BridgeWalkers

As our relationship to Earth travels down a dangerous path, it has become clear that we cannot sustain the stress of our modern ways. On a quest to restore balance, Tribal Leaders from around the world gather in Greenland to witness the awakening of Ancient Indigenous Prophecies.

Director: Kara Rhodes

Kara Rhodes, founding partner in OneRiver Productions, is a documentary film maker from Santa Barbara, California, whose passionate search for long forgotten Ancient Wisdom and Spiritual Truths continually led her into the hearts and minds of Indigenous Tribal Leaders from South America to Greenland, Canada and beyond. Along the way her life was transformed by Indigenous Ceremonies, and Prophecies. As life would have it, Kara’s personal passions evolved into the birth of OneRiver Production Company LLC. Since then she has diligently focused on filming the gifts of Indigenous Tribes and sharing this with audiences worldwide.

Kara and her husband and three children share a commitment to being the change our Earth and humanity need at this time. Kara has a B.A. in Marketing and Advertising from Pepperdine University. Kara and her family presently live in Santa Barbara, California.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Feature
Genres:Spiritual, envirnmental, Tribal
Runtime:60 hours
Completion Date:January 18, 2014
Production Budget:600 USD
Country of Origin:United States
Country of Filming:Canada, Greenland, Peru, United States
Film Language:English

  

Global Home

GLOBAL HOME is a feature length documentary film about a thrilling new way of travelling and an unexpected benefit of globalisation.

Director: Eva Stotz

Eva Stotz studied directing at German Film and Television Academy Berlin. After several short fiction films, she turned her attention towards documentary films. Her first long documentary film "Sollbruchstelle / Devil hides in doubt" was successfully screened on international festivals (Visions du Réel, Viennale, DokLeipzig, Dokfest München, TFF Torino, LIDF London), awarded several times (Advancement Award German Television Award 2009, Advancement Award Film week Duisburg, DokumentART Award) and broadcasted in German Television (3Sat). She directed an episode of the zero one international TV production “24h Berlin”. Her Graduation Film "Global Home" (commissioned by German Television ZDF, supported by Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg) has had its premiere at SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas and is since then invited to many international film festivals (Raindance London, Planete Doc Warsaw, Dokfest San Francisco) In 2013 Eva Stotz founded the production company ronjafilm in Berlin.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary
Runtime:1 hour 32 minutes
Completion Date:March 28, 2012
Country of Filming:Germany, Japan, Mali, Palestine, State of, Turkey, United States
Film Language:Arabic, English, Japanese, Turkish

St. Pauli Zoo

St. Pauli, the traditional red-light district of Hamburg is changing. Conflictual issues like gentrification, street violence, police pressure and the Lampedusa refugees are currently responsible for numerous headlines nationwide... Also in the district the opinions differ...

Local resident Johannes Neinens embarks on a journey through his own district to show the versatility of the St. Pauli people...

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary
Runtime:1 hour 22 minutes 10 seconds
Completion Date:February 22, 2015
Production Budget:7,000 EUR
Country of Origin:Germany
Country of Filming:Germany
Film Language:German

Gazelle - The Love Issue

With the sudden death of his partner Eric, Paulo must pass through a life transformation. Paulo is HIV+ but never got sick before and now he sees his own life is in danger for the first time. He embarks on a conscious transformation by filtering what matters in his life. The film brings us into Paulo’s search for a meaningful way to deepen Gazelle’s life. His emotional depths is transformed into artistic expressions that plays with the Past and Present through symbolic use of references. Besides the new lover Mark, he finds collaborators who pushes him forward in life bringing Gazelle’s work to his highest level.
Paulo is internationally famous in the underground scene for his alter-ego Gazelle. Appearing in clubs around the world in boldly conceived costumes, Gazelle became well known when he created the publication “GAZELLAND”, a documentation of the artists, photographers and designers of the gay nightlife community of London, New York and Sao Paulo. Gazelle is able to capture the astonishing creativity of this international underground scene. He upgraded the term "Club Kids" to "Freak Chics" when addressing them due to the fashion evolution of their ensembles.

