Stars: Andrea McLean, Danny Midwinter, Andre Nightingale, Philip Brodie, Victoria Hopkins, Marc Bannerman, Anna Passey | Written and Directed by Paul Knight
Another grand addition to the traditional “Brit Flick” stable, featuring murder, intrigue, deception, drama and a twist-y turn-y plot that will leave you wondering “Who can you trust when the truth is buried in A Landscape of Lies” In a sea of gritty Brit flicks, half the battle can often be finding one that first of all grabs your attention but once they have it they can keep it? A Landscape of Lies, on paper, sounds right up my Sesame (Street, bit of rhyming for you there). It’s British, it’s fairly low budget and the cast is a veritable smorgasbord of “Hey, that’s him from that other movie I liked” or “Oh crap, its her… nice”. The performances are The area where the indie movie can...
Another grand addition to the traditional “Brit Flick” stable, featuring murder, intrigue, deception, drama and a twist-y turn-y plot that will leave you wondering “Who can you trust when the truth is buried in A Landscape of Lies” In a sea of gritty Brit flicks, half the battle can often be finding one that first of all grabs your attention but once they have it they can keep it? A Landscape of Lies, on paper, sounds right up my Sesame (Street, bit of rhyming for you there). It’s British, it’s fairly low budget and the cast is a veritable smorgasbord of “Hey, that’s him from that other movie I liked” or “Oh crap, its her… nice”. The performances are The area where the indie movie can...
- 12/7/2017
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Video highlights from the opening day and what’s coming up on the final day of the event.
The Media Production Show takes place 13-14 June at London’s Olympia. Check out highlights of the first day below (or on mobile Here).
Click for more information and to register to attend
What’s coming up on the final day of the event:
Cinematographers Masterclass - 10:30
With: Adam Etherington, DoP; Ben Smithard Bsc, DoP; Graeme Dunn, DoP; Stephen Foote, DoP; Steve Saunderson, DoP
Chair: Will Strauss, acting editor, Broadcast Tech
Editors Masterclass: TV - 10:45
With: Christopher Bird, editor; James Page, editor; Mark Talbot-Butler, senior editor (credits: Top Gear)
Chair: Elouise Carden, joint managing director, Rapid Pictures
Nurturing VFX Talent - 11:00
With: Clare Norman, Head of Production, Milk; Davi Stein, Head of Compositing, Course Leader, Escape Studios; John Rowe, head of digital vfx, Nfts
Chair: Priyanka Balasubramanian, Ves Treasurer and MD, Hula Hoop[p...
The Media Production Show takes place 13-14 June at London’s Olympia. Check out highlights of the first day below (or on mobile Here).
Click for more information and to register to attend
What’s coming up on the final day of the event:
Cinematographers Masterclass - 10:30
With: Adam Etherington, DoP; Ben Smithard Bsc, DoP; Graeme Dunn, DoP; Stephen Foote, DoP; Steve Saunderson, DoP
Chair: Will Strauss, acting editor, Broadcast Tech
Editors Masterclass: TV - 10:45
With: Christopher Bird, editor; James Page, editor; Mark Talbot-Butler, senior editor (credits: Top Gear)
Chair: Elouise Carden, joint managing director, Rapid Pictures
Nurturing VFX Talent - 11:00
With: Clare Norman, Head of Production, Milk; Davi Stein, Head of Compositing, Course Leader, Escape Studios; John Rowe, head of digital vfx, Nfts
Chair: Priyanka Balasubramanian, Ves Treasurer and MD, Hula Hoop[p...
- 6/14/2017
- ScreenDaily
Casting on WWII thriller The Catcher Was a Spy has ended on a triumphant high note: Mark Strong has closed a deal to play Werner Heisenberg, the renown German theoretical physicist who gained notoriety after becoming one of the principal scientists fuelling the Nazi German nuclear weapon project circa 1939.
Deadline has the scoop, confirming that Strong is the final addition to an all-star cast, one comprised of Guy Pearce, Paul Giamatti, Jeff Daniels, Sienna Miller (The Lost City of Z), Giancarlo Giannini and Paul Rudd as the titular character, Moe Berg. During the height of World War II, Berg, a multilingual pro baseball player, spent his time off the field moonlighting as a secret agent for the Office of Strategic Services – the governmental agency that would go on to become the CIA – accepting assignments all across the Caribbean, South America and even mainland Europe.
