Long ago, all humans lived beneath the sea. However, some people preferred the surface and abandoned living underwater permanently. As a consequence, they were stripped of their god-given protection called "Ena" which allowed them to breathe underwater. Over time, the rift between the denizens of the sea and of the surface widened, although contact between the two peoples still existed.

What is European Identity? Is it cultural or political? Thibault Bourdon travels 8500 Km on his bicycle crossing multitude of dialects & landscapes, majestic mountains, stunning cliffs across the continent exploring this political & economic cohesion of 750 million people. In the end, the project of the European Union is a beautiful idea but, for Europeans.

Nová řada představuje pravdu o binze tygří, hrozivém sladkovodním predátorovi. Tato ryba dorůstá do obrovských rozměrů, má neuvěřitelně ostré zuby a je stejně agresivní jako žralok bělavý. Extrémní rybář Andy Coetzee podnikne nebezpečnou cestu do hlubin afrických řek, aby prostudoval tohoto tvora v jeho přirozeném prostředí.

Growing up on a Game Reserve meant to help wildlife get out of captivity, it shares how it began & how Peter Meyer survived some incredible moments in the wild.

Two brothers from rural China train in the art of Kung Fu in the hopes of elevating their lives however minimally. Meanwhile, rich kids in the city attend private English schools to improve their chances to study abroad. But China’s favorite philanthropist Chen Guang Biao shares his rags-to-riches story proving that odds can indeed be beaten. Rural children in China may still dream small, but as for the young elite partying away in rooftop bars, life is sweet.

With its three nickel factories, New Caledonia is on the way to becoming one of the leading emitters of CO2 in the world. But some inhabitants are trying to make a change. May seaweed be the solution?

ARCHIPELAGO IN ISOLATION. 360° GEO - Report shows the people from St. Pierre and Miquelon, a French overseas collectivity, in their struggle between self-preservation and responsibility against nature.Saint Pierre and Miquelon - directly in front of Newfoundland's coast lays a French archipelago forgotten from the far motherland. For centuries, the codfish brought prosperity to the group of islands, until a French-Canadian agreement prohibited catching it due to overfishing.Today, even the rough beauty of the island nature is threatened - because environmentalists are powerless against the frustration and indifference of the island's inhabitants. The environmental activist and passionate naturalist Roger Etcheberry lives on St. Pierre and Miquelon since childhood.Together with a Parisian botanist he explores the few pristine places on the archipelago and fights for their conservation.

There is a goldmine atmosphere in the Azores: in the crystal-clear water live 21 species of whales and dolphins. Their instinct for play and their empathy for humans make them a fantastic source of capital. Several whale-watching companies have been founded in recent years – and swimming with dolphins has become one of the most sought-after tourist attractions. But there are also critical voices, such as the biologist Maria de Cruz, who is attempting to find out how much stress it causes the marine mammals.

A plunge into New Zealand's Ultramarathon preparations, a tradition that comes from a Maori legend. 55 year-old Lilac Fley is an athlete and many times winner of the extreme race. A Maori legend dictates the course of the Ultramarathon. It tells the story of a boy who once lived with his tribe on the New Zealand coast. One day his mother asked him to search for some kumaras, or sweet potatoes, for a meal. Instead of digging for them, he decided to steal some from the neighboring tribe. Till this day, runners follow in his footsteps along the coastline - during New Zealand's most famous marathon.

S2. Outta Town Adventures travels both near and far to discover the best advenures the destinations have to offer. This TV series is dedicated to presenting history, culture and geography in a fun and pisitive way. It encourages people to explore this beautiful world - something that starts with simply getting out of town!

INDIA AUROVILLE, THE UTOPIAN TOWNSHIP. Show me where you live is a documentary series that aims to answer the following question: How can human beings claim ownership to a space so that they can live safely within it, function as a society, and above all be in harmony with the environment around them? As we discover cultures and emblematic populations, we follow Philippe Simay who is at the heart of Inhabiting the World and represents its identity and originality. Philippe takes us on an epic adventure around the Human Habitat and sets the tone for the journey. As a humanist and philosopher, Philippe is a tireless surveyor of the city, and an explorer of living spaces. Determined to travel around the world, Philippe unveils how the populations that he encounters claim the space they occupy, shapes it and adjust to it. In this series of 20 films, of 26 minutes each, the habitat will be a major showcase revealing our capacity to adapt ourselves at a time where we need to find solutions in order to address immense changes.

