Page 31 - Spring Lineup 2019

Producer & Director: Ian Denyer
Director: Sonya Pemberton
Victoria And Albert:
The Wedding
1 x 90’ or 2 x 60’, 2018, HD
Historian Lucy Worsley oversees a glorious re-imagining of the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Lucy painstakingly recreates the important elements of the wedding celebrations, scouring history books, archives, newspapers and even Victoria’s own diaries for details. From the dress, to the bouquet, to the beautifully tiered cake and the music for the ceremony; each element will be carefully researched and used in a dramatic re-staging of the big day.
BBC Studios Unscripted Production/ BBC/PBS
Vitamania
1 x 90’, 2018, HD
This year $90 billion will be spent on vitamins and supplements. Every week, a new benefit is claimed. At the same time, vitamin pills are decried as a waste of money and their producers condemned. Many doctors claim most vitamin products are useless, or can even be harmful. Others point to peer-reviewed research showing they can be lifesavers. We ask presenter Dr Derek Muller how do we decide what to take and how do we sort the sense from the nonsense?
Genepool Productions
The Woman Who Loves Giraffes
1 x 83’ or 1 x 60’, 2019, HD
In 1956 at the age of 23, Anne Innis Dagg travelled to South Africa to become the world’s first scientist to study the behaviour of an animal in the wild. Her pioneering efforts were groundbreaking, but her career was destroyed upon her return home. In ‘The Woman Who Loves Giraffes’, Anne takes us on her first expedition back to Africa to retrace her trailblazing journey and offers an intimate window into her life as a young woman, juxtaposed with a first hand look at the devastating reality that giraffes are facing
today. Free Spirit Films
Director: Roeland Doust
V-Day: Volcanic Planet
1 x 120’, 2018, 4K
V-Day asks: What would happen if all of the volcanoes erupted on a single day? Join scientists around the globe as they deploy the latest technology to understand and predict volcanic behaviour. Spectacular footage of past and current eruptions, combined with CGI based upon the latest scientific discoveries, puts us right in the heart of volcanoes. Then, by speeding up the action into a single day, we get a new perspective on the remarkable forces that have shaped our planet for millions of years.
Pioneer Productions/Smithsonian Networks
Wild Ways Of The Coast
1 x 90’ or 1 x 60’, 2019, HD
To many life-forms, the border between land and sea is an invaluable habitat. From cliffs to tidepools, from reefs to sand dunes - all are home to members of the animal kingdom. It is an environment of extremes where seal colonies take advantage of the cool waters and the fish that congregate here. The seals attract predators, but the surrounding cliffs make an attack by predators unlikely. Some animals spend all of their lives here. But not all.
Writer & Producer: Andrea Gastgeb Executive Producer: Sabine Holzer
Terra Mater Factual Productions
Yasuni Man
1 x 86’, 2018, HD
‘Yasuni Man’ is a film about a conflict raging deep within the Ecuadorian Amazon. Once under siege by missionaries seeking to civilise them, the Waorani people battle industry operatives and their own government in a fight to survive. Join filmmaker Ryan Patrick Killackey and his native friend Otobo as they embark on an expedition into the most biodiverse forest on Earth. Witness what may be lost as oil companies encroach, human rights violations run rampant, and an eden of a forest is destroyed - all for the oil that lies beneath Yasuni.
Pollywog Productions
Director: Allison Reid
Director: Ryan Patrick Killackey
Feature Docs