006 Broadcast by: Radio Télévision du Sénégal (RTS) Genre: Documentary Production format: DVCAM or DVCPRO Colour standard: PAL Nosaltres is the story of two communities, one Aspect ratio: 4:03 from Mali and the other from Catalonia, whose members have lived among each other for eight Presenter: Moussa Toure years, without ever speaking to one another. Shopsteward: Victor Carrera Two communities cross each others’ paths like shadows. Nosaltres is about the fear of the Contact “Other”, the “Stranger”. Nosaltres recounts the Canal France International day when the two communities meet. 131 avenue de Wagram 75017 Paris France 00 33 1 40 62 32 39 00 33 1 40 62 32 04 ccr@c .fr 90

Not My Daughter

Original title: Not My Daughter Director: Cosby Bikpe Running time: 15’ Producer: Akofa Asiedu Edjeani (EP) Country: Ghana Entered by: Calabash Images Year: 2007 Produced by: Calabash Images Genre: Docu-drama Presenter: Cosby Bikpe The cutting of the clitoris is a cultural impera- Shopsteward: Eunjoo Kim tive for the growing girl in some rural com- munities especially in Muslim dominated northern Ghana. In such a patriarchal society where the man possesses absolute authority, including over the wife’s body, a dissenting wife is punished severely. To abscond with a daughter on the dawn of her ceremony without the notice and authority of the husband is even more troubling and heretical. Not My Daughter is a simple docudrama of a woman who dares to challenge the social imperative, laying her life on the line to ensure that her baby girl is spared the trauma that she and all the mothers in the village were subjected to under the guise of “culture and tradition”. At the end of it all, whether the act of excising the clitoris is “mu- tilation” or an “act of beauti cation” is a matter that still generates bitter debate. 91

Oh, Deer

Original title: Szarvashiba Director: Edit Szendi Original language: Hungarian Producer: Edit Szendi Running time: 13’ Produced by: MTV Hungarian Television Country: Hungary Broadcast by: MTV Hungarian Television Year: 2007 Production format: Betacam SP Genre: Educational Series Colour standard: PAL Title of series: Oh, Deer Aspect ratio: 4:03 Home page: www.mtv.hu/szarvashiba Script writer: Edit Szendi, Kata Horváth, Gábor Lénárt, Máté Silló, Ervin Králik The use or abuse of language has always been Animator: István Kaposvári, Attila Lecza & an important debate in Hungary. We created Erik Vidos three characters based on Hungarian mythol- ogy - two hunters, and a (deer) stag. Repre- Presenter: Edit Szendi senting language perfection the miraculous stag Shopsteward: Jouko Salokorpi (a virus) is capable of hacking into any situation (a scene of a movie or a famous painting) and Contact changing it into a linguistic dispute (in plain lan- MTV Hungarian Television Co. Ltd. guage). The hunters, Hunor and Magor (virus Szabadság tér 17. 1054 killers this time) are trying to catch the stag but Budapest  rst they tidy up the mess that is created and Hungary  x the original situation. All problems discussed +36 1 373 5373 are practical and easy to understand and are [email protected] summarised by the stag after each scene. The +36 30 569 2327 programme is a weekly magazine-style format. 92

On the Block

Original title: On the Block Director: Cuán MacConghail Original language: English Producer: Macalla Teo Running time: 26.36’ Entered by: Radio Telefís Éireann Donnybrook Country: Ireland Produced by: Macalla Teo Year: 2006 Co-produced by: Radio Telefís Éireann Genre: Documentary Broadcast by: RTÉ Two Production format: Mini DV On the Block is the work of a group of young Colour standard: PAL  lmmakers as they captured their neighbour- Aspect ratio: 16:09 hood - one of Dublin’s best known and some- Camera: Fatima Mansions Film Club times notorious public housing complexes - Fa- Editor: Cuán Mac Conghail tima Mansions. ArkLink, an initiative of The Ark Funding sources: RTÉ Young peoples pro- Children’s cultural centre developed the Fatima gramme Mansions Film Club and worked with young people over a three- year period. A core group Presenter: Cuán Mac Conghail & of children would meet up on a Saturday morn- Katie Lincoln ing and venture out to  lm the goings-on around Shopsteward: Lidia Piechota the  ats. Through nurturing the children’s own creativity and con dence, a model evolved that Contact created the right environment to ensure the chil- Macalla Teo 7 Sraid dren were the  lmmakers. The talented young Lombaird Thoir IRL D 2  lmmakers interviewed some really important Baile Átha Cliath 2 people including An Taoiseach, the Prime Dublin 2 Minister, The President of Ireland, Dublin’s Lord Ireland Mayor and the local ice-cream man. At the time +353 1 6703880 of  lming the youngest  lmmaker was eight [email protected] years old and the eldest only 12. Their intimate perspectives give fresh insight into the hopes and aspirations of children growing up in a disadvantaged community. 93

Operation Homecoming

Original title: Operation Homecoming Director: Richard E. Robbins Original language: English Producer: Richard E. Robbins Running time: 52’ Entered by: The Documentary Group Country: United States Produced by: The Documentary Group Year: 2007 Broadcast by: WETA/ PBS Genre: Documentary - Animation Production format: Digital betacam Title of series: America at a Crossroads Colour standard: NTSC(3,58) Home page: www.thedocumentarygroup.com Aspect ratio: 16:09 Script writer: Various A documentary that explores  rsthand accounts Camera: Jason Ellison of American troops through their written words, Editor: Gillian McCarthy and offers a profound window into the human Funding sources: ITVS, The Boeing Company side of the war being fought in Iraq. The  lm evolved out of a National Endowment for the Presenter: Richard E. Robbins Arts project that gathered the writing of soldiers Shopsteward: Jo Raknes and their families, who have participated in the con icts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Interviews and Contact dramatic readings by such actors as Robert The Documentary Group Duvall, Josh Lucas, Beau Bridges, Blair Under- 1103 N. El Centro Ave. 90038 wood, Justin Kirk, Aaron Eckhart, Chris Gorham Los Angeles and John Krasinski, transform selections from United States this collection of writing into a deep examination +01 323 463 4987 of the experiences of the men and women who +01 323 463 4988 are serving in America’s armed forces. At the [email protected] same time the  lm provides depth and context to these experiences through a broader look at the universal themes of war literature. The writing in Operation Homecoming covers the full spectrum – poetry,  ction, memoir, letters, journals, and essays. The stories recounted here are sad, funny, violent, and uplifting. Yet each one displays an honesty and intensity that is rarely seen in explorations of con ict. 94

Over the Hill

Original title: Beperkt Houdbaar Director: Sunny Bergman Original language: Dutch / English Produced by: Viewpoint Running time: 60’ Broadcast by: VPRO Television Country: Netherlands Production format: Digital betacam Year: 2007 Colour standard: PAL Genre: Documentary Aspect ratio: 16:09 Home page: www.beperkthoudbaar.info Script writer: Sunny Bergman, Tamara Vuur- mans A unique look at the fashion and cosmetics Camera: Sunny Bergman industries and their uncanny powers of persua- Editor: Milika de Jonge sion. Rather than making women feel better Funding sources: Dutch Cultural Broadcasting about themselves, they actually make them Production Promotion Fund feel worse. Women are vulnerable to a seduc- tive and corrupting business as they struggle Presenter: Tamara Voermans to achieve a beauty ideal that doesn’t exist. Shopsteward: Rehad Desai Over the Hill is a powerful analysis of an age in which imperative forces of the market economy Contact increasingly worm their way into our bodies and Viewpoint Productions psyche. Nieuwendammerdijk 538 1023 BX Amsterdam Netherlands +31 20 6363678 [email protected] 95

