http://adameditor.com/films daily 1.0 2023-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1500478134571-JXRM81B9SQIYBN0WURLW/DCR82DwXcAI46vw.jpg Films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1560164676037-C4425MABG3TW2A7G444P/Screen-Shot-2018-08-29-at-14.44.23-e1535550799633.png Films DURATION: 29’ To date at least 20 British nationals, some with no previous experience of combat, have travelled to Syria to fight Isis on the frontline. Eight of these Brits have lost their lives. This film follows the journeys of parents as they investigate why their children went to join the Kurdish army in their fight against Isis. What led these young Brits to risk everything, travelling thousands of miles from home to wage war against the world’s most feared terrorist organisation, fighting someone else’s war? Directors and Producers: Tom Huntingford, George Cowie and Martin Armstrong Executive Producers: Charlie Phillips, Jacqueline Edenbrow and Mustafa Khalili More at The Guardian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1560163140605-YYQMEKW0P1YQCCSD51XT/2019-05-17_10-45-26__e1946ce2-7890-11e9-9de5-0a5759dde30c.jpg Films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1560166530674-BXPZHCI3YHQ9P9TPSLO1/da98cd4ecb1dfc08.jpg Films DURATION: 20’ Mark, a 60 year old fledgling storm chaser recently diagnosed with lung cancer, sets out across the Midwest with his friend's nephew in search of a tornado before the two month season comes to an end. The film was in competition at Tribeca Film Festival 2018. It won the Jury Prize at Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival putting it on the Oscars long list for Best Short Documentary. Director: Liam Saint-Pierre Producers: Liam Saint-Pierre & Ross Williams Full film and more at The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1582631254615-R2TX295QO8UW4R6FYA7X/MV5BMmJhYTIxZTQtMDNiYS00MGQ1LWE5ZTgtZDNkMzJkMTU3NmY1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTEwNTc3MzE4._V1_SY1000_CR0%2C0%2C654%2C1000_AL_.jpg Films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1698670562434-WMLTXAU5G63DOGIBYQYH/image-asset.jpeg Films DURATION: 90 A tight-knit crabbing community in the U.S. fights for a sea wall to save their beloved island from vanishing into the Chesapeake Bay. Despite many of them not believing in man-made climate change, they engage in conversations with three filmmakers who do. Shot over four years, Stayers sparks self-reflective journeys on opposite sides of the climate debate. The film explores universal topics such as why we feel so attacked and provoked by people who disagree with us, especially at a time of increasing polarization. Anchored in a collective search for common ground and solutions, the film explores what it takes to listen and create meaningful conversations across the divide. Turns out, it’s harder than we think, but hearteningly possible. IN POST PRODUCTION Director: Julia Dahr Co-directors: Hannah Jayanti & Julie Lunde Lillesæter Producer: Natalya Sarch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1698671972243-W9MU5U7ACLP7G1KVB44V/noballgames.jpg Films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1560161757036-6B3PKE18QBJXDBDCY7ZQ/TYFTR+Poster1.jpg Films DURATION: 85' Over the last four years Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, has used his camera to document the life of his family, his village and the impact of climate change. Over the years he has documented floods, droughts, storms but also the more human impacts of climate change - kids are sent home from school when school fees can’t be paid; men are moving to towns in search for jobs; and family tensions rise. But refusing to give up, Kisilu initiates a plan to bring his community back together, mitigate against the changing climate and save his family. It takes him all the way the UN Climate Talks in Paris. "Mastery in the art of filmmaking " - One World Media. More about the film World Premiere CPH:DOX 2017 In Competition: Hot Docs, Sheffield Doc Fest One of The Guardians 15 must-see films about the climate crisis Director: Julia Dahr Producer: Hugh Hartford Executive Producer: Sabine Bubeck-Paaz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1698672404559-BC7THLIW1410R3O15OQS/image-asset.jpeg Films - Hong Kong's Rooftop Rebels | Witness Duration: 25’ Airin and her friends are rooftoppers in Hong Kong. They refuse to play by the rules and sneak to the top of the city's soaring skyscrapers. But their high-rise antics are not just for thrills. Two years after the pro-democracy 'Umbrella Movement' was cleared from the streets, many young people are in a state of despair. They're anxious about their futures - from unaffordable housing and wealth inequality to the growing influence of Mainland China. Airin believes their defiant stunts can inspire others to stand up against powerful elites. Will they mobilise Hong Kongers to fight for change, or just land themselves in a lot of trouble? Director and Producer: San San F Young