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Samarcanda’s library is host to a broad range of products (TV series, formats, documentaries, Features, etc.). The company has launched an intensive scouting activity in the audio-visual markets in order to identify products and formats aimed at cross targets (family, teen, youth, adults, fast consumers, productive, dynamic, etc.) and is pursuing a broad client base.
Sogni di Grande Nord - Big North
Big North is a Feature Documentary, a journey of an Italian multi awarded writer, Paolo Cognetti, in the footsteps of the writers who mostly influenced and inspired him as a storyteller (Jack London, Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, Raymond Carver, Jack Kerouac). The Documentary explores the relationship between mankind and wilderness, in a long trip that will take Paolo through British Columbia, Yukon, Alaska, meeting people who are currently living in the woods and exploring the origin and the controversies of their choice. This lifetime adventure will end on the Stampede trail in Alaska, all the way until bus 142, where Chris McCandless (Into the wild) reached the final stage of his lifetime spiritual search and journey.
Ibla - Le chiavi dell' Anima
Ibla - Le chiavi dell' Anima (Ibla - A music journey - english title) is a film about freedom, unconsciousness, music, beauty and the legacy of the past. But also about future, hope and dreams.
The World's Most Dangerous Borders
The World’s Most Dangerous Borders (3 Seasons - 4x60 min) - a 4-part series that takes the viewer on an epic journey along Africa’s most volatile and dangerous borders to discover the lives of those who live there.
Sea Angels - Angeli del Mare
The Series is focused on the daily tasks of all the men and women who are working in the frontline, rescuing thousands of migrants who are fleeing from war, slavery, rape, torture, hunger.
Cicliste per Caso - Grizzly Tour
ls the story of two women travelling by bike across the United States, from Canada to Mexico along the Great Divide. A unique adventure through the most remote areas of the Rocky Mountains, between pristine nature and wild animals. An epic journey that led them to travel 4,000 km and climb 60,000 meters and that, day after day, forced them to face their own limits, their strength and fragilities, and tested their relationship. Because every journey is always a love story.
Gascoigne
A feature-length theatrical documentary on the life of Paul Gascoigne, one of the most naturally gifted footballers of all time, delving deep into his psyche, vulnerabilities, fears and triumphs.
Kapp to Cape
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Free Speech Free Fear
Can we really be fully human without Free Speech? Is free speech the oxygen of our society? Without it we crumble. Free Speech Fear Free get's to the core of what free speech really is, and the impact it has on our day to day lives. It compares the UK with Belarus and shows what life is really like without Free Speech. It tells chilling stories of a dictatorship that destroys people's standard of living.
God Save Justin Trudeau
The documentary God Save Justin Trudeau follows two political pugilists during their training up until the night of a boxing match that will change their destiny forever.
Transamazonica
“Transamazonica” is a revelatory account of the 21st century Amazon, exposing with insight and emotion the very real dangers which the area currently faces. The 6-part documentary series was premiered at prime time on CBC in Canada and since then has been broadcast by Aljazeera, Fox Spain, TVB, TVN and Loft in Italy.
South of the River
Front man Aaron has it all. The mates, the band, a girl - and cancer. When he meets someone new, only he can decide whether to rock until he drops or grow up to survive. Life and love. It’s all going on, South of the River.
Tracks
A young couple try to save their failing relationship by interrailing around Europe together. Things don’t quite go to plan and they find themselves in all sorts of awkward situations
Canadian Strain
When cannabis becomes legal in Canada, boutique weed dealer Anne Banting is swiftly run out of business by the biggest gangsters in town - the government.
Ruptures
Ariane Beaumont, a promising young family law attorney devotes her life to protecting children. When professional issues force her to start her own practice, Ariane discovers that saving others will come at a personal price.
Blue Moon
Justine Laurier inherits of her father's company and thwarts the plans of a group of unscrupulous individuals who are hiding their illegal activities behind the screen offered by the "national security" and "state secrets".
Te Ata
Te Ata (Tay’ ah-tah) is based on the inspiring, true story of Mary Thompson Fisher, a woman who traversed cultural barriers to become one of the greatest Native American performers of all time.
30 Vies
The titular "30 lives" of this daily serial drama are those of a high school class, seen through the eyes of the lead character: their teacher. Viewers share in every challenge faced, every life lesson learned. Journeying into the private lives of students and tackling such topical themes as street violence, bullying and rising dropout rates, 30 vies is a compelling, inspiring social drama.
The Comet Kids
In order to protect his father's discovery, Lucas and his five friends go on the adventure of a lifetime to find the piece of a passing Comet that crash lands near their hometown in the 1950's.
The Arrows of Truth
Alain and Dafroza Gauthier have spent over a decade fighting the French legal system to bring to justice the masterminds of the Rwandan Genocide, who are living comfortable lives in France. But for almost twenty years they have been met with state and judicial obstruction as parts of the French authorities a ttempt to derail a process that would ultimately shed further light on French complicity in the genocide, which claimed the lives of over 800,0000 Tutsis. In 2013, for the first time in French legal history, and thanks to the Gauthiers, the trial of the Head of Intelligence at the time of the Genocide is about to begin in a court in Paris. The Gauthiers are fighting to bring others to trial, some of who are still receiving tacit and direct support from the French authorities. Will these individuals be convicted? Will the truth of the extent of French complicity be exposed?