Pakistan Zindabad

Original title: Pakistan Zindabad Director: Pascale Lamche Original language: French, English Producer: Arte France Running time: 90’ Entered by: Arte France Country: France Produced by: Arte France Year: 2007 Co-produced by: Alegria Genre: Documentary Broadcast by: ARTE Production format: DVCAM or DVCPRO August 2007 marks the 60th anniversary of the Colour standard: PAL partition of India. The most fascinating story to Aspect ratio: 16:09 emerge from that de ning moment in history, which affected the population of one- fth of the Presenter: Christine Camdessus globe, is the one that is little known and particu- Shopsteward: Rehad Desai larly badly understood: the creation of Pakistan. Taking as its central metaphor the Contact recent devastating earthquake, the  lm uncov- ARTE France 8, ers  ve major faults lines in Pakistan’s body rue Marceau 92785 politic and through the prism of history, evalu- Issy Les Moulineaux ates the real status of the military, of militant France Islamist groups and of democratic forces within +00 33 1 55 00 73 32 the country and the key relationships with the +00 33 1 55 00 74 13 United States, India and with Pakistan’s Muslim [email protected] neighbours. With contributions from notable military and political  gures, as well as leading specialists in the  eld, this ambitious  lm will combine archive and well-dramatised se- quences with astonishing locations to bring us a deeper, more lucid understanding of what is at stake in the new world order. 96

Papy

Original title: Papy Director: Djo Tunda Wa Munga & Boris Van Gils Original language: Lingala Producer: Djo Tunda Wa Munga & Boris Van Gils Running time: 53’ Broadcast by: TV5 World Country: Congo Production format: Digital betacam Year: 2007 Colour standard: PAL Genre: Fiction Aspect ratio: 16:09 Title of series: My Story Script writer: Djo Tunda Wa Munga Camera: Inigo Westmeier Based on a true story, this is one episode from Editor: Nathalie Triniac a six-part series, telling the story of how Papy, Funding sources: Private & institutions  nancing infected by HIV, succeeds in getting special ARV treatment. Rejected by his wife and family, Presenter: Djo Munga & Boris Van Gils Papy can’t go to work and has to take sole care Shopsteward: Rehad Desai of his two children. By convincing a homeless man to play the part of his uncle, he is able to Contact visit a treatment center – which insists that a SUKA! 28 Malila Street relative accompany each patient. This is a new Limete portrayal of HIV AIDS in Africa, a subject that Kinshasa now saturates TV screens. Congo + 243998174112 +33140080862 [email protected] +33618654311

Formosa Productions 159 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière 75009 Paris France +33142814938 +33140080862 [email protected] +33618654311 97

Plan B

Original Title: Plan B Director: Joachim Maiholm Original Language: Danish Producer: Joachim Maiholm Running Time: 40’ Entered by: TV 2/ Danmark Country: Denmark Produced by: Blu Year: 2006 Broadcast by: TV 2/DANMARK Genre: Documentary - Factual Production format: Digital betacam Title of series: Plan B Colour standard: PAL Home page: www:planb.tv2.dk Aspect ratio: 16:09 Editor: Steen Lund The programme was aired prime time and received high ratings, which is not normally the Presenter: Joachim Majholm case with educational television in Denmark. It Shopsteward: Lidia Piechoto has initiated a change of educational standards and learning methods in the country. . Contact Blu Strandlodsvej 44 4 2300 Copenhagen Denmark +4532648200 [email protected] 98

Please Vote For Me

Original title: Please Vote for Me Director: Weijun Chen Original language: Chinese Producer: Nicole Wang Running time: 60’ Entered by: Beijing Holy Bird Culture Co Ltd Country: China Produced by: Beijing Holy Bird Culture Co Ltd Year: 2007 Production format: Mini DV Genre: Documentary Colour standard: PAL Title of series: Why Democracy? Aspect ratio: 4:03

Grade 3 kids get a feel for democracy and Presenter: Chen Jianjun & Don Edkins make history at the same time, when for the Shopsteward: Pat van Heerden  rst time ever in a school in China, they elect their classroom monitor. Contact Beijing Holy Bird Culture Co. Ltd Room 301-Flat 2-Building 7 Luozhuang Nanli Block Haidian District 100088 Beijing China +86-010-62373185 [email protected]

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Pool of Princesses

Original title: Prinzessinnenbad Director: Bettina Blümner & Katja Siegel Original language: German Producer: Peter Schwartzkopff Running time: 92’ Entered by: Reverse Angle Factory Gmbh Country: Germany Produced by: Reverse Angle Factory Gmbh Year: 2007 Broadcast by: RBB Genre: Documentary Production format: 35mm Home page: www.prinzessinnenbad.de Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: Other Pool of Princesses is the documentary about Camera: Mathias Schönigh three teenagers in Berlin that gives us a close Editor: Inge Schneider look at teen-girl culture. Klara, Mina, and Tanutscha know each other since kindergarten. Presenter: Bettina Blümner They’ve grown up in the neighbourhood of Shopsteward: Lidia Piechota Kreuzberg, a multicultural district in Berlin. The three have a lot in common. They are all  fteen Contact years old, best friends, and spend their leisure Reverse Angle Factory time together. They hang in parks with friends, GmbH Monbijouplatz spending time in Kreuzberg’s public swim- 2 10178 ming pool Prinzenbad and enjoy life in the big Berlin diverse city of Berlin. Excited to grow up these Germany young people have left childhood behind some +49 30 880 486 0 time ago and consider themselves completely [email protected] mature. [email protected]

But as close as they may be, the documentary shows that their individual development will lead them in different directions. Pool of Princesses is about their longing for love and stability. In their friendship they  nd everything, they miss in their families. Through their authentic charm, their roughness, and their precociousness, the three girls gain respect and choose their own way of living. 100

Princesses

Original title: Prinzessin Director: Birgit Grosskopf Original language: German Producer: Anke Krause Running time: 80’ Produced by: Colonia Media Country: Germany Broadcast by: ARD Year: 2006 Production format: 16mm Genre: Fiction Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 A girl gang roam their territory in a typical Script writer: Birgit Grosskopf & Daniela German suburb - between cheap apartment Hilchenbach blocks and discount markets. If they feel like Camera: Kolja Raschke it they’ll smack your face. One of the gang Editor: Lawrence Tooley Yvonne, has gotten into so many  ghts - Funding sources: Filmstiftung NRW & WDR that she is sentenced to prison. But when Köln she refuses to turn up there her best friend, Russian-German Katharina, distances herself Presenter: Birgit Grosskopf from Yvonne and the gang starts to fall apart. Shopsteward: Lidia Piechota Things escalate in a horrible fashion and one of the gang menbers has to make a sacri ce. Contact A love story without sex. Colonia Media Moltkestr. 131 50674 Köln Germany +49 221 951 4040 +49 221 951 4044 [email protected] 101

Probably the Most Modern Country in the World

Original title: Varldens Modernaste Land Director: Karin af Klintberg Original language: Swedish Producer: Fredrik Lindström & Karin af Klintberg Running time: 44’ Entered by: Sveriges Television Country: Sweden Produced by: Sveriges Television Year: 2006-2007 Broadcast by: Sveriges Television, SVT Genre: Documentary Production format: Digital betacam Title of series: Problably The Most Modern Colour standard: PAL Country in the World Aspect ratio: 16:09 Home page: www.svt.se/varldensmodernaste- Editor: Göran Hallberg land Presenter: Kristina Lindstrom An astonishing and innovative television series Shopsteward: Jouko Salokorpi focusing on why we Swedes are who we are. Experts and ordinary people give their opinion Contact on the things that make us truly Swedish. Im- Sveriges Television migrants also re ect on their adopted country. SVT Oxenstiernsgatan Some segments are shot on 16mm  lm but 26 10510 most of the production is created with the latest Stockholm technology, allowing the host, Fredrik Wind- Sweden storm, to move undisturbed in time and location. +46 8 784 32 80 The series is fresh and modern in form, identity [email protected] and mentality. Some viewers have criticised the programme as counterproductive – arguing that instead of contributing to an understand- ing of the Swedish character, it widens the gap between “us” and “them”. 102

