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Lebanon
A country held hostage

by Michael Richter for Vincent Productions
Camera: Felix Korfmann and Tilo Gummel

The deluge
in front of us

Lourdes Picareta ARTE/SWR
Bangladesh is one of the first countries effected by climate change. The film shows the effect off the rising sea level on people. It follows climate refugees from a washed away village to the textile factories in the capital Dhaka. 25 to 30 million people will have to relocate in the next 30 years.

Dirty Games

by Benjamin Best
One thing has been evident even before the FIFA Scandal: International sports are dominated by fraud, corruption and exploitation. “Dirty Games” documents the reality behind the fame and shows the harsh facts of a billion dollar business and its effect on humanity.

The last Dalai Lama?

Geo magazin
Dir: Florian Hanig
Edit: Habiba Laout
The reporter team from GEO Television met the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India for an Interview.

Child Slaves

by Rebecca Gudisch and Tilo Gummel
Tracing products for the german consumer market that have been made by indian children we find textiles, gift articles and cobble stones.
The documentary is now part of the curriculum in german schools.

The unvisible enemy - deadly superbugs

ARD
Hundreds of thousands of people die because of infections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria. The documentary reveals that, apparently, pharmaceutial companies are fuelling the creation of deadly superbugs.

Nightmare in Dreamland

by Berlin Producers
We follow an ethiopian woman on her journey to become a maid in Dubai. Highlighting the working conditions of foreign workers in the emirate we find modern slavery.

Do vegetarians save the world?

by ARTE dir Michael Richter
Second Camera
Vegetarians are a minority and said to be unindulgent moralists and semi crazy. But the number is growing mostly in the metropolises creating a new trend.

Violence in Ghandi's country

ARTE
Analysing structural, communal and sexual violence on the subcontinent in the backround of the rape cases that made world news.

Investigatives

Geheimsache Doping

ARD dir. Hajo Seppelt/Benjamin Best
Africas Runners dominate most sporting events.
This investigation uncovers doping and human trafficing of Ethiopia's athletes. 

In the hands of the mafia

ARD dir. Benjamin Best
"Im Griff der Zockermafia"
This Investigation highlightes how the organized crime uses football gambling and player manipulation to white wash their money.

The price of a cup of coffee

WDR dir. Gönke Harms
Child labour in the coffee plantations of Guatemala leads all the way to the major coffee retailers in Germany. 

TV Longform

Digital Warriors

Women Changing the World

DW Bettina Kolb & Eva Richter
Camera India: Tilo Gummel
Women around the world use social media platforms as a weapon in their struggle for equal rights. Their online campaigns against femicide in Latin America, FGM in Africa or compulsory headscarves in Iran, the India-Pakistan conflict mobilize thousands others.

Conflict Zone
Tim Sebastian

DW
Camera
Following one of the worst periods of violence in Gaza since the 2014 war, what has been the role of Hamas in the bloodshed? Did the group deliberately provoke Israel? Tim Sebastian meets a senior official.

Hayko goes to Bollywood

WELTWEIT-Reportage
by Katharina Gugel and Ulf Eberle
30 min
Hayko Migirdicyan has a shop in Colognes metro station. Since his childhood he harbours the dream to play along big bollywood stars in one of the Indian Mega movies. We follow him in his pursit of this dream. 

Brand check: Apple

ARD/WDR
dir Gönke Harms and Rebecca Gudisch
A brand with a cult like following.
We find unfair working conditions. 

Brand check: Haribo

ARD/WDR dir. Melanie Jost and Matthias Fuchs

Checking this famous sweets brand we find animal cruelty and bonded labour in South America.

Brand check: C&A

ARD/WDR
dir. Edith Dietrich und Herbert Kordes
A geman retailor with a long standing  history. We find sustainable bio products and unfair labour conditions amogst the brands producers in Bangladesh. 

Brand check: Nestle

ARD/WDR
Rebecca Gudisch, Melanie Jost and
Matthias Fuchs
Digging deeper in this shiny mulinational brand we we find unethical behaviour and very crooked deals with water rights.

Brand check: Ikea

ARD/WDR
A multinational brand but when we look at its wood sourcing practices in Belarus we find disturbing deals with a dictator.

Brand check: Coca Cola

ARD/WDR
Michael Grytz
The corporation has been called out many times. But we find out that they take away the ground water of the farmers in an indan desert.

Brand check: Igloo/Frosta

ARD/WDR dir. Jochen Tassler
Simple kids food on the face of it. We find re-freezing and very bad labour conditions in China for a conveniance food not just in Germany.

Brand check: Lidl

 

TV Shorts

Syrian Refugees

by Anchal Vohra
Lebanon has taken in some 1.5 million Syrian refugees over the past seven years. Now a report by Human Rights Watch suggests officials are conducting mass evictions in an attempt to drive them away. 

Art therapy for  refugee children

by Anchal Vohra
More than a million Syrian refugees, many of them children, have fled to Lebanon since the war in Syria broke out seven years ago. Aid groups are helping them deal with their trauma through creativity. Now a Beirut exhibit is featuring their artwork.

Plusminus

WDR/ARD  German TV
Child slaves, Rescue operation

Galileo

Pro7 German Television
The street childrens bank.
New Delhi

Corporate Films

SAP

Herbst&Herbst
The indian city of Bangalore uses SAP software to produce a tree cencus.

SAP

Herbst&Herbst
Asian Paints B2B Commercial

SAP

Herbst&Herbst
Asian Paints B2B Commercial

SAP

Herbst&Herbst
Asian Paints B2B Commercial

SAP

Herbst&Herbst
Asian Paints B2B Commercial

Pro bono

The ILA Trust

A film by Daniel Pepper and Tilo Gummel
A Delhi NGO that brings healthcare to day laborers and migrant workers who can't afford to miss a days income to see a doctor.

Faith in Action

A Dhaka based NGO that helps to empower the rural population.