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New additions to the WorldView library

Here’s a few more recently supported projects for you to keep an eye out for: Rehad Desai‘s Miners Shot Down  charts the seven days leading up to August 16 2013 when South African police opened fired on a group of Lonmin mine workers on a wildcat strike at the Marikana mine. “Worldview has been so easy to

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Mira Nair to direct adaptation of Bengali Detective

The critically acclaimed director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Vanity Fair) is on board to direct crime-comedy drama Bengali Detective. The original WorldView-funded documentary by Phil Cox screened at Sundance 2011, where Fox Searchlight acquired the rights to remake the doc into a fully fledged feature. Over the past two years the documentary

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Three WorldView-funded projects shortlisted for Griersons

The shortlist for the prestigious Grierson 2013: British Documentary Awards has been announced, and we are proud that three projects we have supported, No Fire Zone, Why Poverty? and 5 Broken Cameras are in the running for awards. We are particularly proud of No Fire Zone’s nomination for one of this year’s new categories, Best

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Kids in Camps

As part of the our sister project Your WorldView’s new season Home, we have funded three films from multi award-winning director, Jezza Neumann. The set of films, Kids in Camps, was shot in the Domiz camp on the Syrian border. The stories offer insight into the lives of three children with different views on what

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