NEWS NEW RELEASES MIPTV 2006 Desert Race – the Ultimate Adventure A unique look upon the legendary Dakar Rally The Dakar Rally is the world’s longest and toughest motor race. This is a tale of survival of the fittest, and completing the race is in itself an enormous achievement. It is an event that brings together real men and the toughest tom-boys. The Dakar Rally is a rarity in a man’s world of the purest kind. It is a kind of community that nowadays practically exists only in the armed forces and some biker gangs, where it is often described as violent and callous. But the solidarity is positive and its structure basically masculine and so it comes naturally to men. It is the stories of these people, their dreams and their hopes that the film provides. We live with them in their ups and downs, we share their disappointments and cheer with them in their victories. We follow them day and Arts & Culture night through the sacrifices they make to ensure their chariots the best possible positions. ● Producer: ....................Carsten Holst Ready for screening Director: ......................Wadt Thomsen September 2006 Produced by: ..............Allright Film Duration: .....................58 min. Year of production: ....2006 Email: [email protected] World Celebrity Golf In September world celebrities met up in Beijing, China, to participate in a very special golf tournament: Society & Social World Celebrity Golf. The aim was to collect money for Care For Children and to have fun at the same time. Mainly ● sports and film celebrities participated, but one senior political figure was also there: ex-President Bill Clinton, USA. DR TV enjoyed the exclusive rights to accompany Bill Clinton and talk to him while he was playing the 18 holes on the Pine Valley Golf Course. The result is a unique program about an ex-President, his passion for golf, and his problems with putting... MIPDOC Video library Director & Producer: ...Søren Elmenhoff Kristensen Produced by: ..............DR TV (Danish Broadcasting Corp.) Duration: .....................28 min. Year of production: ....2005 Email: [email protected] History & Politics ● Cave Fever Death has his gnarled hand on the shoulders of the cavers exploring the water-filled Mexican caves. If their equipment fails they will have made their very last dive, because it is often as much as half an hour or even an hour to the next air pocket. In return fabulous experiences await the intrepid explorer: nature’s own inconceivably wondrous cathedrals, inhabited by species hitherto unknown. The fantastic caves attract cavers with their own particular dreams of revealing the secrets hidden there. Biologists, geologists and zoologists make the pilgrimage to Yucatan, Mexico, in search of the perfect altar for their ritual of derring-do and quest for beauty. MIPDOC Video library Director & Producer: ...Jes Andersen Produced by: ..............DR TV (Danish Broadcasting Corp.) Duration: .....................56 min. Year of production: ....2005 Sport & Adventure Email: [email protected] DR TV International Sales . TV-Centre . DK-2860 Soeborg . Denmark . Phone: +45 3520 3040 . Fax: +45 3520 3969 . drsales.dk . Email: [email protected] Crossing the Line What does it take to push us into the zone where we transgress ethical and legal boundaries? And as individuals and society as a whole, can we accept assault, torture and murder if we think the situation justifies them? Crossing the Line draws on hard-hitting, up-to-date examples to spotlight the dilemma of human rights versus our own protection. Esad Landzo, an ex Bosnian soldier, is a striking example of how close to the surface our inner torturer can be. He grew up in the bosom of a happy nuclear family. As a young soldier he emerged from the closet as a bloodthirsty avenger, torturing and murdering fellow human beings in cold blood. Today he is penitent, but from his prison cell he asks if he really had any choice. However, could or would any citizen in his right mind follow in Landzo’s bloody footsteps and resort to torture or murder for his own protection? And is even the most civilized society prepared to cross the line and ignore ethics and human rights if its Arts & Culture safety so requires? Many of us probably think or at least hope that this is not so. But the facts tell a different story. ● MIPDOC Video library Director: .................... Lars Feldballe Petersen Producer: .................. Nils Feldballe Petersen Produced by: ............ Film & TV Compagniet ltd. Duration: ................... 58 min. Year of production: .. 