LGI MEDIA MIPCOM 2019

THE ASIAN PITCH
SONITA IS A TRAVELLING
SWALLOW
2016 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2014
An 18-year-old Afghan girl, Sonita has become an online sensation as a rapper. She’s a refugee in Iran. Now, she’s fighting to avoid being sold by her parents as a bride for an amount that some would call a pittance. Living under the protection of a non-governmental organization that supports refugees, she formed a rap group with friends and began using her songs to proclaim her desire to live the way she wants. Then, success in a music contest thrust her into the spotlight.


STREET TEACHERS
2011 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2010
Three passionate individuals are trying to make a difference in the lives of Thailand’s homeless children. As they go around town, witness how they discover what life is really like when you are struggling to survive without a home or family. This “classroom” is often the only safe haven these kids have.
THE GREAT INDIAN
ARRANGED MARRIAGE
2010 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2010
An inner-look into the Indian arranged marriage system which now has become a multi-billion dollar business. Indian filmmaker Ruchika brought up in a multi- cultural upbringing puts herself in the process of an arranged marriage to take a look at the realities of the system.


AN ENGINEERED DREAM
2018 // 1x60’ // HD
Tuk Tuk Films for The Asian Pitch
An Engineered Dream follows the lives of four teenagers traveled from different corners of India to Kota, a coaching city where they cage themselves in cubicle sized rooms in order to prepare for one of the toughest undergraduate engineering exams in the world with acceptance rate of less than 1 percent.
SUPERMAN OF MALEGAON
2008 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2007
This documentary is about the making of the movie “Malegaon ka Superman’. A fascinating story of a motley crew of Malegaons for whom their filmmaking is a labor of love and not an enterprise in commercial interests. Juxtaposing the frenzied production activities against a stark socio-economic backdrop of Malegaon, the documentary reveals the cathartic and spellbinding importance of the ‘magic of movies’ on the people. Ironically, all this is not a sustained effort to rise above their exploitative milieu but merely a temporary escape into the fantastical world of films.


ON THE EDGE OF HEAVEN
2013 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2013
There are 24,000 North Korean defectors who live in the democratic republic of South Korea. They live like “ghosts” as the South Koreans treat them with coldness and unwelcome attitude. This documentary aims to question civil rights and equality on the uncomfortable truth of South Korea, which prides itself on being a capitalist democracy, through the lives of these North Korean defectors.
MY LAND IS BURNING
2014 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2013
The town of Jharia was once known for its lush jungles, tribal inhabitants, and the biggest coal reserves in Asia. Now, that land has turned into a place of infernos and coal-scavenging. But coal is central to the economy of Jharia, so coal pickers still live on this smoldering, crumbling land to eke out a living. They don’t want to let go of their homeland even when its being consumed by flames.


24TH STREET
2017 // 1x60’or1x 90’ // HD
TAP Winner 2015
In the Chinese city of Hangzhou is a shantytown called 24th Street. Its residents are migrant laborers working on construction sites. Among them is a middle-aged man named Su. He was born into a distinguished rural family but ran away from his village in order to escape an arranged marriage. For more than 30 years, he leads the life of a drifter, moving from one temporary job to another. Now, Su is feeling his age and becoming homesick. And with his parents dead, he worries about the family plot they’ve left behind. But if he retires from migrant work, where will he live and how will he earn a living? In search of a final home, Su sets out on a final journey-to the village he left decades ago.
DEATH MEAL
2017 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2015
Hindus celebrate ‘Mrityubhoj’, or the Death Feast, as a remembrance for the departed soul. Today, Mrityubhoj has become akin to a status symbol and a reflection of a family’s social standing. Even the poorest of poor are compelled under circumstances beyond their control to organize large death feasts, taking a toll on their very existence.


LOVE IN THE TIME OF HATE
2016 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2014
Many you Indians are turning their backs on the tradition of arranged marriages, choosing instead to marry for love. Those who marry for love are drawing a sharp backlash from traditionalists. A non- governmental organization called the Love Commandos shelters couples who escape from their parents and helps them get married.
TRAVELLING TALKIES
2017 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2015
Indians love movies, but only city dwellers have theaters nearby. People in extreme locations must wait for a visit from a traveling cinema. Trucks loaded with tents, projectors, and film reels crisscross the countryside, periodically giving villagers a chance to catch a show. Among them is 32-year-old Anup Jagdale. We follow Anup’s struggle to keep an age- old tradition of travelling cinema alive.


