Dale Frank Nobody’s Sweetie is a visual extravaganza showcasing the life and work of one of Australia’s most Successful and prolific contemporary artists. The film is an intimate portrait of a very private man and reveals his well guarded life behind his work.
The stakes are high, the art world is fickle and Dale spends as lavishly as he creates. His ever-evolving rural estate is home to the largest private Natural History collection in Australia, and he’s creating an exotic arid zone Botanical gardens in the surrounding fifty hectares.
But where the light shines brightest, shadows are the darkest: on top of a crushing workload, Dale has inner demons and health struggles to contend with. Due to a debilitating neurodegenerative illness, Dale battles chronic and excruciating pain. With the help of prescribed morphine and the support of his good-humoured assistants James and Trev, Dale’s relentless creative drive, resilience and capacity for hard work bulldozes through each day to get the job done.
A musician’s quest for rock’n’roll glory takes him from the bars of Toronto to the clubs of London, but after eight years chasing a deal, he’s sick of the trend-crazy music business and turns to solitary song writing. Now, twenty years later, the mysterious tunesmith emerges from his parents’ basement with DIY flair and a power-pop masterpiece he believes will change everything. Is the world still waiting for Harkness?
Power To Heal presents a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. It highlights how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a momentous coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country, practically overnight.
Before Medicare, disparities in access to hospitals were dramatic. Less than half the hospitals served blacks and whites equally, and in the South 1/3 would not admit blacks even in life-threatening emergencies. Power To Heal shows how the Civil Rights Movement worked with the federal government to move toward health care equity.
Current efforts to implement health reform echo this struggle of a half century ago to move the health care system toward equity.
The Death Tour follows wrestling hopefuls across remote Indigenous communities in Canada’s far North on ‘the most gruelling tour in indie wrestling’.
Each winter, when the lakes freeze over, a motley gang of professional wrestlers leaves Winnipeg on a one-of-a-kind wrestling trip through remote Indigenous communities of Northern Manitoba. Wrestling insiders call it the ‘Death Tour’ – both for the physical hardships endured on the road and the emotional toll it takes on those who experience it. Famous for its star-studded alumni, the trip offers wrestlers a rare taste of fame and a chance to see if they have what it takes to make it in professional wrestling. This deeply personal documentary travels through Canada’s frozen North and into the wrestlers’ minds as they battle the elements, each other, and the impacts of a colonial past.
This test of strength and grit will show how far some are willing to go to live their dreams
NUKEMAILING follows three employees of Ukrainian nuclear power plants, revealing the human toll of Russia’s occupation: fear, illegal interrogations, and torture.
For IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, the perilous conditions under which staff are forced to work remain a grave concern. The film also carries a personal resonance for director Pavlo Cherepin, who first learned the word evacuation as a child in the aftermath of the Chornobyl disaster.
By weaving present-day testimonies with echoes of the past, the documentary reflects on a country that has never forgotten the world’s worst civilian nuclear accident—nor the promise it made in 1994, when Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for security guarantees.
Capturing Kennedy shares the extraordinary untold story of Jacques Lowe, a Holocaust survivor and young immigrant who, at just 28, became the personal photographer to President John F. Kennedy. Drawing on newly uncovered historic interviews and unprecedented access to Lowe’s archives, this documentary chronicles his remarkable journey from surviving the horrors of World War II to capturing some of the most iconic photographs of the Kennedy era. Through Lowe’s unique lens, Capturing Kennedy sheds light on one of the last untold chapters of the Kennedy Presidency and the young photographer whose images shaped it.
Water is unquestionably our most precious resource. And yet, a global water crisis is unfolding before our very eyes.
It will become humanity’s greatest threat.
Maji (water in Swahili) tells the story of Leo Gripari, who embarks on five physical challenges around the world to raise money for sustainable water projects, directly helping those who need it most.
As his global journey unfolds, MAJI tells the stories of experts, activists and communities fighting to protect water in their own individual ways – weaving together human stories, expert insights and physical challenges across some of the most challenging terrains on the planet, all in the name of saving our most precious resource.
A documentary series that shows the most frenetic cities in the world from the point of view of those who safeguard the daily lives of citizens.
Thefts, accidents and cries for help are some of the problems that security and rescue forces face day after day in the most hectic metropolises on the planet.
Elite law enforcement agents venture out to patrol the most dangerous neighborhoods to thwart criminal attempts.
Special operations and investigations combat organized crime.
Emergency medical teams and rescue units strategically placed to respond to any and all emergencies.
A series that reveals the hot, action filled life of these tough cities that never sleep… without filters.
An OMAVA Production
Street Cops: São Paulo is a documentary series of real cases of police forces in one of the 5 most populated megacities in the world: 23 million people in 1,500 square kilometers. And like any huge city, it has stories of crime, insecurity and infractions. That’s why the police are always alert to respond to any contingency in this metropolis that never stops:
With docu-reality aesthetics and the best in technology, to achieve images with even more definition, we go through all kinds of situations that a city like São Paulo can encompass.
The cameras of Street Cops: São Paulo record with a subjective view the daily life of the police officers who are in charge of protecting the city and enforcing the law, patrolling the streets to defuse daily crime and even participating in special operations, with exclusive access, to destroy national and international criminal organizations.
Each episode will be a privileged witness of how they resolve extreme situations with the utmost care, discovering how they make decisions in seconds, without hesitation, to avoid irreversible damage to the victims. The cameras will accompany their units to live from the front line what happens in chases and high tension transfers.
The constant challenge of the police is to control and keep protected all the districts that make up the city. To reduce risks to people and property and to guarantee security.
An OMAVA Production