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STORIES
FROM
THE
WORLD
TO
THE
WORLD
BY
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WORLD STORIES
CREATES
SOCIAL IMPACT
REACHING
HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS GLOBALLY
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WORLD STORIES
is an annual series of 20 documentary ilms made
by acclaimed ilmmakers that tell stories from the world to the world.
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WORLD STORIES
reaches hundreds of millions of viewers annually
through our unique network of local and national broadcasters in 191
countries. This includes UN Futura (Brazil), VTC (Vietnam), NTCU
(Ukraine), TV Rain (Russia), BHRT (Bosnia), BBSC (Bhutan), Wattan
(Palestine), Al Jadeed (Lebanon), WGBH (USA), BBC World News
and BBC Arabic.
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WORLD STORIES
has the largest audience of any human interest
focused documentary ilm strand in the world.
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WORLD STORIES
SEASON 1 was launched in 2015 and followed up
by SEASON 2 in 2016. SEASON 3 is broadcasting now.
HOW WORLD STORIES WORK
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Our editorial team selects 20 outstanding documentary ilms per year
and edits each ilm to a 45 minute television version.
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The ilms are selected to represent a broad spectrum of social justice
and human rights issues within the following categories:
culture & everyday life
civil & politcal rights
war & peace
inequality & development
gender & sexuality
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The ilms are licensed, versioned, updated and dubbed into local
languages for broadcast partners around the world.
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The series is broadcast on local channels in countries such as
Afghanistan, Bosnia Herzegovina, Palestine, Ukraine, Bhutan,
Vietnam, Colombia, Brazil and many more.
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WORLD STORIES SEASON 2
MINERS SHOT DOWN
THE WORLD BEFORE HER
JUSTICE FOR SALE
ROUGH AUNTIES
Rehad Desai / South Africa / 2014
In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines
began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later, the police used live ammu-
nition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more.
Nisha Pahuja / India / 2012
The Miss India pageant is the ultimate glamour event in a country that has
gone mad for beauty contests. Winning the coveted title means instant star-
dom, a lucrative career path and, for some girls, freedom from the constraints
of a patriarchal society.
Ilse & Femke van Velzen / Congo / 2011
Justice For Sale follows Claudine, a young and courageous human rights lawyer, in
her struggle against injustice and widespread impunity in Congo. She investigates
the case of Masamba, a soldier who was convicted of rape, and discovers that his
trial was corrupt and unfair. He was jailed without any concrete evidence.
Kim Longinotto / South Africa / 2008
The “Rough Aunties” are a remarkable group of women unwavering in their stand
to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban,
South Africa.
THE ENGLISH SURGEON
SISTERS IN LAW
THE VASECTOMIST
JAPAN:
A STORY OF LOVE AND HATE
Sean McAllister / Japan / 2008
Naoki, 56, had it all in Japan’s bubble economy days – he ran a business with 70
staff, drove a brand new BMW and lived in a six-bedroom house. But when the
economy crashed he lost everything, ending up divorced and penniless.
Geoffrey Smith / Ukraine / 2009
What is it like to have God-like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own
humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail?
Kim Longinotto / Cameroon / 2005
A doc that delves into local courtroom drama in a small town in Cameroon, West
Africa, following the state prosecutor and judge - both women - as they ight sexist
attitudes and societal norms with a keen knowledge of the law, an acute desire for
justice and their own brand of compassion.
Jonathan Stack and Saralena Weinield / Philippines Haiti US / 2013
A urologist from Florida on a mission to save the planet “spreading the gospel
of vasectomy”. A modern day Don Quixote; part dreamer and part visionary
committed to the impossible quest of lowering the population on the planet, one
vasectomy at a time.
EXPEDITION TO THE END OF THE
WORLD
Daniel Dencik / Greenland / 2013
A real adventure ilm – for the 21st century. On a three-mast schooner packed with
artists, scientists and ambitions worthy of Noah or Columbus, we set off for the end
of the world: the rapidly melting icebergs of North-East Greenland.
BATTING FOR AFGHANISTAN
SEPIDEH
ALBINO BOY IN AFRICA
Timothy Albone, Leslie Knott, Lucy Martens / Afghanistan / 2011
An inspirational documentary following the Afghan cricket team who — against all
the odds — experience a meteoric rise up the international league tables in their
bid to qualify for the World Cup.
Berit Madsen / Iran / 2013
Sepideh wants to become an astronaut. She spends her nights exploring the
secrets of the universe, while her family will do anything to keep her on the ground.
Camilla Magid / Tanzania / 2012
In Tanzania albino body parts and blood are used in magic potions created by
witch doctors and are sold for huge amounts of money. To protect albino children,
the government sends them to boarding schools, far away from their families. Here
they live more or less abandoned in a world without adults.
PINK SARIS
BASTARDS
LAST DAY OF THE ARCTIC
WHEN I WALK
Kim Longinotto / India / 2010
The Gulabi Gang is a group of Indian women activists. Most of the Gang’s cases
concern domestic violence demands, and abusive in-laws.
Deborah Perkins / Morocco / 2014
In Morocco, as in all Muslim countries, sex outside marriage is illegal and women
bear the brunt of society’s disapproval. But what is the fate of the children of single
mothers?
Magnús Viðar Sigurðsson / Iceland / 2011
Ragnar Axelsson or RAX as he is commonly referred to, is a renowned world
photographer based in Iceland. In The Last Days of The Arctic we join RAX on his
journey as he visits friends he has made through his career.