KUNG FU GIRLS
2014 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2013
They came to the school from all over Taiwan, country girls with dreams of becoming kung fu masters. This film follows the fortunes of two of those girls, turning the spotlight on their hopes and fears and on the lady coach who guides them in their training as martial artists at a school on a desolate mountain.
LIVING FOR THE DEAD
2012 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2010
An emotional journey into the lives of the few exceptional individuals who have found meaning to their lives through the dead and dying. The protagonists are common people who have turned personal tragedies into inspiring stories of hope and humanity.


SAILORS IN THE WHEATFIELD
2013 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2012
We follow the story of two farm boys, their hopes and their fears, and the teacher who guides them on their course for the ocean – in a school marooned in the middle of a wheatfield, five hundred miles from the coast. One is just starting out, and is confronted with the reality of a life at sea: the other is about to graduate, and if successful, set sail for the first time.
TESTIMONY OF A THREAD
2015 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2013
In a globalizing world, seeking more and more cheaper labour everyday, Bangladesh became the 2nd largest provider of world clothing lead by China. ‘Testimony of a Thread’ explores the connecting worlds of hope and despair around this industry lately marked for man-made catastrophes.


OUR BUFFALO HUNTERS
2013 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2011
Two men have been risking their lives for the past 17 years to hunt and capture wild buffaloes in their village at Kampung Lukut Kota Tinggi, Johor, Malaysia. Witness their dangerous hunt for 3 wild buffaloes using the traditional hunting techniques of tajo or lasso technique, stable trap and snare trap for Kampung Lukut’s 120th anniversary celebration.
THE PAD PIPER
2013 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2012
This is the story of a man who invented a low cost sanitary napkin machine in India which brought about the change of menstrual hygiene for thousands of women. Most importantly, giving them their dignity.


WOMB ON RENT
2013 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2012
The film follows the emotional journey of a surrogate mother from India. Right from the day she signs a ‘bond’ that puts her womb on rent, through her nine months of ‘bonded’ labour, the film depicts how globalization and modern science is instigating situations of parenthood that mankind has never confronted before.
RED BOX
2010 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2009
Budaixi is a traditional art form of Chinese opera using hand puppets. We follow Chen Xihuang, the son of a renowned puppet master, now 67, as he joins another theatre company as the principal puppeteer.Witness how his efforts to revive a fading traditional art have successfully brought Taiwanese glove puppetry to an international stage.


THE GAME OF DESIRE:
HORSE FIGHTING
2012 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2011
We follow three Miao men, living in the northern part of Guangxi province, Southern China, who participate in horse fighting. What we see is the repression of the minority Miao people against the majority Han people juxtaposed against one of the men’s inner conflicts that he undergoes when he lets his horse fight.
THE REST OF MY LIFE IS FOR
SALE
2011 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2010
A 23-year-old girl opens an online shop selling “the rest of her life”. Watch as she undertakes a myriad of requests - from bringing cat food to an old lady who takes care of 200 vagrant cats, to collecting 100 pictures of 100 smiling men for a girl’s birthday. From the day she opened shop, this girl has been living 2 separate lives - one is her reality, the other, her virtual world.


ANGELS OF TROUBLED
PARADISE
2011 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2010
Many children in Kashmir, some of whose fathers have been killed, arrested, or are missing, are forced to help their families survive. One such boy is Aadil, who lives with his parents in an area referred to as the
“Gaza Strip” of Kashmir. He collects tear gas shells fired by police at protesters and sells them to a scrap dealer. Because the scrap dealer won’t accept the shells unless they are cleared of the explosive material, he must often remove the detonator and take out the explosives from the shells by hand. There is always the danger of it exploding, but as Aadil says, “I prefer to die bravely collecting shells rather than dying of hunger.”
FOR THE LOVE OF
SHAKESPEARE
2009 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2008
Follow a group of isolated school children as they learn Shakespeare, practicing diligently for a grand English speaking competition - where over 1000 Chinese children will for three hours, fluently and without pause, recite Shakespeare’s verses.