Ranczo - Pursuit of Happiness

Original title: Ranczo Director: Woljciech Adamczyk Original language: Polish Producer: Joanna Frydrych Running time: 10’ Entered by: TVP 2 Country: Poland Produced by: TVP 2 Year: 2007 Broadcast by: TVP 2 Genre: Documentary Production format: Betacam SP Colour standard: PAL In pursuit of happiness Jurek decided to build a Aspect ratio: 4:03 better world for his children with his own hands. Script writer: Joanna Frydrych He builds a ranch in the middle of the city. Camera: Dariusz Radecki & Tiago Aleksandre Editor: Norbert Rudzik

Presenter: Joanna Frydrych Shopsteward: Jouko Salokorpi

Contact Grupa Medialna Frydrych ul. Kosmonautow 7/29 41-303 Dabrowa Gornicza Poland +48 22 547 2974 +48 22 547 6299 [email protected] +48 603 77 01 99 103

Rene Bousquet or The Arrangement

Original title: Rene Bousquet Ou Director: Laurent Heynemann L’arrangement Producer: Kafsky Nelly Original language: French Entered by: ARTE France Running time: 93’ Produced by: Nelka Films Country: France Broadcast by: ARTE France Year: 2006 Production format: 16mm Genre: Fiction Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: Other Until 1978, when a weekly news magazine ac- Script writer: Pierre Beuchot et Antoine cused him of being the main organiser behind Desrosières the infamous Vel’d’Hiv round-up, everyone Camera: Robert Alazraki seemed to have forgotten that in 1942, René Editor: Marion Monestier Bousquet was the head of French police. The past had caught up with this important civil Presenter: Pierre Beuchot servant who had brilliantly disguised himself as Shopsteward: Graeme Isaac a  nancier. This was the start of a  fteen-year period during which he would have to answer Contact accusations. To organise his defence, he knew Nelka Films he could count on the support of his family and 7th Avenue Franklin Roosvelt a network of political relations. Gradually, the 75008 compromises and “arrangements” made by Paris virtually all the political forces of the Liberation France would appear in all their ambiguity +01 53 93 32 93 nelka@nelka- lms.com 104

Richard Is My Boyfriend

Original title: Richard Is My Boyfriend Director: Ian Duncan & Oliver Morse Original language: English Producer: Ian Duncan Running time: 63’ Entered by: Windfall Films Ltd Country: United Kingdom Produced by: Windfall Films Ltd Year: 2006 Broadcast by: Channel 4 Television Genre: Docu-Drama Production format: DVCAM or DVPRO Colour standard: PAL Anna Taylor is 24 and has a learning disability. Aspect ratio: 16:09 To her mother she is a child of  ve who should Script writer: Zinnie Harris be kept away from men. But when she is Camera: Mike Coles rushed into hospital, it is revealed that she has Editor: Paul Shepard suffered a miscarriage. She met Richard, the Funding sources: Channel 4 Television father of her baby, at her Day Care Centre. Total budget: 649 603 Euros Richard has Downs Syndrome, and the care workers at the centre encouraged the relation- Presenter: Oliver Morse ship to develop. Following the miscarriage, Shopsteward: Graeme Isaac Anna’s contraceptive options are severely limited and sterilisation would be the procedure Contact of choice. Is Anna’s relationship with Richard 1 Underwood Row pleasurable and valuable or abusive and il- London legal? Would sterilisation liberate her, or make United Kingdom her susceptible to further abuse? In court, the +44 20 7251 7676 judge faces a stark choice: should Anna be +44 20 7253 8468 sterilised, or kept away from men forever? yvonne@windfall lms.com 105

Scandinavian Beauty

Original title: Söta Bror Söta Syster Director: Andreas J Riiser Original language: Norwegian Producer: Eirik Sandberg Running time: 29’ Entered by: Norsk rikkringkasting (NRK) Country: Norway Produced by: NRK Year: 2007 Broadcast by: NRK Genre: Fiction - Series Production format: Other Title of series: Ut i Vår Hage Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 Even is a gay man living in a stable relationship Script writer: Harald Eia, Bård tufte Johansen & with his husband Thomas and their two adopted Atle Antonsen children. His life is turned upside down when Camera: Jon Anton Brekne a Norwegian-Pakistani terror-cell makes sure Editor: Perry Eriksen that a beautiful Swedish actress falls in love with him. While Thomas seeks to bury his gay Presenter: Erik Sandberg identity, the terror cell is plotting a bomb attack Shopsteward: Pal Sipos in downtown Oslo. Contact Ingstad NRK Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsonsplass 1 0340 Oslo Norway 23047000 [email protected] 106

Screenz

Original title: Masachim Original language: Hebrew Director: Yoram Mandel Running time: 30’ Producer: Udi Segal Country: Israel Entered by: Lollipop Productions Year: 2007 Produced by: Lollipop Productions Genre: Fiction Broadcast by: DBS - Israel satellite TV(aka Title of series: Screenz YES) Production format: Digital betacam A unique, daily drama, focusing on the human Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 existence on the Internet. Masachim Screenz features a diverse and dramatic range of stories of ordinary people engaging through the Web. Presenter: Yoram Mandel The series tests the boundaries of human Shopsteward: Susan Taylor contact over the Internet in video chat meetings and exchanged identities. It follows the inciden- Contact tal as well as the planned interactions and re- Lollipop Productions Ltd. lationships – sometimes cold and alienated but 6 Hahilazon St. often open, personal and more intimate than the 52522 Ramat Gan Israel crippled intimacy of modern life. Screenz gives us an extraordinary insight into what is rapidly +972-3-6135001 becoming a parallel universe, in which more +972-3-6135002 and more people conduct full and rich interac- [email protected] tions and learn updated life lessons: A father +972-54-5510107 returns, via internet, to his daughter’s life after six years of estrangement; an Internet romance develops between an Israeli girl and an illegal Russian immigrant in New York; a young crimi- nal locates the daughter of his arch-enemy on the net; a drama unfolds between a man intent on committing suicide by sleep deprivation and the girl who watches him do it. These and other entrancing stories inhabit the Screenz that are the new instruments of communication. 107

Searching 4 Sandeep

Original title: Searching 4 Sandeep Director: Poppy Stockell Original language: English Producer: Cecilia Ritchie Running time: 55’ Entered by: Australian Broadcasting Country: Australia Commission Year: 2007 Produced by: Cecilia Ritchie P/L Genre: Documentary Broadcast by: Australian Broadcasting Home page: www.myspace.com/searching4- Commission sandeep Production format: Digital betacam Colour standard: PAL Despite living in one of the gay capitals of the Aspect ratio: 16:09 world, 28 year old Sydneysider Poppy Stockell Script writer: Poppy Stockell is forced online in her search for love. When Camera: Poppy Stockell, Sandeep Virdi, Brian she meets 31-year-old Anglo-Indian Sandeep Rapsey, Iqbal Virdi, Rajvinder Virdi, Manveer Virdi, she thinks she’s found the one. Unfor- Virdi tunately, Sandeep lives at home in the British Editor: Anna Craney Midlands with her conservative Sikh parents and three younger sisters. Oh, and she’s not Presenter: Poppy Stockell out to any of them. The recipient of the highest Shopsteward: Karen Michael audience vote at its premiere at the 2007 Sydney Film Festival, Searching 4 Sandeep Contact uses raw, incredibly frank footage, to chart Cecilia Ritchie P/L Poppy and Sandeep’s often funny, always 4 Gladstone St tumultuous relationship over two years and 2041 three continents. Balmain Australia +61 410 601 544 [email protected] 108

