http://docfactory.fangohr.com/index.php/site/index/ this part is for site news and press clippings en jflipz@gmail.com Copyright 2008 2008-01-02T16:05:00-08:00 http://docfactory.org/site/black_gold/ http://docfactory.org/site/black_gold/#When:21:28:00Z As Westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. In this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar industry, Black Gold traces one man's fight for a fair price.Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields. Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price. Against the backdrop of Tadesse’s journey to London and Seattle, the enormous power of the multinational players that dominate the world’s coffee trade becomes apparent. New York commodity traders, the international coffee exchanges, and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal the many challenges Tadesse faces in his quest for a long term solution for his farmers. projects 2006-12-01T21:28:00-08:00 http://docfactory.org/site/an_independent_mind/ http://docfactory.org/site/an_independent_mind/#When:16:05:00Z How does a cartoonist confront the threat of imprisonment for caricaturing the president? How does a musician deal with exile for performing a song? How does a comedian survive being sent to a labor camp for telling a joke? How does a poet endure the impact of being tortured? AN INDEPENDENT MIND A film by Rex Bloomstein These are some of the stories you will encounter in AN INDEPENDENT MIND, a unique feature-length documentary inspired by one of the most fundamental and controversial of human rights: Freedom of Expression. Enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, freedom of expression is one of the most fundamental rights of all. It is the very cornerstone of democracy and underpins the values of any ‘free’ society. But with the emergence of new threats that challenge the balance between the security of the state and the freedom of the individual, it is increasingly coming under attack. AN INDEPENDENT MIND is a 90 minute documentary which is scheduled to be broadcast in the UK on More4 in the Autumn.  The film has also been submitted to various film festivals worldwide and, we hope, will achieve a limited UK theatrical release as well as international TV sales.  But it is also our ambition that the film will be used as a powerful catalyst for debate in this special year of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 2008-01-02T16:05:00-08:00 http://docfactory.org/site/extra_extra/ http://docfactory.org/site/extra_extra/#When:20:23:00Z A documentary exploring the news media industry in the US, currently in production.Produced by DOCFACTORY in New York City. 2008-01-01T20:23:00-08:00 http://docfactory.org/site/the_persecution_and_assassination_of_dr_israel_kasztner/ http://docfactory.org/site/the_persecution_and_assassination_of_dr_israel_kasztner/#When:17:38:00Z A contemporary tale of murder, conspiracy and heroism.Israel Kasztner. A Hungarian Jew who negotiated for lives with Adolf Eichman. A trial and verdict that forever stamped him as the “man who sold his soul to the devil.” Murdered by Israeli assassins who gunned him down in front of his doorstep. Now fifty years later, his daughter’s desperate efforts to restore her father’s place as the greatest Jewish hero of the Holocaust, and to uncover the mystery that still clouds his death. Directed by Gaylen Ross Producers: Gaylen Ross, Andrew Cohen , Anne Feinsilber, Noam Shalev GR Films Inc/ DOCFACTORY 2008-01-01T17:38:00-08:00 http://docfactory.org/site/kz/ http://docfactory.org/site/kz/#When:19:53:00Z When the story of the unspeakable has been told a thousand times, when the images of the unimaginable have been shown a thousand times, when the mind is numb - where do you go from there? You have to start anew. That is where this film begins ... KZ A film by Rex Bloomstein On the banks of the river Danube, surrounded by the beautiful landscape of Upper Austria, lies the picturesque town of Mauthausen. Two kilometers from its town centre is a place that attracts bikers, busloads of tourists, parties of schoolchildren, people from all over the world. Tour guides come to work here every day, while nearby the locals go about their daily lives. This is a place where thousands upon thousands of people from over 30 nations were tortured and murdered. This site is the former KZ, German short for concentration camp. How does it feel to be a tourist at a former concentration camp? How does it feel to work here as a guide, day in day out? How does it feel to live here as a local with the dark secrets of the past? And what of those who�ve chosen this town to be their new home? This is a groundbreaking film about facing our ultimate demons. It is a contemporary yet timeless piece on the horrors that we have and always will be able to inflict on one another. Stripped of the usual dramatic devices, survivor testimonies and archive footage this radical film shows nothing but says everything. It will shake you to the core. 2007-12-01T19:53:00-08:00