SHEPHERDS OF PARADISE
2013 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2011
This film is about the nomadic life of shepherds known as Bakerwals of Kashmir as they journey from Jammu to Kashmir Valley and back. We will witness the challenges faced by these people who battle against the forces of nature, while steering away from the army and militancy on either side.
LISTEN TO THE MOUNTAIN
SAGES
2010 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2009
“How can important memories be conveyed to the next generation? This documentary takes a close look at the lives of four masters of life in the mountains of Japan and the four high school students who learnt from them, capturing the
moments when, by listening and recording, memories were transmitted from one to the other.”


A WEAVER’S TALE
2009 // 1x30’ // HD
TAP Winner 2008
The Yakans from Southern Philippines, is famous for their art of weaving. Their skills have been handed down from generation to generation,and the intricate designs of their fabric are said to be based on their dreams. Get to know the Yakan women as they endeavour to preserve their vanishing art and continue to weave a rich and colourful tapestry of life stories.
SUBAK
2008 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2007
Bali has an age-old irrigation system which has, proven to be near perfect. It is called the ‘Subak’. In the 1970s, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank introduced the Bali Irrigation Project. The project almost destroyed Bali’s farming system. Since then, there has been a concerted effort to revive and fully reinstate the “Subak” system.


THE MUMMY THIEF
2008 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2007
In Toraja, Indonesia, Rambu Solo - an expensive funeral rite, held for ancestors regardless of the expense, has become an absurdity, leading to desecration of ancestorial burial grounds. This documentary features a villager who turns into a mummy thief, when he is trapped in the vicious cycle of debts after his family throws an expensive funeral for an ancestor.
THE ICEMEN: ANGADIAS OF INDIA
// 1x60’ // HD
The Angadias perform a task that major carriers in India decline because of the risks involved. Ironically this simple delivery system is the fastest, cheapest, and most reliable method of transporting goods. Plainly dressed, unarmed, and carrying unmarked canvass sacks, these men transport $4M worth of diamonds each day
- yet earn salaries of less than $50 a month.


A FARMER’S STRUGGLE
2009 // 1x60’ // HD
TAP Winner 2008
One man’s fight against nature’s desertification of his village. Where several hundred families used to live, now there is only one - Wei Guangcai and his wife. Living in one of the worst-hit areas affected by desertification in China, this man stands his ground against the sand pushing him away from his home, enduring the forces of nature and the winds of loneliness.
KELDEN
2018 // 1x60’ // HD
Arun Bhattarai Film for The Asian Pitch
Fourteen year old Kelden Lhamo, has been selected into Bhutan’s first national women’s football team. This film is a poetic journey into the inner world of Kelden who breaks away with everything she grew up with, to live in a football academy far away from home. An intimate confession of a teenager growing up in a traditional country on the brink of modernisation.


SCIENCE
SPACE MISTAKES
2016 // 6x30’ // HD Fusion Productions
Discover how NASA failures furthered space exploration. Amazing behind-the- scenes stories of NASA catastrophes and near-misses, many of them unknow to the public. Space mistakes is a fast paced, investigative series detailing how mistakes have allowed NASA scientists, engineers and astronauts to make breakthroughs in the field of space research.


THE MIND OF THE UNIVERSE
2017 // 10x60’ // HD VPRO
The Mind of the Universe traces the rapid evolution of human knowledge and the science behind typical human behaviours. It explores the fate of humanity, and the world of tomorrow through the eyes of the greatest thinkers and scientists of our time. Presented by the esteemed Robbert Dijkgraaf, the director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, this series poses the question “does all this human knowledge make us the mind of the universe?”.
DRONE WARS
2017 // 13x60’ // 4K Hoplite Entertainment
Drone pilots and engineers come together to design, build and compete! Follow each team as they tailor make their drone and attempt to conquer ever-changing obstacles in this fast paced elimination tounament. Encounter new challenges and innovative designs in every episode. Losers crash... and winners take the cash!