Sensitive Material

Original title: Material sensible Director: Josep Rovira Original language: Catalan Producer: Josep Rovira Running time: 23’ Entered by: Televisio de Catalunya Country: Spain Produced by: Televisio de Catalunya Year: 2007 Broadcast by: Televisio de Catalunya Genre: Documentary - Series Production format: Digital betacam Title of series: Material sensible Colour standard: PAL Home page: www.tv3.cat/materialsensible/ Aspect ratio: 4:03 Script writer: Josep Rovira Marie Jo is the star of the home movies shot by her husband. He grew up in a Catalan village Presenter: Josep Rovira during the Franco dictatorship, the son of rich, Shopsteward: Jo Raknes conservative Catholics. She, a beautiful, sen- sual Frenchwoman, epitomised the new femi- Contact ninity and free sexuality then sweeping Europe. Casellas Televisio de Catalunya The home movies highlight the changing face Carrer de la TV3, s/n 08970 of the country and are full of startling contrasts Sant Joan Despi – starchy parties at the his parents’ house, with Spain guests sporting dinner jackets and evening +34-93-499 9333 (Ext.4584) dresses, and sailing trips to Ibiza. Then a [email protected] countercultural haven, replete with hippies and nudist beaches. The changing habits shown in the movies of this young couple are a portrait of what was happening in the wider world. The programme reveals a love story through a selection of some of the most intimate scenes with comments from Marie Jo herself. It also includes the participation of the couple’s eldest daughter, Caroline, who re-discovers her early years of family life. 109

Shake the Devil Off

Original title: Shake the Devil Off Director: Peter Entell Original language: English Producer: Alberto Chollet, Christian Cools & Running time: 99 ‘ Irène Challand Country: Switzerland Entered by: Show and Tell Films Year: 2007 Produced by: SRG SSR idée Suisse Genre: Documentary Co-produced by: ARTE G.E.I.E & Télévision Home page: www.shakethedeviloff.com Suisse Romande Broadcast by: Télévision Suisse Romande Six months after Hurricane Katrina devastated Production format: Digital betacam the city of New Orleans, the axe has just fallen Colour standard: PAL at St. Augustine Church: the archdiocese is Aspect ratio: 16:09 about to close the parish and send its spiritual Script writer: Peter Entell & Lydia Breen guide, Father LeDoux, away. The church is Camera: Jon Björgvinsson renowned as the birthplace of jazz and gos- Editor: Peter Entell pel, and a powerful reminder of the history of Funding sources: Télévision Suisse Romande, slavery. The parishioners join forces with local SRG SSR idée suisse, ARTE & Fondation musicians to resist the closure. Father LeDoux, Vaudoise pour le cinéma, Régio Films encourages them to pray and negotiate, but they soon realise they must take matters into Presenter: Peter Entell their own hands and go on the offensive. Shopsteward: Jean Pierre Bekolo Obama Shake the Devil Off is a contemporary re-telling of the story of Easter, in a city in which politics, Contact culture and religion collide. SRG SSR idée Suisse Belpstrasse 48 6944 Bern Switzerland +41313509461 [email protected] 110

Shoot the Messenger

Original title: Shoot the Messenger Director: Ngozi Onwurah Original language: English Producer: Anne Pivcevic Running time: 90’ Entered by: BBC DRAMA Country: United Kingdom Produced by: BBC DRAMA Year: 2006 Broadcast by: BBC Genre: Fiction Production format: Digital betacam Colour standard: PAL Joe is a teacher with a mission. He’s deter- Aspect ratio: Other mined to save the black youngsters at his Script writer: Sharon Foster school from a life of gangs, crime and un- derachievement – whether they like it or not. Presenter: Sharon Foster But when a seemingly minor incident rapidly Shopsteward: Kethiwe Ngcobo escalates out of control and he loses his job, he turns against his own community. He rapidly Contact descends into madness and hits rock bottom, BBC BBC Drama, 267 Drama Building, TVC, before realising he has a lot to learn about love, Wood Lane understanding and a different way of seeing his W12 7RJ world. London United Kingdom 020 8576 8715 anne. [email protected] 111

Sleeping Betty

Original title: Isabelle Au Bois Dormant Director: Claude Cloutier Original language: French Producer: Marcel Jean Running time: 14’ Entered by: National Film Board of Canada Country: Canada Broadcast by: Télé-Québec Year: 2007 Production format: Other Genre: Fiction - Animation Colour standard: NTSC(4,43) Aspect ratio: Other An entertaining animated short  lm based on Script writer: Claude Cloutier a classic Perrault fairytale about the Princess Editor: José Heppell Betty who sleeps in a narcoleptic stupor. Her father, the King, appeals to his subjects to wake Presenter: Claude Gauthier the princess. A worthy Prince Charles look-alike Shopsteward: Eunjoo Kim leaves his royal suburb to save the princess. But will Betty be wakened by just a kiss? An Contact enchanting piece of creative animation made National Film Board of Canada the old fashioned way and including 7 000 India 3155 Cote-de-Liesse H4N2N4 ink drawings. Montréal Canada +11-1-514-251-1860 [email protected] [email protected] 112

Starck versus Starck

Original title: Stark contre Starck Director: Vassili Silovic Original language: French Producer: Fabrice Coat Running time: 52’ Entered by: France 5 Country: France Produced by: Programme me 33 Year: 2007 Broadcast by: France 5 Genre: Documentary Production format: Digital Betacam Colour standard: PAL How does one portray a man who refuses to Aspect ratio: 16:09 talk about himself? That’s the challenge taken Script writer: Vassili Silovic up by director Vassili Silovic in this documen- Camera: Thomas Letellier tary dedicated to Philippe Starck. The infamous Editor: Emmanuelle Nobecourt designer set the rules right from the start: no digging into his past, no talking about his career Presenter: Vassili Silovic or even design, and none of his pieces can be Shopsteward: Jouko Salokorpi shown. If this documentary was to be made, it should be about his mind. Challenged to this Contact tour de force, Vassili Silovic has doubts, ac- 33 rue Trousseau cepts, and then enthusiastically rises to the oc- 75011 Paris casion. The  lm is a two-man show in which two France personalities work together on a crazy project. +33 1 48 07 33 33 +33 1 48 07 33 23 f.coat@programme me33.com 113

Stellenbosch

Original title: Stellenbosch Director: Michiel van Jaarsveld Original language: Dutch/Afrikaans/English Producer: Frans van Gestel Running time: 50’ Entered by: VARA/VPRO/NPS Country: Netherlands Produced by: Motel Films Year: 2007 Broadcast by: VARA/VPRO/NPS Genre: Fiction - Series Production format: Digital betacam Home page: www.stellenboschdeserie.nl Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 The series comprises seven 50-minute epi- Script writer: Jacquekine Epskamp sodes about the Keppels, a Dutch family that Camera: Theo Bierkens emigrated to South Africa in the 1950s. The Editor: Peter Anderliesten/ Herman P. Koerts story begins in 1994 with the election of Presi- Funding sources: Dutch cultural broadcast fund/ dent Nelson Mandela. We follow the lives of NPO the Keppel family during eight years in a rapidly changing South Africa. The story is set in both Presenter: Joost de Wolf the Netherlands and South Africa, but the farm Shopsteward: Pat van Heerden Arkadia in the vicinity of Stellenbosch in the Western Cape is the central location. It is also Contact the spot where the fate of the Keppel family is Motel Films sealed and where their future will be decided Meeuwenlaan 98 1021JL Amsterdam Netherlands +31 20 63 86 095 info@motel lms.nl 114

Su Merce

Programme title: Su Merce Director: Isabel Muñoz Cota Callejas Original title: Su Merce Producer: Angeles Castro Original language: Spanish Entered by: Centro de Capacitacion Running time: 48’ Cinematogra ca Country: Mexico Produced by: Centro de Capacitacion Year: 2007 Cinematogra ca Genre: Documentary Production format: Betacam SP Colour standard: NTSC (3.58) A gang of youngsters roam the streets of Aspect ratio: 16:09 Mexico City, with poetry and music as their only Script writer: Isabel Muñoz Cota Callejas salvation. Surrounded by poverty, hunger and Camera: Martin Boege despair, they take the viewer on a tour of the Editor: Isabel Muñoz Cota Callejas & Emilo nightmare that is their lives. Portes Castro

Presenter: TBA Shopsteward: Sergio Borelli

Contact Calzada de Tlalpan 1670 Colonia Country Club 04220 Mexico +52-55 1253-9490 (ext. 1813) +52-55 1253-9492 [email protected] 115