Jason DaSilva / US / 2013
When I walk is one man’s emotional and inspiring journey during six years of life
following his multiple sclerosis diagnosis. For Jason DaSilva, life’s most challeng-
ing and joyous moments are yet to come.
NO BURQAS BEHIND BARS
BIG MEN
I WILL BE MURDERED
PLEASE VOTE FOR ME
Nima Sarvestani / Afghanistan / 2013
No burqas behind bars is a slice of life from inside one of the most restrictive plac-
es on the planet, Takhar Prison in Afghanistan where 40 women inmates, crammed
into just four cells, live their lives entirely cut off from outside society.
Rachel Boynton / Boynton Films Productions / US/Ghana / 2013
Big Men is about the struggle for money, acclaim and oil in Africa. It’s an epic
adventure of high-stakes capitalism, with shockingly intimate access to compa-
ny executives, government oficials and gun-toting militants. Kosmos Energy, a
Dallas-based oil company, discovers Ghana’s irst oil.
Justin Webster / Guatemala / 2011
In May 2009, Rodrigo Rosenberg, a wealthy, charismatic lawyer went cycling near
his home in Guatemala City and was murdered. Nothing unusal there: Guatemala
has a murder rate four times higher than Mexico’s, worse than Iraq’s during the
war. What remains extraordinary is that Rosenberg knew, for certain, he was about
to be killed.
Weijun Chen / China / 2007
Please Vote for Me is a 2007 documentary ilm following the elections for class
monitor in a 3rd grade class of eight-year-old children in China.
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WORLD STORIES SEASON 1
PUTIN’S KISS
Lise Birk Pedersen / Russia / 2011
IMPACT QUOTES
“All people should see these
ilms, because you don´t really
know how the world is, until
you have”
“VERY INSTRUCTIVE and nice
documentary OF WORLDS
HARD REALITIES. Remarkable
the analogies of corruption
practices between south-
America’s Bolivia and some
African corruption states.”
GAY IN UGANDA:
CALL ME KUCHU
Malika Zouhali-Worrall / Uganda
/ 2012
MUMBAI DISCON-
NECTED
Camilla Nielsson & Frederik Jacobi
/ India / 2009
THE RELUCTANT
REVOLUTIONARY
Sean McAllister / Yemen / 2012
REVOLUTION:
DO’S AND DON’TS
Rodrigo Vazquez / Bolivia / 2007
INNOCENT ON
DEATH ROW
Michael Collins & Marty Syjuco /
Philippines / 2011
RUSSIA’S TOUGH-
EST PRISON
Nick Read / Russia / 2013
THE RED CHAPEL
Mads Brügger / North Korea
/ 2009
– Richard Porter, Head of BBC World News
MY AFGHANISTAN
Nagieb Khaja / Afghanistan / 2012
LEAVING THE
CULT
Tyler Meason & Jennilyn Merten /
USA / 2010
THE GOOD SON:
SEX CHANGE IN
ISRAEL
Shirly Berkovitz / Israel / 2013
THE BIGGEST CHI-
NESE RESTURANT
IN THE WORLD
Weijun Chen / China / 2008
– Richard, Malawi, viewer about
Revolution: Do’s and Don’ts
KAYAK MAN
David Michod & Jennifer Peedom /
Australia / 2008
DISAPPEARED BY
THE IRA
Alison Millar / Northern Ireland /
2013
THE
UNDOCUMENTED
Marco Williams / Mexico/USA /
2012
FIRST TO FALL
Rachel Beth Anderson & Timothy
Grucza / Libya/Canada / 2013
THE MASS MUR-
DERER AND THE
JOURNALIST
Lemkin & Thet Sambath / Myanmar
/ 2009
SOLDIER WOMAN:
TO SEE IF I’M
SMILING
Tamar Yarom / Israel / 2007
MY CHILDHOOD IN
HELL
Mette Korsgaard / Denmark / 2012
SOLDIERS WHO
RAPE
Ilse van Velzen & Femke van
Velzen / Democratic Republic of
Congo / 2009
“The programme provide an
excellent and objective point
of view of the drama in the
Mexico - US border. It is a
human drama, with people
looking for relatives, better
way of life. It is very relevant
due the current electoral
process in USA: the migration
is a very complicated issue,
it is not a national security
problem for the USA, but an
urgent human issue between
both countries.”
“An enlightening insight
into part of China’s culture.
We need to see more of this
type of program in order
to understand the Chinese
people a little better”
– Barry, Sweden, viewer about The Biggest
Chinese Factory
EDITORIAL BOARD
– Alan, Mexico, viewer about
The Undocumented
RUBY CHEN
/ Co-Founder and CEO,
CNEX Foundation
NAGIEB KHAJA
/ Director and Journalist
MARIZA MATSHAYA
/ Producer and founder,
Queen of Film
CHRIS HASTINGS
/ Executive Producer and
Editorial Manager,
WORLD Channel
“Importantly, millions saw
it too, and our social media
has been on fre since then.
The broadcast was even
more meaningful because
it marked the premiere of
Paco’s injustice on Philippine
television”
“Bombay, now Mumbai, badly
needed an overhaul of the
city's road transport system.
It's good to see it's beginning
to happen. Better late than
never!! Kudos to BBC for
focusing on a problem needing
urgent attention”
– Mohammed, US, viewer about
Mumbai Disconnected
– Michael Collins, Director,
Give up Tomorrow
JAN ROFEKAMP
/ President & CEO,
Films Transit International
CLAIRE AGUILAR
/ Curator of
documentaries
NICK FRASER
/ Co-Founder,
THE WHY
METTE HOFFMANN
MEYER
/ Co-Founder,
THE WHY
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