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.
For the Love of Shakespeare
Imagine a group of students from an isolated school in a remote mountain in China, with no access to the outside world, totally ignorant of the English language – reciting the sonnets of William Shakespeare. Follow them as they learn the classics through an ancient Chinese method of recitation, practicing diligently for a grand English speaking competition – where over 1000 Chinese children will for three hours, fluently and without pause, recite Shakespeare’s verses.
Born Again Buddhists
Krishna taught it; Plato believed it; Freud rejected it. Through the centuries, great minds have been fascinated, entranced or troubled by one powerful idea: reincarnation. As bizarre or supernatural as it sounds, reincarnation is still a living practice and a very real way of life in the last Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan where young reincarnates are still recognised everyday.
Art in the City: Dubai Walls
Art in the City – Dubai Walls is a documentary about sixteen of the world’s greatest street artists armed with spray cans and stencils to conquer Dubai’s art scene. In just 20 days personalities like Ron English, D-Face and ROA turn a public shopping area into a never-seen-before open air gallery. The camera follows each one of them during preparation and realization of their murals with a vivid insight of the artists’ techniques and their ways of working.