Summer Heights High

Original title: Summer Heights High Director: Stuart McDonald Original language: English Producer: Laura Waters Running time: 28’ Produced by: ABC TV Country: Australia Broadcast by: ABC TV Year: 2007 Production format: Digital betacam Genre: Fiction - Series Colour standard: PAL Title of series: Summer Heights High Aspect ratio: 16:09 Home page: www.abc.net.au/summerheight- Script writer: Chris Lilley shigh Presenter: Jennifer Collins Put down your pens, rulers, mobile phones Shopsteward: Pat van Heerden and lip gloss … and get ready for a life lesson you won’t forget! ABC TV presents Summer Contact Heights High, the new comedy written by and Princess Pictures Level 1 starring comedian Chris Lilley - the creator of 21 William St the award-winning We Can Be Heroes: Finding 3183 the Australian of the Year. Summer Heights High Melbourne explores what happens over one school term in Australia an average Australian high school. Continuing +613 9527 9745 the successful mockumentary format of We Can +613 9527 9748 Be Heroes, Lilley brings to life Jonah Takalua, [email protected] a mischievous schoolboy from Tonga with the odds stacked against him; Mr G, an ego-driven Drama teacher with delusional showbiz dreams; and Ja’mie King, a bitchy private schoolgirl on a student exchange, set to make her mark on Summer Heights High. Hilarious, absurd and frequently shocking the programme reveals a world in which small issues become huge, social groups are important, careers are built, young minds are molded, hopes are shattered and dreams are realised. 116

The Big Donor Show

Original title: De Grote Donor Show Director: Keesjan den Daas Original language: Dutch Producer: Sebastiaan Spaan Running time: 80’ Entered by: Endemol Country: Netherlands Produced by: Endemol Year: 2007 Co-produced by: Endemol Genre: Reality- Series Broadcast by: BNN Home page: www.bnn.nl/page/donorshow Production format: Digital betacam Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 The donor is Lisa, a 37-year-old woman in the prime of her life. She has a malignant brain Presenter: Judith Hulsenbeck tumour and doesn’t have long to live. In this Shopsteward: Susan Taylor show, Lisa will decide to which of three young kidney patients, all of whom have been on the Contact transplant waiting list for years, she will donate Endemol Van Cleeffkade her kidney. The problem is real, the waiting list 15 1431 BA is real, and the three kidney patients are real, Aalsmeer but the Big Donor Show is not real. BNN and Netherlands producer Endemol deliberately looked for a +31 297 351711 controversial way to draw attention to the short- [email protected] age of donors in the Netherlands. At the end of The Big Donor Show, presenter Patrick Lodiers revealed that ‘Lisa’, the young termi- nally ill woman, was, in fact, an actress. During the show he also asked viewers to apply for donor forms online and via text messages, and appealed to politicians to solve this problem once and for all. 117

The Black Man in Seelisberg

Original title: Der Schwarze Mann in Director: Christoph Muller Seelisberg Producer: Christoph Müller Original language: German / Swiss German Entered by: Swiss National TV SF Running time: 21’ Broadcast by: Swiss National TV SF Country: Switzerland Production format: Mini DV Year: 2007 Colour standard: PAL Genre: Documentary Aspect ratio: 16:09 Home page: www.sf.tv/sf1/reporter/ Camera: Matthias Gruic

Seelisberg, a small mountain community, home Presenter: Christoph Müeller to the Rütli slopes, where Switzerland was Shopsteward: Carvin Eison founded some 700 years ago, is in turmoil. The Catholic church has sent Chidi Ilechukwu, Contact a Nigerian priest, to minister to the very con- Swiss National TV SF servative congregation. Like in the old times the Fernsehstr. 1-4 8052 black communities of Africa had to cope with Zürich the white missionaries, this white community in Switzerland the heart of Switzerland has to cope with the +41 44 305 66 11 new ideas of a black priest. Chidi has intro- [email protected] duced drums, dancing and joy to the traditional services, not to the likings of everyone. To many of the older people his presence in the church of Seelisberg does not sit well to say the least. Chidi himself struggles with loneliness, for the Swiss are a solitary breed. This documentary tells the classic story of a clash of cultures and how a smile can move mountains, even in the Swiss Alps 118

The Bodybuilder and I

Original title: The Bodybuilder and I Director: Bryan Friedman Original language: English Producer: Anita & Julia Rosenberg Running time: 92’ Entered by: National Film Board of Canada Country: Canada Produced by: National Film Board of Canada & Year: 2007 January Films Genre: Documentary Broadcast by: Toronto Hot Docs Home page: www.nfb.ca Production format: Betacam SP Colour standard: NTSC(3,58) In this piece the  lmmaker and subject are Aspect ratio: 16:09 father and son. Using the process of  lmmaking Script writer: Bryan Friedman as personal therapy, what is revealed or hidden Editor: Seth Poulin in the  nal cut? Presenter: Bryan Friedman Shopsteward: Luca Paiva Mello

Contact National Film Board of Canada & January Films 3155 Cote-de-liesse Road H4N 2N4 Saint-Laurent Quebece Canada 514-283-9805/06 514-496-4372 [email protected] 119

The Cop, the Judge and the Murderer

Original title: Le Flic, Le Juge, et L ‘Assassin Director: Yves Hinant Original language: French Producer: Jean Libon Running time: 52’ Entered by: RTBF Country: Belgium Produced by: RTBF Year: 2006 Broadcast by: RTBF Genre: Documentary Production format: Digital Betacam Title of series: The Cop, the Judge and the Colour standard: PAL Murderer Aspect ratio: 16:09 Camera: Capurso, Techy & Vanyen In the spirit of great French thriller series but Editor: Husson with a distinctly Belgian  avour, this programme takes you into the heart of police investigations Presenter: Yves Hinant of real murder cases. Shopsteward: Graeme Issac

Contact RTBF Local 2J3 52 BD Reyers 1044 Brussels Belgium +32 2 737 27 34 [email protected] 120

The Demons of Eden

Original title: Los Demonios del Eden Director: Flor Hartado Original language: Spanish Producer: Jorge Prior Running time: 72’ Entered by: Imcine Country: Mexico Produced by: Volcan Producciones Year: 2007 Co-produced by: Imcine Genre: Documentary Broadcast by: TV UNAM Home page: www.losdemoniosdeledendoc. Production format: DVCAM or DVCPRO blogspot.com Colour standard: NTSC(4,43) Aspect ratio: 4:03 The story of Lydia Cacho, a courageous Script writer: Alejandra Islas journalist and feminist who exposes powerful Camera: Alejandro Quesnel businessmen and politicians involved in a child Editor: Alejandra Islas pornography ring operating in Canc!n, Mexico and the United States. Cacho narrates the Presenter: Flor Hartado documentary of her battle with those powerful Shopsteward: Rehad Desai forces and reveals her motivations and emo- tions, and the paradoxes that emerge as she Contact investigates and publishes her book entitled Volcan Producciones The Demons of Eden. The documentary features Monte surales 34 06030 the testimonies of prominent journalists, human Mexico City rights lawyers and activists, as well as footage Mexico of a few of the “demons”. +44 5554068276 [email protected] 121

The Glow of White Women

Original title: The Glow of White Women Director: Yunus Vally Original language: English Producer: James Mitchell Running time: 78’ Entered by: Little Bird Television Country: South Africa Produced by: Little Bird UK Year: 2007 Broadcast by: BBC Genre: Documentary Production format: Digital betacam Home page: www.littlebird.ie Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 A documentary by, and about, Yunus Vally born Camera: Lance Gewer in the 1960s into a Muslim family, during the Editor: Catherine Meyburgh height of Apartheid in South Africa. This amus- ing and idiosyncratic  lm chronicles Yunus’s Presenter: Catherine Meyburgh attempts to make sense of his past as he Shopsteward: Jean Pierre Bekolo Obama examines the effect the discriminatory laws of the State – speci cally the so-called Immorality Contact Act that determined who you could love and the Little Bird UK censorship regulations which clearly de ned 13 Merrion Square what was deemed desirable – had on his life. Dublin 2 Ireland +353 1 613 1710 +353 1 662 4647 [email protected] 122

