Handmade Modern

A personal journey to confront the past, seeking redemption.

The filmmaker visits his relatives in Vietnam. Dominated by his grandmother's colorful personality, the film combines a portrait and a self-portrait into a sensitive, poignant and perceptive quest.

Format Perspective is a film that explores the work, lives and opinions of six European skate photographers. The film showcases the photography of Nils Svensson (Malmo), Stu Robinson (Belfast), Alex Irvine (London), Rich Gilligan (Dublin), Sergej Vutuc (Heilbronn) and Bertrand Trichet (Barcelona/Tokyo), while also giving us an insight into the different approaches used by this diverse line-up of photographers. Filmed completely on super 8 film, this project gives a behind-the-scenes look at the skating that these guys like to shoot, as well as the resulting photos that emerge from these sessions.

The State-Mafia pact, according to the prosecutors and some key witnesses, might have been reached between the Mafia and several high-ranking politicians and officials of the government institutions, right after the 1992/93 suicide attacks that shook the Italian peninsula. The pact might have acted a seismic wave and triggered a series of bloody events that, partly, still remained unsolved. The documentary depicts this pact through a series of interviews to people directly linked with it.

Athletes who have struggled for acceptance due to race, religion, sexual orientation, and other prejudices, endure conflict in their quest to level the playing field.