The mission to turn Singapore into a global city of the arts is underway. This film presents an exclusive window into the evolution of the National Gallery Singapore. Over three years, follow the architects and artisans striving to create Singapore’s new cultural jewel, as well as the curators and conservators overseeing the masterpieces bound for its world class galleries.
My Son the Pornographer
My Son the Pornographer is a love story about the relationship between a father and a son. We follow Art, a man raised with conservative moral values, as he visits his son Kole who works as a writer and actor in the pornography business in Prague.
My First Tattoo
Tattoos are everywhere. It seems like everyone wants one. But what’s really fascinating is the anticipation and transgression that having a tattoo still represents and the feelings and fear behind having your first one.
From the producer of Channel 4’s ‘My Tattoo Addiction’, comes a new and intimate documentary that meets people about to have their first tattoo. We hear their reasons behind it, from ink-crossed lovers, to BFFs, mid-life crisis and superfans. We’ll follow them to the studio and share their experience, then we’ll be with them as they reveal their creation to the world.
My Bare Lady
My Bare Lady is a must-see reality series in which we find out if Porn Stars can become classical actresses in just three weeks. Guided by mentor and British theatre legend Christopher Biggins, four female adult stars, selected after a casting call and audition, are challenged to go from sex to Shakespeare. It’s a fish out of water story as they’re put through a traditional British theatre school and thrust on stage in London’s famous West End to perform a classical acting showcase of the greats. They will be living together and learning together as they take on the biggest challenge of their lives. Can they pull it off? My Bare Lady will reveal all!
Miss Tibet: Beauty In Exile
Within a culture long revered for spirituality and a high value placed on inner beauty, a maverick Tibetan promoter engages in a most un-Tibetan undertaking: a western-style beauty pageant. Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile follows Tenzin Khecheo, a Tibetan-American teenager from Minnesota as she travels to the Indian Himalayas to compete in this “beauty pageant with a difference.”
Pageant founder Lobsang Wangyal seeks to fill a void within the Tibetan exile community by bringing a bit of glamour into his corner of the world. Complete with catwalks and evening gowns, he sees his pageant as an opportunity for exiled Tibetan women to both immerse themselves in Tibetan culture and to add their voices to global fight for a free Tibet by using the pageant as a unlikely political platform.
Masterpieces Unveiled
Exceptional masterpieces from Caravaggio, Titian, Bosch and Van Eyck to Botticelli, Leonardo, Piero Della Francesca and Velasquez, this series reveals how great artists are not only extraordinary interpreters of art but also true narrators of their times.
A Life in Stages
A Life in Stages is the story of Des McAnuff, a man whose life and career has revolved around some of greatest venues and performers in theatre – an award-winning director, producer and playwright whose first stage was his high school audito- rium in Scarborough, Ontario.
Ink Therapy
Sometimes a tattoo doesn’t just change your body, it changes your life.
INK THERAPY follows tattoo artist Charlie Hyde and his motley crew at his Simi Valley tattoo shop in California as he helps clients, cover up their physical scars with tattoos, free of charge.
From burns and self harm injuries to medical scars and lifelong birthmarks, no blemish is too big or too emotional for Charlie and his team to transform. Charlie’s innovative work is the newest frontier in the world of tattoo cover ups. He’s going beyond the art of fixing bad tattoo …to erasing actual physical differences, by replacing them with wonderful works of art.
Gods Must be Hungry
How do devotees appease their god’s hunger? The Gods Must Be Hungry gives a whole new perspective of food as it takes an appetizing exploration into the practices of feeding gods or better known as offerings to appease them, to seek their favour or to express one’s gratitude.