Director: Cesar Terranova

First Film.
Director’s Statement
I want to create a true portrait of both Paulo and Gazelle, and of the scene they inhabit and create around the world—with all its fun, wit, brilliance, and energy. We will also see sometimes shallow values and small attitudes—dark sides of his world that Paulo usually just bulldozes right through.
This is my first feature-length film. I have completed a short about Gazelle, and this project grows out of that.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary
Genres:DRAMA, LGBT, BIOGRAPHY
Runtime:1 hour 33 minutes 13 seconds
Completion Date:November 1, 2014
Production Budget:150,000 USD
Country of Origin:Brazil
Country of Filming:Brazil, France, French Polynesia, Italy, Spain, United States
Film Language:English

 

In long days

IN LONG DAYS is a short documentary about a family who decided to take the risk of living a different life. Rodrigo, Miriam and Pablo abandoned the city to pursue their autonomy and their freedom in the wilderness, allowing themselves to imagine a flexible and autonomous space, a space ready to adapt both to the ecosystem and their changing needs. Their story is a testimony about life and survival in an 'underdeveloped country', a brave stand against a a system grounded on the understanding of precariousness as the opportunity to transform the imposed conditions of the 'underdevelopment' discourse into something pleasantly unexpected.

Director: Adrián Villa Dávila

Adrián Villa has been working in the artists collective producciones invisibles for the last 7 years. With their work they search for metaphors with the potential of undermining certain uses and conceptions of space. They long for new forms of inhabiting and attempt to encounter them through the marginal thought operations found in art. Villa currently finished his Master studies in Media Arts at the Kunst Hochschule für Medien Köln.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Short
Genres:Human interest, Nature, Autonomy, Resistance
Runtime:40 minutes
Completion Date:January 1, 2014
Production Budget:6,000 EUR
Country of Origin:Germany
Country of Filming:Colombia
Film Language:Spanish

Bookbiographies

The book My way of knowledge – Expedition into the Abyss of alienation (Heiko Volkmer, published by Materialverlag) critically looks into questions and phenomenons that unfold when dealing with the meaning of work in our society. In doing so, three poles correspond with each other: the subjective thoughts of the author who questions his decision to study at an art school, the fictional biography of a bookbinder who finds himself back in professional orientation and various works of the humanities, such as by Karl Marx, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel or Siegfried Kracauer.

Director: Heiko Volkmer

Heiko Volkmer was born in 1984 in Hamburg. His first film appeared in 2005 during the studies of the ethnic studies. He broke off these studies after 3 terms, to be able to switch to the HfbK Hamburg (Art school) in 2006. There he is studying visual communication with the main focus on Film.
In his studies he developed a variety of short documentary- and experimental-films as an auteur. In 2009/2010 he spend two semesters studying at the art school (ENSBA) in Lyon/ France.
Heiko Volkmer successfully passed his diploma in 2014 with the feature documentary “Bookbiographies” and the book “My way of knowledge – Expedition into the Abyss of alienation”.
Amongst other things he worked at the NDR (public TV-station) in Hamburg. Until today Heiko Volkmer works at "El Rojito e.V.", an association in Hamburg for fair-trade-products from Latin America. Since finishing his studies he works as a freelance filmmaker (splitterfilm) and at the ARD (public TV-station) in Hamburg.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Student
Genres:Experimental Documentary, Graduation Film, Social, Work, Literature
Runtime:1 hour 6 minutes 6 seconds
Completion Date:April 9, 2015
Production Budget:4,500 EUR
Country of Origin:Germany
Country of Filming:Germany
Film Language:German

Tahrir Island

Following the January revolution, Egypt has been through many revolutionary waves from the events of Mohamed Mahmoud to the events of Council of Ministers. The revolutionary forces were separated until the rebels in the square felts like being in an isolated island.

Director: Hassan Saleh Wanny

Egyptian Filmmaker.
Born in Cairo,egypt 2/1/1987
studied Cinema arts at university France du Egypt. 2011-2014

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Short
Runtime:21 minutes 32 seconds
Completion Date:October 1, 2014
Production Budget:2,000 USD
Country of Origin:Egypt
Country of Filming:Egypt
Film Language:Arabic