Our work
Below is a selection of some of the projects we've worked on in the past few years, either as a team or as individuals working on commissioned projects.
FAVELA LOCKDOWN: BRAZIL’S GANGS FIGHTING COVID-19
11 minutes | Double gold award winner at the Lovie Awards - in 'best documentary' and 'best news and politics video' |
> 2.2 million views across all social media | Published 2020
Alex was producer and edit producer on this project
Macondo worked with a filmmaker based in Rio's favelas to remotely produce this documentary - deciding on the story and characters, writing the questions, writing the script and producing the edit.
Brazil’s gangs have put the favelas on lockdown to prevent a deadly outbreak of COVID-19. They know that the virus came to Brazil through wealthy jet-setters, and will do “whatever it takes” to stop the gringos from entering the favelas.
REMEMBERING ISLAM'S GOLDEN AGE: MEDICINE
30 minutes | Produced by Julia | Directed by Alex | Indus Health Network | Released 2019
Presented by historian and writer Tariq Ali, this film was produced as an educational tool for the Indus Health Network with a view to developing the idea into a longer series about the Golden Age - we're still looking for someone to commission this. The film charts the amazing doctors and remarkable medical innovations of the Islamic Golden Age.
Indus is a Pakistani hospital charity which is Pakistan's version of the NHS, it is one of the largest healthcare providers in the country and all services are free of charge.
KILL OR CAPTURE: THE CIA'S SECRET AFGHAN ARMY
25 minutes | >425K views across all platforms | Produced by Alex | Published 2020
Six years since Barack Obama said the U.S. would leave Afghanistan, they're still there and the war is as bad as ever: with war crimes, civilian deaths and air strikes increasing, despite the recent peace talks.
Former British soldier Joe Glenton has been back to Afghanistan to see how the country has changed since he was there in 2006 and to investigate the shady, CIA-funded paramilitaries killing innocent Afghans with impunity.
REPARATIONS NOT DEPORTATIONS
25 minutes | Produced by Alex | Published 2022
Britain has been deporting people back to its former colonies at an alarming rate. In recent years, the British state introduced a set of policies intended to create a ‘hostile environment’ for immigrants.
The policies have been called racist for their impact on Britain’s black communities, and have even led to deportations and harassment of the Windrush generation - Caribbeans invited to help rebuild Britain after World War 2, and even their British-born children.
We follow those that have been targeted by Britain’s racist border policies, including a child of the Windrush refused British citizenship, a Jamaican grandmother with British children and grandchildren fighting deportation and, in Jamaica, a young man with a strong British accent, sent back to the country he only knew as a child after serving a short prison sentence.
CULINARY COLONISATION: FAST FOOD AND BIG PHARMA IN INDIA
25 minutes | >2 million views across all platforms | Produced by Alex | Published 2019
India is known as the diabetes capital of the world. And although Indian food is famous worldwide, the country is being flooded with big food corporations displacing India's rich food culture with fast and processed foods. But who benefits?
Where there is illness, there are pharmaceutical companies poised to profit. In India, they are capitalising on loose regulation to make huge profits from the country's poor and sick.
redfish went to the second most populated country on Earth to get to the bottom of its food and health crisis.
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FEEDING A CRISIS: AFRICA'S MANUFACTURED HUNGER PANDEMIC
25 minutes | ~900K views on all platforms | Produced by Alex | Published 2020
Hunger is still the biggest killer in Africa and it has a lot to do with colonialism. redfish worked with filmmakers in Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe to tell local stories of food and hunger, but also the growing resistance to the continued influence of former colonial powers, their corporations and institutions.
Economic sanctions from the Global North, debt and loans from the IMF, aid dependency, and enforced capitalism have all played a central role in Africa’s manufactured food crisis.