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 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!
Muneeza Sheikh wears her faith on her sleeve – if she’s wearing sleeves, that is. And that’s a problem.
Filmed over 5 years, Muneeza in the Middle is the story of a 2nd generation Muslim trying to reconcile her religious values with her cultural and western values. Her religion urges modesty in all facets of life, but she’s a confident, beautiful, outspoken and successful lawyer who also turns heads with her piercings, fitted clothing, and cosmetic enhancements.
Muneeza is a devout worshiper and bound to challenge common stereotypes about Muslims.
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.
Love. Marriage. & Sex In The City explores three distinct Asian cultures, India, Japan and Singapore, through the institution of marriage.
Many young Indians are turning their backs on the tradition of arranged marriages, choosing instead to marry for love.
Those who marry for love are drawing a sharp backlash from traditionalists. A non-governmental organisation called the Love Commandos shelters couples who escape from their parents and helps them get married.
In India where millions don’t even get dignity in life, asking for dignity in death is a far cry. Every year thousands of unclaimed bodies are found in the country, with no one undertaking to give them a decent cremation or burial with due rituals. But there are a handful of people who perform an unusual social service – of giving these unclaimed bodies a dignified passage to the next life. Living for the Dead takes viewers on an emotional journey through the eyes of three individuals who perform this extraordinary service recounting their experiences and providing an insight into modern day India. Living for the Dead chronicles their struggles, hopes and seeks to uncover their lives as they continue to perform a service that few take up.
How can important memories be conveyed to the next generation? In Japan, a country of forests and mountains, work methods that have long been at the heart of mountain life – like tree cutting, slash and burn agriculture, and roof thatching – are quietly disappearing in the course of modernisation. Recently, some Japanese high school students have gone up to the mountains to see the people who live there and possess these skills, asking them about their craft and about life itself… writing down what they hear, word for word, unchanged, just as it was spoken. This documentary takes a close look at the lives of four such masters of life in the mountains and the four high school students who learnt from them, capturing the moments when, by listening and recording, memories were transmitted from one to the other.
This is the story of a small school in the mountains, three girls who hail from faraway places and a tough journey of endless training. Far from their hometown, they live a life vastly different from that of other teens. Their goal is to become masters of Kung Fu.
Every day at dawn, they begin their daily routine to strengthen their bodies and minds. Every tear and every drop of sweat is part of their quest towards being experts at Kung Fu.
The romantic world of Kung Fu masters fighting for justice or survival is no more. Now, their arena is the national martial arts competition. Will they ever realize their dream and win a gold medal?