Robert McFalls
USA
2008 * Beta * 0:52 :00

HOMEGROWN follows the Dervaes family who run a small organic farm in the heart of urban Pasadena, California. While "living off the grid", they harvest over 6,000 pounds of produce on less than a quarter of an acre, make their own bio diesel, power their computers with the help of solar panels, and maintain a website that gets 4,000 hits a day. The film is an intimate human portrait of what it's like to live like "Little House on the Prairie" in the 21st Century.

Tomas Kaan
Netherlands
2007 * DV * 0:42:00

A portrait of visitors of a theme park in a city in Northern Iraq.

Fernand Melgar
Switzerland
2008 * 35 mm * 1:40:00

THE FORTRESS is an immersion documentary which, without any comment or interview, will observe the operation of a Swiss centre where asylum seekers are received and selected. It will not focus on asylum seekers but on the workers. Over a period of 60 days, three viewpoints will be exposed: the FOM’s, which is in charge of selecting the asylum seekers, the staff’s, who in charge of maintenance and, finally, the chaplaincy’s.

Kimi Takesue
USA, Uganda
2010 * DV * 01:12:00

Thoughtful yet certainly not shy American film maker has plenty to look at in Uganda. She moves in the exciting hip-hop youth culture of the city, but also travels to the north to visit reception centres for child soldiers. Eyes wide open.

Joanna Vasquez Arong
Philippines, Zambia
2010 * DV * 0:43:00

Portrait of a life and a the country. A Filipino film maker follows a Zambian film maker and discovers a poor yet fascinating country.

Joe Berlinger
USA
2009 * Digi Beta * 1:44:00

Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking as it examines a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.