Castellammare is a ‘high-density Mafia’ seaside town. Local government is infiltrated, its economy is stagnant and there is no future for its youth. A group of angry young Sicilians now wish to bring about change by contesting the local elections. Through this election campaign, we observe…
The disadvantaged in Florence tend to be housed in blocks of flats built on the outskirts of the city. One such is the Piagge, where many Sicilians now live. When I filmed, there were no amenities at all – no playing fields, no shops and no decent bar. This was a study done for Paolo Chiozzi, then…
The film reveals the values of Sicilian men, all of them now immigrants in Florence. These are expressed through elaborate public performances at the bar, the street, at work and at the Florentine Medieval Football Club. We see how status is largely determined through behaviour with other men, with women,…
Giuliana, and her son Roberto run a bar in a rough area of Florence behind the church of Santa Croce – the last remaining area of Florence not to be gentrified, largely because of the city’s three main prisons being situated here at the time. Giuliana has seen it all. Local sex workers, Sicilian…
A growing anti-government movement in Australia is challenging the authority of the courts, councils and cops. Supercharged during the COVID lockdowns, the movement's rising influence and resolve has made it one of the judiciary's primary concerns. They're flooding the legal system with…
Ce film aborde le thème incontournable de la séparation, notamment lorsque les parents sollicitent un mode d’accueil pour leur enfant en leur absence. Quels enjeux pour le tout-petit ? La séparation, ce n’est pas une évidence… Elle provoque un sentiment…
This is a film study exploring the buildings confiscated from the Mafia, which are ‘returned to the people’. In other words, the State takes them over and leases them to associations that will put them to social use. In Casa Nostra, we see something of how a small villa is used in the small…
Libera is an umbrella antimafia association that brings together and gives support to a myriad of small independent antimafia associations throughout Italy. It’s purpose, other than combating the Mafia through the process of ‘re-education’, is to give more weight to the antimafia movement…
“We are part of a bigger and wider world than many of us can imagine. And science agrees with much we already know.” People think The Yukon’s history, story, and identity begins and ends with the Goldrush. But nothing could be further from the truth… Yukon Unwritten is…
This film is about professional soldiers, the careers officers in every country who devote their lives to maintaining military organsiations and nurturing attitudes that go with them. They describe how they reconcile themselves to the grimmest part of their job - their mandate to kill other human beings…
Carly developed polio at the time of her first birthday. At 22 years of age she describes how the results of polio are continuing to affect her life and urges parents to vaccinate their children to prevent the disease returning to take the toll it once did.
This short film aims to persuade parents to have their children immunised with the triple vaccine. Archival film is used to portray the danger of diptheria and the ease with which the disease tetanus can be contracted is explained. The sight of a young two-year old child sufferig the harrowing effects…