MAKE ME A SUPER
2017 // 13x30’ // HD
Ochre Pictures for Mediacorp Channel 5
Make Me A Super is an exciting, fun and ballsy science series that attempts to de- construct the super powers of super heroes and re-construct them using science. Helmed by an eccentric and whacky scientist-host, Doc K, and her intelligent tween sidekick, Nash, Make Me a Super is a science demonstration series that uses the idea of ‘super powers’ to introduce kids to scientific concepts.
EINSTEIN’S BRAIN UNLOCKED
2018 // 1x60’ // 4K NHK
Upon his autopsy in 1955, Einstein’s brain is said to have been sliced and scattered among researchers around the world. Where are the pieces now? The journey leads to the rediscovery of hundreds of photos taken during the autopsy as well as an individual in possession of over 100 fragments of Einstein’s brain. The data gathered is brought together to build in 3D CGI, Einstein’s brain as it would have been in his 20’s, when he proposed the relativity theory. An extraordinary journey and the latest in neuroscience turn a new page in the story of the genius’s brain. Can the answer to human genius be found in putting back together Einstein’s brain?


URBAN DIGGERS: MRT
MALAYSIA
2015 // 1x60’ // HD
Novista TV Production in association with NGC
Digging underground in some of the world’s worst tunneling conditions is no easy task. To help relieve Kuala Lumpur’s constant gridlock, tunnel boring machines are digging and building almost 20 kilometers of tunnels for the city’s new mass rapid transit. Discover how the innovative Variable Density Tunnel Boring Machine was developed, put into action and overcame challenges to construct a key component of Malaysia’s new urban transport system.
THE PENANG SECOND BRIDGE
PROJECT
2015 // 1x60’ // HD
Novista TV Production in association with NGC
The longest bridge in Southeast Asia. Malaysia’s Second Penang Bridge connects Penang Island and the Malaysia Peninsula. It is the largest civil engineering project in the past 20 years in the region. The Penang Second Bridge Project documents the construction of this 16.9km long marine structure and the challenges to the two construction giants faced with this task. Will the competition between them spur-on or delay the construction progress?


TOXIC BEES
NATURE’S MAYDAY
2014 // 1x60’ // HD
Public Television Service of Taiwan
International co-production Toxic Bees— Nature’s Mayday is a science documentary that originates from the scientific investigation of the mass death of bees (CCD, Colony Collapse Disorder) in recent years. The film tracks and analyzes Taiwan’s world-leading research on bees; by examining the latest research of scholars around the world, Toxic Bees explores the serious impacts of pesticides on both our environment and human health, which includes ADHD.
TOXIC BEES 2
HUMAN INTERVENTION
2017 // 1x60’ // 4K
Public Television Service of Taiwan
Following up on the award-winning first film, Toxic Bees 2, establishes more concrete scientific links between bees, environmental pollution and human health. It looks at the misuse of agrochemicals by examining the long-term difficulties and pressures faced by beekeepers committed to environmental protection, scientists advocating for pesticide control, and concerned scholars of public health.


SEEING SCIENCE
2013 // 19x5’ // HD Alberto Villa Redindo
A series of visually spectacular shorts show the frontline discoveries in all fields of science and the people who have helped make them happen.
QUIRKY SCIENCE
2011 // 13x30’ // HD Film Formations
For most, science is about discoveries by PhDs in lab coats. But do we ever think or imagine that to get to where we are today, science sometimes has taken very quirky directions? This is a series that explores just exactly where science went awry and led to new discoveries and inventions.


SECRETS OF THE DINOSAUR
MUMMY
2008 // 1x60’ // HD
Myth Merchant Films for Discovery
Discovered in 2001 by a team of amateur paleontologists exploring Malta, Montana. Leonardo – named for graffiti found near his burial site – is the first dinosaur mummy ever found with intact digestive tract contents. Follow the exciting journey of this once-in-a-lifetime finding, providing scientists with more than just bones to fully reconstruct how dinosaurs looked and lived.
THE PLASTIC FANTASTIC
BRAIN
2010 // 2x60’ // HD Stornoway for Discovery Channel
A Gemini Award-nominated Canadian documentary, investigating new research from the frontiers of neuroscience that is changing our fundamental understanding of what the human brain can do. In the past, medical science assumed the brain was incapable of adapting after damage caused by injury or disease. This two part series documents the surprising discoveries that are changing what we know about the human brain.


