Tantric Yogi
November 2005 Channel 4
Jim Broadbent narrates this eventful and comic road trip, a kind of Tibetan Canterbury Tales - by bus, tractor and boat. As a village in eastern Tibet sets out on a cross-country pilgrimage led by its Chief Tantric Yogi (Wangdrak) to the One Hundred Thousand Gathering that happens only once every 60 years.
Struggling with their huge bread offering across mountain and vale, the pilgrims hit all kinds of obstacles and get to the Namzung Gathering late, where they find panic in the monastery.
Produced by Mike Chamberlain
Directed by Chenaktsang Dorje Tsering, Tibet’s greatest living poet and the only indigenous person making documentaries out of Tibet.
Mowing the Lawn
On Festival Circuit
Stampede's latest short drama, Mowing the Lawn imagines how the mundane and the epoch-making are never far apart; the fears and foibles, doubts and dreams against which history is backdropped.
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UK PREMIERE
FilmStock International Film Festival Official Selection, In Competition 2005.
Prospekt Elektric short film competition, London Finalist 2005
Portobello Film Festival, London Film London Showcase
2005
Edinburgh International Film Festival
2005
Palm Springs ShortFest
2005
CAN Leicester International Short Film Festival Official Selection, In Competition, 2005
Best in UK Shorts, London UK
Directed by Michael Bentham, written by Chris Bryans, starring Rick Warden and Aaron Swartz.
Lin and Ralph: A Love Story
Nominated: Grierson Best Contemporary Documentary 2006
A moving, sometimes funny, ultimately uplifting story about the love and commitment of two extraordinary people. Lin, 54, is blind and has cerebral palsy. Husband Ralph, 70, is her full time carer and has Parkinson's disease. Filmed over 17 years by close friend and award-winning documentary maker Marilyn Gaunt, this is an intimate portrait of a marriage that has overcome incredible odds and achieved great things.
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A Stampede production in association with Factotum Films for ITV1
Directed, produced & filmed by Marilyn Gaunt
Fierce People
in production
Feature Documentary. Director Jose Padilha (Bus 174. Fierce People examines the relationship between anthropologists and the Amazonian Yanomamo indians.
a Stampede/Zazen/Avenue B production. a BBC-ARTE co-production, in association with Screen East.
Developed with the aid of DfID and the EU MEDIA programme.
Completion 2006.
Before The Flood
Three years ago, the world’s third poorest country, Tuvalu, sold its dot tv internet domain name to a U.S. company for $25 million. Tuvalu's 11,000 citizens then spent $6 million of this windfall tarring all 19km of the country’s roads. However climate experts now predict these roads could be under water within two decades - Tuvalu is likely to be the first country to disappear through the rising sea-levels caused by global warming. This documentary observes Tuvaluans during a critical period, as they come to terms with their predicament and struggle to make the rest of the world aware of their plight.
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A BBC & HOS co-production in association with YLE
Developed with the aid of DfID and the EU MEDIA programme.
Directed & Produced by Paul Lindsay
