Commissions

Different Ways of Telling Stories

Use of Statistics

The Forecaster (photo courtesy of IDFA)

1. The Forecaster – The story of economist Martin Armstrong who invented a model that can predict the highs and lows of the world economy
   
2. Misconception – A look at population forecasts for China, Uganda and North America
   
3. That Sugar Film – Damon Gameau conducts a 60-day Supersize Me-style experiment by eating 40 teaspoons of sugar a day – the average amount of sugar consumed by teenagers

Family Dynamics

No Lullaby (photo courtesy of IDFA)

1. The Circus Dynasty – A tale of love and sawdust between two circus families 
   
2. No Lullaby – A family-based psychological thriller that unpicks the history of three generations
3. Always Together – Observing the claustrophobic life of a self-sufficient Czech family

Portrait

Queen of Silence (photo courtesy of IDFA)

1. My Beautiful Broken Brain – A young woman attempts to come to terms with her new life after suffering a life-changing brain haemorrhage
2. The Queen of Silence – 10-year-old deaf-mute Roma girl Denisa struggles for acceptance and finds solace in Bollywood dancing
3. CAPTIVATED: The Trials of Pamela Smart – Explores the effect of the media on the defendant in the first ever full trial to be shown on TV
4. Chameleon – Enters the weird world of charismatic Anas Aremeyaw Anas, a controversial African undercover journalist

Observational

How to Pick Berries (photo courtesy of IDFA)

1. Under the Electric Sky – Follows DJs and festival goers at America’s largest dance festival in Las Vegas, the Electric Daisy Carnival
2. Paris is Burning (1990) – An observational documentary set in the drag queen dance halls of 1980s New York City
3. Placebo – Explores the strained relationships of medical students at India’s most prestigious medical school
4. Rich Hill – Portrait of three boys growing up in a poor US mining town
5. How to Pick Berries – Follows migrant berry harvesters in Finnish Lapland and explores the tensions created with the local berry pickers
6. Tanjuska and the 7 Devils – Witnesses the tough love meted out to a 10-year-old Estonian girl when she stops speaking

Stranger than Fiction – Using Reconstruction to Tell a Story about Real Life

Ming of Harlem (photo courtesy of IDFA)

1. Ming of Harlem – Twenty One Storeys in the Air – The bizarre true story of a man who kept a tiger and an alligator in his NYC apartment
2. Those Who Feel the Fire Burning – A poetic approach to exploring the issues surrounding the migration of refugees to Europe’s shores

Recording History

The Great Museum (photo courtesy of IDFA)

1. Print the Legend – A tale of two tech start-ups as they go head to head in the race to develop the biggest and the best 3D printing company
2. Night Will Fall – A harrowing recreation of a film about German concentration camps originally edited by Alfred Hitchcock, but never shown  -until now
3. The Great Museum – Goes behind the scenes of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna as the staff attempt to bring the museum up to date