SHATTERED GROUND
2013 // 1x60’ // HD
Zoot Pictures Inc. in association with CBC
Shattered Ground is a one hour documentary that looks past the rhetoric and emotional arguments to find the real issues involved in hydraulic fracturing, the opportunity, and the potential health and environmental issues that will affect us all.
THE LONG MARCH INTO SPACE
2012 // 1x60’ // HD
CICC for Discovery Channel Asia
Inside a spaceship at Jiuquan Launch Facility, three men sit on top of 500 tons of liquid fuel. A controlled explosion will blast them three hundred kilometers into space, and into the record books. This is China’s next great leap into space - an historic mission where one Taikonaut will become the first Chinese man to walk outside the spacecraft.


CONNECTED: HOW KEVIN
BACON CURED CANCER
2009 // 1x60’ // HD
Essential Media & Entertainment for ABC and BBC
Connected brings us a new view of the world as we unfold the science behind the popular game ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’. Based on the idea that anyone on the planet can be connected in just a few steps of association, ‘six-degrees of separation’ was supposedly an urban myth. Connected is a thought provoking examination of an amazing idea that there might be a pervasive law which nature uses to organize itself.
SEED HUNTER
2008 // 1x60’ // HD
360 Degree Films for ABC and ARTE
A remarkable journey from the drought ravaged farms of Australia, to the heart of the Middle East, to the mountains of Tajikistan where charismatic Australian scientist Dr Ken Street – a real life version of Indiana Jones - and his team of ‘gene detectives’ hunt for plant genes that will help our food withstand the impact of 21st century global warming.


MEGAWHEEL
2008 // 1x60’ // HD Film Formations
Imagine a ride on the first observation wheel constructed using third generation engineering technology. Imagine no more. In a dramatic, character-driven fashion,
“Megawheel” follows an international team of specialists, engineers and designers as they face incredible engineering challenges and a race against time to design, construct and erect the gargantuan wheel smack in the middle of Singapore’s busy central business district.
THE GENIUS OF GEORGE
BOOLE
2015 // 1x60’ // HD
Oxford Film and Television for RTE
The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and industry leaders from across the globe to explore the life and importance of one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and unsung heroes. This film shines new light on the legacy of George Boole, now recognised as the forefather of the information age.


VR 101
2018 // 8x30’ // HD Go Inside Productions
VR101 is a highly entertaining factual series that will take viewers on the exciting journey of VR and how it will change the way we live, work and play. We look at how VR is applied across different fields such as TV & film security/public safety gaming and medicine. Expert interviews eye-catching graphics and informative VR content showcases this amazing technology.”
SUPER SCIENCE
2011 // S1(8 x 30’) S2(8 x 30’) // HD Ochre Pictures for Channel News Asia
Super Science uncovers groundbreaking developments from across the world. Dissecting technologies with a language that relates to the common man in the street, the new series aims to make 21st century science ever more appealing, and relevant to the masses.


LIFE & SCIENCE
2013 // S1(10 x 30’) S2(8 x 30’) // HD Las Minas Production for Channel 13 Chile
The award-winning series Life & Science takes an entertaining look at the work done by various biologists and their positive impact on human health. The research featured in this series is at the forefront of the life sciences and has led to many ground breaking innovations.


NATURAL HISTORY
AFRICA’S WILD WONDERS
2015 // 5x30’ // HD
ScottdeBod Films
This series looks at Africa’s wild inhabitants the way they were meant to be seen - natural and free. Filmed in beautiful high definition from award winning filmmakers, these are Africa’s Wild Wonders.


HOT TUNA
2016 // 1x60’ // HD
Wildlogic
It is the ultimate marine animal – one of the fastest, most powerful and most intelligent fishes in the sea. But its also the most highly prized. Worth more than its weight in silver, is’s being fished to the brink of extinction. Now, in an epic quest, four-time Emmy award-winning cinematographer Rick Rosenthal plies the Atlantic and plumbs the secrets of the bluefin tuna.
SAVING SIRGA: JOURNEY
INTO THE HEART OF A LION
2016 // 6x60’ // HD
Tuauana Films
Valentin Gruener found Sirga as a ten-day old cub, dehydrated and dying in a lion enclosure on Grasslands Game Farm in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana. Instead of letting nature take its course, he rescued her and raised her by hand. Filmed over three years and with unrivalled intimacy, this ground-breaking series delves into the heart of an extraordinary friendship between a man and a lioness, and reveals what it takes to walk and hunt with a lion.


