Lighter than Orange – The Legacy of Dioxin in Vietnam

Lighter than Orange, 72 min, documentary film with subtitles EN, FR, DE, VN available as DCP: EN and DE; BLURAY: EN and DE, DVD: EN, DE, FR, VN, E (from 12/2015 IT: 2016)

“It smelled sweet,” one woman remembered, “like ripe guavas.” Others remember it hanging in the air like a thick fog. Some say when aircrafts sprayed, it looked like stripes of powder decorating the sky. Yet their poetic observations are in stark contrast to the devastating power of Agent Orange and the painful consequences the Vietnamese people would soon experience.

Director: Matthias Leupold

Matthias Leupold, was born in East Berlin in 1959. Since

the 1980s he has been creating a parallel world through

his staged photography. Scenes from this world have

been exhibited in over 50 exhibitions in Europe, Asia

and the USA, and are published in several books, as

well as archived in international collections. Leupold is a

professor of Photography at an art and design university

in Berlin. It was during a trip with his photography students

to Vietnam in 2011, that Leupold first came in personal

contact with victims of Agent Orange, and it was out of

these encounters that he developed the material for this

documentary.

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary

Runtime:1 hour 12 minutes

Completion Date:February 1, 2015

Production Budget:124,000 USD

Country of Origin:Germany

Country of Filming:Viet Nam

Film Language:English, Vietnamese

Ulises doesn't live here anymore

Migration round.

Spain, a country of emigrants, received thousands of them earlier in the century. The crisis changed the trend and now many have been accompanied by many Spaniards who follow the same path.

Director: Juan Carlos García-sampedro

Born in León ( Spain ) on July 15, 1961 .

He studied in Madrid and CES, TAI film schools and the Círculo de Bellas Artes, among others. He has also studied at her school of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Banos (EICTV ) .

He has developed his career as a filmmaker and writer in the field of cinema and television , directing films, documentaries and programs of all kinds. He has worked in television as TVE, Tele Expo in Sevilla’92 or Tele 5, and TV producers like Zeppelin or National Greographic .

In film he has directed seven short films and feature-length documentary " De Asturias to Vietnam, a trip back in time ."

Specifications

Film Type:Documentary, Short

Runtime:30 minutes

Completion Date:January 1, 2015

Production Budget:37,000 EUR

Country of Origin:Spain

Country of Filming:Peru, Spain, Sweden

Film Language:Spanish

The Sentinel (2015)

The Sentinel follows the story of a father, Joel, who cares deeply for his family and takes pride in raising his only daughter, Samantha. However, his world is thrown into chaos when she is kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and left traumatized. Against the wishes of the police, he takes it upon himself to find the man who did it and make him pay for it, no matter what. The film takes you through a progressive journey of choosing right over wrong, and putting family first.rough a progressive journey of choosing right over wrong, and putting family first.

Director: Jay Parikh

Jay Parikh’s journey as a filmmaker began way before he crossed seven seas and reached all the way west to Uncle Sam's land in 2012. Despite having a degree and the brains of an engineer, he has a heart, every cell of which screams out loud with his immense passion for filmmaking. With over a five year long experience in the art of film making, Jay has won several accolades and awards for his work. As a director, he is not just entitled to giving life to his ideas and the story, but also giving creative liberty to his actors and bringing out the best in them. And Jay clearly aces in it. Being a young filmmaker from India, Jay has come a long way by overcoming language and cultural barriers and creating a niche in arena of American film. His goal is to create movies which not just touch people's heart, but bring alive all five senses.

Specifications
Film Type:Short
Runtime:17 minutes 49 seconds
Completion Date:August 24, 2015
Production Budget:4,000 USD
Country of Origin:United States
Country of Filming:United States
Film Language:English