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The Last White President: Interviews
With South Africa’s FW de Klerk
2 x 60’, 2011, SD
Touted as a conservative when he took over from PW Botha, former president FW de Klerk shocked his supporters and stunned the world by unbanning political parties and freeing Nelson Mandela. This biographical documentary tells the story of how de Klerk made such a surprise decision and how he may have squandered his political legacy by leaving the political stage prematurely.
Factuals: Biography and History Unit
Spirits and ghosts are deeply ingrained in South East Asian Buddhism. People don’t take their presence lightly. Good spirits must be placated, or there will be severe consequences. ‘Living with Spirits’ depicts the South East Asian inhabitants living their daily life with spirits and ghosts. Set in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, China and Vietnam, this series will take its audience into an unknown, spiritual world that few people even know exists.
Peter Ringgaard
A humorous journey though the hummus bars and kitchens of Beirut, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and New York. Along the way we encounter the doyenne of Middle East cuisine - Claudia Roden, and Jewish settlers, biblical characters, political activists, chickpea farmers, novelists and Sheiks, for whom hummus is a near religious obsession.
Rio de Janeiro is a city of six million inhabitants of which twenty percent live in slums known as favelas. Many of these are dominated by drug dealers, but the vast majority of the inhabitants are honest, working people. This is the story of eight individuals from the favelas and how each has overcome hardship to live a good life.
Tartaruga Films and Bunham Media Partners
Burundi grows the world’s most popular coffee, but the farmers see little profit. Ben has gambled everything, moved his family there and has six months to produce a shipment of Grade A coffee – if he does, he’ll win a contract for export at the best prices the farmers have ever seen. If not, his dreams will be nothing more than chicory.
Cooked in Africa
Jerome was the only South African to be shortlisted to referee at the World Cup in 2010. As a sports mad teenager, he could never have imagined having the opportunity. In the 1980s, the working-class suburb where he grew up was under siege as apartheid police and political activists fought. Two decades on, Jerome has a chance to show that African referees are as much on the ball as their counterparts elsewhere.
Living In The Slums
1 x 60’, 2007, SD
Living With Spirits
2 x 60’, 2019, 4K
Long Miles Coffee Project
6 x 60’, 2012, HD
Make Hummus Not War
1 x 60’ or 1 x 77’, 2012, HD
Yara Bank Films
Factuals: Crime and Investigating Unit
Man In The Middle
1 x 60’, 2010, SD
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