CHILE CHILOE, WOOD CULTURE. Show me where you live is a documentary series that aims to answer the following question: How can human beings claim ownership to a space so that they can live safely within it, function as a society, and above all be in harmony with the environment around them? As we discover cultures and emblematic populations, we follow Philippe Simay who is at the heart of Inhabiting the World and represents its identity and originality. Philippe takes us on an epic adventure around the Human Habitat and sets the tone for the journey. As a humanist and philosopher, Philippe is a tireless surveyor of the city, and an explorer of living spaces. Determined to travel around the world, Philippe unveils how the populations that he encounters claim the space they occupy, shapes it and adjust to it. In this series of 20 films, of 26 minutes each, the habitat will be a major showcase revealing our capacity to adapt ourselves at a time where we need to find solutions in order to address immense changes.

PROBLEMS. Seg 1 Monty Hall problem. The Monty Hall Problem poses a counter-instinctive dilemma of picking a choice with a higher probability of winning. It has been calculated that switching from a player’s initial choice to the last option possible, after eliminating all empty choices, instead of sticking with the initial choice gives a bigger chance of winning. Seg 2 The Birthday Problem. The Birthday Problem presents a situation that addresses brains’ unintuitive response to exponents. We try to figure out why it’s possible for only 23 people to have a 50% chance of sharing a birthday when there are 365 unique birthdays. The dilemma usually comes in when we gloss over the fact that even small groups can form several pairings, and we actually compute the probability of sharing a birthday by subtracting the chances of not sharing a birthday by multiplying individual probabilities with each other. The answers can be quite surprising when the math to be done is not instinctive for people. Seg 3 Gambler’s ruin. Gambler’s Ruin closes in on how a gambler with the smaller amount will always be the loser in the long run in a game of 50-50 chance with an indefinite number of rounds playing. Gambler’s Ruin also debunks the ‘luck’ factor by emphasizing that each round played has its separate probability from previous rounds, thus maintaining chances of winning at 50%. Seg 4 The Infinite Hotel Paradox. The Infinite Hotel Paradox shows how infinity, for all its vastness, cannot be fully grasped, especially when it goes beyond the confines of the countable infinity. The paradoxical part comes in when the union of two sets with infinite elements will still be infinity; adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing infinity with infinity is still infinity. Seg 5 The Locker Riddle. The Locker Riddle stimulates how good and fast a person is at factorization. In the problem, the key is identifying which numbers from 1-100 are perfect squares, but the solution lies in the number of factors those particular numbers have. Perfect squares have odd numbered factors because one factor will be multiplied by itself and it only counts as one in the riddle’s context, leaving those locker numbers open in an alternating open-close pattern.

360° GEO- Report visits the Nenets, the last true nomads on earth, on their remote Russian peninsula. Every August, on the Russian polar peninsula of Yamal, children of reindeer shepherds await a helicopter that will bring them back to school after the summer holidays. For the main part of the year, 600 nomad children from the indigenous people of the Nenet live and learn separated from their parents. Up until now, their home Yamal was an of Russia that was far from any semblance of civilization- until an enormous gas pool was discovered beneath the tundra. Now, destroyed nature and gigantic industrial plants are a common sight along the nomad's track - but this industrial development is also offering new opportunities to their children.

Via six masterpieces, the film reveals the beauty of the spirit of Versailles of the 17th and 18th centuries. A unique homage to the people that crafted it, the furniture reveals the personal tastes of its commissioners, and portrays something that has ceased to exist! These unique items of furniture that once belonged to Louis 14th, Louis 15th, Marie-Antoinette and Louis 16th have fascinating stories to tell: the tortoise-shell chest-of-drawers with inlays of brass; an astronomical clock - a veritable miracle of science; the most emblematic example of French furniture art in the world - the King’s Desk; and the exquisite items made for Marie-Antoinette - the queen’s jewellery case and the wheat-sheaf furniture.

