Small Planet Documentary Production Company

DURATION: 63 min.

The rise of neo-Nazis in Russia is more than a fact! The biggest part of the world's neo-Nazis are today concentrated in Russia. Extremist ideas about racial purity and the extermination of immigrants, homosexuals, drug addicts and all the "useless pests that pollute the Russian White Race" find an ever more fertile ground in a population whose national pride was wounded during the years that followed the fall of the Soviet Union. "The Pack of White Wolves" is a hair-raising documentary which records the deadly activities of Russian skinheads, the stories of their innocent victims and the terrible threat emerging at the North of Europe.

MAIN CREDITS

Written & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Research Coordinator: Aggelos Athanasopoulos / Research Conducted by Georgia Anagnou, Aggelos Athanasopoulos / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Director of Photography: Yiannis Avgeropoulos / Original Music by Yiannis Paxevanis / Editing: Yiannis Biliris, Meletis Pogkas / Website Coordinator: Apostolis Kaparoudakis / Graphics: Sakis Palpanas / A Small Planet Production for Greek Public Television ERT © 2007 - 2008

TECHNICAL DATA

Original shooting format: HD 1080p25 / Languages: Greek, Russian, French, English / Subtitles: Greek, English / Available Versions: Greek, English, International

DURATION: 66 min.

“Children of a rape” tells the story of El Salvador’s two biggest gangs, mainly made up of teenagers. The 18 and the MS13 have turned the country into a war zone, as they relentlessly clash over the control of the weapons and drugs markets. In their words, actions and bodies tattooed with their gang’s symbols is written the contemporary history of a country which was raped by the 12-year-long civil war, a war which might not yet be over…

MAIN CREDITS

Written, Produced & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Research Coordinator: Angelos Athanasopoulos / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Director of Photography: Alexis Barzos / Editing: Yiannis Biliris / Original Music by Yiannis Paxevanis / Graphics: Sakis Palpanas / A Small Planet production for Greek Public Television ERT © 2007 – 2008

TECHNICAL DATA

Original shooting format: HD 1080p25 / Languages: Spanish / Subtitles: Greek, English / Available Versions: Greek, English, International

DURATION: 72 min.

According to myth, God entrusted San Vicente with a difficult task. On his back he carried a sack full of Muxes, and had to leave one in every town of the Zapotec kingdom. But when the Saint reached Juchitán he tripped, and all the Muxes he carried in his sack fell out. Since then, this town in the South-East of Mexico has experienced an unexpected – not only for Mexico but for the entire world – sexual liberation.

Homosexual men who wish to dress as women freely do so, and live a more or less similar life as their heterosexual fellow citizens. Not only do the Muxes not hide their difference on the streets of Juchitán, they actually project it in every way. Their fellow citizens simply go on their way, not impressed, provoked or angered by the sight of a man in women’s clothes, hairdos and make-up. The Muxes claim they belong to the community of the “intrepid”, of “those who do not fear death”, and celebrate their desire and joy to be women every year in a festivity attended by the whole community.

In Juchitán, the dream of tolerance and the acceptance of difference has been a reality for years. Without announcements and declarations, without social movements having to fight long and bloody social and political struggles, without conflict and quarrel…

A documentary on the joy of life and love which prevailed effortlessly because San Vicente tripped…

MAIN CREDITS

Written, Produced  & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos /  Research Coordinator: Kaparoudakis Apostolis / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Director of Photography: Yiannis Avgeropoulos / Editing: Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Meletis Pongkas / Original Music by Yiannis Paxevanis /  A Small Planet production for Greek Public Television ERT  © 2006 – 2007

TECHNICAL DATA

Original shooting format: SD PAL 576i / Aspect Ratio: 16:9 PAL / Languages: Greek, Spanish / Subtitles: Greek, English / Available Versions: Greek, English,  International

DURATION: 60 min.

The "accidental" death of two teenagers at Clichy-sous-Bois touched off a series of violent riots that raged through France in November 2005. And for the unsuspecting international public opinion, from behind the ashes of thousands of torched vehicles there emerged the ghost of an unknown Europe, as well as of an unknown France, which keeps well hidden its millions of "second-class" citizens.

The camera enters the inaccessible Parisian ghettos, the heart of the riots. And it records the anger of the youths who are stifled with no recourse other than theft and drug peddling. The screen reveals for the first time to the world the armament of the rioters. Small-bore guns, automatics, sawed-off shotguns and rifles. The youths show photographs of themselves carrying machine guns...

Through searing imagery and with almost no other narrative than the lyrics of the songs of the ghetto, the documentary presents the unknown European citizens of the cités; the dark side of modern Europe, an unknown France of five million besieged and ghetto-bound citizens.

MAIN CREDITS

Written & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Correspondance-Research: Aggelos Athanasopouos / Cinematography-Sound: Alexandros Papanikolaou, Emily Giannoukou / Research Coordinator: Apostolis Kaparoudakis / Editing Director: Dimitris Nikolopoulos / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / A Small Planet production for ERT © 2005 – 2006

TECHNICAL DATA

Original shooting format: SD PAL 576i / Languages: Greek, French / Subtitles: Greek, English / Available Versions: Greek, English, International

DURATION: 60 min.

160 million people in India have been born outside any caste; they are called Untouchables and nobody is allowed to touch them for fear of infection!They call themselves "dalit" which means "broken, shattered people".

Every day, two dalits are murdered, three dalit women are raped and two dalit homes are engulfed in flames, torched by members of the higher castes. In the province of Bihar entire villages of the "shattered" are wiped out by extreme right-wing paramilitaries of the higher castes. In other provinces, the Untouchables have no access to drinking water, cannot enter temples or use public transport. Even at police stations they are often asked to pay "admission"...

The documentary records gruesome images of violence and discrimination; images of the trampling of every sense of human rights. Moreover, it reveals the extent of what international bodies describe as the "secret apartheid" of India. A stunning story of class and social discrimination which, with religion as an alibi, has reproduced itself for centuries.

MAIN CREDITS

Written, Produced & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Research Coordinator: Apostolis Kaparoudakis / Editing Director: Dimitris Nikolopoulos / Director of Photography: Dinesh Lal / Research: Parvez Khan / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Editing: Yiannis Biliris, Anna Prokou / Original Music by Yiannis Paxevanis / A Small Planet production for ERT © 2005 – 2006

TECHNICAL DATA

Original shooting format: SD PAL 576i / Aspect ratio: 4:3 PAL/ Languages: Greek, Hindi, English / Subtitles: Greek / Available Versions: Greek