Documentary filmmaking being a medium of honest communication has the power to depict reality, foster imaginations, reveal unique perspectives and motivate changes…so Trendz choose to keep it rolling.
Man and nature battling…
Environmental depletion, global warming, continuous deforestation, declining animal numbers are sure a concern that equates to imbalance the ecosystem. Watch Earthlings directed by Shaun Monson that relates nature-animal-humankind and their interdependences, or Academy award winning An Inconvenient Truth a magnificent research alerting citizens to the terrestrial crisis of global warming, while Chernobyl Heart by DeLeo gives an inside story of the horrendous effect of Russia’s Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1984, showcasing human’s ignorance to nature’s destructive capacity. It’s all about how we take all for granted.
Also, Global Dimming filmed by BBC Horizon in 2005 gives an alarming conclusion that the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth's surface has been gradually falling, meaning that the impact of global warming is far more worrisome than probably imagined. Home entirely produced with aerial shots of different parts of planet Earth intending to show the Earth’s diversity and also how we humans are damaging the ecological balance of our planet. This precisely focuses on the areas of human encroachment causing displacement of animals and loss of natural habitat.
The Cove a revelation of a covert operation of the international dolphin capture trade practiced in Taji, Japan is an astonishing piece of investigation of how human manhandles nature. Wildlife across India too faces a number of threats. An effort for a balanced solution to reduce elephant deaths the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) film – On the Right Track is not a miss either! It‘s a documentation of interventions that ensured zero elephant deaths in train accidents in Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand. At least 20 elephants were accounted to be killed in accidents in these railway tracks between 1987 and March 2002.
Vijay Bedi, the award-winning filmmaker of Cherub in the Mist, a film based on the life of two red pandas who were released into the Singalila National Park in the Darjeeling District, India. It is said that even the slightest increase in temperature of 0.2 (degree Celsius) can kill animals like red panda that live in acute conditions.
Shores of Silence - Whale sharks in India by Mike Pandey is the first Indian film to spotlight the slaughter of whale sharks on the Indian coast. You can visit http://www.mikepandey.org/awards.htm for more of his environmental related documentaries.
What Man makes of Man?
To cover the genre of crime and human rights we surely can’t miss Conspiracy Of Silence - The Franklin Child Prostitution Ring filmed in 1993 by Yorkshire Television, a story of an alleged child sex circle serving high-level American politicians, most notably, Lawrence E. King, a prominent member of the Republican Party that hit the headlines in 1992 as the Franklin child abuse scandal..
Xavi-The Movie by Gregg Helvey is a narrative of an Indian boy who just wants to be a normal kid wanting to go to school, play cricket but is forced to work in a brick kiln showcasing child abuse and modern day slavery. Garbage Dreams another heart-drenching investigation by Mai Iskander focusing on life and future of Cairo children caused by intense globalization and how they pursue garbage collection as their no-option career.
The Quiet One of way back 1948 directed by Sidney Meyers is indeed a classic documentary of a ten year-old Harlem Negro boy- a child thirsty for love, discarding all social norms and a clear reflection of a child psychology, whose childhood had been scratched by the cruel indifference of his parents and the repulsion of his grandmother with whom he lived. Mistreated and rejected, he has lost all heart and confidence and, in his lonesome agony, turns a loner.
Broken Child by Michael Mierendorf depicts the complexity and the cumulative effects of child abuse, neglect, and trauma leading to mental illness and violent anti-social behavior. When children become emotionally or psychologically damaged that the damage is quite hard to untie. It’s an expression for preventing and early intervention of probable threat to the society.
Deliver Us from Evil by Amy Berg is another devastating compilation of witnesses revealing the Catholic Church's shocking cover up of ongoing incidents of child abuse by members of the clergy in California. While Deepika Lal an Indian film maker who herself was a victim of child molestation expresses by documenting and directing Speak Up! It’s Not Your Fault.
For wider genre of Indian documentaries that are well-crafted, you could also visit www.ndtv.com
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