This is our multi-award winning documentary film Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul. The film has received over a million hits online and has been the official selection at a number of top film festivals across the world including Sundance 2011, SXSW 2011, Sheffield Doc/Fest 2010, One World 2011 and Full Frame 2011.
Documentary
Grain has a vibrant and growing documentary wing. Our documentary films have won numerous awards, garnered plenty of international media attention and have been accepted into the world's most prestigious film festivals including Sundance, SXSW and Sheffield Doc/Fest.
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Client: DAZED & CONFUSEDThis is our multi-award winning documentary film Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul. The film has received over a million hits online and has been the official selection at a number of top film festivals across the world including Sundance 2011, SXSW 2011, Sheffield Doc/Fest 2010, One World 2011 and Full Frame 2011.
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Client: AL JAZEERA ENGLISHSpecial 30' show for Al Jazeera English's Earthrise strand about the brave men and women risking their lives to save the last of the world's mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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'Nasi Lemak' is our tribute to the people of Pudu Market, Kuala Lumpur. We were asked by Vimeo / the Malaysian Tourist Board to produce a film about 'food'. This was the result; a quasi musical / documentary about Malaysia's national dish, Nasi Lemak.
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Short lighthearted observational documentary, commissioned by Channel 4's Shooting Gallery strand, about true urban forager, Phil Sanders.
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Part documentary, part narrative, Radio Amina tells the story of Amina Dibir, a 12 year old street hawker from Kano, Nigeria and her imaginary radio show where she gets to say all of the things she wishes she could in real life. The film is currently on the festival circuit where it has screened at several top festivals including IDFA 2011, TIFF 2012 & LSFF 2012.
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Partially blind & working Nigeria's streets aged 9, Aisha's life prospects were poor. But a chance meeting sent her on a different path. Aisha's Song is a musically lush & beautifully shot award-winning film that tells a story of female empowerment from a place where women are often overlooked. Festival screenings include SXSW 2012, Camerimage 2011 & Brief Encounters 2011.
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Client: AL JAZEERA ENGLISHThe precious marine resources of some of the world's poorest people are being targeted by industrial scale illegal fishing operations to feed the seafood hungry markets of Europe and Asia. Working with NGO the EJF, in this RTS nominated investigation for Al Jazeera's People & Power we take to the seas off Sierra Leone to expose the multi-million dollar illegal fishing trade.
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'Feker' in Amharic means love and this is a short documentary about the enduring nature of the human spirit. 'My Name Is Feker' retells the story of Feker Asheme's challenging life but by following the lives of 3 girls who are today, living the life she once led. Official selection at Seattle and Rotterdam International Film Festivals 2012.
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Client: AL JAZEERA ENGLISHThe Nigerian Connection is a 2-part investigative mini series we produced, alongside Pear Productions, for Al Jazeera English about the Nigerian mafia and the trafficking of women from West Africa to Europe. Click above to see Part 1 based in Italy's mafia stronghold of Castel Volturno.
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Client: AL JAZEERA ENGLISHPart 2 of The Nigerian Connection takes us to Benin City in Nigeria, where women, desperately seeking an escape from grinding poverty, can find themselves trapped in a nightmare world of juju magic and prostitution.
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Client: AL JAZEERA ENGLISHOne of a number of short films we've produced for the Earthrise strand on Al Jazeera English. This film is about a growing movement in New York to green urban spaces and has gone down a storm on youtube racking up over 270,000 hits!
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Client: CURRENT TVAn hour long access driven documentary about the work of the UK government's Forced Marriage Unit (FMU). Commissioned by Current TV and co-funded by World View, a team from Grain planted themselves within the FMU in the UK and their partner offices in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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The village of Kidding sits high up in the mountains of Borneo and is three hours walk from the nearest road. It is home to about twenty families one of whom is the Kudans. This is a short film about a day in their life. The film was made for Vimeo / the Malaysian Tourist Board and the brief was 'homestay'.
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Client: AL JAZEERA ENGLISHThe Sahara Desert is creeping into verdant southern Africa. To counter this desertification, the Community Of Sahel-Saharan States has launched the Great Green Wall, a project to create a tree belt across the continent from Dakar to Djibouti.
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Client: AL JAZEERA ENGLISHShot in Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco and Europe, Slaves To Football is an undercover investigation into the trafficking of child footballers from West Africa to Europe by scammers, dodgy agents & clubs. This is the 23' version of the film we made for Al Jazeera English's People and Power strand.
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In a very poor neighborhood in Old Dhaka, there is a building that doesn't look like it should actually be standing. Step inside and you'll be greeted by some truly inspiring and hardy folk, not at all squeamish about the cockroaches and spiders littering the building that terrified the not so hardy film makers who joined them one afternoon...
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Client: AL JAZEERA ENGLISHMade for Al Jazeera English's People and Power strand, The Green Lake is a 21' film investigating the pollution of the once clean Lake Koka in Ethiopia and the tragic effects this has been having on the lake's residents.
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This is one of three short films we produced for the British council about Mexican fashion designer Carla Fernandez.
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Client: AL JAZEERA ENGLISHHot Chocolate is a 21' investigative film about the role of the international chocolate trade in exaggerating violence and human rights abuse in war torn Ivory Coast. Made for Al Jazeera English's People And Power strand.
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Client: CURRENT TVIn 2007 we visited the Saharawi refugee camps in SW Algeria. In these sun scorched camps over 200,000 people etch out a living. Some of them have been there over 30 years and virtually no one outside of the region has ever heard of them.
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Client: CURRENT TVProduced at a time when media hysteria about gun crime was at a zenith, this is a short prize winning feature about the life of a gun car