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Al Madrigal, explores the confusing reality of being half, dealing with white people who think he’s Mexican and Latinos who don’t think he’s Latino enough. Prompted by a family reunion, Al Madrigal - actor, comedian and “Daily Show” correspondent - goes on a quest to get in touch with his roots, learn how to be a better Latino and finally understand what it means to be “Half Like Me”.
Fusion Media Network
‘Hoops Africa’ is a collection of stories that celebrates the past, present and future of basketball in Africa, spotlighting the sport’s impact on society and its development on the continent. Centering on basketball nonprofit Hoops 4 Hope this documentary uncovers the role the African philosophy of Ubuntu played in the Boston Celtics’ 2008 NBA Championship season and also documents the historic 2015 NBA Africa Game.
Hoops Africa/Gravitas Ventures
Venice attracts 30 million tourists each year and this number is expected to rise. Everybody wants to see this city of dreams, a fairytale place built on water. Meanwhile inhabitants are fleeing the town. Is Venice turning into simply a theme park? I Love Venice tells the story of the people still living in the most beautiful city in the world and of its citizens taking protest to the streets to save the city as a real community.
In Rutland, Vermont, a young dad is torn between his kids and his struggle to score smack. He’s just one addict in an idyllic town in the Green Mountains that has been transformed by heroin. Follow Justin Bemis’s harrowing story, over two years, from addiction to recovery. Along the way we trace American heroin from users in suburbia to the guerilla controlled mountains of Colombia, meet the poppy farmers and professional “cooks” who feed domestic appetites, as well as the anti drug
cops trying to catch them. Fusion Original Production
This is a two-part biography series on the life and times of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the church leader who helped turn world opinion against apartheid South Africa while waging a defiant campaign against racism. Although now retired, Tutu continues to be the moral conscience of a country still battling to overcome its unjust past.
Factuals: Biography and History Unit
This engrossing series of documentaries explores different aspects of Chinese life. We meet an elderly man obsessed with hearing Western classical music. We explore the lifelong dream of this charismatic 90 year old Chinese conductor. And we meet a man who returned to his remote mountain village to build a business in rose planting. It’s an international symbol of love, but hardly anyone in the village even knows what a rose is!
Half Like Me
1 x 60’, 2015, HD
Hoops Africa
1 x 60’, 2018, HD
I Just Can’t Keep Quiet:
The Story Of Desmond Tutu
2 x 60’, 2011, SD
I Love Venice
1 x 60’ or 1 x 72’, 2013, HD
Snow White Films
Muyi Films for CCTV
The Heroin Trail
1 x 60’, 2015, HD
Inside A Chinese Life
10 x 60’, 2017, HD
People & Culture