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documentaries

Flora and Thieves

This is the story of an armed robbery, a flower arrangement and Xanthe’s Grandma. Four gunmen stormed into her grandparents' house to commit a robbery. She tells what happens next.

TB – IT’S NOW (2007) (working title)

There is more TB in the world today than at any other time in history. This documentary uncovers the truth.
Filming was done in February 2007 in Calcutta and Delhi.

ALICE (2007) (working title)

At 97 years of age nothings going to be keeping Alice at home on a Friday night.
Spinky Films & MIX co-production.

C’est la V: Velofax in Paris (2007)

Up and coming London based four-piece debut in Paris for the end of Paris Fashion Week. Head to toe in fashion designer Carolyn Massey’s ‘get up’ the band rock, glamorous nightclub La Milliardaire before running riot around town.

FAMILY VILAKATI (2006)

Award winning short documentary about life for a family of four orphans left to fend for themselves in the Swaziland Mountains.

“Tough and intimate, Hamilton captures both the sense of tragedy and the strength of the family's bond. Let's hope she gets to paint her portraits on a larger canvas soon.”
(Amber Wilkinson, Eye For Film)

BACK TO SCHOOL: A SWAZILAND CHALLENGE (2006)

Commissioned by Channel Television, “Back to School: A Swaziland Challenge” follows the journey of a team of nine volunteers leaving their office jobs behind for a month to go to Swaziland and build a block of classrooms at a rural primary school. The programme also looks at the issues that this community has to deal with in their daily lives.

The high rates of HIV/AIDS in Swaziland mean that half of the 360 children at the school have been orphaned. This is an educational and heart warming story that illuminates the reality for a rural African community and the appreciated support and commitment from overseas volunteers.

“Xanthe’s documentary will give our viewers a real insight into how a local aid project has had such a positive impact on the people of this African community. We are delighted to be able to support the project by commissioning this programme for our regional schedule.”
(Karen Rankine, Director, Channel Television)

THE MISSION (2004)

Commissioned by Channel Television The Mission is a moving documentary which looks at the work of the Leprosy Mission in India. Xanthe spent two weeks in India gathering footage for the programme. This documentary takes you on a journey from the slums of Delhi, to remote tribal villages in Central India, stopping in at leprosy hospitals and calling on life changing micro-financed community projects along the way.

“We commissioned Xanthe to make ‘The Mission’ after the success of a short feature she'd filmed in Romania, broadcast last January….a compelling programme, sensitive and moving in the way it has been told. Xanthe is a talented producer with the ability to approach difficult and often harrowing situations and convey them to the viewer with simplicity and honesty.”
(Karen Rankine, Director, Channel Television)

COLD AND HUNGRY (2003)

This is a short disturbing documentary about the severe poverty still experienced by many people living in post communist Romania. Broadcast on Channel TV.