Come On, Let's Go!

Allez, Viens! takes you to the industrial area of Maastricht where a motley crew of nine young women live in a close-knit community. They strive to live an anti-capitalist lifestyle by sharing all their possessions, food and spaces. While sisters Anna and Amber make plans for their futures apart, it soon becomes clear that adventure is waiting and the girls will each have to prepare to venture off into the unknown.

Director: Biserka

Biserka Šuran is a Dutch-Croatian filmmaker living, studying and working in Amsterdam. Biserka was born in 1989 in former Yugoslavia. In 1991 she moved with her family to Amsterdam where she grew up. She went to a high school focused on art and that’s where she first started working with film.

Next to documentaries I frequently collaborate with performance artists.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary

Runtime:22 minutes 36 seconds

Completion Date:July 6, 2015

Production Budget:12,000 EUR

Country of Origin:Netherlands

Country of Filming:Belgium, Netherlands

Film Language:English

One Simple Question

One Simple Question is a story of a young couple who seek adventure, shed the comforts of land, and begin a life at sea aboard a small sailboat. Their goal is simple — sail north until they find an iceberg. But they’ll need to sail over 1600 miles before the first sign of ice. The journey takes them from the suburbs of New York to the scenic grandeur of Newfoundland and ultimately to a little known place called Iceberg Alley. What they didn’t anticipate was that they would find a massive piece of the Petermann Ice Island, the record breaking iceberg that drew the attention of climate scientists worldwide.

Director: Derek Alan Rowe

Derek Alan Rowe (Director, Editor, Motion Graphics) is a founder of Doctrine Creative. From a very young age, Derek spent most of his time developing ideas, and found digital media was the best way to express them. He has grown from a graphic designer, to web designer, to video editor. He has worked with Disney, Nickelodeon, TLC, plus many other independant projects. Derek’s goal is to produce inspiring and meaningful media. In 2008 he directed a full-length feature film called “Out On Parole” and just completed a documentary film called “Within Reach” that is currently touring festivals.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Feature

Genres:Sailing, Adventure, Environmental

Runtime:1 hour 25 minutes

Completion Date:March 1, 2015

Production Budget:45,000 USD

Country of Origin:United States

Country of Filming:Canada, United States

UNDUNE

Undune is a documentary about Terra Preta, Toilets and Mars.

Terra Preta is a fertile, water storing black soil that can be created out of all types of organic waste including our feces. Yes, feces, they're inevitable, and when we flush them away, we are wasting our waste while contaminating valuable drinking water.

In Undune, the knowledge about Terra Preta is discovered by Gregor: he wants to support the colonization of Mars and identifies the cycle of nutrients and water as the main challenge. Through conversations with Terra Preta pioneers and small experiments, he develops a system to make human feces and other organic material usable on a mars base. Gregors daydreams about an alien space explorer bring the perspective down to Earth, where Gregors dialog partners see the largest potential for Terra Preta.

At the end, there remains just one question: Is there such a thing as useless shit?

Director: Dennis Rätzel

Undune is the debut film of Dennis.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary

Runtime:1 hour 23 minutes

Completion Date:January 1, 2015

Country of Origin:Germany

Country of Filming:Germany

Film Language:German

Ninì

In the summer of 1932, Gabriele Boccalatte and Nini Pietrasanta met. They met on the Monte Bianco, they climbed it together and thus fell in love.

Their great alpine years go exactly from 1932 to 1936- the year in which they got married. They, as a roped party, pioneered some of the toughest alpine routes. They used to keep journals and take pictures in order to keep a record of their achievements.

Ninì, that was one of the very few female climbers of those years, would carry a 16mm film camera with her, during her climbs.

In 1937, their son Lorenzo was born, and, in 1938, Gabriele died, falling from a mountain wall. Ninì, then, gave up extreme climbing and focused on her role as a mother.

Some years after Ninì’s death, in 2000, her son Lorenzo found the reels his mother had been shooting, hidden in an old case.

Director: Gigi Giustiniani

Filmmaker. He was born in 1981, in Varallo Sesia, Italy. In 2001 he moved to Milan. Since 2005 he has been working as a filmmaker and operator. Among his main works: Montagna Dei Vivi (2013), Vacanze Amare (2012), La Casa Del Drago (2005). He also took part in various collective documentary films, such as Milano 55,1. Cronaca di una settimana di passioni (2011) and Progetto Relay (2011). As a director of photography, his most recent works are: Une Parole Libre (di Stèphane Le Gall-Viliker, Francia 2014) and Fish Head (di Salvatore Castellana, Italia, 2013).

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary

Runtime:1 hour 5 minutes 41 seconds

Completion Date:November 1, 2014

Production Budget:25 EUR

Country of Origin:Italy

Country of Filming:France, Italy, Switzerland

Film Language:Italian

The Strangers Project

A young woman seeks out 6 strangers off of the street of Savannah, GA to see if true connection can exist between strangers in the 21st century without use of social media.

Director: Susan O'Brien

Susan O’Brien is a writer, filmmaker and fine artist from upstate New York. She is a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design where she received her BFA in Film and Television. Her works have been featured in numerous galleries, online stores and several film festivals across the country. With a guiding passion for capturing the intrinsic beauty in the fleeting moments of our lives, Susan hopes to captivate audiences with stories that tell of people on the verge of personal discovery through a poetic narrative lens.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Feature

Genres:Adventure, Coming-of-Age

Runtime:1 hour 5 minutes 3 seconds

Completion Date:September 14, 2015

Production Budget:4,000 USD

Country of Filming:United States

Film Language:English