Films

Blackstar

Artist Kudzanai Chiurai is Blackstar. Hailed as Africa’s Che Guevera his weapon is his paintbrush rather than a gun. Director Adze Ugah goes in search of the man behind the myth.

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Arshile Gorky - My Grandfather

A journey through a family myth that strips back the layers of interpretation built up around Arshile Gorky, the Abstract Expressionist painter, since his suicide in 1944.

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How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire

Director Dan Edelstyn goes in search of his great-grandfather's distillery, expropriated by the Bolsheviks and now nearly bankrupt in an impoverished Ukrainian village. But filmmaker turns social entrepreneur when he decides to re-brand and export the vodka breathing new life, wealth and dignity into the forgotten village and its people.

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