BUTTERFLIES
2018 // 1x60’ // 4K
Alberto Jose Villa
This documentary shows the ecological relationships of some of the most striking butterflies of the Iberian fauna. Predator- prey relationship, passasitoids, defense and hiding techniques, habitats and conservation status. The factors that have led to the decline of their populations and the keys to the recovery of this fascinating part of biodiversity.
CHARLIE BIRD EXPLORES
2008 // 5x60’ // HD
Crossing the Line Productions for RTE
Critically acclaimed News Correspondent Charlie Bird sets off to explore some of the most remote and remarkable places on our planet. He travels to the Arctic on a quest for insights into a region absolutely central to the whole climate change story, down the enchanting and mystical River Ganges and up the Amazon through the sweltering jungle across the continent of South America.


MAKING PANDAS
2016 // 1x60’ // HD
Infocus Asia in association with NGC
For the first time ever attempted in the tropics, the Singapore Zoo is going to breed a pair of pandas. Over the course of one year, Making Pandas takes you behind the scenes and follows the incredible work of a dedicated group of zookeepers and vets was they race to get Singapore’s famed couple to... fall in love.
MOON BEARS:
JOURNEY TO FREEDOM
2006 // 1x60’ // HD
Oak 3 Films for Discovery Network Asia
Moon Bear: Journey to Freedom tells the story of the biggest breakout since “The Great Escape”! In a remote province of China, five hundred Asiatic black bears are being rescued from Sichuan’s torturous bear bile farms, their home for up to twenty- years.


CORAL SEA DREAMING
2009 // 1x60’ // HD
Plankton Productions
Coral Sea Dreaming enters into the very heart of life - and death - on a coral reef. It is a story that spans 500 million years and stars some of the most exotic and wonderous marine creatures on earth. Coral is the planet’s greatest natural architect, and coral reefs boast the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem.
TREK OF THE TITANS
2013 // 1x60’ // HD
Tell Tale Productions for CBC
The leatherback turtle is a magnificent creature found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. This ancient species swam with the dinosaurs and travels further, swims faster, and dives deeper than any other reptile on the planet. Until recently they were thought to be a tropical species but Canadian scientist Dr. Mike James has revealed a much different reality.


THE PET SURGEONS
2016 // 6x30’ // HD
Gmarsh TV Production for RTE
The Pet Surgeons is the brand new series that tells the emotionally charged stories of worried pet owners, sick animals and the dedicated vets who will go to any length to make them better.
WHO’S YOUR DOGGIE?
2017 // 1x60’ // HD
Red Rock Films
Ever meet a dog and wonder what breed it is? We did, and now we’ve got the answer. Using one of the most reliable DNA labs in the world, we reveal the breeds of six very mixed up mutts – and the results will shock you. With an almost endless list of breed combinations, Who’s Your Doggie? covers the big, the small, the cute, and the down right crazy.


VETS ON CALL
2004 // 18x30’ // HD
GMTV Production for RTE
Vets on Call returns to busy Vet Eamonn Connor’s practice. Luckily for Eamonn, a recent graduate has joined forces and together they are treating everything from deer to dolphins, as well as the usual run of cows and calves and livestock of their clientèle. Vets on Call also explores what the future holds for the part-time farmers willing to stick it out.
WILD CITIES
2016 // 4x60’ // HD
Crossing the Line Films Production for RTE
Wild Cities is a fascinating new four-part series set on the streets of Cork, Dublin, Galway and Belfast revealing each city’s wildest, yet most secretive residents – the wild animals that live there. Filmed over three years, Wild Cities reveals an urban world teeming with wildlife in the most unexpected and unusual places.


BIG CAT ODYSSEY
2010 // 1x60’ // HD
Wildlife Films Botswana for NGC
National Geographic Explorers in Residence, Dereck and Beverly Joubert on their 30-year- long quest to document the behaviour of big cats in Botswana, this film brings together three decades worth of material, including extraordinary footage of hunting lions, scavenging hyenas and stealthy leopards. See first-hand the numerous changes that have led to the dramatic decline of the lion population, and what needs to be done in order to ensure their survival.
PANDA’S WILD MOVE
2013 // 1x60’ // HD
Infocus Asia in association with NGC
Kai Kai and Jia Jia are two of China’s most precious pandas. The species is dying out, unless they can get them to breed. But pandas only have a two-day window of opportunity in the entire year to mate. Now Singapore thinks they can bring these bears back from the brink.