Nicholas Dawidoff’s 1994 biography The Catcher Was A Spy...
Deadline has the scoop, confirming that Strong is the final addition to an all-star cast, one comprised of Guy Pearce, Paul Giamatti, Jeff Daniels, Sienna Miller (The Lost City of Z), Giancarlo Giannini and Paul Rudd as the titular character, Moe Berg. During the height of World War II, Berg, a multilingual pro baseball player, spent his time off the field moonlighting as a secret agent for the Office of Strategic Services – the governmental agency that would go on to become the CIA – accepting assignments all across the Caribbean, South America and even mainland Europe.
Nicholas Dawidoff’s 1994 biography The Catcher Was A Spy...
- 3/14/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: Mark Strong has joined Catcher Was a Spy. He plays the pivotal role of Werner Heisenberg, the enigmatic lead scientist for the Nazi atomic program who would become the main target in the U.S.’s effort infiltrating the Nazi party to determine whether they were capable of building an atomic bomb. Ben Lewis is directing a script by Robert Rodat. Paul Rudd stars as baseball player Moe Berg, a spy for the Oss tasked with ingratiating himself with Heisenberg and…...
- 3/14/2017
- Deadline
Chancers: The Great Gangster Film Fraud tells the story of former criminal-turned-film-director, Paul Knight, who thought years of going straight had finally paid off, when a couple of producers asked him to direct a big budget British gangster movie A Landscape of Lies. But Paul ended up working for the biggest crooks he’d ever met – and not the smartest ones either….
Nerdly writer and host of the Britflicks podcast, Stuart Wright, talks to director Ben Lewis about what he discovered while making Chancers. If you haven’t seen the film/doc yet, it is available on iPlayer for UK residents at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yrf2t...
Nerdly writer and host of the Britflicks podcast, Stuart Wright, talks to director Ben Lewis about what he discovered while making Chancers. If you haven’t seen the film/doc yet, it is available on iPlayer for UK residents at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yrf2t...
- 2/2/2016
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Bashar Al Issa, a bankrupt Middle Eastern entrepreneur and Aoife Madden, an unemployed Irish actress join up to make feature films. Their first movie will have an almost unheard-of budget for a British film of £20m. But there’s a problem – the money never actually comes in. Undeterred, Bashar and Aoife submit £8m of production accounts to the British taxman and claim £2.5m in film tax breaks. The authorities smell a rat. They investigate, arrest, and charge the producers, and then bail them.
While out on bail, the producers decide to prove their innocence by actually making a film. They hire Paul Knight, a former nightclub bouncer, now a self-made film director, whose credits are some unreleased and unfinished films uploaded to Youtube, to make their movie for just a £100,000. The title: “A Landscape of Lies.” Paul Knight recruits an unusual cast that include one of the presenters of ITV’s daytime show Loose Women,...
While out on bail, the producers decide to prove their innocence by actually making a film. They hire Paul Knight, a former nightclub bouncer, now a self-made film director, whose credits are some unreleased and unfinished films uploaded to Youtube, to make their movie for just a £100,000. The title: “A Landscape of Lies.” Paul Knight recruits an unusual cast that include one of the presenters of ITV’s daytime show Loose Women,...
- 1/12/2016
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
New York, Oct er 23: Rihanna posted a series of pictures of her third 40-piece clothing collection for UK high street label River Island, on Instagram.
River Island boss Ben Lewis admitted that they had an amazing year working with the 25-year old Barbadian recording artist and credited her as the inspiration for the creative team and added that they were "constantly impressed by the amount of time and energy she's invested in the project", the New York Daily News reported.
The 40-piece collection for 'Winter 2013', which is set to hit stores in November, consists of tartan pieces, denim, shiny metallics, velvet, winter florals.
River Island boss Ben Lewis admitted that they had an amazing year working with the 25-year old Barbadian recording artist and credited her as the inspiration for the creative team and added that they were "constantly impressed by the amount of time and energy she's invested in the project", the New York Daily News reported.
The 40-piece collection for 'Winter 2013', which is set to hit stores in November, consists of tartan pieces, denim, shiny metallics, velvet, winter florals.
