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Bitter Seeds
1 x 87, 2011, HD
Bitter Seeds raises questions about the human cost of genetically-modified agriculture and the future of how we grow things. This is the final film in Micha X Peled’s Globalisation Trilogy, which have won 18 international awards and screened in over 100 film festivals. They have connected viewers to NGO campaigns and encouraged western consumers to understand their impact on the rest of the world.
Teddy Bear Films Inc Director: Micha X. Peled
Boston
1 x 120’, 2017, HD
‘Boston’ chronicles the story of the iconic race from its humble origins 120 years ago, starting with only 15 runners, to the present day and showcases many of the most important moments in the history of the oldest annually contested marathon in the world. Evolving from a working man’s challenge to welcoming foreign athletes and eventually women, Boston is the stage for many firsts paving the way for the modern marathon and mass participatory sports.
LA Roma Films
Director: Jon Dunham Narrated by: Matt Damon
The British Garden: Life And Death On Your Lawn
1 x 89’, 2017, HD
The British back garden is a familiar setting, but underneath the peonies and petunias is a much wilder hidden world, a miniature Serengeti, with beauty and brutality in equal measure. In this documentary, Chris Packham and a team of wildlife experts spend an entire year exploring every inch of a series of interlinked back gardens. They want to answer fundamental questions: how much wildlife lives beyond our back doors? How good is the British garden for wildlife?
Windfall Films
Born In Auschwitz
1 x 90’ or 1 x 60’, 2020, HD
This is a film about Inherited family trauma, that looks at the prospect of healing in a parent-child relationship. In May 1944 a young Jewish woman arrived in Auschwitz, 2 months pregnant she was immediately selected for medical experiments. Angela was born weighing 1 kg and not only inherited the trauma of the Holocaust but passed it on to her daughter Kati, who is trying to stop the trauma and not to pass it on to her own children. Follow the story of these women as the Holocaust casts a long shadow over three generations.
Spot Productions/Laokoon Film/Arte/ NDR/AMC Networks Central Europe
Directors: Eszter Cseke & Andras S. Takacs
Breaker Morant: The Retrial
1 x 120’ or 2 x 60’, 2013, HD
This documentary tells the story of the greatest military controversy in Australian history - the trail and execution of Harry ‘The Breaker’ Morant. 110 years after he was executed by the Birtish during the Boer war, this film reconsiders the Breaker Morant case, through cross-examinations of histories and legal experts, and the presentation of evidence that suggests betrayal and subterfuge at the centre of the trial.
Film Projects
Directors: Greagory Miller & Nick Bleszynski
The Bullish Farmer
1 x 79’, 2019, HD
Over 10 years ago John Ubaldo, a successful investment banker decided to call it quits, trading in his high finance career for 185 acres of farmland. John wanted to farm the way it was done 100 years ago. But John’s dream gets complicated when he comes up against Big Agriculture and realizes that his methods are not in sync with today’s agricultural methods. The very private John becomes an outspoken activist lobbying for GMO labeling, animal rights, the preservation of crop diversity and the reduction of chemical fertilizers to help preserve small farms and rural America.
Video Project/Gravitas Ventures
Director: Tom Cook
Director: Ken Marsolais
Feature Docs