(26') Documentary,Spain
Director  Neus Ballús Key crew size  2 Days editing  10 days

Jaume is 81 years old. Two years ago he bought a small digital video camera and discovered that he could use it to tell stories. For example, he could even film images from his childhood to tell his granddaughter about his past. "Grandad with a Movie Camera" is a family portrait based on Jaume's passion for filming everything around him and his fascination with this new means of expression. But, obviously, mastering a new skill has its technical problems.

(21')Documentary,Spain
Director  Francesc Pou Days editing  20 days

filmed by the subjects themselves. "Efecte Mirall (Famílies)" reflects the lives of six families from different areas of Catalonia with different lifestyles and interests. They have one thing in common: they all have agreed to allow the camera int o their private lives to give TV viewers and insight into their thoughts, dreams, problems and hopes. Each episode covers an important event or situation that will have an impact on how they live. All the families were given one or two home digital cameras for about three weeks. They then gave the program's team a total of approximately 200 hours of recordings of their lives, which were edited into 20-minute episodes. Depending on the quality and quantity of the material handed in, one or two episodes were made for each family. This is a documentary series that does not pass judgement, it simply observes. The families in the program are the real stars; they show us their world without a go-between. The result is a refreshingly new look at people's lives pack ed with emotions and real feelings.

(55')Documentary,France
Director  Arash Days editing  8 weeks
Funding sources   Arte France, ORF Total budget  286 000 US$

An Iranian family living in political exile in Europe and America decides to organize a secret meeting with the rest of the family, which still lives in Iran and which they haven’t seen for more than 20 years. The only place that proves to be possible for this meeting is Saudi Arabia. Despite all the dangers, the family members living in exile pretend to be Muslim pilgrims in order to be allowed to enter the holy cities of Medina and Mecca. There, in a small hotel room the long awaited, tearful reunion takes place after 20 years of separation. It proves to be a huge culture clash, not without humor, between the Muslim world and the western societies of Europe and America.

STAND ALONE(58')Documentary,Poland
Director  Maciej Drygas Key crew size  3 Funding sources  TVP/ARTE/APF/ADR

The film contains only archive materials and is an attempt to reconstruct one day of a life in People’s Poland, from dawn to dusk. Author chose an ordinary day, when nothing of the big historical events had happened – 27th September 1962. What did citizens do on that day? What were the most important things?

('26')Drama,CA
Director  Jean Bourbonnais Key crew size  12 Days shooting  4 days
Days editing   8 days Total budget  200,000 pe US$
Funding sources  Telefilm Canada/T élé-Québec/Canadian Television Fund/Tax credits provincial and federal

Pure Laine is a series of 16 programs dealing with a topic rarely discussed on television: ethnic minorities and THEIR view of the inhabitants of their new country. Dominique, the series' protagonist is a Haitian immigrant married to Chantal, a Québécoise from the Magdalen Islands. The couple has adopted a little Chinese girl, Ming. Their family is a reflection of the increasingly multi-ethnic nature of today's society. In successive episodes, Dominique recounts the up and downs of his integration, illustrated by scenes of his professional life (he teaches Québec history at a high school). Among the people he encounters are his Pakistani doctor, his Portuguese cleaning lady, a Haitian taxi driver and a Moroccan friend. These new Quebecers amuse themselves by debunking the clichés and prejudices of homegrown Quebecers. In the end, whom are the most talked about in the series?

(10')Fiction,Mexico
Director  Jack Zagha

The worst thing a woman can tell you is: I like you too...but only as a friend

(24')Entertainment,South Africa
Director  Craig Friedmond Key crew size  14 Days editing  4 days
Funding sources  SABC Total budget  2400 US$

It is a hybrid comedy that has element of reality television, documentary, improvisation and sitcom . The lines are blurred between fiction and reality. The central idea was to create a television series that captures the banal idiosyncrasies of daily life, the quirky entanglements of personal relations, the over-the-top social snafus. Sorted weaves wry, ironic stories around the minutiae of the main characters' sensitivities, his propensity for outrage, and misanthropic flouting of conventions -- which turn out to reveal an unwitting knack for placing him in Kafkaesque developments.

(54')Debate,India
Director  Judhajit Sarkar Key crew size 5 Days edit ing  30 days
Funding sources  Personal and friends

Myths are not made in a day. They get created over a period of time submerging the reality. They are fuelled by vested interests. Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Is she for real or a myth? If real what are her exact contributions? We explore this question and traverse a path none too comfortable. It is a thorny and prickly road. It compels us to question ourselves more than it seeks to malign. Myths need busting. As ordinary people, we do not question, we do not think. We do not grow, rather die in a time warp ... Thinking Aloud / Allowed is not just about the Saint of the Gutters. It is as much about our city and about us.

(50')Documentary,Korea
Director  Hak-su HAN Key crew size  44 Days editing  1 month
Funding sources  MBC Munhwa Broadcastin g Corporation) Total budget  50,000 US

This program was the stone that sent waves of tremors across the calm waters of Korea in mid-December of 2005. Through in-depth reports and scientific analyses, for six months, the program, "Producer's Note: Uncovering the Scientific Fraud of the Century" attempted to uncover academic errors and possibilities of falsification of one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the century: Advancement in Human Stem Cell research. The ripple effects of the invest igation rocked the foundation of not only Koreans but throughout the global science communities. The 2005 paper published in the Science Journal by professor Woo-suk Hwang had made him a national hero. He was heralded by the global media and the science co mmunity to have advanced science to another forefront. He was the savior of patients suffering from chronically incurable diseases and conditions. The Korean Government made plans to build a multi-million-research facility in his name to further his area o f study. Time Magazine named one of his research products as 'The Best Innovation of the Year" Korean Air offered to fly him and his wife first class to anywhere, anytime, for a lifetime. Life for Prof. Hwang couldn't get better. Everyone was happy, hopefu l, and unfailingly on the bandwagon of revering Prof. Hwang as something better than sliced bread. Until one journalist from one television station began his investigation on a tip that Prof. Hwang had falsified some data findings in his infamous paper and soon broadcasted his findings. That was the beginning of the unraveling the threads of deceit. In the end, one fact after another, various findings by Prof. Hwang seemed to be based on facts that couldn't be verified. But in the process of the initial bro adcasting of this program on December 15th 2005 to the follow up program in early January 2006. The program series and the journalist were in the wrong in the public's eye. Producer's Note, the first of its kind of investigative reporting program series in Korea, had to stop airing from external pressures. The journalist and his family had to live in hiding. The country and its people were unreceptive to any hint of alleged slander against the new national hero. The journalist, the program series, and the T V station were on the chopping block.

(71')Documentary,New Zealand
Director  Leanne Pooley Key crew size  4 Days editing  50 days
Total budget  140,000 US$ Funding sources  TVNZ, NZ on Air, Spacific Films

On the 28th of May 1999 Lesley Martin took her dying mother in her arms pulled a pillow across her face and hugged her tightly until she stopped breathing. The decision to end her mother's life came after what had been a harrowing journey for the 35-year-old nurse. When her mother Joy was diagnosed with bowel cancer Lesley chose to quit her job and take care of her. During the time they spent together Joy asked Lesley to make a promise.She asked her daughter to help her when it was “time”, and to make it quick. In 2004 Lesley Martin stood trial for attempting to murder her mother.  She became a focal point for the international voluntary euthanasia debate.  “The Promise” is her incredible, moving, defiant story.