The Magic Flute: Onstage and Backstage

Original title: Die Zauber öte Vor und Hinter Director: Kennith Branagh den Kulissen Producer: Christian Eggenberger Original language: German Entered by: Schweizer Fernsehen Running time: 45’ Produced by: Christian Eggenberger Country: Switzerland Co-produced by: Opernhaus Zurich/Swiss Year: 2007 Television Genre: Other Broadcast by: SF 1 Home page: www.zauber oete.sf.tv Production format: Digital betacam Colour standard: PAL An innovative television broadcast of Mozart’s Aspect ratio: 16:09 much loved opera, live from the Zurich Opera Script writer: Stephan Brülhart House. Conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt Camera: Kurt Oscar Herting and directed by Marin Kusej the programme Editor: Annette Klöckner features footage from two parallel perspectives: Total budget: US $700 000 onstage and backstage and on two different channels: SF1 and SF2. The presented version Presenter: Christian Eggenberger integrates both perspectives and tries to con- Shopsteward: Graeme Isaac serve the thrilling atmosphere of this challeng- ing and overwhelmingly successful production. Contact Schweizer Fernsehen Fernsehstrasse 1-4 8052 Zürich Switzerland +41 44 305 5510 +41 44 305 5518 [email protected] +41 79 300 2393 123

The News Killing Field

Original title: Aya Chand Mama Director: Robin Das Original language: Bengali Producer: Robin Das Running time: 1.50’ Entered by: Robin Das Country: India Broadcast by: Incoda TV 5 Year: 2005 Production format: DVCAM or DVCPRO Genre: Short Film Colour standard: PAL Home page: www.audience.withoutabox.com/ Aspect ratio: 4:03  lms/short Script writer: Robin Das Camera: Robin Das A short and powerful piece barely two minutes Editor: Sabhyachi Chatterjee long, commenting on the state of the news Total budget: 1000 media. The piece challenges the role of news organisations. The News Killing Fields asks the Presenter: Rupsha Dasgupta question who is winning the news and informa- Shopsteward: Susan Taylor tion wars raging in society? Contact Robin Das 332 Salbagan Isapore N24Pgs West Bengal 743144 India +9133 65252561 +91 33 9231597944 robin [email protected] 124

The Pilots

Original title: Die Piloten Director: Cordula Kablitz-Post Original language: German Producer: Cordula Kablitz-Post Running time: 93’ Entered by: Avanti Media Country: Germany Produced by: Avanti Media Year: 2007 Broadcast by: ARTE Genre: Documentary Production format: Digital betacam Home page: www.avantimedia.com Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 In January 2007, 10 years after the legendary Script writer: Cordula Kablitz-Post German talk show satire Talk 2000, perform- Camera: Chr. Lerch, John Toft, Frederic Doss, ance artist Chrsitoph Schlingensief launches Günther Uttendorfer, Axel Lüttich & Die Piloten at the Academy of Fine Arts in Arev Karpert Berlin. His aim is to examine how artists, Editor: Lars Billert pop-musicians,  lmmakers and politicians turn Funding sources: Avanti media and ZDF/ARTE become media  gure. A survey of society. Total budget: 140.000,00 Euros

Presenter: Cordula Kablitz-Post Shopsteward: Susan Taylor

Contact Avanti Media Gneisenaustr. 44-45 10961 Berlin Germany +49 30 2646134 +49 30 26461136 [email protected] 125

The Secret in the Satchel

Original title: Shu Pao Li Te Mi Mi Director: Tay-jou Lin Original language: Mandarin Producer: Chia-kuen & Wendy Chiao Running time: 51’ Entered by: Public Television Service Country: Taiwan Foundation Year: 2007 Produced by: LTJ Films LTD Genre: Documentary Broadcast by: Public Television Service Home page: www.teacher.yuntech.edu. Foundation tw/~lintj/secret/index.htm Production format: HDV and DVCAM Colour standard: NTSC(3,58) For 10 years, Tay-jou Lin, a director and univer- Aspect ratio: Other sity professor, has read thousands of papers, Script writer: Lin Tay-Jou reports and journals written by his students. Camera: Tay-jou Lin & I-ching Lo Apart from the usual subject matter, they often Editor: Tay-jou Lin & Chiao-wen Wu contain drawings, notes, photographs, love Funding sources: Public Television Service letters, or other personal outpourings, which ul- Foundation & LTJ Films LTD timately gave him insight into their turbulent pri- Total budget: US $40 000 vate lives. The director invited three students to document their stories on  lm. Dramatisations, Presenter: Wei-hsuan Chiao animation and interviews with the anonymous Shopsteward: Pal Sipos students were then interwoven, resulting in The Secret in the Satchel. The documentary explores Contact the complicated inter-personal, family, sexual, LTJ Films LTD 8F, 270, and violent relationships of the young students. Chungshan Road, In his narration, the director expresses anxiety Touliu 640 Yunlin and apprehension as he faces the harsh reali- Taiwan ties faced by this generation of young people. +886 9 52 953 655 [email protected] 126

The Sinking Village

Original title: A Sullyrdo Falu Director: Marton Szirmai Original language: Hungarian Producer: Marton Szirmai Running time: 23’ Entered by: Instant Films Country: Hungary Produced by: Econo Visual Brigade and Instant Year: 2007 Films Genre: Documentary Broadcast by: Hungarian Public TV Home page: www.instant lmek.hu (M2, Hungary) Production format: Mini DV A small Hungarian village has to look on as it Colour standard: PAL slowly sinks. A mysterious phenomenon is the Aspect ratio: 4:03 cause and no one helps lay bare the reasons. Script writer: Márton Szirmai However, there is Joseph, the eternal optimist. Camera: Gergo Palos He takes action and hopes for change. Editor: Márton Szirmai Funding sources: Econo Visual Brigade and Hungarian Motion Picture Public Foundation Total budget: 10 000 EUR

Presenter: Marton Szirmai Shopsteward: Claudia Schreiner

Contact Instant Films Arato u. 10. 1121 Budapest Hungary +3623341082 +3612143523 [email protected] +36203445481 127

The Star Fisher

Original title: El Pescador de Estrellas Director: Marcela Rincón Original language: Spanish Producer: Maritza Rincón Running time: 12’ Entered by: Fosfenos Media Country: Colombia Produced by: Fosfenos Media Year: 2007 Co-produced by: Toonka Films and Enic Genre: Fiction - Soap Producciones. Home page: www.fosfenosmedia.com Broadcast by: Señal Colombia Production format: Mini DV Against the exuberant backdrop of the Colour standard: NTSC(4,43) Colombian Paci c, a story of young love un- Aspect ratio: 4:03 folds and is woven with some very real issues Script writer: Marcela Rincón facing the children of the region. Segundo, the Camera: Jahiber Andrés Muñoz lead character, sets out on a great adventure Editor: Paul Donneys to  nd his  ctional love, while through a mix of Funding sources: Parquesoft, Fundación Azul y his grandfather’s rich ancestry and traditional Verde, Embarcaciones Asturias, Postobón folklore of the town, we are given access to the and Nativa Producciones magical universe of an Afrocolombian com- Total budget: $12.500 USD munity. Presenter: Maritza Rincón Shopsteward: Luca Paiva Mello

Contact Productora - Producer Fosfenos Media Tel: +572 318 1000 ext 2439 Mobile: +57 311 307 1088 Cali - Colombia South America [email protected] 128

The Stones of the Kingdom

Original title: A Pedra Do Reino Director: Kuiz Fernando Carvalho Original language: Portuguese Producer: Cesar Lino Running time: 51’ Entered by: TV Globo Country: Brazil Produced by: TV Globo Year: 2008 Co-produced by: Academia do Filmes Genre: Fiction (Series) Broadcast by: TV Globo Title of series : The Stones of the Kingdom Production format: 16mm Home page: www.globo.com/quadrante Aspect ratio: 4:03

