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Lions, Bones & Bullets The Last Horns Of Africa
1 x 90’ or 1 x 60’, 2021, HD 1 x 90’, 2020, HD
Penguin Random House author, Richard ‘The Last Horns Of Africa’ looks at the
Peirce, leads the dramatic adventure current rhino poaching war raging across
from lion farms in South Africa to wildlife Africa. We follow the journeys of two
traffickers in Laos and Vietnam. He makes conservation heroes who put their lives on
a shocking discovery that wildlife ranchers the line to protect the rhino in their care,
in South Africa are farming lions in their all the while a top-secret, covert operation
thousands to export their bones to Asia endeavours to bring down South Africa’s
for traditional medicine. Richard battles most notorious rhino poaching syndicates.
to uncover the elaborate wildlife fraud of With never-before-seen footage of
processing lion bones into food products South Africa’s largest undercover wildlife
which could contain the ‘world’s deadliest investigation and interviews with poachers,
infectious disease.’ The heart-warming the filmmakers risk their lives as they
tale of two lion cubs given a new life, are thrust into the underground world of
along with positive approaches to wild lion illicit rhino horn deals organized by South
conservation sees a positive resolution and Africa’s ruthless rhino poaching kingpins.
Director: Anton Leach a hopeful look to the future. White Spark Pictures/Banovich
Narrated By: Peter Egan (Downton Abbey) Jagged Peak Films Director: Garath De Bruno Austin Studios/Cross Border Productions
Mongols: The Secret History Red Heaven
1 x 90’ or 3 x 60’, 2020, HD 1 x 90’ or 1 x 60’, 2020, HD
In this immersive and dramatic series, we In preparation for the first human mission
dig deep into history to uncover the true to Mars, six volunteers take part in the
story of the Mongols, from the powerful ultimate dress rehearsal: living inside a
genius of Genghis Khan to the great year-long NASA simulation to understand
buildings, reforms and remarkable legacies the psychological effects of isolation on the
of his successors. We’ll meet leading human mind. ‘Red Heaven’ goes beyond
researchers working across Asia, travelling the technological challenges of space
from the extraordinary landscapes of the exploration and looks at the psychological TODAY - FEATURE DOCS
Mongol heartlands, including recreating the and emotional tolls of what happens
spectacular lost city of Xanadu, to the rich when we finally reach our extraterrestrial
territory of southern China and beyond. destination. Are we capable of adapting
to life on a hostile planet? Shot by the
subjects themselves over the course of the
mission, ‘Red Heaven’ vividly captures what
happens when humans are isolated from
Directors: Lauren DeFilippo & planet Earth.
Directors: Stuart Elliott and Giles Harrison Lion Television
Katherine Gorringe Raised by Wolves Productions LLC
Titanic: Into The Heart Of Where She Lies
The Wreck 1 x 90’, 2020, HD
1 x 90’ or 1 x 60’, 2020, HD This is the story of assaulted teen Peggy
(4K upon request) Phillips, who gives birth out of wedlock
For over 100 years the Titanic wreck has in Tennessee in 1962. After conflicting
sat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and stories about the child’s fate and a death
has fascinated historians, scientists, and bed revelation years later by Peggy’s
the public alike. Now under a new threat mother that the child is alive, Peggy spends
from bacteria that consumes iron, some years trying to uncover the truth. With the
experts predict it will disappear in less help of a documentarian and friend, the
than 20 years. With an all-new approach, truth is finally revealed and through its
‘Titanic: Into the Heart of the Wreck’ brings investigation of false narratives, memory,
together six heroes of Titanic exploration to and motherhood, this film explores the
tell us about their extraordinary underwater gas-lighting and discrimination that Peggy
odysseys and their missions aimed at faced as a sexual assault survivor in the
preserving the last remains of the Titanic. 1960’s deep south.
Gravitas Ventures/
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