Archive for the ‘Arts’ Category
The murders of his family in rural Colombia could have inspired a young Jesus Abad Colorado to pick up a gun; instead he bought a camera. Jesus dedicated the next 25 years to documenting Colombia’s war and became an acclaimed photojournalist. A year after Colombia’s president signed peace with FARC guerrillas Jesus goes in search of…
How did a boy from a backward town on the Caribbean coast become a writer who won the hearts of millions and whose works changed our perception of reality? The answer is the incredible story of Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the critically-acclaimed masterpiece “100 Years…
In a Phnom Penh karaoke bar in 2009 Australian musician Julien Poulson hears the extraordinary voice of poor village girl Srey Thy. The result is romance and the birth of the Cambodian Space Project, a thrilling musical explosion that wows audiences worldwide with sounds from the 1960s and ‘70s golden age of Cambodian rock. Filmed…
A series of three one hour films which follow in the footsteps of the most famous adventurer in European history. In 1271, at the dawn of the modern age, Marco Polo left Venice on a ground-breaking journey to China which would take him 23 years to complete. A Very Modern Journey repeats this journey with…
"For those who wonder, Ronachan means 'Seals Point' in Gaelic. The point looks out over the islands of the Inner Hebrides in Western Scotland."