Quaderna, an old clown and bard, narrates, Presenter: Luis Alberto de Abreu from his cart in the middle of the street, the Shopsteward: Bill Gilcher history of his family, a bloody saga of kings, bandits, mystics and backlands poets. Among Contact his tragic-comic memories is the arrival of the TV Globo Judge, a powerful inquisitor from the coast, Rua Lopes who summons him for an inquiry in which he is Quintas 303/602 the suspect in the murder of his godfather and Jardim Botanico accused of taking part in a popular revolution. 22460010 In jail, he writes this rhapsodic tale revealing his Rio de Janiero desire to establish a popular and literary leftist Brazil monarchy in Brazil. +55 21 2540 3929 +55 21 2540 3112 [email protected] 129

The Truth About Marika

Original title: Sanningen om Marika Director: Ereksson Original language: Swedish Producer: Daniel Lägersten Running time: 60’ Entered by: Sveriges Television Country: Sweden Produced by: Sveriges Television, SVT Year: 2007 Broadcast by: Sveriges Television, SVT Genre: Fiction - Interactive Series Production format: DVCAM or DVCPRO Colour Title of series: Sanningen om Marika standard: PAL Home page: svt.se/marika Aspect ratio: 16:09 Script writer: Anders Weidemann, Martin Eriksson A newly wedded man is shocked when his Camera: Nicklas Carpaty, Per Norberg, beloved wife Marika suddenly disappears. Her Kurt Berggren best friend believes that she has joined a secret Editor: Marianne Lindekranz society that thrives outside the system. Thou- Funding sources: Nordvision sands of people have similarly vanished but the Swedish government remains silent. Is there a Presenter: Daniel Lagersten secret society just waiting to be discovered? Is Shopsteward: Karen Michael there a larger conspiracy at play here? Is there a reality bigger than the truth? What is the truth Contact about Marika? This is a story set in the twilight Sveriges Television, SVT zone. The viewer can never be sure if the story Pumpgatan is scripted or if it is based on real events. Some 2 40513 viewers have found the series offensive, claim- Gothenburg ing that a public service channel should never Sweden mock the truth. +46705759268 [email protected] 130

To Die in Jerusalem

Original title: To Die in Jerusalem/Lamut Director: Hilla Medalia Beyerushalaim Producer: Hilla Medalia & John Priddy Original language: Hebrew/English/Arabic Entered by: EJH Production Running time: 76’ Produced by: EJH Production & Priddy Brothers Country: Israel Broadcast by: HBO (USA), YES (Israel) Year: 2007 Production format: DVCAM or DVCPRO Genre: Documentary Colour standard: PAL Home page: www.todieinjerusalem.com Aspect ratio: Other Script writer: Hilla Medalia This documentary looks at the Israeli-Pales- Camera: Ran Shetreet & Ramez Kazmouz tinian con ict through the eyes of two mothers Editor: Geof Bartz A.C.E. & Shlomi Shalom who lost their daughters in one deadly act of Funding sources: HBO, YES, New Israeli Foun- violence. The documentary recounts the heart- dation for Cinema and TV wrenching story of two teenage girls – 17-year- old Israeli student Rachel Levy, and her killer, Presenter: Hilla Medalia 18-year-old Palestinian suicide bomber Ayat Shopsteward: Carvin Eison al-Akhras — who died together in a Jerusalem market in 2002. The horri c incident ignited Contact international outrage and set in motion Levy’s EJH Production mother’s journey to meet the mother of her PO Box 4817 daughter’s killer. Their emotionally charged Boise 83711 encounter underscores the deep roots of the Idaho Israel-Palestinian con ict. United States +1 208 955 7602 +1 208 955 7632 [email protected] +1 917 650 0084

Priddy Brothers P O Box 4817 Boise 83711 Idaho United States +1208 955 7601 [email protected]

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Triptych

Original title: Triptyk Director: Maria Sid Original language: Swedish Producer: Pekka Munsterhjelm Running time: 30’ Produced by: YLE - Finnish Broadcasting Country: Finland Company Year: 2007 Co-produced by: Per ktion Genre: Fiction Broadcast by: YLE FST5 Production format: DVCAM or DVCPRO RawFilm – a Finnish company that funds Colour standard: PAL independent  lm producers- decided to contact Aspect ratio: 16:09 a famous funk singer, Sam Huber, an adored Script writer: Annina Enckell actress, Maria Sid, and a radio drama world champion, Solveig Matsson. The company Presenter: Liselott Forsman offered to  nance a  lm on a classical Finnish Shopsteward: Bill Gilcher short story if the stars would agree to direct it Contact within 24 hours. They did. Scriptwriter Annina Pekka Munsterhjelm Enckell wrote three different scripts based on Per ktion the stars’ respective interpretations of the story. Tarkkampujankatu 14 The stars managed to shoot and edit within the 00150 allotted 24 hours. The result: Triptych. Helsinki Finland +358 40 5303 861 pekka@per ktion.com 133

Turkish Chick

Original title: Turkse Chick Director: Menno Westendorp Original language: Dutch Producer: Motel Films Running time: 10’ Entered by: NPS Dutch Broadcasting Service Country: Netherlands Produced by: Motel Films Year: 2006 Broadcast by: NPS Dutch Broadcasting Service Genre: Fiction Production format: 35mm Title of series: Short! Colour standard: PAL Home page: www.cinema.nl/korte lm Aspect ratio: 16:09 Script writer: Lodewijk Crijns Turkish Chick tells the story of 17-year-old skateboarder Fokko, who is fascinated by the Presenter: Marina Blok sensual beauty of Dilara, a Turkish girl who Shopsteward: Pal Sipos wears a headscarf. His sexual fascination for this Muslim beauty drags him to paranoia about Contact Islamic extremism. Motel Films Meeuwenlaan 98-100 1021 JL Amsterdam Netherlands +31 20 6386095 + 31 020 6200785 info@motel lms.nl 134

Two Men, Twelve Drawings

Original title: Muhammedkrisen Under Huden Director: Helle Faber Original language: Danish Producer: Helle Faber Running time: 58’ Produced by: Bastard Film Country: Denmark Broadcast by: DR1 Year: 2007 Production format: Digital betacam Genre: Documentary Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 When the Middle East  ares in response to Camera: Henrik Bohr Ipsen, Simon Mouridsen, twelve cartoons depicting Muhammad, two Jesper Mauritzen, Frej Schmedes & Søren Danish Muslims attract international attention: Steen Jespersen Naser Khader, a Danish MP, and Ahmed Akkari, Editor: Steen Johannessen & David Rosenquist the spokesman for 27 Muslim organisations. Both try to tell the world what was actually Presenter: Helle Faber going on in Denmark. But that is where the Shopsteward: Kethiwe Ngcobo similarities end. The two men are bitter oppo- nents in the Muslim community. Khader heads Contact a group called Democratic Muslims and Akkari Bastard Film Øster Farimagsgade 16b speaks on behalf of the Muslims who regard the 2100 cartoons as offensive, at best. The  lm follows Copenhagen the two men during the hectic weeks in which Denmark they try to get their diametrically opposed views +45 35250025 across. It is an unequal match to begin with: faber@bastard lm.dk the white population of Denmark and the media have already decided whom to listen to: Khader forges ahead in the opinion polls and Akkari is subjected to public derision. The programme reveals the struggle of a diverse minority to  nd its place in Danish society. 135

