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Supersapiens: Rise Of The Mind
1 x 74’ or 2 x 60’, 2017, 4K
Humanity faces a turning point – the next stage in the evolution of the human brain – and it’s being driven by machines. This two-part documentary investigates the phenomenon, introduces the players and asks: what are the real-world consequences of a super brain? In the process we meet young, innovative thinkers who are using technology to unlock our own in-born mind-abilities.
Terra Mater Factual Studios Director: Markus Mooslechner
The Team
1 x 80’ or 1 x 60’, 2010, HD
Kenya has been called Africa’s success story - relatively stable and ethnically harmonious. But following the December 2007 presidential election, everything changed, and Kenya edged towards civil war. In this eccentric story, we follow a group of Kenyan TV makers, who club together to create a soap opera about a soccer team, hoping to bridge ethnic divisions. Can the lowliest of art forms achieve the loftiest of goals?
White Pine Pictures Director: Patrick Reed
Through The Unknown
1 x 75’, 2016, HD
What motivates an individual to challenge the void and inhuman toil? Three years dedicated to a visionary project: the winter ascent of Nanga Parbat in Pakistan, the ninth highest mountain in the world, also known as ‘killer mountain’. The film documents the first attempt’s of a team of climbers including deceased Polish climber Tomasz Mackiewicz, (who died on his seventh attempt to climb the mountain in January 2018) as they tackle this treacherous journey.
SD Cinematografica Director: Federico Santini
Surfing Soweto
1 x 90’, 2010, SD
Prince and Lefa are at Merafe Station in Soweto, waiting for a train to Johannesburg. But they don’t get in the carriage - they are ‘train surfers’, holding on to the roof or sides of the train in a crazy hunt for an adrenaline rush. Despite their bravado, the surfers are desperate to change their lives. They search for love and acceptance, desperate not to join the ranks of the faceless, unemployed, unemployable and unremarkable.
Sarah BlecherCinga Productions Director: Sarah Blecher
A Terrible Beauty
1 x 90’, 2013, HD
A Terrible Beauty is the untold story of Ireland’s Easter Rising. It is a docudrama with accounts from Notts & Derbyshire Regiment, the “Sherwood Foresters” and the Irish rebels who faced them. Over six days in April 1916, during the heart of the First World War, Dublin was gripped by a rebellion that would tear the city apart and leave countless casualties on both sides.
Tile Films
Director: Keith Farrell
Starring: Hugh O’Conor (Chocolate), Owen McDonnell (Silent Witness) & Rick Burns (The Underground)
Tomorrow’s Power
1 x 76’ or 1 x 60’, 2016, HD
We meet the people challenging our society’s current power structures, aiming for a future with greater social and climate justice. We bring you to the war-torn, oil- rich Arauca province in Colombia where communities have been building a peace process from the bottom up; and to Germany where activists are pushing the country to fully leave behind the extraction of fossil fuels and complete its transition to renewable energy.
Carbon Rush Inc Director: Amy Miller
Feature Docs