Elliot Kotek.
California-based Australian Elliot Kotek is combining his twin passions of creating technology to help humanity and making documentaries.
The co-founder of media and technology company Not Impossible, Kotek is producing a feature-length documentary Project Daniel and he.s just released online a 6-minute doc Don.s Voice.
In a separate venture he has just completed Queen Mimi, a feature doc profiling 89-year-old Marie .Mimi. Haist, who was homeless for 35 years. Living and working in a laundromat in Santa Monica she befriended actors Zach Galifianakis and Renée Zellweger and turned her life around.
Kotek has financed Not Impossible.s shorts by corporate sponsorships, highlighting technology devised by his firm.
Project Daniel is a spin-off of the short film Project Daniel - Not Impossible's 3D Printing Arms for Children of War-Torn Sudan, which followed the visit of Mick Ebeling, the firm's CEO and co-founder, to Sudan's Nuba Mountains in...
California-based Australian Elliot Kotek is combining his twin passions of creating technology to help humanity and making documentaries.
The co-founder of media and technology company Not Impossible, Kotek is producing a feature-length documentary Project Daniel and he.s just released online a 6-minute doc Don.s Voice.
In a separate venture he has just completed Queen Mimi, a feature doc profiling 89-year-old Marie .Mimi. Haist, who was homeless for 35 years. Living and working in a laundromat in Santa Monica she befriended actors Zach Galifianakis and Renée Zellweger and turned her life around.
Kotek has financed Not Impossible.s shorts by corporate sponsorships, highlighting technology devised by his firm.
Project Daniel is a spin-off of the short film Project Daniel - Not Impossible's 3D Printing Arms for Children of War-Torn Sudan, which followed the visit of Mick Ebeling, the firm's CEO and co-founder, to Sudan's Nuba Mountains in...
- 2/15/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Here’s the second and final installment of my Aesthetica Short Film Festival coverage, a little later than expected but no less enthusiastic for it! Let’s dive right into the last day of the fest:
One of the more enlightening screenings from the festival was Sunday’s showing of films from Iraq with an introduction from Human Film’s Isabelle Stead, who gave some interesting context to the shorts her company had helped Iraqi filmmakers produce. The first film shown, Lipstick, was a quietly touching portrait of school life and excruciating adolescence for one boy in an all-male class and their hard-nosed female teacher. Two other shorts that stood out for me, Children of War and Children of God, took different approaches to exploring the effects of the Gulf War on the country’s youth. The former is a mix of live-action and animated footage, the bulk of the...
One of the more enlightening screenings from the festival was Sunday’s showing of films from Iraq with an introduction from Human Film’s Isabelle Stead, who gave some interesting context to the shorts her company had helped Iraqi filmmakers produce. The first film shown, Lipstick, was a quietly touching portrait of school life and excruciating adolescence for one boy in an all-male class and their hard-nosed female teacher. Two other shorts that stood out for me, Children of War and Children of God, took different approaches to exploring the effects of the Gulf War on the country’s youth. The former is a mix of live-action and animated footage, the bulk of the...
- 11/13/2014
- by Mark Allen
- Nerdly
New Delhi, March 24: Actress Raima Sen will be seen playing a victim in "Children Of War", based on the violent birth of Bangladesh, and, after familiarising herself with the tragedies experienced by its people then, says she feels strongly for them and hopes they are treated as equals now.
The "Godmother" star plays a journalist's wife who suffers during the atrocities during the genocide of 1971.
"I portray women empowerment strongly in my character and this is by far the strongest and most unconventional role I have ever done on screen," Raima told Ians via email interaction.
She says since she is a professional,.
The "Godmother" star plays a journalist's wife who suffers during the atrocities during the genocide of 1971.
"I portray women empowerment strongly in my character and this is by far the strongest and most unconventional role I have ever done on screen," Raima told Ians via email interaction.
She says since she is a professional,.
- 3/24/2014
- by Arun Pandit
- RealBollywood.com
Mrityunjay Devrat, the director of the controversial film Children Of War, based on Bangladesh's 1971 war of liberation which snuffed thousands of lives and rendered thousands homeless leaving many of them as refugees in India, is outraged by the way the Bangladesh conflict has been depicted in Yashraj Films' Gunday. Speaking forthrightly on Gunday, Devrat says, "If I am allowed to be honest, then I'd have to say that the makers of Gunday have been factually incorrect. I think it is hugely irresponsible and derogatory to use a sensitive subject such as the Bangladesh war for purely commercial purposes." At the same time Devrat is happy that the subject of Bangladesh war has been brought into the public forum. "Now a lot more people know about it. But I am hugely disappointed at the lack of attention that Gunday pays to historic details." The director, however, doesn't feel the frivolity of...
- 2/21/2014
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Diff has added a new section, Iraqi Legacy: Children of the Future, which will screen six short films from Iraq’s new generation of filmmakers.
Most of the films are affiliated with the Iraqi Independent Cinema Centre (Iicc), established by Iraqi filmmakers Mohamed Al Daradji (Son Of Babylon) and Oday Rasheed (Qarantina).
Two of the six Iraqi Legacy shorts are screening in the Muhr Arab Shorts competition – Meedo Ali’s Children Of War, which offers a child’s perspective on war through the drawings of an Iraqi orphan, and Ahmed Yassin’s Children Of God, about a young boy attempting to win the heart of the goalkeeper of a girls’ football team.
The other shorts are Mohanad Hayal’s Happy Birthday, Yahya Al-Allaq’s War Canister, Luay Fadhil Abbas’ Lipstick and Nesma’s Birds, from Medoo Ali and Najwan Ali, the only film in the programme that features a female filmmaker.
“The Iraqi Legacy...
Most of the films are affiliated with the Iraqi Independent Cinema Centre (Iicc), established by Iraqi filmmakers Mohamed Al Daradji (Son Of Babylon) and Oday Rasheed (Qarantina).
Two of the six Iraqi Legacy shorts are screening in the Muhr Arab Shorts competition – Meedo Ali’s Children Of War, which offers a child’s perspective on war through the drawings of an Iraqi orphan, and Ahmed Yassin’s Children Of God, about a young boy attempting to win the heart of the goalkeeper of a girls’ football team.
The other shorts are Mohanad Hayal’s Happy Birthday, Yahya Al-Allaq’s War Canister, Luay Fadhil Abbas’ Lipstick and Nesma’s Birds, from Medoo Ali and Najwan Ali, the only film in the programme that features a female filmmaker.
“The Iraqi Legacy...
- 12/6/2013
- ScreenDaily
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