Page 4 - Gravitas Brochure April 2021

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Australian Bigfoot
1 x 60’, 2020, HD
After his own horrifying encounters, the producer returns back to Australia’s Blue Mountains where he believes numerous habitats exist for what is commonly understood as Bigfoot. Exploring an uncharted region, an area that is known as a source for guttural screams and howls, he discovers evidence that may suggest a possible hunting ground.
Moonlark Media/Gravitas Media
Director: Attila Kaldy
Betty Williams: Contagious Courage
1 x 80’, 2019, HD
This is the story of a young mother living in Northern Ireland fifty years ago, as her country teetered on the brink of civil war. The film tells the tale of a quiet revolution, requiring tremendous courage, that began when three little children were killed. With never-before-seen footage and behind- the-scenes interviews, ‘Betty Williams: Contagious Courage’ shows how average people can overcome their fear, and how one person can make a difference in a violent and unpredictable world.
Peace Jam Productions/ Gravitas Ventures
Director: Dawn Gifford Engle
The City That Sold America
1 x 69’, 2019, HD
At the threshold of the 20th Century, a melting pot of adventurous immigrants, creative mavericks, and freedom-seeking African-Americans shaped consumerism as we now know it. The new documentary ‘The City That Sold America’ reveals, with intriguing insights and wistful nostalgia, the confluence of Chicago’s creative talent, business savvy, grit and determination that changed the country and our relationship with popular culture.
A&C Film Distribution/ Gravitas Ventures
The 5th Dementia
1 x 80’, 2019, HD
‘The 5th Dementia’ is a diverse band featuring former professionals from a range of socio-economic and educational backgrounds who now struggle to remember anything at all due to their illnesses. When the music starts, they are transformed. Memories otherwise entirely unreachable are unlocked. Through uniquely personal stories, from inspiring daily triumphs to the sobering toll of slow mental decline, viewers of ‘The 5th Dementia’ will see an emotional, revealing look at this inexplicable phenomena.
GTTN/Gravitas Ventures
Director: Serene Meshel-Dillman
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: Claudia Katayanagi
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Exposing FGM Worldwide
1 x 86’, 2019, HD
Taking more than six years to complete, ‘Cut: Exposing FGM Worldwide’ is a feature- length documentary that conclusively proves that female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM) can be found as a native practice on all inhabitable continents. From war zones in the Middle-East to bucolic Middle America, the film visits 14 countries and features key interviews with FGM survivors, activists, cutters, doctors and researchers to uncover an often secret practice shrouded in centuries of traditions, mysticisms and irrationalities.
Citizen Reporting/Gravitas Ventures
Director: Ky Dickens
Director: John Chua
Gravitas Ventures