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"Highway of Hope",
Parachute's latest documentary released in August, 2006,
explores the scourge of HIV/AIDS along East Africa's notorious
Northern Transport corridor from the Ugandan capital Kampala
to the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa.
"Hanging by a Thread",
made in 2005, is a damning indictment of unfettered globalisation
and its devastating impact on the fragile emerging garments industries
in Africa and South Asia. Selected for Human Rights Film Festivals
in Germany and Spain.
"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", an
undercover report on the plight of undocumented migrants in southern
Spain and their desperate attempts to cross the mediterranean from
North Africa.
"Bombay Buskers", released in 2003, looks at the lives of
eight-year-old Nagarjuna and other young itinerant musicians who work
on Bombay's vast railway system. A story of remarkable survival in India's
city of dreams. "Bombay Buskers" has been broadcast by Danish DR2 television,
RTE Eire and YLE Finland. Shortlisted for the Silver Dhow Documentary Film Award
at the Zanzibar International Film Festival, it has also been screened at the
RomaDoc Film Festival in Italy and Switzerland's North-South Film Festival
in Geneva. Please click here for further
information.
"Angels with Dirty Faces",
co-produced in 1997 with international trade unions and NGO's,
revealed the plight of South Asia's 80 million child workers
-- and told a story of slavery, stolen childhood and cheap goods
for western consumers. "Angels" has been broadcast
in some 15 countries, among them the USA, France, Germany, Denmark,
Finland and Norway; Spain, Portugal, Eire and Israel.
"Colombia: Getting away with Murder",
a 1994 co-production with Amnesty International, exposed the
widespread abuse of human rights in the South American nation
by government-sponsored death squads and revealed the horrors
of "social cleansing", judicial murders and "disappearances".
Our television news and current affairs
output has also featured special reports on Child Soldiers
in Liberia, the HIV/AIDS pandemic in India and exclusive footage
shot inside the brutal prisons of Venezuela.
In 1996, and again in 1998, Parachute scored a
world exclusive when we proved conclusively that children, some
as young as five-years-old, were making footballs for the European
and World Cup soccer championships.
In more detail, here is a list of special reports:
| "LIBERIA'S
CHILDREN OF WAR": |
| A SPECIAL TWO-PART
REPORT FOR SKY TELEVISION. FOOTAGE ALSO BROADCAST BY THE
BBC, AND CBS AND ABC IN THE UNITED STATES. |
"VENEZUELAN CATIA PRISON MASSACRE": |
| A VIDEO NEWS RELEASE
FOR AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. |
"THE CHILD SLAVES OF SIVAKASI": |
| AN UNDERCOVER REPORT
ON THE 45,000 CHILD WORKERS IN THE MATCH AND FIREWORKS INDUSTRIES
IN SIVAKASI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA -- THE LARGEST CONCENTRATION
OF CHILD WORKERS IN THE WORLD. BROADCAST BY THE BBC, ABC
AUSTRALIA, DUCTH TV AND HONG KONG TV. |
"AIDS AND PROSTITUTION IN BOMBAY": |
| A SPECIAL EIGHT-MINUTE
REPORT FOR SKY TV'S "THE REPORTERS" PROGRAMME.
FOOTAGE ALSO BROADCAST BY CHANNEL 4 NEWS LONDON, EURO
NEWS FRANCE, TBS TOKYO, HONG KONG TV AND TAIWAN TV. |
"TRADE UNION RIGHTS, 1995": |
| AN 18-MINUTE VNR
FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS
(ICFTU) IN BRUSSELS. SEQUENCES USED BY ABC AUSTRALIA, BBC
WORLD, REUTERS AND WTN. |
"HELL FOR LEATHER": |
| AN EXCLUSIVE 10-MINUTE
REPORT ON THE ESTIMATED 25,000 CHILD SOCCER BALL STITCHERS
IN THE PAKISTANI CITY OF SIALKOT. CO-PRODUCED IN 1996 WITH
AN ALLIANCE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADES UNIONS. BROADCAST IN
UNITED STATES, U.K., AND THROUGHOUT EUROPEAN MAINLAND. |
"BOUQUET OF BARBED FLOWERS": |
| AN EXCLUSIVE 1997
REPORT FROM COLOMBIA AND UGANDA ON THE ILLEGAL USE OF
PESTICIDES IN THE EXPORT FLOWER INDUSTRY. BROADCAST BY THE
BBC, ITN, IKON PRODUCTIONS HOLLAND AND RTL GERMANY. |
"DIAMONDS AND GEMSTONES": |
| A 1997 VNR FOR THE
UNIVERSAL ALLIANCE OF DIAMOND WORKERS ON CHILD LABOUR IN
THE INDIAN DIAMOND INDUSTRY. BROADCAST IN THE UNITED STATES,
ISRAEL, BRAZIL AND EUROPE. |
"UNDER THE KNIFE": |
| AN INVESTIGATION
OF HOW SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS EXPORTED TO THE WEST ARE MADE
BY YOUNG BOYS IN PAKISTAN. SPONSORED BY THE ICFTU, IT WAS
RELEASED IN JUNE 1998, AND BROADCAST THROUGHOUT EUROPE. |
"WORLD CUP FOOTBALLS 1998": |
| EXCLUSIVE PARACHUTE
REPORT ON CHILD LABOUR IN PAKISTAN. BROADCAST TO DATE BY
FRANCE 2, ARTE FRANCE, RTBF BELGIUM, TV SUISSE AND
META BERLIN. |
Parachute's most recent reports have included stories
on child labour in Malawi's Tobacco industry; an undercover investigation
of the sex trade and Western paedophiles in The Philippines;
exploitation of female workers in Mexico's border assembly plants
-- and a short documentary on workers in India's ship-breaking
and coal-mining industries. |
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Parachute has its own off-line video editing
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