Theatrical Docs

SNOWBLIND

DISCOVERY FILMS
1 x 90mins

The Iditarod is the most gruelling sled dog race in the world - a thousand mile race from the south to the north of Alaska in the coldest month, March. Snowblind follows 23 year old Rachel Scdoris who is legally blind as she trains herself and her team of dogs for the epic ordeal. 15 days of ice and exhaustion, danger and exhilaration. Everything comes together in an action packed drama, a truly American epic as this amazing, heroic young woman experiences the agony and ecstasy of competing in one of the greatest races on earth. Directed by Vikram Jayanti.
THE SHOCK DOCTRINE

MORE 4, SUNDANCE INSTITUTE
1 x 90mins

Directed by Award Winning filmmakers, Michael Winterbottom and Matt Whitecross, this is a feature documentary based on Naomi Klein's bestselling new book, The Shock Doctrine which explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world - through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.
DISTRIBUTED BY - Entertainment 1
THE YES MEN: FIX THE WORLD

ARTE, HBO, CHANNEL 4 BRITDOC FOUNDATION
1 x 90mins

Directed by 'The Yes Men' (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) together with Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 producer/editor Kurt Engfehr, The Yes Men Fix The World is an hilarious and shocking documentary. It leads us through the unbelievably daring political pranks of the Yes Men - two gonzo activists - as they fool the world's media by pretending to be senior executives of corporations ranging from Dow Chemicals to Halliburton and Exxon. Their aim - to highlight the greed and brutal selfishness of some of the world¹s biggest and most powerful multi-national corporations. The film won the audience award at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival and was selected by the Guardian newspaper one of the top twenty films of the summer.
DISTRIBUTED BY - REZO
SINS OF MY FATHER

MORE4, ARTE, DISCOVERY LATIN AMERICA
two versions -
1 x 80mins and 1 x 60mins

This is the incredible story of Pablo Escobar, the infamous boss of Colombia’s Medellin drug cartel, told for the very first time by his son, Sebastian and his widow Maria Isabel Santos. In Nicolas Entel’s film Sebastian tells of his extraordinary childhood, growing up with a father he loved but whom he knew to be Colombia’s enemy number one. He tells of times of extraordinary luxury and extravagance, and other times on the run. And Sebastian and his widow open the family vaults to share their private and long hidden archives. But this is also the story of two of Escobar’s most prominent victims, the Minister of Justice and a politician about to be elected President of Colombia, as told by their sons. They were among hundreds that Escobar had killed in the 1980’s. The film follows Sebastian as he tries to break the cycle of revenge and assassination by seeking reconciliation with the sons of his father’s victims.