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.
Get Real – Season 16
Get Real! follows stories that touch the very nerve of Asia. This investigative documentary series travels across the continent, revealing old issues that are still plaguing today’s modern society, highlighting trends and triggering debate.
Foxy Ladies
In the midst of troubling times Paul and Ouila Coate were scrabbling to make ends meet, until they hit upon a great idea. A cup of coffee. And thus Seattle’s Foxy Ladies coffee chain was born. With its scantily-clad baristas, this steamy coffee house was bound to take off, and six years and 13 locations later, business is booming. This docu-series follows a dysfunctional family of six dramatic, fun and sexy Foxy Lady baristas whose personal dramas always spill over into their professional lives.
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.
Find Me a Family
In Find Me a Family, retired elders who live alone with either no grandchildren, or little contact with their own grandchildren, are matched with a family who want to give their youngsters a chance to have a surrogate grandparent.
Extreme Animal Attacks
Every year, thousands of people around the world are the victims of animal attacks, encounters that can lead to serious injury and sometimes death. Presented by the flamboyant zoologist Nigel Marvin, Extreme Animal Attacks pieces together the most rare and unusual attacks from animals in the wild, to those in captivity.
Extreme Adventure Emergencies
Extreme…Adventure Emergencies looks at the problems faced by Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand in their Atlantic balloon crossing attempt; Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ attempt to break records with a solo mission to the North Pole – which ended in his having to be rescued and suffering from frostbite; yachtsman Rob Matthews caught in a freak storm in the Tasman Sea; and sky diver Barry Dawson, who narrowly avoided being killed in a plane crash.
Eddie Jordan’s Bad Boy Racers
This programme offers a group of convicted car criminals with no sense of direction in their lives the chance of a lifetime: to train as mechanics and to form a race team under the pupilage of Formula One boss Eddie Jordan, as they attempt to go from chequered past to chequered flag.
Death Meal
Hindus celebrate ‘Mrityubhoj’, or the Death Feast, on the 13th day after a cremation as a remembrance for the departed soul, and also as a ritual to help the soul find heavenly abode. At this event, thirteen ‘Brahmins’ are fed a lavish meal, followed by donations to the temple in the hope to garner peace and blessings for the departed. The feast is later extended to the relatives, neighbours and the rest of the village.
Today, Mrityubhoj has become akin to a status symbol and a reflection of a family’s social standing. Even the poorest of poor are compelled under circumstances beyond their control to organize large death feasts, taking a toll on their very existence.
This film takes a fly on the wall approach, following a family in the Chambal district in India, as they get ready to organize a death feast following the demise of their father. Caught between tradition, societal pressure, and prestige on the one hand and on the other hand, activists trying to put a lid on the pernicious practice of Mrityubhoj, especially for the poor, it tries to capture their predicament of being caught between a rock and a hard place.