SUMATRA’S LAST TIGERS
2015 // 1x60’ // HD
Novista TV for Mediacorp
While tiger populations around the world are crashing due to poaching and deforestation, tiger numbers in a remote nature reserve in Sumatra, Indonesia are increasing. This is the story of the man behind this unique conservation project, the Indonesian tycoon
Tomy Winata.
THE UNLIKELY LEOPARD
2012 // 1x60’ // HD
Wildlife Films Botswana for NGC
From National Geographic Explorers in Residence, Dereck and Beverly Joubert, The Unlikely Leopard is the coming of age story of a young male leopard called Dikeledi who has a distinct personality.


DISCOVERING ANIMAL
BEHAVIOUR
2011 // 3x60’or29x5’ // HD
Alberto José Redondo Villa
This multi-award winning series delves into animal behaviour around the world. Exquisitely shot, each episode is devoted to recent discoveries in ethology and to understanding the how and why of the behavior of different species of animals in their daily lives.
RHINO PLANET
2014 // 24x5’ // HD
ScotdeBod Films
The world’s rhinos are in trouble and wildlife television presenter Bonné de Bod is on a quest to find out why and more importantly, what’s being done. Join her on this very important journey as she meets with those at the coalface of the rhino poaching crisis.


HISTORY
THE REAL HOBBIT
2008 // 1x60’ // SD
Essential Media & Entertainment for ABC Australia and ARTE
The Real Hobbit examines one of the greatest controversies in science today: just what did scientists really find when they uncovered the tiny, human-like skeleton of a strange creature on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003? Since the discovery was made public a bitter dispute has split the world of anthropology. The Hobbit discovery forces us to rethink some of the most fundamental questions of human origins.


PLANE RESURRECTION
2015 // S1(6 x 60’) S2(6 x 60’) // HD
Nik Coleman Television
Over six fascinating hours per Series, Plane Resurrection takes viewers into the cockpits of the worlds greatest restored fighting aircraft, and into the astonishing lives of the modern day heroes who are dedicating themselves to bringing these engineering masterpieces back to life.
TROPICAL IRON
2017 // 1x90’ // HD
Marc C Baldwin
The story of Minor Keith and the construction of the Costa Rican Atlantic Railway in the 19th Century. The seemingly small infrastructure project of laying one hundred miles of track, cost the lives of over 4000 men, took nearly 20 years to complete and bankrupted a nation. This documentary tells the story of how Minor Keith came to be the embodiment of US Imperialism by those in Central America, South America and the Caribbean.


THE WAR THAT CHANGED
THE WORLD
2016 // 2x60’ // HD
Wild Bear Entertainment in association with History Channel and CCTV10
The series follows the evolution of Mao Zedong’s rise to power, and in turn, how he created a new China. In 1972, Chairman Mao Zedong was not entirely joking when he asked Tanaka Kakuei, the visiting Japanese Prime Minister, whether he should thank him for the invasion – because it had changed the destiny of China.
WHO LIVED IN MY HOUSE?
2015 // 18x30’ // HD
Tile Films for TV3
Who was murdered in our basement, who made love in the back bedroom and who hid under the stairs during the Civil War? The reason most people like historic buildings isn’t just because of their architecture, which can be replicated, it’s knowing that others preceded us, and that lifetimes occurred in our homes. ‘Who Lived in my House?’ sets out to unlock the real stories hidden in our walls.


1916: EASTER REBELLION
2015 // 3x60’ // HD
Coco TV in association with the University of Notre Dame
This landmark documentary examines the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin and the subsequent events that led to the establishment of an independent Irish State and indirectly to the breakup of the British Empire.
IN THE NAME OF THE
REPLUBLIC
2013 // 2x60’ // HD
Tile Films for TV3
The Irish War of Independence saw many people disappear, abducted, executed, and secretly buried. This was not the work of the British, but of the Irish Replublic Army. In the Name of the Replublic reveals the truth behind these harrowing mysteries.


