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People&Power - The right to die

You can see our latest work for Al Jazeera International

A moving and complicate case about the right to Euthanasia.

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Another African Story

Documentary 52 minutes
A production Oyibo Productions (Italy 2005)
Written, directed and produced by Emanuele Piano
Director of Photography and Images by Marco Ricchello
Original Soundtrack Davide Fiorentini

Prizes:
XI Premio Ilaria Alpi for independent production
Aired by
Rai3 (Italy)
RaiNews24 (Italy)
Festivals:
World Premiere Amnesty International Film Festival (Netherlands)
XI Premio Ilaria Alpi (Italy)
Jacksons Hole Film Festival (Usa)
Human Rights Nights 2005 (Italy)
Rome Independent Film Festival (Italy)
Umanitaria 2005 (Italy)

Darfur, a region in Western Sudan, has emerged as the "world's worst humanitarian crisis" according to the UN. A bloody conflict has erupted in the area in February 2003 when two rebel groups took up arms against the Sudanese government, which responded by bombing villages and killing innocent civilians with the aid of an irregular mercenary militia called
Janjaweed. This is the story of people fleeing from a conflict that doesn't spare anyone and taking refuge in Chad. But, it is also the tale of the rebels fighting inside Darfur for their right to development and political representation. Maybe it is a situation like others, one which we could bluntly label as Another African story. But can we get used to genocide?

The Other Mexico

Written and directed by FRANCESCA NAVA
Produced by OYIBO PRODUCTIONS, TELEMACO and Francesca Nava
Duration: 50’
At doc for sale Idfa 2007

Everybody knows him by his battle name: Sub-commander Marcos, the hooded guerrilla fighter that, since 13 years ago, is leading a fight for the rights of Mexican indigenous people. After 5 years of silence and isolation in his headquarter on the mountains of south-east Mexico – went public with a political campaign parallel to the election campaign for Mexican presidential elections on july 2, 2006.
This is The Other Campaign: a caravan of supporters of the Zapatista movement that during 2006 went through all the states of the Mexican federation. Goal: to spread the zapatista fight to the Mexican civil society, to create links among all the fighting movements, in order to build a grassroot social movement that can send a strong message to the powerful elites, completely deaf to the needs of indigenous, alienated and destitute Mexicans.

Footage Archive

Refugees
- Kenya, 2003. Somali refugees waiting to return in a stateless country.
- Algeria, 2004. Western Sahara refugees, people without a State since 1975

War and terrorism
- Iraq, 2003. Iraqi Kurdistan post Saddam Hussein. The threat of terrorist group, Ansar al Islam
- Chad/Sudan, 2004. The Darfur conflict through refugees and rebel groups
- Mexico, 2006. The Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos and his alternative electoral campaign
- Somalia, 2007. The endless Somali crisis from Islamist rule to Ethiopian occupation

Africa and Politics
- Nigeria, 2003. The case of Amina Lawal and the introduction of Sharia law
- Burkina Faso, 2005. The legacy of Thomas Sankara
- Niger, 2005. Roots of a food crisis in the world’s poorest country

Africa and Culture
- Burkina Faso, 2005. Fespaco 2005, Africa main Cinema festival
- Mali, 2006. The first World Social Forum in Africa. Banques Culturelles, a different approach
to saving African cultural heritage

NIGER: BEHIND A FOOD CRISIS

Is the worst famine in the world’s poorest country the mere result of extraordinary natural disasters or are there man-driven policies behind it? What brings over three million people in the world's poorest country on the brink of starvation? Besides exceptional poor rain and swarms of locusts, what are the roots of Niger's recurrent food crisis? Why does the UN constantly receive its funds after TV troupes arrive on the ground? And why does a country not have the resources nor the social services needed to help a population in dire need of aid? Is poverty inevitable? Through a thorough investigation and with the aid of animations, the documentary looks for the answers to a problem that affects not only Africa. Replies which go under the name of debt, structural adjustmennt programmes and privatizations...

CREDITS

 Documentary – Current Affairs 52’Italy 2006
 Director Emanuele Piano
Images Marco Ricchello
Editing Emanuele Piano
Animations: Lorenzo Terranera
Producer Emanuele Piano
Executive producer Fulvia D’Ottavi
Produced by Oyibo Productions

Original version: Italian, French
Subtitled in English

To order a copy - versions available Italian, French and English - please contact us :
oyibo_productions@yahoo.it