Díky Golfskému proudu nabízí tento kout Velké Británie každý rok v zimních měsících nádhernou podívanou na úchvatnou záplavu žlutých květů. A nejen to! Je také pokladnicí přírodních krás a unikátní mořské fauny. Souostroví Scilly, které leží 45 km jihozápadně od Hrabství Cornwall, jehož je součástí, je v mnoha ohledech výjimečné. Díky mimořádně teplému mořskému proudění mají ostrovy o celkové rozloze 16,33 km2 oceánské, téměř subtropické podnebí s mírnými léty, takže je zde možné nalézt vřesoviště i palmy jen pár metrů od sebe. Hlavním zdrojem příjmů místních obyvatel, kterých je zhruba 2 100, je turistický ruch. Doplňují jej rybolov a zemědělství, zejména slavné pěstování narcisů, které zde má již více než stopadesátiletou tradici. Farma Churchtown na ostrově St. Martin's se specializuje na pěstování a přímý prodej řezaných květin. V zimě jsou hlavním a nejžádanějším artiklem narcisy všech barev a velikostí, v létě pak karafiáty a další květiny. Jedná se o rodinnou firmu a práce je zde více než dost, zejména před svátky jako jsou Vánoce či Velikonoce. Dvacet pracovníků farmy musí zvládnout mnoho úkonů – od výsadby a ošetřování sazenic, přes sběr květin a vázání kytic, až po jejich expedici a dopravu. Pro všechny to většinou představuje velký boj s časem, protože životnost řezaných květin je velmi krátká. A všichni zde vědí, že za zvadlé květiny jim nikdo nezaplatí, a navíc už si je příště ani neobjedná. Kromě záplavy květin ale ostrovy nabízejí ještě mnoho dalších krás. Vzhledem k jejich poloze a příznivému klimatu se zde daří velkému počtu rostlinných i živočišných druhů, a to jak na zemi, tak ve vodě. Zejména jsou však ostrovy rájem profesionálních i amatérských ornitologů, protože jsou místem zastávek tažných ptáků na jejich cestě z Arktidy do Afriky, a tak je zde možno na velmi malém prostoru pozorovat řadu i těch nejvzácnějších ptačích druhů.

Gurkhové prosluli statečností, věrností a nesmírnou houževnatostí. Dodnes jsou symbolem elity mezi speciálními vojenskými jednotkami.Britská armáda už 200 let provádí v Nepálu nábor Gurkhů. Už začátkem 19. století během války s Velkou Británií na sebe Gurkhové upozornili tím, jak odhodlaně bránili proti britskému vetřelci své malé království. Angličané, na které udatnost těchto bojovníků udělala mimořádný dojem, se prozíravě rozhodli si z nepřítele udělat spojence. Gurkhové pak pro britskou korunu bojovali a ztráceli životy ve všech významných válkách a ozbrojených konfliktech. Symbolem těchto ozbrojených jednotek se stal nůž khukrí—zahnutá mačeta, sloužící údajně k odsekávání nepřátelských hlav a opatřená kanálkem pro odvod krve, aby se vojáci při krvavé řeži nezašpinili. Tak se to alespoň traduje v legendách... Skutečností ale zůstává, že v současné době je pro mnohé nepálské rodiny přijetí jejich syna k britským vojenským jednotkám synonymem lepšího života. Ze svého žoldu jsou totiž tito rekruti schopni podporovat nejen svou rodinu, ale často i celou vesnici, ze které pocházejí. Zájem o přijetí je mezi nepálskými chlapci obrovský, vstupní testy jsou ovšem mimořádně náročné a projdou jimi pouze ti nejlepší. Kromě extrémně náročných fyzických testů musejí nováčci prokázat dovednosti jazykové, matematické a technické. Účastníci, kteří nevyhoví tvrdým kritériím, jsou bez milosti vyřazeni. Odmítnutých zájemců jsou každý rok tisíce. Výběr nových rekrutů je také dlouhý a náročný proces, který trvá zhruba tři měsíce. Zahajují jej členové odvodových komisí, sami bývalí Gurkhové, kteří se vydávají na pouť po nepálských vesničkách, kde vyhledávají vhodné uchazeče. Naděje všech vybraných chlapců se pak obracejí k hlavním centrům příjmu vojenských nováčků—městům Pókhaře a Dharanu, kde se v tvrdých podmínkách rozhodne o jejich dalším osudu. A všichni doufají, že budou mezi těmi úspěšnými...(Česká televize)

FASHION. Fashion isn’t just about adornment and style. What you wear can change the lives of people around the world, for better or worse. In this episode we look at how local designers and global chains respond to the growing demand for organic fashions. Furniture designer Lisa North is passionate about her personal style, but wonders if her clothes were made at the expense of garment workers’ health and safety. Kelly Drennan, founder of Fashion Takes Action, a group committed to reforming the fashion industry, explains how toxic materials and waste from conventional clothes pollute the earth and cost you money. Emily Scarlett, PR manager for H&M takes Lisa on a tour of their private showroom and makes the case for a corporate giant doing more to promote organic materials than anyone else. Lisa’s love of vintage clothes inspires her to simplify a complex problem.