https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1699378165384-XV7ITEPOLAL7FD6QRZPS/HKMT-Portrait_2.png Films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1452707780100-0SIJ52ZK4Q72QLLB6UE8/sunhua1.jpg Films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1453224939388-6T12MQVURC43PVNWKRVO/image-asset.jpeg Films DURATION 25' Ricardo de Olivera is a Brazilian 'pedreiro', a real rebel architect. He has built over 100 houses with no formal training while utilising the most basic tools, all within his local community of Rocinha, Brazil's largest favela, situated right in the centre of Rio de Janeiro. Working on a variety of projects across the favela, including his own house, Ricardo explains how these simple buildings meet the social and budgetary needs of their clients. But as the city gears up for the World Cup and Olympic Games, life in Rocinha is changing and even Ricardo cannot escape the violence spilling over from the government's favela 'pacification' programme. Whilst Ricardo struggles to provide a better life for his own family, Brazil's new profile on the world stage has also led to an influx of urban planners, NGOs and well-meaning architects, all hoping to improve the physical conditions of the favela – and bringing with them the very real threat of gentrification. Luis Carlos Toledo, the architect behind the master plan for the government's regeneration of Rocinha, was considered a radical for working on favela urbanisation long before it became fashionable and says living conditions can and must be improved. However, even he starts to question the benefits of an attention-grabbing cable-car system, whilst thousands of residents are still without access to education or healthcare. The battle for the future of Brazil's favelas is on. Director: May Abdalla Editor: Adam Thomas More here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1452794754265-52XPRMY0GYPYOTMCFS4T/image-asset.jpeg Films DURATION: 25'   Some 50,000 mainland Chinese people obtain one-way permits to move to Hong Kong each year. They then have to wait a further seven years before gaining residency and, in the meantime, have no status whatsoever and no access to healthcare, education, or public housing. They suffer routine discrimination, even from other migrants who have already gained residency, and live in pitiable and squalid conditions - for example, a family of five can often live within a space of 100 square feet. For some, this raises problems of mental as well as physical illness, and their only help comes from the New Women Arrivals League, which lobbies on their behalf and supports them however they can. Director: San San F Young Editor: Adam Thomas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1453227273646-HP8UYQLRJ7F76WET9C4Y/image-asset.jpeg Films DURATION: 25 Evan "Rabble" Henshaw-Plath is a coder, activist, anarchist, and a hacker. He is also one of the original developers of Twitter. Henshaw-Plath believes that, as a tech activist, his role is to promote social justice, and he is eager to empower civil society to influence politics through the use of software. He explains how TxTMob, a platform that enabled protesters to send text messages to large groups anonymously, formed the basis of Twitter. But when he came to the realisation that Twitter was not the world-changing idea he had hoped it would be, he sold his share. Now bridging the worlds of hackers, activists and Silicon Valley start-ups, he's on a mission: to use techniques he has learned in the world of lean start-ups to support the technology being developed by activist groups. The technologies he's promoting are all about allowing people to truly have secure communications, and his attempts to use Silicon Valley techniques have provoked resistance from his radical colleagues. Can Henshaw-Plath convince the activists to steal from the capitalists in the name of efficacy, or is that a political compromise too far? Director: Yasmin Fedda Producers: Hugh Hartford, Anson Hartford, Dan Davies Editor: Adam Thomas More here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56968a5105f8e265f57a7e12/1453229594214-TQ3NTHY4XNXDHA9CK6HS/image-asset.jpeg Films DURATION: 25' A team of artist hackers set out to expose the devices spying on us by sending a balloon to the edge of space. Russian-born Danja Vasiliev and New Zealander Julian Oliver are part of a growing movement of coders and hackers who use their skills to create questioning and humorous digital art. Along with Gordan Savicic, they wrote the Critical Engineers manifesto, which posits: "The greater the dependence on a technology the greater the need to study and expose its inner workings, regardless of ownership or legal provision We follow the duo and their colleague Bengt Sjölén as they construct and launch their latest project: a weather balloon modified with a computer and radio scanning equipment to monitor and intercept what is impossible to pick up from Earth - transmissions in the upper atmosphere. 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