DOCUMENTARIES

TIGERS AND HUMANS

  • TITLE: TIGERS AND HUMANS
  • GENRE : Documentary
  • PRODUCTION YEAR : 2017
  • RUNNING TIME : 89 min
  • COUNTRY : RUSSIA
  • DIRECTOR: Sergey Yastrzhembskiy
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY:
  • Producer/s : Sergey Yastrzhembskiy

SYNOPSIS :
A new film by Sergey Yastrzhembsky that highlights the gruesome massacre of tigers internationally. These felines are killed to fuel the trade for their teeth, skins, meat, and even bones to create "tiger wine."

The population of tigers worldwide has decreased dramatically over the last century. In 1900 over 100,000 tigers existed but the tiger trade has decreased these numbers significantly. Currently there are less than 3,500 tigers alive. Fewer than 20 South Chinese tigers are alive today and Caspian, Javanese, and Balinese tigers are now extinct.

Tigers and Humans takes a brutal, honest look into the industry and supply/demand that leads to the murder of thousands of tigers each year. The film also shows the beauty and power of the felines and sends a plea to save the tigers.

IVORY. A CRIME STORY

  • TITLE: IVORY. A CRIME STORY
  • GENRE : Documentary
  • PRODUCTION YEAR : 2016
  • RUNNING TIME : 89 min
  • COUNTRY : FRANCE, KENYA, RUSSIA
  • DIRECTOR: Sergey Yastrzhembskiy
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Alexandr Antonov, Frédéric Belge, William Chingonbe, Gabriele Clementi, Thierry Derouet, Yury Efremov, Alex Hofford, Elena Ivanova, Erick Kaglan, Elisbar Karavaev, Gleb Kiselev, Jonathan Klein, Yaniv Linton, Sergey Matveev, Vladimir Mernikov, Charlotte Notteghem, Anton Popilin, Diego Ramos, Narcisse Sandjon, Vitaly, Semenov, Nikolay Tarkhanov, Sergey Vasiliev, Alexander Voloshin
  • Producer/s : Sergey Yastrzhembskiy, Chris Bolzli, Leshan Lebasha

SYNOPSIS :
Ivory. A crime story is arguably one of the most condemning film ever made about the massacre of elephants in Africa. It fires arrows at a complex web of culprits, from China and Buddhist monks, to corrupt African high-officials, toothless NGOs and secretive Chinese businessmen, building fortunes on an never-increasing demand for ivory which has brought one of the world’s most intelligent animals to near the brink of extinction.

HEROES MANUFACTURED: COMICS BREAKING CONVENTIONS

  • GENRE : Documentary
  • PRODUCTION YEAR : 2016
  • RUNNING TIME : 70 min
  • COUNTRY : Canada
  • DIRECTOR: Yaron Betan
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Chris Porteus
  • PRODUCERS : Yaron Betan, Zavosh Zaboliyan, Stuart Steinberg, Alfonso Espinos, Bruno Marino
  • SYNOPSIS : Heroes Manufactured reveals the world of Canadian independent comic artists breaking into the comic book industry while facing some of pop culture’s biggest challenges. Mass production and an abundance of artists, writers, celebrities, and cosplayers make creating super heroes a tough job. Above all, the film explores the widespread struggles independent artists face to publish their work – and how they overcome them.

Featuring Interviews with Stan Lee, Kevin Smith, Neal Adams, Lou Ferrigno, Tia Carrere.

Featured Cameos appearances: Mark Hamill (Star Wars, Star Wars: The force Awakens), Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead), Christian Slater, Mike Tyson and many more…

FASCINATION: HELENA’S STORY

  • GENRE : Documentary
  • PRODUCTION YEAR : 2016
  • RUNNING TIME : 63 mins
  • COUNTRY : USA
  • DIRECTOR: Karen Goldfarb
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emilie Alpert
  • PRODUCERS : Karen Goldfarb
  • SYNOPSIS : An intimate portrait of Holocaust survivor Helena Weinrauch. She survived 3 concentration camps, 2 firing squads and the death march from Auschwitz to Bergen Belsen. Yet now , at the age of 92, she exudes an extraordinary joie de vivre and radiates forgiveness and love. And, as a mere girl of 88, she decided to fulfill a lifelong dream become a Ballroom Dancer. And yes, the lady can dance!

The film weaves her memories of the war with her joyous life now as a dancer.

AFRICA BLOOD & BEAUTY

  • TITLE: AFRICA BLOOD & BEAUTY
  • GENRE : Documentary
  • PRODUCTION YEAR : 2011
  • RUNNING TIME : 90 min
  • COUNTRY : AFRICA - RUSSIA
  • DIRECTOR: Sergey Yastrzhembskiy
  • Producer: Sergey Yastrzhembskiy

SYNOPSIS :
This film speaks of archaic peoples, their customs and mores, in an attempt to make the last snapshots of their traditional lifestyles before they are gone for good.
The protagonists of this film – the Bushmen, Pygmies, Surma and Hamer, Berbers and Himba, Yoruba and Dogon – live beyond the passage of time, doing their best to preserve ancestral traditions, believing in their gods and protecting their fragile world from the growing pressure of globalization.
This film is a declaration of love for Africa, the cradle of humankind. But it is also an appeal to the Africans to forgive us – for the progress that sows not only the good things…
Day by day, they are rapidly disappearing, those who still live “beyond the passage of time”:

Nomadic Berbers (Morocco): 600,000
Dogon (Mali): 500,000
Hamer (Ethiopia): 40, 000
Baka Pygmies (Cameroon): 30,000
Surma (Ethiopia): 30,000
Himba (Namibia): 10,000
Bushmen (Botswana): fewer than 400 in the Kalahari desert.

AGAVE IS LIFE

PRODUCTION: 2014
GENRE: Documentary

  • COUNTRY: USA
  • DIRECTOR: David Brown and Meredith Dreiss
  • NARRATED BY: James Olmos
  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Layton Blaylock

SYNOPSIS:
Agave is life is the story of mankind's symbiotic alliance with the marvelous agave plant, from which tequila, Mexico's iconic distilled spirit is derived.