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Great site!!!
Thought you and your viewers may be interested in my last film that they can watch for free at
http://www.hulu.com/cracked-not-broken
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/cracked_not_broken/
Also I am working on a new film/experiment called “facebookumentary”@ http://www.youtube.com/my_videos
Thanks
paul
Just finished a blog on the best Docs of the decade and thought some of you may enjoy it.
Aranizda Turkce bilen varsa sitemize bekleriz…
(If you can understand in Turkish, you are welcome to my new website about documentaries…]
Belgeseli.Org
We want to share with you: ‘¿Sería Buenos Aires?’ (Maybe Buenos Aires?)
http://www.vimeo.com/9595179
Award-winning documentary, now free to watch online.
(Spanish with English subtitles)
A universal story that touches upon many of the themes that cross the modern world we live in: dislocation of people, destruction of their dreams overnight by crises they are not responsible for and their efforts to survive.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1603491
Hi everyone
Many years ago I turned on the tv and found myself watching an entralling documentary which followed a group of Australian Aborogines and an army squadron of (I think from the uk) navigate their respective courses across the Australian bush. The idea was that the two teams were challenged to see who would arrive first. It was wonderful to see the different approaches taken by the two teams – and most memorable was that the Aboriginals decided that the whole exercise was pointless and there was no reason at all why they should do what the producers wanted them to do!
I loved this documentary and would really love to see it again. I have tried to find a reference to it on the internet but with no success. Does anyone else recognise or remember it? Can anyone help me find it?
yours hopefully……………Simon
Hi, Our documentary is on History channel and you can see trailer at http://www.beneathblackskies.com.au – a history of coal mining in Australia including our largest industrial disaster.
Hi, Thought you would be interested in the new documentary from Shelley Saywell–described below—her IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY won the Best Canadian Documentary Award at the Hot Docs 2010 Festival. Get in touch with me for more information, etc. Thanks
THE NANNY BUSINESS THE PLIGHT OF CANADA’S IMPORTED CAREGIVERS ON GLOBAL TELEVISION’S ‘CURRENTS,’ WEDNESDAY, JULY 7 AT 10 PM
An estimated 5000 women arrive in Canada every to serve as caregivers. These women, mostly escaping poverty in the Philippines, need to support the families they left behind and dream of a starting a new life in Canada. For many that becomes a reality, but others become victims of fraud, exploitation and abuse. THE NANNY BUSINESS, a documentary by Emmy Award winning filmmaker Shelley Saywell, profiles a few of the nannies and the ordeals they endured after arriving. It will be broadcast on Global Television’s summer documentary series ‘Currents’ on Wednesday, July 7 at 10 pm.
The nannies arrive in Canada under the government’s Live- In Caregiver Program that gives them temporary visas but stipulates that they must spend a minimum of two years working and living in the homes of Canadian families before they can qualify for residency status. For many of these women that two year period can be a nightmare locking them into households where intolerable work demands are made, including inhumanly long work days for below minimum wage, and subjected to verbal and even physical abuse.
THE NANNY BUSINESS traces the story of Edelyn Pineda who left her three children behind and paid thousands of dollars to a recruitment agency in Canada to make the arrangements and book her with a family. She arrived to discover that the agent had taken her fee but the “employer” who signed her contract was not interested in her services. “I can’t believe this has happened to me,” Edelyn told the filmmakers the day after she arrived, with no money and no place to stay. “I will never get over this.” Joelina Maluto came to Canada after working in Hong Kong and the Middle East because “I heard Canada was a good country, and after two years I could bring my children here.” Instead, she arrived to find she had no job and was forced to live in her agent’s basement with 16 other nannies for the next 2 and a half months. When the agent finally got her a job, the employer forced her to work 18 hour days.
Edelyn and Joelina were among several nannies brave enough to go public about their experiences in the hope of forcing change. Their stories are put into wider context by journalist Susan McClelland, whose own search for a nanny led her to this story, and who’s subsequent article “Nanny Abuse” for Walrus Magazine won an Amnesty Award.
Susan hopes that increasing publicity about the plight of nannies under this program will bring change. “I’ve written about sex trafficking, but caregiver trafficking is something we are now finding out about too,” she says. “These women are put in very vulnerable situations and we need to protect them from exploitation and cruelty—-they need to have the same rights that every employee in this country enjoys.”
THE NANNY BUSINESS is a Bishari Films production commissioned by Global Television. It was written and directed by Shelley Saywell and produced by Deborah Parks.
For further information, please contact:
David McCaughna
416-531-1412
Hi I have just finished my Media Arts degree & this a documentary I made for my 3rd year cintemporary course:
please watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3bzEKRpZAM
Thank you.
The newest trailer for WL:DOCS ‘Drying For Freedom’.
A conflict is raging in the US. Protests, political movements and murder have taken place in the name of an unlikely ideal; clotheslines.
Tens of millions of individuals across Northern America are banned from outdoor line drying by the very communities they live in, forcing them to turn to the dryer. Homeowners who break the rules are fined, sued and even foreclosed on. This ban is not only infringing on civil rights, it’s contributing to the environmental and energy crisis. The dryer is responsible for 6% of the average household’s energy bill and it costs the US an estimated $5 billion annually.
Corporate America has sold the dryer and the consumption of electricity as a status symbol, and now they have their eyes on a much bigger prize – the world.
The newest trailer for WL:DOCS ‘Drying For Freedom’. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eZtkYJXZ1M
A conflict is raging in the US. Protests, political movements and murder have taken place in the name of an unlikely ideal; clotheslines.
Tens of millions of individuals across Northern America are banned from outdoor line drying by the very communities they live in, forcing them to turn to the dryer. Homeowners who break the rules are fined, sued and even foreclosed on. This ban is not only infringing on civil rights, it’s contributing to the environmental and energy crisis. The dryer is responsible for 6% of the average household’s energy bill and it costs the US an estimated $5 billion annually.
Corporate America has sold the dryer and the consumption of electricity as a status symbol, and now they have their eyes on a much bigger prize – the world.