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
In Latin America, 35,000 kilometers of borders delimit the territories of Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay and Brazil.
But each border is not just a boundary between nations. It is a line that separates the legal from the illegal. A very thin line… that many are willing to cross.
A series that takes you to the most convulsed border points in South America, such as the border between Colombia and Venezuela; the Rumichaca international bridge that joins Colombia with Ecuador; the “Triple Border” between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina; the desert border between Chile and Bolivia, among others.
Day after day, each border becomes an agitated and dangerous scenario, where anything can happen: uncontrolled migration, drug trafficking, smuggling of goods and exotic animals, and trafficking of people destined for sexual exploitation or semi-slavery. However, men and women are there. From policemen, gendarmes, to customs officers, they relentlessly fight those who seek to break the law.
Entirely filmed in the hottest and most dangerous borders of the region, by the hand of the real protagonists of the action… you will live the adrenaline, the tension, and the drama… And you will witness a battle against crime that is more extreme than ever.
An OMAVA Production
Every border in Latin America is a challenge to the ones who try to break the limits of legality. With exclusive access to border points in Argentina. Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Chile, Bolivia and Peru, Stop! Border Control LATAM explores new smuggling methods and the experience with which the security authorities stop all types of illegal traffic.
This series documents the work of six Latin American countries to arrest dangerous criminal organizations, and each episode captures the most unique crimes in a shocking reality show, which focuses on people who risk everything to circumvent border controls, and in the tragic situations that arise when they are discovered by the authorities who firmly determine.
An OMAVA Production
Every border in Latin America is a challenge to the ones who try to break the limits of legality. With exclusive access to border points in Argentina. Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Chile, Bolivia and Peru, Stop! Border Control LATAM explores new smuggling methods and the experience with which the security authorities stop all types of illegal traffic.
This series documents the work of six Latin American countries to arrest dangerous criminal organizations, and each episode captures the most unique crimes in a shocking reality show, which focuses on people who risk everything to circumvent border controls, and in the tragic situations that arise when they are discovered by the authorities who firmly determine.
An OMAVA Production
Every border in Latin America is a challenge to the ones who try to break the limits of legality. With exclusive access to border points in Argentina. Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Chile, Bolivia and Peru, Stop! Border Control LATAM explores new smuggling methods and the experience with which the security authorities stop all types of illegal traffic.
This series documents the work of six Latin American countries to arrest dangerous criminal organizations, and each episode captures the most unique crimes in a shocking reality show, which focuses on people who risk everything to circumvent border controls, and in the tragic situations that arise when they are discovered by the authorities who firmly determine.
An OMAVA Production
Cuba opens its doors for the first time and allows documenting the movement of one of the most important air terminals in Central America and the Caribbean: Havana’s José Martí International Airport.
Less than 20 kilometers from the center of the city, every year more than 9 million people transit under the watchful custody of the National Police and the United Nations Aircop Group, with a team specialized in migration control that performs a vital work for the entire region, since through Cuba they try to migrate illegally from all over the world to reach the continent.
Every hour the agents face the smuggling of regulated goods, weapons, or the attempt to enter money and goods without declaring them, but undoubtedly, one of the fundamental tasks is that carried out by the narcotics division, who are trained in the work of profiling passengers, looking for particular signs and strange movements to prevent the different drug trafficking crimes.
Organized crime knows no borders, but here the security forces are ready to take control and put a stop to it.
An OMAVA Production
There is a stopover at one of the busiest terminals in the old continent, Rome’s Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport – Fiumicino. With a movement of more than 40 million passengers and 260 thousand flights, the State Police must control to thwart any criminal attempt, from drug trafficking and illegal immigration, to minor crimes such as shoplifting in its exclusive commercial area.
While the anti-drug team is in charge of detecting and arresting the envoys of criminal networks that try to enter or leave the country with illegal cargo, the Border Unit and its elite group of experts in documentary crimes work tirelessly to control migratory crises.
Organized crime knows no boundaries, but here the security forces are ready to take control and put a stop to it.
An OMAVA LLC Production