- 10/23/2013
- by Abhijeet Sen
- RealBollywood.com
"Google and the World Brain" explores Google's project to create a global library in an effort to contain every book in existence and fulfill Hg Wells prediction that all of knowledge would someday be accessible in a "World Brain." But, of course, Google didn't consider the fact that half of the books they scanned were in copyright. Not surprisingly, authors around the world launched a campaign to stop Google from their mission. The film chronicles the battle over the ambitious -- and naive(?) -- project. The doc is showing as a part of the Applied Science section of NYFF51. Directed by Ben Lewis, the doc screened at Sundance Film Festival to generally favorable reviews. Check out the film's newest trailer here:...
- 9/16/2013
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
The Film Society Of Lincoln Center has added programming to the New York Film Festival (Nyff) that includes documentaries and restored works.
The programmes feature a spotlight on three documentary sections – Applied Sciences, Motion Portraits and How Democracy Works Now.
Motion Portraits will focus on cinematic portraiture and includes Nancy Buirski‘s Afternoon Of A Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq and Nadav Schirman’s In The Dark Room.
Applied Science features three films, each built around obsessive projects: Ben Lewis’s Google And The World Brain (pictured), Mark Levinson’s Particle Fever and Teller’s Tim’s Vermeer.
How Democracy Works Now is a series of films by the filmmaking team of Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson who have trained their cameras on immigration reform.
The Revivals section will feature among others Martin Scorsese’s The Age Of Innocence and Arthur Ripley’s The Chase.
The Nyff runs from Sept 27-Oct 13.
The programmes feature a spotlight on three documentary sections – Applied Sciences, Motion Portraits and How Democracy Works Now.
Motion Portraits will focus on cinematic portraiture and includes Nancy Buirski‘s Afternoon Of A Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq and Nadav Schirman’s In The Dark Room.
Applied Science features three films, each built around obsessive projects: Ben Lewis’s Google And The World Brain (pictured), Mark Levinson’s Particle Fever and Teller’s Tim’s Vermeer.
How Democracy Works Now is a series of films by the filmmaking team of Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson who have trained their cameras on immigration reform.
The Revivals section will feature among others Martin Scorsese’s The Age Of Innocence and Arthur Ripley’s The Chase.
The Nyff runs from Sept 27-Oct 13.
- 8/26/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Below you can see the trailer for the web comedy series Boystown, starring Adamo Ruggiero, his fellow Degrassi alum Ben Lewis, and Richard Lee.
It follows three single twenty-something gay boys as they navigate a thriving out and proud community filled with its own tribes of twinks, bears, ricequeens and gymbunnies. This series is not only sassy and hilarious, but tackles issues of sexual racism that are absolutely prevalent in the gay community.
Instead of Kickstarter, the show is up for "view-based funding." Would you like to see it go to series?
Tags: BoystownAdamo RuggieroDegrassiIMDbTeaser Photo: ...
It follows three single twenty-something gay boys as they navigate a thriving out and proud community filled with its own tribes of twinks, bears, ricequeens and gymbunnies. This series is not only sassy and hilarious, but tackles issues of sexual racism that are absolutely prevalent in the gay community.
Instead of Kickstarter, the show is up for "view-based funding." Would you like to see it go to series?
Tags: BoystownAdamo RuggieroDegrassiIMDbTeaser Photo: ...
- 3/26/2013
- by snicks
- The Backlot
"Degrassi" stars Adamo Ruggiero and Ben Lewis are starring in a new comedy web series called "Boystown" along with Richard Lee and Brett Donahue. The Toronto-based series is about three gay friends looking for love and sex.
The premiere episode explores race and fetishes, specifically with Asian men within the gay community.
"Boystown," which is directed and written by Austin Wong, is adding to the recent influx of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (Lgbt) web series such as "The Outs", "No Shade" and "Girl Play."...
The premiere episode explores race and fetishes, specifically with Asian men within the gay community.
"Boystown," which is directed and written by Austin Wong, is adding to the recent influx of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (Lgbt) web series such as "The Outs", "No Shade" and "Girl Play."...
- 3/25/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Yesterday, Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell and I highlighted our Top 10 New Faces (strictly in the acting domain) of 2013′s Sundance Film Festival and while that list was pretty much a consensus, our Top 20 New Voices (fiction/non-fiction/short scribes, directors and full-out filmmakers/producers) was an amicably, yet hard fought deliberation process and then ranking of who we think the future will shine most bright…in other words, if these people were Wall Street stock options — we’d put our money behind them. Enjoy the mini profiles and adjoined praise.
