DURATION: 64 min.
The President of Venezuela is one of the most controversial political personalities of the XXI century, inspiring warm expressions of worship as well as waves of irrepressible hatred.
He did not hesitate to call Bush "Mr.Danger", Blair a "donkey", and Condoleezza Rice "chica" (little girl), perform karate moves in front of Putin, dance salsa and sing together with Fidel Castro and Maradona. Neither did he hesitate to dig into the fortunes of the big landowners, taking away land from their enormous properties and sharing it amongst poor landless peasants.
Will the president's wager succeed?Is it possible that Venezuela might inspire and stir up the whole of South America, shifting global geopolitical balances? Chavez himself admits the revolution in his country has not yet been completed, nevertheless he claims it is on the right path. And that it has three enemies: Imperialism, Bureaucracy and Corruption.
MAIN CREDITS
Written & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Research Coordinator: Apostolis Kaparoudakis / Research: Manolis Filaktidis, Kostas Georgiadis / Director of Photography: Yiannis Avgeropoulos / Editing: Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Meletis Pongas, Notis Benos / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / A Small Planet production for ERT © 2005 – 2006
TECHNICAL DATA
Original shooting format: SD PAL 576i / Aspect Ratio: 16:9 PAL / Languages: Greek, Spanish, English / Subtitles: Greek, English / Available Versions: Greek, English, French, International
DURATION: 60 min.
The hub of the Islamic world, the largest oil-producing country in the world, homeland of Osama Bin Laden, is balanced precariously between the "modern, Western way of life" and tradition.
Over-conservative clerics are asking for a return to the roots of Islam. Reformists are pressuring for liberties. The country is changing and its king is trying to keep a balance by satisfying everyone around him. Women who are not allowed to drive cars; reformists who are often jailed for voicing their demands; clerics and religious police who insist on dictating every aspect of life; Americans who insist on determining the country's oil wealth;
The documentary sheds light on a society where theater, cinema and music are forbidden, while executions are a public spectacle. Wealth and oil, human rights, the "free besieged" life of the young, religion and terrorism... as seen through the eyes of ordinary people and the country's VIPs.
MAIN CREDITS
Written, Produced & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Research Coordinator: Apostolis Kaparoudakis / Editing Director: Dimitris Nikolopoulos / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Director of Photography: Yiannis Avgeropoulos / A Small Planet production for ERT © 2005 – 2006
TECHNICAL DATA
Original shooting format: SD PAL 576i / Aspect Ratio: 16:9 PAL / Languages: Greek, Arabic, English / 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
DURATION: 54 min.
A voyage to the hermetically closed vaults of our modern, civilized world. One of the first documentaries to be made on this subject reveals the bleak reality of thousands of slaves who, at the dawn of the 21st century, live in Niger.
The government of Niger claims that there are no slaves, the United Nations Organization has no evidence, the major non-governmental organizations are unaware of the issue... The camera, however, after roaming the deserts of the Sahara and Tenere, has recorded the faces, the words, the thoughts and the dreams of these "non-existent" slaves. The phenomenon has its roots in the customs of the tribes of the Tuareg, the Fulani, the Manga and the Hausa who live there. It was nurtured by the practices of the Europeans who, in the 16th century, imported to their mines and plantations 11 million African slaves.
Today, this practice thrives on the indifference of "civilized countries" while the poverty of Niger perpetuates the phenomenon.
MAIN CREDITS
Written & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Produced by Kostas Georgiadis / Director of Photography: Yiannis Avgeropoulos / Research Coordinator: Apostolis Kaparoudakis / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Editing: Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Meletis Pongas, Hristos Kostakopoulos / Sound-Music by Eleni Mathioudaki / A Small Planet production for ERT © 2004 – 2005
TECHNICAL DATA
Original shooting format: SD PAL 576i / Aspect Ratio: 4:3 PAL / Languages: Greek, French, English / Subtitles: Greek / Available Versions: Greek, English, International
DURATION: 103 min.
Modern mercenaries are employees of private companies, whose job it is to fulfill their company's contract. This documentary reveals for the first time the broad range of these private companies which provide military services all over the planet. The mercenaries who parade on the screen have been recruited in Chile, South Africa, the United States and India in order to "work" as paid killers and torturers in Iraq.
Also presented are the owners of these companies, the legal framework under which they operate, the profits they make, the manner in which they influence U.S. policy as well as the outcome of a war. In the background, the psychology of modern, paid killers and their moral instigators is outlined, as well as a bleak future scenario in which wars are no longer waged between nations and their armies but between the private armies of companies. The shooting of this documentary lasted one year and extended over four continents.
MAIN CREDITS
Written, Produced & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Research Coordinator: Apostolis Kaparoudakis / Editing Director: Dimitris Nikolopoulos / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Research: Kostas Georgiadis, Mirto Boutsi, Mihalis Gripiotis, Paskoua Vorgia, Manolis Filaktidis, Carlos Alzamora, Parvez Khan / Camera-Sound: Yiannis Avgeropoulos, Juan Carlos Arriagada, Charlie Tishoutsou, Jessie Fleming, Eduardo Cure / A Small Planet production for Greek Public Television ERT © 2005 – 2006
TECHNICAL DATA
Original shooting format: SD PAL 576i / Αspect Ratio: 4:3 PAL / Languages: Greek, English / Subtitles: Greek, English / Available Versions: Greek, English, International
DURATION: 112 min.
