TrueDoc Documentary Festival

понедельник, 8 февраля 2016 г.

ROOTS OF OBLIVION

The story of several survivors of the lahar of Armero in Colombia cause by a volcanic eruption in November of 1985. The government knew about it and did nothing to evacuate the comunity. As a result of this neglect, 25.000 people died. Now 30 years later, the survivors deal with the consequences that this event has had on their lives. The inexorable passage of time as their personal tragedies evidence diluted into oblivion in an indifferent and irresponsible country without memory or respect.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary

Runtime:1 hour 1 minute 15 seconds

Completion Date:November 13, 2015

Production Budget:9,000 USD

Country of Origin:United States

Country of Filming:Colombia

Film Language:Spanish

Fire flowers

"Fire flowers" is an observation documentary about a small quarter located in Palermo (Sicily) and called Borgo Vecchio. It's an exploration through the tableaux vivant composed by citizens and architectures. It's a listening to two rhythms beating together: the slow one of common life and the explosive and fast one of the main Saint holy celebration.

Director:Riccardo Cannella

Riccardo Cannella is an editor and a sound recordist. In 2015 he got diploma from Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – sede Sicilia in documentary and filmmaking.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary

Runtime:35 minutes

Completion Date:January 1, 2015

Production Budget:8,000 EUR

Country of Origin:Italy

Country of Filming:Italy

Film Language:Italian

Alegria - A Humanitarian Expedition.

Alegria - A Humanitarian Expedition tells the story of an epic solo expedition across the Himalaya that changed the life of hundreds of people in need and reached millions around the world. In 2010, Christoph von Toggenburg cycled alone 3200km along the world’s highest tracks pulling a 30kg trailer packed with survival gear in support of leprosy patients and mentally destitute women in India, 

With little air to breathe and temperatures between minus15 to plus 45 degrees Celcius he crossed mountain passes higher than 5500m mastering a total of 50’000m. 

Director Biography

Сhristoph von Toggenburg has managed to change the life of thousands around the world through his humanitarian efforts. Having studied in the UK and Italy he graduated with two MA’s and a BA. From 1998 to 2010 he launched three international fundraising and awareness campaigns such as Alegria, a humanitarian bicycle expedition across the Himalaya, Bike for Help a solo bicycle expedition from India to Switzerland for leprosy patients and Run for Help, a solo Ultrathon running 270km across the Alps for homeless children. He is the founder and chairman of the Colour the World Foundation helping people affected by mental illness and leprosy. 

Specifications

ilm Type:Documentary

Runtime:29 minutes

Completion Date:October 31, 2013

Production Budget:0 USD

Country of Origin:Switzerland

Country of Filming:India, Nepal

Film Language:English

Shooting Format:Digital

суббота, 23 января 2016 г.

The Ratu River Expedition

A 25-min documentary about earthquakes in Nepal, featuring interviews with scientists and villagers, easy-to-understand animation, and new scientific discoveries that can help to minimize casualties from future seismic activity. A production of the Earth Observatory of Singapore in collaboration with the National Seismological Center of Nepal.

Director: Isaac Kerlow

Isaac Kerlow (Director, Ratu River) is an independent filmmaker, artist and writer. He grew up in Mexico City and has lived in Asia for over 10 years. His work typically deals with change, and the human condition. 

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary

Genres:Nepal, Nature, Science, Earthquakes

Runtime:25 minutes 10 seconds

Completion Date:September 1, 2015

Country of Origin:Singapore

Country of Filming:Nepal

2.5% - The Osa Peninsula

Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula, the most biologically intense place on Earth faces tourism development that threatens to destroy it, and only its local communities can save it.

This film explores the potential consequences of a planned international airport in the Osa Peninsula rainforest, exposes tourism impacts on previously untouched places in Costa Rica, and highlights a new model of rural community tourism where local families provide travel experiences that shape and protect their communities and natural resources.

Director: Eytan Elterman

Mexican-American, Eytan’s past work has taken him through Central America, South America, Western and Eastern Europe, and parts of Africa, as well as having studied in Spain and Argentina. It’s those experiences that made him realize what a privilege it is to see the world –- and it’s this type of adventure that drives his work. Eytan began his career as a documentary filmmaker in 2005 and has since worked on documentary shorts focused on alternative fuel, international development, the foster care system, food justice, sport diving, and U.S./Israel relations. He has an MBA in International Management from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and is currently based between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary

Runtime:40 minutes

Completion Date:November 1, 2015

Production Budget:30,000 USD

Country of Origin:United States

Country of Filming:Costa Rica

Film Language:Spanish

среда, 20 января 2016 г.

Tango Pasión

Tango Pasión is a passionate documentary about the famous Tango Argentino - in Berlin, the largest tango community outside of Argentina and the area on the Rio de la Plata. The film shows artists and dancers who have had huge influence on the ‚Tango Pasión‘ over the years, and who have gained worldwide recognition for it. Throughout the entire documentary, the passion and emotion that come with this famous dance are almost palpable. The film features interviews with famous protagonists of the Berlin tango scene. And of course, there is dancing - tango in various settings and recorded from various perspectives.

Director: Kordula Hildebrandt

Much like in my debut film "Spirit Berlin", which I had begun a year after "Tango Pasión", I dared with "Tango Pasión" to a piece of history of Berlin. Tango Argentino Tango and the Berlin I did not know before the shooting. Well, not as I now know of the steps, walking, the rules of conduct, the feelings 

and the rooms and the differences to its area of origin Argentina and the Rio de la Plata. It spoke to me on a sensual, erotic and expressive, emotional way easily to the subject. When you 

hear the theme completely untouched, just the tango, you immediately I had images in my head and it is this also. In the opening sequence is this reflected a bit when a man asks a woman to dance - just so at a bus stop. Surreal, but possible in Buenos Aires, where the tango is lived. But as he arrived here, the tango, the roots do not come from Berlin? I wanted to find out next, as I had researched more about the origins and history. Where research, I have to admit, but mostly on the spot happened in the milongas itself. Tango on the track I was threatened with losing me. Like almost all of my interviewees had also packed me the addiction.