Focussing on individuals who did unexpected, challenging, and in some places daring activities with a direct impact in their communities. This session provides inspiration for programme-makers who want to create change and document innovative and surprising solutions. Exploring tears and grief in a phone booth, the divergent needs of hunters and conservationists, and the smugglers of clandestine films featuring macho action stars. Chuck Norris does not sleep; he waits.
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In communist Romania, thousands of Western films on bootleg VHS tapes - mostly Hollywood action movies - were smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, opening a window into the…
Chuck Norris vs Communism
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Amur Falcons, the longest traveling raptors in the world, fly from Siberia every fall to roost in Pangti, a small village in Nagaland, India and then fly on to Kenya. In…
The Pangti Story
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In a Japanese town devastated by the tsunami of March 2011 stands a booth containing a telephone that is not connected. This is the ‘Phone of the Wind’ where…
The Phone of the Wind: Whispers to Lost Families
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