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ICE PEOPLE
LENGTH : 90 & 52 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2004-2005
DIRECTOR : ANNE AGHION
PRODUCER : BENOIT GRYSPEERDT
COMPANY : DRY VALLEYS PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE)
“Ice People” will be a feature-length exploration of the human
experience of being a scientist today in the extreme environment
of Antarctica. Intended for a wide non-professional audience, the
film will examine the personal and emotional challenges that
researchers meet on the frozen continent as they pursue their
scientific quest.
Partners :
ARTE France
Sundance Channel, USA
ITVS, USA
European Commission - DG research
SBS, Australia
RTBF, Belgium
CNC, France
Conseil Régional Rhône-Alpes
Conseil Général de l'Ardèche
Developed with support from the MEDIA Programme
FILMS
NOVELAALASANTA CASA
LENGTH : 52 & 85 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2004-2005
DIRECTOR : CATHIE LEVY
PRODUCER : ALEXANDRE CORNU
COMPANY : LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR DE SOIE (FRANCE)
Rio de Janeiro. It is dawn, but already over 100 apparently healthy
women are waiting outside Santa Casa de Misericordia, one of the
oldest benevolent hospitals in Brazil. In a city where one in two
women over 50 has undergone cosmetic surgery, these women do
not see why their low income should keep them from the scalpel.
In Brazil, physical beauty and youth are all-important and the fact
that only the richest can afford cosmetic surgery makes it all more
alluring to the poor. These women are waiting for Professor Ivo
Pitanguy’s plastic surgery consultation to open. The professor is a
world famous high priest of cosmetic surgery. He heads one of the
most famous and most expensive plastic surgery clinics in Rio de
Janeiro, but he has also vowed to treat the poorest members of
society.
From March to June, the Professor’s staff, most of whom are
volunteers, handle the request of 3,000 women. They come to this
unique centre of cosmetic surgery – facelifts, liposuction, silicon
implants and so on – at a very low price which just covers the cost
of the equipment used during the operation. Over four months of
waiting, appointments and shared dreams, Edna, Iolanda and
Teresa meet there and tell each other their stories, without
embarrassment, sometimes laughing at themselves. Will the
promise of hapiness really be kept at the end of the long wait ?
Partners :
France 5, Sophie Chégaray
France 3, Anna Glogowski
RTBF, Claire Colart (Belgium)
TSR, Gaspard Lamunière (Switzerland)
Coproducers :
Arnaud de Mezamat, Abacaris Films (France)
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