Sturgis: Rallying Back

Documentary about The Rally 2014 in Sturgis, Mississippi. After a three year hiatus and with numerous hurdles, the future of a small town's annual motorcycle rally is in question. With budgetary constraints, lack of advertising, and trademark issues looming, can The Rally return and satisfy the bikers, the board, and the town?

Director: Thomas Haffey

Thomas Haffey is a university Marketing instructor residing near Starkville, Mississippi. He co-owns R/T Images photography company with his wife Rebecca. His first film is the 2015 documentary Sturgis: Rallying Back. It is currently being submitted to festivals worldwide.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary
Runtime:57 minutes 54 seconds
Completion Date:February 28, 2015
Production Budget:500 USD
Country of Origin:United States
Country of Filming:United States
Film Language:English

Citizens of Nowhere (ANG)

September 2013. The Court ruling is reached. Almost a quarter million Dominicans of Haitian descent have just become stateless because of the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal's decision. Identified as scapegoats for all problems affecting the country, they have lost everything: their rights, their liberty, their identity.

Director: Nicolas-Alexandre Tremblay

After getting his master’s degree in International Relations, Nicolas also underwent training as a cinema technician. In Quebec City, he worked on several productions and more recently, as an independent filmmaker. At the same time, he was involved in various humanitarian projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Strongly committed, he is interested in issues related to global development and human rights.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Feature
Runtime:53 minutes
Completion Date:February 20, 2015
Production Budget:50,000 USD
Country of Origin:Canada
Country of Filming:Dominican Republic, Haiti
Film Language:English, Spanish

Return of the Free China Junk

The honoring of six young men who crossed the Pacific in 1955 becomes a mammoth challenge of engineering, logistics and politics nearly sixty years later.
If you could save just one object symbolising your family history what would it be?
For Dione Chen (daughter of 'Free China' junk-mate Reno Chen) it was the rare old sailing junk that in 1955 carried her father and five mates from martial law in Taiwan to San Francisco.

Director: Robin Greenberg (Ms.)

Born in Philadelphia, documentary filmmaker Robin Greenberg has been based in New Zealand since the late 1980s. Her documentary 'Return of the Free China Junk' is a stand-alone film, yet it represents the last in a trilogy of films beginning with 'Huloo' (2008) and the award-winning 'The Free China Junk' (2010). (Note: T'ai Chi master Mr. Loo-Chi Hu QSM, aka Huloo, was Robin's teacher/mentor and the sail-master aboard the Free China junk.)

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Feature
Genres:Adventure, History, Political, Inspirational
Runtime:1 hour 36 minutes 6 seconds
Completion Date:July 15, 2015
Production Budget:50,000 NZD
Country of Origin:New Zealand
Country of Filming:New Zealand, Taiwan, United States
Film Language:English

 

Death & the Maiden

Shortly after WWII, over 1000 paintings were found in a Cellar in southern France. The paintings were created by a Young-Jewish artist called Charlotte Salomon. She painted her turbulent life story in a unique creation named: „Life? Or Theater?”
„Death & the Maiden“ unravels the story behind her creation.

Director: Yael Lotem

Yael Lotem i a filmmaker based in Tel Aviv and an alumna of Tel Aviv University Film & Television Department.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Short
Genres:Women, Art, History, Jewish, wwII
Runtime:29 minutes 17 seconds
Completion Date:May 1, 2014
Production Budget:12,000 USD
Country of Origin:Israel
Country of Filming:Germany
Film Language:English, Hebrew

The Horseshoe's Happiness

THE HORSESHOE’S HAPPINESS is about Tijs Groen, a former Dutch athletics champion who gave up his running career to pursue a new and unknown musical adventure in southern Spain.

Tijs has always played the guitar as a hobby but he never really considered to become a musician. While on holiday in Spain he visited the small beachtown of La Herradura (Spanish for ‘horseshoe’) in Andalucia. Here he met interesting musicians, an inspiring guitar maker and he learned about flamenco and guitar music in general.

Director: Jeroen Stultiens

Jeroen Stultiens started working for Dutch television at the young age of 15 when he was chosen to be part of a special youth training program. A group of teenagers formed the crew of a monthly tv-show which they had to produce under the guidance of professionals. Here, Jeroen was educated as a cameraman and a director.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary
Runtime:1 hour 3 minutes
Completion Date:August 27, 2015
Production Budget:12,000 EUR
Country of Origin:Netherlands
Country of Filming:Netherlands, Spain
Film Language:Dutch, English

The Resilient Bangalore Traffic Cop

The documentary film highlights the plight of the bangalore traffic police , their resilience , struggle , and hardships they have to face to keep the traffic at bay .

Director: Shajan Samuel

Debut film maker of " The Resilient Bangalore Traffic Cop"
Director’s Statement
" All of us are in the gutter together but some of us are looking at the stars " .Oscar Wilde .
Cinema allows us to be unrealistic in imagination . We are limited by our thoughts .
Lucky to be a film maker .

Specifications

Runtime:17 minutes 36 seconds
Completion Date:July 3, 2014
Production Budget:1,000 USD
Country of Origin:India
Country of Filming:India
Film Language:English

Nuclear Hope

What will Canada do with its enormous stockpile of deadly radioactive waste? Currently, many small communities throughout Ontario are considering burying it underneath their boarders
and close to Lake Huron and Lake Superior. When local residents learn about this plan, it sets off a firestorm between those who fear the risks and those who embrace the opportunity.

Director: Colin Scheyen

Colin Scheyen is an award-winning director and educator. Much of his work focuses on issues of media literacy and social justice. He is also the author of the upcoming book Beyond Media Literacy, which empowers school teachers and community workers to incorporate multimedia projects into their classroom discussions. Colin’s film explore issues related
to community, identity and social issues.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary
Runtime:55 minutes 29 seconds
Completion Date:January 15, 2015
Production Budget:25,000 USD
Country of Origin:Canada
Country of Filming:Canada, United States
Film Language:English, French