#20. Sophie Goyette
Part of the pair of Canadian-based, female auteurs to make a pit stop in Park City (the other being Sarah Polley) French-Canadian filmmaker Sophie Goyette and her 2012 Tiff showcased short film Le Futur Proche demonstrates that there is plenty more raw talent and a pulse from Quebec. Here we find a pilot dealing with loss, suppressing his...
#20. Sophie Goyette
Part of the pair of Canadian-based, female auteurs to make a pit stop in Park City (the other being Sarah Polley) French-Canadian filmmaker Sophie Goyette and her 2012 Tiff showcased short film Le Futur Proche demonstrates that there is plenty more raw talent and a pulse from Quebec. Here we find a pilot dealing with loss, suppressing his...
- 2/16/2013
- by IONCINEMA.com Contributing Writers
- IONCINEMA.com
Here is a complete listing of the films that were shown/covered by the Ioncinema.com team comprised of Nicholas Bell (Nb), Jordan M. Smith (Js) and Eric Lavallee (El). We’ll be populating this page up until March.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Afternoon Delight – Jill Soloway: Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Ain’T Them Bodies Saints – David Lowery: El (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review // Interview
Austenland- Jerusha Hess: Nb (★): Review
C.O.G.- Kyle Patrick Alvarez: Js (★★ 1/2), Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Concussion – Stacie Passon: El (★★★), Js (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★): Review // Interview
Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes – Francesca Gregorini: Js (★★★), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review
Fruitvale – Ryan Coogler: El (★★★), Js (★★★★★), Nb (★★★★): Review // Interview // Video
In A World… – Lake Bell: El (★★★): Review
Kill Your Darlings – John Krokidas: El (★★★), Nb (★★★): Review
The Lifeguard – Liz W. Garcia: El (★★ 1/2): Review
May In The Summer...
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Afternoon Delight – Jill Soloway: Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Ain’T Them Bodies Saints – David Lowery: El (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review // Interview
Austenland- Jerusha Hess: Nb (★): Review
C.O.G.- Kyle Patrick Alvarez: Js (★★ 1/2), Nb (★★ 1/2): Review
Concussion – Stacie Passon: El (★★★), Js (★★★ 1/2), Nb (★★★): Review // Interview
Emanuel And The Truth About Fishes – Francesca Gregorini: Js (★★★), Nb (★★★ 1/2): Review
Fruitvale – Ryan Coogler: El (★★★), Js (★★★★★), Nb (★★★★): Review // Interview // Video
In A World… – Lake Bell: El (★★★): Review
Kill Your Darlings – John Krokidas: El (★★★), Nb (★★★): Review
The Lifeguard – Liz W. Garcia: El (★★ 1/2): Review
May In The Summer...
- 1/29/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
This month’s issue of “Wired” magazine features a very lengthy, in-depth article by Stephen Levy in which the author interviews Google’s Larry Page. It covers all of the massive projects the company is undertaking, from a car that drives itself to the Google Books project, which still aims to scan every book in existence and create a repository of human knowledge that is indexed, searchable, and portable. But as benevolent as that may seem on surface value, Ben Lewis’s Google and the World Brain takes a hard look at the Books project itself, the ideas behind it, and the proponents and opponents the company faces in the battle over digitalization of the printed world. The “World Brain” part of the title comes from a collection of essays H.G. Wells wrote in the late 1930s where he described a World Encyclopedia that would be free to everyone and full of all information. Unfortunately...
- 1/27/2013
- by Kevin Kelly
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Director: Ben Lewis
Cinematographer: Frank Lehmann
Editor: Simon Barker
Official Synopsis: The story of the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet, and the people who tried to stop it. In 1937 Hg Wells predicted the creation of the “World Brain”, a giant global library that contained all human knowledge which would lead to a new form of higher intelligence. Seventy year later the realization of that dream was underway, as Google scanned millions and millions of books for its Google Books website. But over half those books were still in copyright, and authors across the world launched a campaign to stop them, climaxing in a New York courtroom in 2011. A film about the dreams, dilemmas and dangers of the Internet, set in spectacular locations in China, USA, Europe and Latin America.
Story and Direction:
The battle between freedom of information, copyright, commerce, and privacy is the big debate in tech currently.