Během polárního dne, trvajícího několik měsíců, všichni pracují a všude vládne chaos a shon. Ale s příchodem polární noci jakoby se tu čas zastavil.Špicberky, norsky Svalbard, jsou ostrovy rozkládající se v Severním ledovém oceánu. Je to nejsevernější část Norského království a zároveň také Evropy. Podle Špicberské dohody z roku 1920 spadá souostroví pod přímou svrchovanost Norského království a od roku 1925 je rovněž jeho součástí. Podle Špicberské dohody ale také mohou občané zemí, které se staly jejími signatáři (dohodu podepsalo i bývalé Československo) stejným právem využívat přírodní nerostná bohatství ostrovů. Díky této dohodě zde například mohlo vzniknout několik osad majících stálé ruské osídlení. Nejvýznamnější aglomerací ostrovů je městečko Longyearbyen, které je správním střediskem souostroví a má kolem 2 000 obyvatel, převážně Norů a Rusů. Špicberky vypadají na první pohled malebně, ale jejich obyvatelé rozhodně lehký život nemají. Ostrovy leží za polárním kruhem a jsou z 60% pokryté ledovci a sněhem. Místní arktické podnebí ovlivňuje Golfský proud, který výrazně otepluje zejména západní pobřeží, a proto tu moře ani v zimě většinou zcela nezamrzá. Nicméně i přes příznivé působení Golfského proudu zde průměrné letní teploty dosahují maximálně 5° Celsia. Polární noc zde nastává v listopadu a končí v polovině února, aby ji zhruba od poloviny dubna vystřídal polární den. Hlavním zdrojem příjmů Špicberk je těžba uhlí. Norská státní uhelná společnost zde zaměstnává téměř 60% norské populace žijící na ostrově, a také zajišťuje některé místní služby a infrastrukturu. Další příjmy přináší rybolov a v posledních letech také vzrůstající turistický průmysl. A v neposlední řadě jsou Špicberky také domovem výzkumníků a badatelů, neboť po celém souostroví je roztroušeno mnoho klimatologických, geologických a dalších výzkumných stanic.(Česká televize)

Autism remains a mystery. People with autism will live with this disorder all their life and our societies are all facing the same question: how to take care of them? France lags behind on this subject. Comparing the experiences of other countries, Italy, Sweden, Germany, and Quebec, we will clarify the French situation and demonstrate that practices exist and allow to improve significantly the autist’s life. Every time it comes to real societal choices that reveal our various ways to approach difference. But there are in any case, no simple answers to this complex problem.

S1 EP 07: RAZOR RUOCK'S HOME. We visit the home of Soccer legend Neil "Razor" Ruddock which seems to be haunted. Is it his home specifically? Or are these ghosts attached to him?

Ve filmu Psí život z roku 1918 se obvyklá postava Charlieho Chaplina – tulák – jen těžce protlouká životem. Spí na ulici, nemá co jíst a potkávají ho jen samé nepříjemnosti. Jednoho dne zachrání opuštěného psíka Scrapse, kterého se ujme a který se stane jeho nejvěrnějším přítelem. Oba se vydají do salónu Zelená Lucerna, kde tulák potká nesmělou zpěvačku, do které se zamiluje. Je ale vzápětí vyhozen, neboť nemá peníze. Tam, kde obvykle tulák spává, poté Scraps ze země vyhrabe peněženku, kterou zde schovali zloději. A tak se tulák chopí příležitosti a vydává se opět do salónu…(Česká televize)

The first documentary about the Human-leopard conflict in Sri Lanka, “Man Eaters: A Human Leopard Story” approaches the conflict by analyzing past and present cases of man-eating leopards in Sri Lanka and what led to their strange behavior. Unlike India, man-eating leopards in Sri Lanka are very rare.

