Into the Shadows

By Pep Bonet

Documentary film "Into the Shadows" is a pursuit into dark underbelly of the inner city of Johannesburg: the slum buildings, the struggle for survival as migrants, refugees and the destitute forsake their identity, their rights, and their health to survive.

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Prefabs - Palaces for the People

By Elisabeth Blanchet

A web-documentary about the Excalibur prefabs estate, 70 years of post-war British housing history and the stories behind the prefabs' walls. This is part 1 of a whole series about the remaining prefabs "pockets" in the UK.

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Just to let you know that I'm alive

By Ghizzoni & Zuccala

A multimedia documentary about violence against Saharawi women and the impact of war on their lives. A journey across the desert, in Western Sahara, to collect their voices and discover, through the eyes of these women, the forgotten story of their people.

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Soweto

By Per-Anders Pettersson

Soweto, South Africa's largest township best known for its activism during apartheid, is today a thriving development hub and a fertile ground for new trends in fashion, art, and music. It is a great microcosm to show the many facets of the rainbow nation.

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The Irish Travellers

By Birte Kaufmann

Unknown to most, Ireland has its own indigenous minority group with a nomadic background. Birte shares the lives of the Irish Traveller community photographing intimate daily moments and their struggle to hold on to their traditional ways.

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Shadow of the Condor - Final Phase

By Joao Pina

With his first two trips funded with Emphas.is, Pina is now one trip away from finishing a 7-year body of work. By returning to Paraguay and Bolivia he will complete his investigation on the South America’s military dictatorships.

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Crossroads: The Mongolian Choice

By O. Laban-Mattei

Olivier proposes to his 11 years old son, Lisandru, to travel through Mongolia to meet a people in search of their identity. Polaroid in hand, father and son turn their gaze on a country moving towards an economic revolution, a people caught between aïrak and Big Macs.

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Living with the Dead

By Jessica and James Chance

We wish to finalize production on a 30-minute documentary film to engage a broader audience with pressing issues of poverty and population density, through the lives, stories and hopes of the nearly 2,000 residents who call Manila`s North Cemetery home.

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Milk and Blood: South Sudan

By Trevor Snapp

An immersive, transmedia book project for the iPad on the birth of the world`s newest country from photographer Trevor Snapp and reporter Alan Boswell, combining reporting over three years with current on the ground dispatches.

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