Zuni and Gabi live in one of the favelas of Rio, the "City of God". Two children who live selling drugs and who clash with rival gangs and the police. There are 6,000 other under-aged soldiers like them who make up the striking force of the drug gangs. They are equipped with modern heavy weapons.
The documentary records their words, their thoughts and their dreams. It examines the reasons that lead them to crime. It enters prisons and meets their "commanders". It then follows a police officer, Captain Getz, whose idol is Superman. It records his unit's operations in the favelas, the suspicious activities of the policemen, the policy of repression, and also the bleak reality faced by the desperate and poverty-stricken inhabitants who live trapped in the crossfire.
Getz, Zuni and Gabi, in the end, meet in a fateful game that only life can make so real.
MAIN CREDITS
Written & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Research Conducted by Georgia Anagnou / Director of Photography: Yiannis Avgeropoulos / Research Coordinator: Apostolis Kaparoudakis / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Editing: Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Yiannis Koliris, Hristos Kostakopoulos / Sound-Music by Eleni Mathioudaki / A Small Planet production for ERT © 2004 – 2005
TECHNICAL DATA
Original shooting format: SD PAL 576i / Aspect Ratio: 4:3 PAL / Languages: Greek, Portugese / Subtitles: Greek, English / Available Versions: Greek, English, International
DURATION: 60 min.
In 1994, in the city of Juarez in Mexico, a mysterious series of murders began. Up to this day, some 500 young women have been found savagely raped, strangled, butchered and dumped in the desert...
The murders, which have remained unsolved and which continue to take place, began at the same time as the application in the area of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). At that time, many industrial plants were set up by large multinational companies in Juarez. This resulted in thousands of workers from all over Mexico making their way to Juarez in search of a place in the free trade sun. Today, over half the workers live in shacks without electricity or running water.
At the same time, the city has become one of the world's principal transit centres for cocaine, while the authorities seem to be controlled more by the drug cartels than anyone else. The documentary fits together the pieces of the puzzle of the murders and their impunity, and displays most tragically the extreme and untold consequences of the globalization of the world's markets...
Written & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Director of Photography: Yorgos Sotiropoulos / Research Coordinator: Apostolis Kaparoudakis / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Editing: Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Yiannis Biliris / Research: Petros Koublis, Manolis Filaktidis / Research - Fixing: Thomas Eckert / A Small Planet production for ERT © 2004 – 2005
TECHNICAL DATA
Original shooting format: SD PAL 576i / Aspect Radio 4:3 PAL / Languages: Greek, Spanish, English / Subtitles: Greek / Available Versions: Greek, English, International
DURATION: 55 min.
At the 26th of December of 2004 a new Scream tore the breasts of Indonesia. Over 250.000 people died because of a “giant” earthquake and tsunami that Followed.
The largest tidal wave of history was created on August 27, 1883 by successive eruptions of the volcano Krakatoa in Indonesia. From the eruption of the volcano, the waves agitated the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, enormous coral rocks of 600 tones weight “landed” on the beach, the uproar was heard from Australia to India and human bodies were found on the beaches of Zanzibar. The moon was painted for 2 years in a deep blue color, because of the ash that “flooded” the atmosphere.
Inspired from this dramatic situation, the Norwegian painter Edward Munch created his famous painting, called “The Scream”. All of a sudden, the painting was stolen from the museum of Oslo in August of 2003, a couple of months before the catastrophe that convulsed Indonesia and the whole planet.
MAIN CREDITS
Written & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Produced by Mathew Tsimitakis / Director of Photography: Nikos Mistriotis / Research Coordinator: Apostolis Kaparoudakis / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Editing: Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Yiannis Koliris, Hristos Kostakopoulos / Additional Research by Vasilis Katsardis / Sound-Music by Eleni Mathioudaki / A Small Planet production for ERT © 2004 – 2005
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: 55 min.
In the 16th century, Bolivia flooded Europe with silver. Eight million natives breathed their last, working as slaves for the Spanish conquistadores in the mines of Potosi. The same exploitation has continued to our day, the only difference being that multinational companies are looting the country's resources and even exercising rights over rainwater...
According to native myths, which arose after the massacres of the 16th century, the holy Condor would fly again over the lands which once belonged to the Incas and would liberate them. The documentary records the first victory of a popular uprising against the multinational giants, at a time when markets are becoming globalized. Among those interviewed is the country's president, Evo Morales.
MAIN CREDITS
Written & Directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos / Director of Photography: Yiannis Avgeropoulos / Research Coordinator: Apostolis Kaparoudakis / Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri / Editing: Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Hristos Kostakopoulos / Research: Vasilis Katsardis, Manolis Filaktidis / Website Editors: Kostas Georgiadis, Vasilis Katsardis, Elli Kritharaki / A Small Planet production for ERT © 2004 – 2005
TECHNICAL DATA
Original shooting format: SD PAL 576i / Aspect Radio 4:3 PAL / Languages: Greek, Spanish / Subtitles: Greek / Available Versions: Greek, English, International
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