EP. 06. A student is prepared to carry out the darting of a massive problematic buffalo that has been terrorizing staff members close to a camp. This task must be done on foot and the student needs to practice darting from many different distances before he can proceed.

EP. 2. It’s the biggest museum in the world…the museum of artworks stolen over the centuries and never rediscovered. These works haunt the nightmares of their owners, and occupy the days of hundreds of police officers across the world, as well as those of a handful of private agencies; no country or museum of importance can claim to have been spared. According to Interpol, art theft is the fourth largest criminal trade, after the drug trade, the weapons trade and money laundering. How could it be otherwise, when the soaring price of art propels the value of some paintings into the tens of millions of Euros? This world appears to be full of mysteries. Crime syndicates rub shoulders with petty criminals and the police care more about recovering the items than they do about arresting the perpetrators.

EP. 03. In the forest’s dark underworld, there’s a lot more happening than meets the eye. Under every rock, behind every tree, death could be lurking.Africa’s largest cobra is beat to the chase by the Giant bullfrog. Big Brown Bats use sonar to take out Wax moths at high speed. And the world’s 2nd fastest cat leaps 10 feet into the air after its aerial prey.When death comes to the underworld, it takes the express!

Mid-July, during the Antarctic winter when night-time temperatures sink to -20ºC, marks the beginning of the Centolla season on Tierra del Fuego. Spider crabs can grow up to a half meter long and may only be caught during a few months. It's peak season for crab fishermen on Cape Horn. Taking their boats out to sea, they will hoist the popular delicacy out of the icy water.

LOUISVILLE. And we're off! We learn the history of the world famous Kentucky Derby. Then, call your shot as we learn about one of America's most famous brands, Louisville Slugger. Also, we zip line in the world's only underground zip line attraction and visit the Ali Center.

In contrast with popular belief, Edison did not invent the light bulb. Many people contributed to the invention. Mind you, the first lamp was invented around 70,000 BC. Once upon a time we had limelight, which was actually quite unsafe, and then there were arc “arc lamps” – shedding light that blinded movie stars up to the point where they had to wear sunglasses. What Edison did was improve the light bulb to become a practical, affordable and safe product. He tested over 5000 filaments to make the bulb last: from bamboo fiber to a hair out of an assistant’s beard. At the same time others were working on light bulbs made with gasses, which we now know as energy efficient lamps. Modern-day lighting innovations are quite startling, a lot of them - we can’t even see with the naked eye… Lasers, for example. For the longest time it was merely a pet-theory of the grand Einstein. Nobody knew what to make of this idea that ‘atoms could release their excess energy as light’ When the laser was invented, people joked that the laser was ‘a solution looking for a problem’. Now it is omnipresent. In the near future: laser-light therapy by flashing the human brain.

In contrast with popular belief, Edison did not invent the light bulb. Many people contributed to the invention. Mind you, the first lamp was invented around 70,000 BC. Once upon a time we had limelight, which was actually quite unsafe, and then there were arc “arc lamps” – shedding light that blinded movie stars up to the point where they had to wear sunglasses. What Edison did was improve the light bulb to become a practical, affordable and safe product. He tested over 5000 filaments to make the bulb last: from bamboo fiber to a hair out of an assistant’s beard. At the same time others were working on light bulbs made with gasses, which we now know as energy efficient lamps. Modern-day lighting innovations are quite startling, a lot of them - we can’t even see with the naked eye… Lasers, for example. For the longest time it was merely a pet-theory of the grand Einstein. Nobody knew what to make of this idea that ‘atoms could release their excess energy as light’ When the laser was invented, people joked that the laser was ‘a solution looking for a problem’. Now it is omnipresent. In the near future: laser-light therapy by flashing the human brain.