Cinematographer: Frank Lehmann
Editor: Simon Barker
Official Synopsis: The story of the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet, and the people who tried to stop it. In 1937 Hg Wells predicted the creation of the “World Brain”, a giant global library that contained all human knowledge which would lead to a new form of higher intelligence. Seventy year later the realization of that dream was underway, as Google scanned millions and millions of books for its Google Books website. But over half those books were still in copyright, and authors across the world launched a campaign to stop them, climaxing in a New York courtroom in 2011. A film about the dreams, dilemmas and dangers of the Internet, set in spectacular locations in China, USA, Europe and Latin America.
Story and Direction:
The battle between freedom of information, copyright, commerce, and privacy is the big debate in tech currently.
- 1/23/2013
- by Free Reyes
- GeekTyrant
Legality Be Damned, Making Wells A Reality
Ben Lewis started as a commentator on the modern art world, but in recent years has made a name for himself as a sharp witted documentarian of modern culture, his films The Great Contemporary Art Bubble and Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty making critical international waves. With his fluently astute and alarmingly predictory film, Google and the World Brain, Lewis finds us living in a Google fulfilled prophecy written by the hands of H.G. Wells in his book, World Brain. In this book, Wells theorized that all human knowledge would be centralized and freely accessible to all humans, with the downside that a ‘big brother’ type monitoring would be in place at all times. About a decade ago, Google started work on their Google Books platform, which would attempt to accomplish Wells’ story exactly.
The film begins with the positive – the...
Ben Lewis started as a commentator on the modern art world, but in recent years has made a name for himself as a sharp witted documentarian of modern culture, his films The Great Contemporary Art Bubble and Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty making critical international waves. With his fluently astute and alarmingly predictory film, Google and the World Brain, Lewis finds us living in a Google fulfilled prophecy written by the hands of H.G. Wells in his book, World Brain. In this book, Wells theorized that all human knowledge would be centralized and freely accessible to all humans, with the downside that a ‘big brother’ type monitoring would be in place at all times. About a decade ago, Google started work on their Google Books platform, which would attempt to accomplish Wells’ story exactly.
The film begins with the positive – the...
- 1/21/2013
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Here are some of the twitter feeds for those participating in the Sundance Film Festival’s 2013 Premieres and Docu Premieres section including (image featured above) Who is Dayani Cristal?. If you know of any other twitter feeds (producers, production houses, editors, Dps, scribes – etc.) we can add for each individual film – please let us know.
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
The Future
Director and screenwriter Alicia Scherson – @scherson
Houston
Actor Garret Dillahunt – @garretdillahunt
Metro Manila
Actors Jake Macapagal – @jakepromac, John Arcilla – @JohnArcilla, Althea Vega – @altheavega
Soldate Jeannette – @Jeannette_film
What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love
Director and screenwriter Mouly Surya – @moulysurya
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Fire in the Blood – @fitbmovie
Director Dylan Mohan Gray – @DylanMohanGray
Google and the World Brain
Director Ben Lewis – @artsafarist
The Moo Man
Directors Andy Heathcote – @moomanmovie, Heike Bachelier – @HeikeBachelier
Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer – @PussyRiotDoc
Co-director Maxim Pozdorovkin – @pozdor
A River...
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
The Future
Director and screenwriter Alicia Scherson – @scherson
Houston
Actor Garret Dillahunt – @garretdillahunt
Metro Manila
Actors Jake Macapagal – @jakepromac, John Arcilla – @JohnArcilla, Althea Vega – @altheavega
Soldate Jeannette – @Jeannette_film
What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love
Director and screenwriter Mouly Surya – @moulysurya
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Fire in the Blood – @fitbmovie
Director Dylan Mohan Gray – @DylanMohanGray
Google and the World Brain
Director Ben Lewis – @artsafarist
The Moo Man
Directors Andy Heathcote – @moomanmovie, Heike Bachelier – @HeikeBachelier
Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer – @PussyRiotDoc
Co-director Maxim Pozdorovkin – @pozdor
A River...
- 1/17/2013
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
London-based documentarian Ben Lewis is heading to the Sundance Film Festival for the first time with his film "Google and the World Brain," after making films about poverty, Nicolae Ceausescu, and Baader-Meinhof. What it's about: "Google and the World Brain" tracks the Internet conglomerate's controversial project to upload the world's written content to its servers. What the film's really about: "This film is about what happens when the world's most austere and fusty of institutions - the library - comes into contact with the world's most advanced technology - the Internet. It's about what happens when the oldest technology in the world for disseminating information - the library and the book - comes into contact with the newest, the Internet and the scanner. Above all it is about what happens when you set out to provide people with information for free, without rewarding the information-originators. It is about...
