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Beautiful Liverpool
Following their look into the harsh reality of life as a drug addict in Swansea Love Story, directors Andy Capper and Leo Leigh have reunited for a new installment of VBS’ Rule Britannia series, with Beautiful Liverpool, a look into the recession proof trade of the beauty industry. Capper and Leigh initially set out with [...]
SXSW2011: Umshini Wam/Paranmanjang
I realise you’re still waiting to hear about just what I’ve been seeing and who I’ve been talking to at SXSW this year – [excuse] I’ve been busy with screenings and parties and interviews, have pity. However, whilst you’re waiting I can tell you that tonight I got to see a great shorts double bill [...]
DN183: Prostitutes of God – Sarah Harris
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] VBS sent reporter, journalist and first time filmmaker Sarah Harris to Southern India to document the religion based prostitution of the Devadasi or ‘Servant’s of God’ in the documentary Prostitutes of God. Sarah joins us to discuss the challenges of making a film about the darker side of [...]
Prostitutes of God – Sarah Harris
Prostitutes of God (2010) In Prostitutes of God, VBS travels deep into the remote villages and towns of Southern India to uncover an ancient system of religious sex slavery dating back to the 6th century. Although the practice was made illegal more than 20 years ago, they discover there are still more than 23,000 women [...]
Prostitutes of God
Never ones to shy away from challenging subject matter, Sarah Harris’ documentary Prostitutes of God will hit VBS on Monday. Harris traveled deep into the villages and cities of Southern India, where she discovered the still practiced tradition of families selling their daughters into sex slavery as Devadasi or ‘Servant’s of God’, an ancient local [...]
VBS Meets Jack Bond
Although often overlooked in his native UK, radical producer and director Jack Bond has had a career that has spanned five decades and seen him work with artists such as Salvador Dalí – Bond’s 1965 documentary is the only film created with Dalí’s full collaboration – and his long term creative partner Jane Arden. VBS.TV [...]
The VICE Guide To Film
The folks over at VBS are at it once again with their documentary series The VICE Guide To…. This time round Shane Smith turns the focus on film itself, with the series promising to guide us through; ‘An alternative view of cinema by exploring some of the lesser known film movements from around the world.‘ [...]
DN EP 155: The VICE Guide to Liberia – Shane Smith & Andy Capper
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] I’m very pleased to welcome Andy Capper back to the show, to discuss the journey he and VICE founder, Shane Smith, took into the dangerous heart of Liberia for the latest revelatory film in The VICE Guide to… series. Showlinks VBS CNN Presents VBS.TV Liberia Lariam William Bennett [...]
The Vice Guide to Liberia
As part of their ongoing Vice Guide to Travel series which sees, “correspondents from VBS and Vice magazine dispatched around the world to visit the planet’s most dangerous and weird destinations”, VBS are currently running an eight part series looking at life in Liberia. I got to take a sneak peak at the film and [...]
DN EP 150: Swansea Love Story – Andy Capper & Leo Leigh
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] After their successful collaboration on the decaying seaside town documentary Blackpool: Las Vegas of the North, directors Andy Capper & Leo Leigh have joined forces again and hit the streets of Swansea to produce their second film for VBS’ Rule Britannia series, Swansea Love Story. They both (separately) [...]
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