V severní Britské Kolumbii se k ložisku plynu vrtá do dvou kilometrů hluboké skály pomocí hydraulického štěpení, frakování. Je to příslib nového, lukrativního zdroje energie. Tento způsob získávání plnu však vyvolává obavy a diskuze. Vrt se může směrovat téměř kamkoliv a ve skále může doslova zatáčet. Následně se napěchuje výbušninami, které vytvoří díry do skály. Poté je pod vysokým tlakem vrt propláchnut miliony litrů vody, písku a chemikálií. Skála se tak rozbije, jako sklo. Po vypuštění vody ve zlomech zůstávají zrnka písku, což umožňuje únik plynu. Použitá voda je chemikáliemi znehodnocená. Některé chemické složky jsou dokonce zákonně chráněny před zveřejněním, jako obchodní tajemství. V Americe vzniká tímto způsobem tisíce vrtů. První frakovací práce byly zahájeny poblíž města Dish v Texasu. Momentálně je zde 15 000 břidlicových vrtů a v brzké době se předpokládá 100 000. Jak se vývoj stupňoval, starosta Calvin si začal uvědomovat, že to jde s jeho městem z kopce. Občany začal obtěžovat agresivní zápach, který způsobuje svědění, škrábání v krku atd. Dětem se začalo spouštět krvácení z nosu. Ze studie o ovzduší byla zjištěna vysoká koncentrace nebezpečných chemikálií. Calvin studii zveřejnil pomocí médií a zpráva vyvolala rozruch.

THACKRAY MEDICAL MUSEUM. Derek Acorah's The Past Hunters investigate Thackray Medical Museum, believed to one of Leeds most haunted buildings. Workers claim to have witnessed constant paranormal activity in the museum and one claim is that two Victorian ghosts are trapped inside of the location.

Lidé jsou fascinováni horskými kozami už věky. Málokdo však tuší, kolik úsilí bylo vloženo do záchrany jednoho poddruhu – vzácného kozorožce pyrenejského. Na konci minulého století se kozorožec pyrenejský ocitl na seznamu ohrožených druhů a jeho čas se nebezpečně nachýlil. Lov i přirozeně nelítostné životní prostředí kozorožců kriticky zredukovalo jejich počty. Mezinárodní tým vědců se chopil iniciativy a začal pracovat na řešení, jež by vzácnému živočichu umožnilo přežít. Pablo Lozano představuje toto úsilí a jeho výsledky v dokumentu, jehož tvorba trvala celkem tři roky. Film zachycuje nejen práci vědců, ale také vášeň, strach a naděje, které je na této záchranné misi provázely.

Uplynulých 20 let byla řeka Boteti jen suchým a prašným korytem. Nyní se vše změnilo. Řeka znovu ožila a přináší životadárnou vodu zvířatům, která zde žijí. Vydatné deště na Angolské vrchovině způsobily záplavy v deltě Okavanga v Botswaně, které umožnily vodě proudit desetiletí starými cestami. Obnovená řeka Boteti nyní dodává tento životně důležitý živel slonům, krokodýlům a mnoha dalším zvířecím obyvatelům, kteří v této vyprahlé a nemilosrdné krajině přežili díky dlouhým pochodům ke vzdáleným napajedlům. Řada těchto zvířat v životě neviděla tekoucí vodu a obnovu dlouho zapomenuté Boteti oslavují především sloni.

During the darkest hours of the night, while the rest of the world is sleeping, outdoor photographer Paul Zizka ventures out into the wilderness in search of the world's starriest skies. His journey to photograph the celestial wonders takes him from his home amongst the peaks of the Canadian Rockies to the wild, desert dunes of Namibia and remote ice caps of Greenland. Ever the adventurer, he must balance his work and passion for photography with his equal devotion as a family man. In the Starlight is an intimate portrayal of Paul's quest to capture the night skies, and what his time spent under the stars has taught him about life, love, adventure, and our place in the universe.

Oh, Dior is an exclusive and sophisticated documentary on the French designer Christian Dior, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the brand.

Vysoko v horách na severovýchodě Madagaskaru žije jeden z nejvážněji ohrožených primátů na světě. Sifaků bílých už dnes zbývá pouze necelá tisícovka a tato oblast v odlehlém deštném lese zvaná Marojejy-Anjanaharibe-Sud je jejich jediným domovem. Zdejší rozeklaný terén v minulosti udržoval sifaky v relativním bezpečí, ale situace se nyní znepokojivým tempem mění. Toto malebné místo vážně ohrožuje ilegální těžba dřeva zapříčiněná zvýšenou mezinárodní poptávkou po vysoce vyhledávaném růžovém dřevě a ebenu a zbytky přirozeného prostředí sifaků decimují bezohledné dřevařské gangy.

