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Beyond Earth
1 x 90’ or 1 x 60’, 2016, HD
Anyone who saw Neil Armstrong take a step onto the moon were awed by his ‘giant leap for mankind.’ Now a new breed of ambitious risk-takers are taking over, astropreneurs willing to gamble everything and take us to the next solar system. Beyond Earth explores what is in store at the next great turning point in human exploration. Fasten your seat belts and take a look at the future of humans as a space- faring species.
DLI Productions
Director: Abbey Jack Neidik
Big Wind
1 x 83’ or 1 x 60’, 2015, HD
Canada has seen a huge growth in wind turbine development, which has transformed large swathes of its landscape. But are the so-called ‘green’ corporations behind it really friends to the environmental movement, or do they have a more sinister agenda? This film investigates why governments are spending billions of dollars on wind power without proper evidence, why citizens haven’t been consulted, and why families are losing their homes.
Productions Grand Nord
Director: Abby Jack Neidik
The Bit Player
1 x 89, 2018, HD
Claude Shannon is the unknown genius who laid the foundation for the information age. He also constructed a mathematical theory of juggling, rode a unicycle, wrote the first paper on computer chess and built a flaming trumpet! The Bit Player tells the inspiring story of a man who revolutionized the world, but never lost his child-like curiosity.
An IEEE Information Theory Society Production
Big Men
1 x 99’, 2015, HD
Between 2007 and 2011, with unprecedented and independent access, Big Men’s crew filmed inside the oil company Kosmos Energy as it and their partners discover and develop the first commercial oil field in Ghana. Simultaneously the crew film in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, following the exploits of a militant gang to reveal another side of the economy of oil: people trying to profit in any way possible. So what happens when a group of hungry people discover a massive and exquisitely rare pot of gold in one of the poorest places on earth?
Africa Deep LLC/Gravitas Ventures
Director: Rachel Boynton Executive Producer: Brad Pitt
Bitcoin Big Bang
1 x 104’, 2018, 4K
August 1, 2015, Mark Karpelès exits his home in Tokyo under police escort. Hiding his face under a cap he wears a carefully chosen t-shirt: “Effortless French”. Indicted and imprisoned for forgery of computer data and embezzlement after the disappearance of 850,000 Bitcoins, the equivalent of a half Million Dollars. With exclusive access to Mark, we reveal who was the Effortless French man and where did all those bitcoins disappear to?
@Brainworks 2018
Directors: Vincent Gonon & Xavier Sayanoff
A Bitter Legacy
1 x 70’, 2019, HD
‘A Bitter Legacy’ investigates the “Citizen Isolation Centers”, harsh and secret World War II prisons created within the Japanese American incarceration camp system to separate citizens deemed by the American Government as “troublemakers” from the other Nikkei prisoners. These secret prisons have been called “precursors to Guantanamo.” Interviews of professors, artists, and other former prisoners of the Japanese American incarceration system and archival and present day photographs bring this little known piece of United States history to life.
Claudia Katayanagi/ Gravitas Ventures
Director: Mark A Levinson
Director: Claudia Katayanagi
Feature Docs