- 1/11/2013
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
We're gearing up for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, which begins next week in Park City, Utah. I'd put Sundance as my single favorite film-related event of the year, and GeekTyrant is going to be there in full force this year bringing you written and video reviews, video blogs, and all sorts of coverage of the best the fest has to offer.
One of the movies that is playing there is a documentary called Google and the World Brain, and it's about Google's quest to archive every piece of learned information that humanity has achieved. They began scanning millions of books, but copyright issues forced this quiet attempt into the limelight. Check it out below:
Here's the official synopsis, from the Sundance 2013 website:
The goal of accumulating all human knowledge in one repository has been a dream since ancient times. Only recently, however, has that dream become a reality. Quietly and behind closed doors,...
One of the movies that is playing there is a documentary called Google and the World Brain, and it's about Google's quest to archive every piece of learned information that humanity has achieved. They began scanning millions of books, but copyright issues forced this quiet attempt into the limelight. Check it out below:
Here's the official synopsis, from the Sundance 2013 website:
The goal of accumulating all human knowledge in one repository has been a dream since ancient times. Only recently, however, has that dream become a reality. Quietly and behind closed doors,...
- 1/9/2013
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
The Sundance Film Festival will take place about one week from now, and today we have a trailer for "Google and the World Brain," that will be premiering there. Check out the trailer below. Plot: In the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet, Google has been scanning the world's books for 10 years. They said the intention was to build a giant digital library, but that involved scanning millions of copyrighted works. The new documentary is directed by Ben Lewis, who said his intention was to "make a film that alerted an audience to perils, as well as the paradise of the Internet." Trailer:...
- 1/9/2013
- WorstPreviews.com
The 2013 Sundance Film Festival is just over a week today, and we're busy figuring out all of our coverage to bring you the buzz on the latest indies in Park City, Utah. Another day, and another trailer for one of the selected films has arrived. This time it's a documentary entry called Google and the World Brain. The short festival synopsis reads: "In the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet, Google has been scanning the world's books for 10 years. They said the intention was to build a giant digital library, but that involved scanning millions of copyrighted works." Director Ben Lewis says his intention was to "make a film that alerted an audience to perils, as well as the paradise of the Internet." Watch below! First trailer for Ben Lewis' documentary Google and the World Brain via The Documentary Channel: The goal of accumulating all human knowledge...
- 1/8/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
I dug this... the first thing I watched this morning. As a refresher... BBC Storyville's Why Poverty? is an initiative that was announced last fall that saw a set of 8 ground-breaking international documentaries that screened in November in 180 countries, each exploring why, in the 21st century, 1 billion people still live in poverty. One of the film entries was Poor Us: An Animated History, directed by Ben Lewis, the film's synopsis reads: The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the changing world of poverty. You go to sleep,...
- 1/4/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Directors of films in the forthcoming BBC series Why Poverty? explain how they tackled the subject and what it taught them
Are Us billionaires destroying the American Dream? Can large-scale agricultural development have a positive effect in Africa? Are Bono and Bob Geldof actually doing any good? And can the history of human poverty over 10,000 years be told in less than 60 minutes? These and many other questions are being posed in a new series of documentaries and short films entitled Why Poverty? launching on Monday night on BBC1. The series, which will be screened in 180 countries including India, Zimbabwe and Brazil, aims to kick-start a global debate in the hope of addressing a broader question: why, in the 21st century, do a billion people live in poverty?
"I think it's an important time to be having this conversation for two reasons," says Nick Fraser, editor of BBC Storyville and co-founder of Steps International,...
Are Us billionaires destroying the American Dream? Can large-scale agricultural development have a positive effect in Africa? Are Bono and Bob Geldof actually doing any good? And can the history of human poverty over 10,000 years be told in less than 60 minutes? These and many other questions are being posed in a new series of documentaries and short films entitled Why Poverty? launching on Monday night on BBC1. The series, which will be screened in 180 countries including India, Zimbabwe and Brazil, aims to kick-start a global debate in the hope of addressing a broader question: why, in the 21st century, do a billion people live in poverty?
"I think it's an important time to be having this conversation for two reasons," says Nick Fraser, editor of BBC Storyville and co-founder of Steps International,...
- 11/18/2012
- by Killian Fox
- The Guardian - Film News
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