Fashion designer Ji Cheng has shown her designs at London fashion week and, like beauty stylist A Zhi, is beginning to challenge the monopoly of Western brands in China. New levels of expendable income mean the wallets of the wealthy elite are helping fund this rising beauty scene and creating a market for luxury goods for shrewd businesswoman Felicity Feng. Expats from everywhere are trying to gain a foothold in this blossoming city, but can they handle its lightning speed?

THE UNSTOPPABLE EPIDEMIC. Canadians’ attention has been briefly grabbed by the headline: the story--an abnormally high number of overdose deaths caused by a drug called fentanyl. It merited a few days attention and then was pushed off the stage by other concerns. What Canadians failed to appreciate was that those few headlines offered a foreboding glimpse of what might be one of the most destructive waves of illegal drugs to hit North America since Pablo Escobar flooded the continent with cheap and powerful cocaine. Fentanyl is a killer. And fentanyl isn’t just preying on the addict population of this country. Its victims are also Canada’s unsuspecting middle-class. And the epidemic is showing no signs of letting up. In fact all signs point to the death count rising as more and more powerful versions of this drug seep into the country.The result, Canadians have no idea what’s “slouching” towards them in the near future. Through the eyes of four insiders in the fentanyl industry, Dam Builder Productions will take the audience inside this world in way that will enlighten, outrage, and even fascinate.

EP. 01. Sarah travels to one of the top 10 dive destinations in Australia (Julian Rocks, Byron Bay, NSW) to dive with three species of Wobbegong Sharks within the Cape Byron Marine Park. She also conducts a street poll with members of the public to find out what they think about sharks.

EP.1. Rosemary catches up with the conservancy’s rarest large carnivore, a coalition of 3 male cheetahs. The Pungwe pack get waist deep into their hunting as they pursue a wildebeest into a water pan. Denning season has begun. The pack are on the hunt for impala. Rosemary deals with a shocking snare removal. The splinters take on another herd of wildebeest.

The film follows Nigel and his dogs throughout the summer. Nigel Watkins is a farmer and vice-world champion sheepdog handler. Together with his partner, Janet, he runs his little farm Llanddeusant in the Brecon Beacons National Park in the south of Wales. Farming takes up a fair amount of his time, but his hobbies take up much more of it: he trains Border Collies, a breed of sheepdog.

FIRESTARTER. A documentary of a true pioneer of fashion. Sabbatical Entertainment celebrates one of the most influential designers ever as we explore the designer's unparalleled professional acclaim, as well as his fascinating and tumultuous personal life. Yves Saint Laurent can be credited with both spurring the couture's rise in the 1960s as well as the tuxedo suit for women. He was able to adapt his style to accommodate the changes in fashion during his entire career. Sabbatical Entertainment’s original documentary shows viewers how YSL approached fashion with a different narrative by wanting women to look comfortable yet elegant at the same time.

RIO DE JANEIRO, ANOTHER FACE OH THE FAVELAS. Show me where you live is a documentary series that aims to answer the following question: How can human beings claim ownership to a space so that they can live safely within it, function as a society, and above all be in harmony with the environment around them? As we discover cultures and emblematic populations, we follow Philippe Simay who is at the heart of Inhabiting the World and represents its identity and originality. Philippe takes us on an epic adventure around the Human Habitat and sets the tone for the journey. As a humanist and philosopher, Philippe is a tireless surveyor of the city, and an explorer of living spaces. Determined to travel around the world, Philippe unveils how the populations that he encounters claim the space they occupy, shapes it and adjust to it. In this series of 20 films, of 26 minutes each, the habitat will be a major showcase revealing our capacity to adapt ourselves at a time where we need to find solutions in order to address immense changes.

BOLIVIE THE ALTIPLANO’S SALT DESERT. Show me where you live is a documentary series that aims to answer the following question: How can human beings claim ownership to a space so that they can live safely within it, function as a society, and above all be in harmony with the environment around them? As we discover cultures and emblematic populations, we follow Philippe Simay who is at the heart of Inhabiting the World and represents its identity and originality. Philippe takes us on an epic adventure around the Human Habitat and sets the tone for the journey. As a humanist and philosopher, Philippe is a tireless surveyor of the city, and an explorer of living spaces. Determined to travel around the world, Philippe unveils how the populations that he encounters claim the space they occupy, shapes it and adjust to it. In this series of 20 films, of 26 minutes each, the habitat will be a major showcase revealing our capacity to adapt ourselves at a time where we need to find solutions in order to address immense changes.