JESUS: COUNTDOWN TO
CALVARY
2018 // 1x60’ // HD
RTE
Hugh Bonneville reveals how a perfect storm of political intrigue, power struggles and clashing religious passions combined caused the event that changed the world: the killing of Jesus. Countdown to Calvary offers a revolutionary new telling of “the greatest story ever told” – the story of a wandering Jewish healer and preacher, who went from zero to hero in a single week, 2000 years ago.
DEEP TIME HISTORY
2016 // 3x60’ // 4K
Curiosity Stream
This series tears down the walls between science and history to reveal how the story of mankind is often driven by events from the deep past. Ancient exploding stars, the clash of continents, the formation of molecules, all secretly shaped the history we thought we knew.


ALIEN ENCOUNTERS:
ROSWELL
2018 // 2x30’ // HD
Entertain Me
Take a unique journey into the past to examine one of the greatest mysteries in recent history, the Roswell UFO crash. Hear the shocking testimonies of those who experienced the event first hand and delve deep into the evidence and footage that survived.
EMPIRE OF TIME
2017 // 2x60’ // HD
Point du Jour and IFA Media
This is the story of China’s enduring search for oder through the mastery of time. Modern day astronomers, science historians, and time scientists draw on fascinating parallels between past and present: from modern time-keeping labs to 4,000 year old Neolithic observatories. An epic tale of science, imperial history and intrigue.


LOST NUKE
2004 // 1x60’ // HD
Myth Merchant Films
In 1950, the world’s largest bomber took off on a secret Cold War mission. Its cargo a Mk.IV nuclear bomb. Forced to abandon the mission, the crew puts the plane on autopilot and bails out. Now, more than fifty years later, a Canadian expedition travels to the remote crash site in the hopes of solving the mystery of the missing Cold War bomber and its lost nuclear weapon.


TRAVEL & ADVENTURE
THE SEARCH
2018 // 4x30’ // HD
This! Film Studio in association with Fox Sports
While people, places and travel evolve, the excitement and sense of adventure of a surf trip never changes. The Search represents the philosophy of all surfers – a spirit of adventure and a willingness to go beyond the boundaries. This four-part series, narrated by Mason Ho, takes us on the journey of seasonal discovery, where the oceans deliver waves and the mountains deliver powder for epic performances and unparalleled enjoyment on The Search that never ends. Join Mick Fanning and his friends as they ride untamed waves in untouched locations


PIRI’S TIKI TOUR
2018 // 10x30’ // HD
Pango Productions for Maori Television
Former new Zealand rugby player, Piri Weepu, takes us along for the ride as he visits travels around New Zealand meeting hearty, local characters as they guide him through what they do best. Diving, hunting, fishing and general foraging about the place.
ICE FISHING:
HARDCORE
2018 // 8x30’ // HD
Acheron OBOL Productions
Follow “Ice Fishing Hardcore” as we fly into the Motor City and join up with Keith Stanton and a group of his friends spearfishing on Lake St. Clair. The guys have lots of work to do to prepare their portable ice shacks for spearfishing. The fish come and go, but the fishermen must be ready to throw at a moment’s notice or lose their chance at a monster.


THE EXIT POINT
2016 // 1x30’ // HD
Robson Productions
BASE-jumping is one of the fastest growing extreme sports, but also one that has already claimed the lives of over 270 participants. With unique access to the top players in the BASE community, this programme explores the true thrill behind the sport, revealing why increasing numbers of people are willing to risk their lives for the short rush of a free-fall.
LET THEM EAT SURF
2016 // 1x30’ // HD
Victor Charlie Productions
This is the untold story of how a group of maverick surfer drug-smugglers established Europe’s surf scene. In the 1960s and 70s, the Basque region was made for surfers: lax law enforcement, empty waves, endless partying and beautiful women.


BRA BOYS
2007 // 1x90’ // SD
Garage Entertainment
Narrated by Russell Crowe, Bra Boys is about the cultural evolution of the inner- Sydney beach side suburb of Maroubra and the social struggle of its youth - the tattooed and much maligned surf community known as the Bra Boys.
THE INDESTRUCTIBLES
2015 // 12x30’ // HD
Factory Media
“This series sees action sports athletes turned presenters Tim Warwood and Adam Gendle dropped randomly into different locations around the UK. Their task? To take inspiration from their surroundings and, using only the props given to them, dream up and execute epic and incredible stunts.”