2005 Email: [email protected] Society & Social ● The Black Man and the Flood New Orleans one year after Katrina. A one-hour documentary from the bottom-side of USA. The documentary starts in the days after the Hurricane, where despair is growing, day by day. While the news media are leaving New Orleans, poverty and racism is there to stay. In the midst of this, the main character Malik Rahim, 58 years old and former member of the Black Panthers is bringing food, water and hope to the few elderly and poor that have not left the city. His one-man mission quickly becomes an organisation and donations and volunteers from all over America starts coming in. Malik wants to use the situation and the attention to make sustainable changes in his poor black community, and soon he opens a health clinic and begins to distribute food to more distant areas. He stayed during the hurricane, became a History & Politics local hero in the days after and now is running for mayor of New Orleans. The documentary also features Michael Moore and Naomi ● Klein. Ready for screening June 2006 Directors & Producers: .Rasmus Holm & Mads Ellesøe Produced by: ................Fridthjof Film Duration: .......................54 min. Year of production: ......2006 Email: [email protected] DR TV International Sales . TV-Centre . DK-2860 Soeborg . Denmark . Phone: +45 3520 3040 . Fax: +45 3520 3969 . drsales.dk . Email: [email protected] Sport & Adventure The Other Europe Everywhere in Europe politicians are aware of the popular demand for fewer aliens. Official roads to Europe have been more or less closed for immigrants. The Other Europe presents the millions of illegal immigrants that force their way in anyway. We are allowed into their everyday life – a life without passports, papers, insurance, and all the other things we take for granted. The Other Europe will take the viewer to Germany, Spain, UK, and Belgium to illustrate the central dilemma of the film: the fact that the Europeans feel they are victims, drowned by a tide of immigrants. But is that the true picture? Is Europe really the victim, or do the demands for ridiculously cheap labour Arts & Culture create a breeding ground for the hundreds of thousands who sneak in illegally every year? Is Europe a helpless victim or in fact creating the tide? ● Latest film by award winning director Poul-Erik Heilbuth. MIPDOC Video library Director & producer: ..............Poul-Erik Heilbuth Produced: ..............................DR TV (Danish Broadcasting Corp.) Duration: ................................58 min. Year of production: ...............2006 Email: [email protected] Society & Social ● False Children The programme follows an eight-year-old refugee who has run away from home. The boy discloses that the man and woman he has been living with are not his real parents. Cases have shown that many refugee children have been “reunited” with false parents, and we accompany eight-year-old Yousef on a dramatic, highly emotional journey back to the parents in Iraq who originally dispatched their son to Denmark. The programme takes us extraordinarily close to Yousef and the complicated business of getting him back to his real parents in Iraq. It reveals everything from bureaucracy, the difficulties of planning travel History & Politicsto a war-ravaged country, and the dramatic, deeply moving journey into the chaos of Iraq. We appreciate Yousef’s longing to see his family and his trepidation at returning to them, and we are present at the ● thought-provoking encounter between two very different approaches to child-rearing: an encounter that does not turn out quite as expected. 2005 Nordic Documentary Award MIPDOC Video library Director: ......................Jacob Adrian Mikkelsen Producer: ....................Steen Jensen Produced by: ..............DR TV (Danish Broadcasting Corp.) Duration: .....................59 min. Year of production: ....2005 Email: [email protected] DR TV International Sales . TV-Centre . DK-2860 Soeborg . Denmark . Phone: +45 3520 3040 . Fax: +45 3520 3969 . drsales.dk . Email: [email protected] Sport & Adventure Late Lessons from Early Warnings Sometimes, faith in progress can be so overwhelming that the world is willing to go to any lengths to ensure a new technological leap forward – regardless of the threat it may present to both mankind and his environment. This series is a historical exploration of how we have been able to respond to warnings about the hazards that some of these inventions have represented during the last century. In the first four episodes this award-winning series looked at the damages caused by leaded gasoline, air pollution, asbestos and extensive irrigation. And now Late Lessons from Early Warnings introduces another four programmes in the series: Arts & Culture The Atmospheric Hole looks at the history of the Ozone layer; The Mysterious Poison investigates the ● now infamous pesticide PCB; Cosy Killer traces the history of cigarettes; and antibiotics, the most significant discovery in modern medical history, is described in Fighting the Microbes. Special Price, 2005 Envirofilm and Gold Award, 2005 World Media Festival MIPDOC Video library Director & producer: ...... Jakob Gottshau Produced by: ................ Express TV-Produktion Co-produced by: ............ DR TV (Danish Broadcasting Corp.) Duration: ........................ 8 x 28 min. Society & Social Year of production: ....... 2006 Email: [email protected] ● In Languages We Live Voices of the World Of the World’s approximately 6,500 languages, one dies out every two weeks and the World is destined to lose half its cultural heritage within the next 100 years.