Wholetrain

Original title: Wholetrain Director: Florian Gaag Original language: German Producer: Silke Bacher Running time: 81’ Entered by: ZDF Country: Germany Produced by: Goldkind Filmproduktion Year: 2006 GmbH & Co. Genre: Fiction Broadcast by: ZDF Home page: www.wholetrain.com Production format: DVCAM or DVCPRO Colour standard: PAL Florian Gaag tells the story of a crew of four Aspect ratio: 16:09 writers David, Tino, Elyas und Achim who ob- Script writer: Florian Gaag serve the hierarchies, the values, the rules and Camera: Christian Rein the codes of the graf ti scene. Night after night Editor: Christian Littmann, Monika Krinke they make off for the subway stations of the city, intent on leaving opulent images behind. Presenter: Florian Gaag But as another crew appears on the scene, and Shopsteward: Rehad Desai the four feel challenged and a creative battle ensues, one that will change the lives of these Contact young people forever. We are confronted with Rambergstr. 3-5 80799 life taken to the limit, constantly on the edge of München legality, always on the run from the law. Urban Germany space must be reclaimed and in the process +49 89-36049120 friends are made and lost. Unbridled creativ- info@goldkind lm.com ity and doing things for the sheer love of it are watchwords too. 136

Worldplay

Original title: Jugamon Director: Josep Serra Original language: Catalan Producer: Valenti Roda Running time: 20’ Entered by: Televisio de Catalunya Country: Spain Produced by: Televisio de Catalunya Year: 2007 Co-produced by: La Quimera Genre: Documentary - Series Broadcast by: Televisio de Catalunya Title of series : Jugamon Production format: Digital betacam Home page: www.tv3.cat/ptvcatalunya Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 4:03 This educational documentary series was aimed at children aged 6 to 14 and designed to Presenter: Pere Arcas involve the entire family. Thirteen children, all of Shopsteward: Lidia Piechoto differing cultural backgrounds living in the north- west of Catalonia, are the focus of this episode. The children visit the home of Yussef, a young Muslim boy of Moroccan origin who dreams of becoming a footballer. Yussef has decided to teach his friends some bottle cap street games typically played in Morocco and to make it even more fun, he decides to organise Bottle Cap Olympics.

The series is  lmed from the children’s’ perspective and never loses sight of the main objective: free rein for the kids to speak their minds, far from the restraints of TV scripts and studios. The series comprises 13 20-minute epi- sodes. Given its high audience ratings a second season was broadcast in April 2008. 137

Wrath

Original title: Vrede Director: Øystein Karlsen Original language: Norwegian Producer: Pål Haagenrud Running time: 46’ Entered by: Kamerakameratene A/S Country: Norway Produced by: Kamerakameratene A/S Year: 2007 Broadcast by: TV2 Norway Genre: Documentary - Series Production format: Digital betacam Title of series : The 7 Deadly Sins Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 The 7 Deadly Sins explores history and dogma Script writer: O. Karlsen, Nilsen & Schou that concern all people, irrespective of religious Camera: P. Haagenrud or atheist disposition. The eight episode-series Editor: S. Gengenbach draws heavily on both religious and scienti c thought. Featured are interviews with experts Presenter: Kristopher Schau in religious history, scientists and authors. Host Shopsteward: Pat van Heerden Kristopher Schau holds a mirror to modern society and asks: What meaning do The Seven Contact Deadly Sins and religious dogma in general Kamerakameratene A/S hold in the context of a largely secularised Neuberg gt. 14B world? In the episode Wrath the team heads to 0367 Jerusalem a city of major importance for three OSLO of the worlds largest religions, and as a result, Norway one that has been at war for more that 3000 +47 90 16 28 40 years, [email protected] 138

Yakuza Money

Original title: Yakuza Money Director: Hidenobu Yokoi & Hiromasa Itakura Original language: Japanese Producer: Yuusaku Sunohara & Taichi Nakajima Running time: 49’ Entered by: Fumina Koike, NHK Country: Japan Produced by: NHK (Japan Broadcasting Year: 2007 Corporation) Genre: Documentary Broadcast by: NHK Home page: www.nhk.or.jp/special/onair Production format: Other Colour standard: NTSC(4,43) The Japanese Ma a, also known as the Aspect ratio: 16:09 Yakuza, is adapting to the times and coming up Script writer: Hidenobu Yokoi with new and inventive ways of making money. Camera: Atsushi Miyamoto Money that was illegally earned through drug Editor: Kunio Inose dealing, illegal gambling and lending in Japan is said to amount to more than US$10 billion Presenter: Hiramasu Itakuren dollars. Now, the Yakuza are using this money Shopsteward: Bill Gilcher to enter the stock markets in an effort to make an even bigger pro t. Much of their ill-gained Contact money is being laundered through the stock NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) 2-2-1 markets with the not always unwitting help of Jinnan, Shibuya many ‘ordinary’ people, aiding crime syndicates 150-8001 in their quest for power. In this programme , Tokyo we witness some actual transactions that were Japan caught on camera and interviews with several +81 3 5455 5873 of the characters involved in this underground [email protected] economy. This documentary shows how the ever-growing Yakuza money fund is negatively affecting the economy of Japan, and undermin- ing Japanese society as a whole. 139

Yallahrup

Original title: Yallahrup Færgeby Director: Rune Kalle Bjerkø Original language: Danish Producer: Bjarke Ahlstrand Running time: 10’ Entered by: DR Danish Broadcasting Country: Denmark Corporation Year: 2007 Produced by: DR Genre: Fiction - Series Broadcast by: DR2 Title of series: Yallahrup Færgeby Production format: Digital betacam Home page: dr.dk/yallahrup Colour standard: PAL Aspect ratio: 16:09 A highly controversial puppet-live action series, Script writer: Nanna Westh which follows two teenage anti-heroes, Ali and Camera: Thomas Jessen Hassan, as they struggle with puberty, integra- Editor: Jacob Nordentoft tion issues in a foreign European society and a Funding sources: DR, SVT, NRK sincere ambition to become true gangsters. 70s Total budget: 900000 Euro puppet aesthetics collide with modern graf ti- ridden suburbs in this amazing series which Presenter: Bjarke Ahlstrand made front page headlines in all major Dan- Shopsteward: Bill Gilcher ish newspapers and digital media after it was broadcast in late 2007. This particular episode Contact - 100% integration, follows our two anti–heroes Emil Holms Kanal as they are forced into an integration project 20 2000 Copenhagen by the school headmaster (an overly emanci- Denmark pated, slightly racist “ethnic” Dane). The boys +45 20198420 are eager to participate, but discover that even [email protected] freedom of speech has its limits. On the web, Yallahrup Færgeby was extremely popular, receiving more than 2 million hits in one month and with several episodes viewed online more than 100 000 times. The site contains exclusive content, games and cellphone extras. 140

You Want This?

Original title: Mitka vaalit? Director: Tommi Hakko Original language: Finnish Producer: Markku Mastomäki Running time: 48’ Entered by: YLE - Finnish Broadcasting Country: Finland Company Year: 2007 Produced by: YLE - Finnish Broadcasting Genre: Infotainment Broadcast by: YLE TV 2 Production format: Digital betacam You Want This? is a Finnish election programme Colour standard: PAL that separates itself from traditional politi- Aspect ratio: 16:09 cal journalism. It provides an outlet for young Script writer: Tommi Hakko, Markku Mastomäki, candidates and makes room for anarchistic Nuppu Stenros, Silvia Modig, Heikki Niiranen views. The show also provides information in an Camera: Marianne Heikkinen attempt to raise political awareness among the Editor: Tero Nikulainen youth and increase their participation. Young celebrity candidates utilise art to resolve social Presenter: Markku Mastomäki problems: Steen1 (Independent) rhymes about Shopsteward: Pal Sipos security and Pikku G (Centre Party) raps about drugs, while cartoonist Kaisa Leka (Greens) at- Contact tempts to connect the dots of a chaotic employ- YLE - Finnish Broadcasting Company ment system that offers only short-term jobs. Radiokatu Paavo Arhinmäki (Left Alliance) uses the tacti- 5 00240 cal patterns of football to resolve the shortcom- Helsinki ings of education policy and stand-up comedian Finland Lotta Backlund (National Coalition Party) tries +358 9 1480 4656 to address the problems of immigrants through humour.