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Flying Elephant Films has produced award winning television documentaries aimed primarily at children. Shot mainly on DV and HD formats, our documentary crew has access to all walks of life, from Britain and the West to the more remote parts of Africa and the East, encouraging participants to open their hearts to camera in a relaxed, informal way. With highly-skilled technicians and creative personnel, the team looks set to expand into yet more challenging areas in the near future.
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Shot in Hyderabad, the film tells the story of a little girl who is forced to work due to poverty but dreams about going to school.
In addition to a Bafta nomination, the film has won a string of other awards, Best Short Film Dubai Intl Film Festival, Audience Award Iffla in LA , Audience award, Lucas InternationalFestival.Germany, Human Rights Award Lola Kenya Festival (Kenya ) . It has shown at major international Film festivals around the world including the prestigious Idfa Amsterdam film Festival and Human Rights Film Festival in Prague.
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A series of 10 documentaries shot in a village outside Hyderbad following the innovative ways in which children in India keep themselves entertained. While the adults work, children keep themselves occupied playing with water, bits of string, stones, in fact anything they can lay their hands on. Each game is a way for them to learn about the way the world around them works, and they have a great time.
A different Life 3
A different Life 2
A different Life 1
You Know What I'm Saying
First Kiss
My Story
Miracles of Faith
Portrait
Murali in Moncombu
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Shot in Hyderabad, the film tells the story of a little girl who is forced to work due to poverty but dreams about going to school.
In addition to a Bafta nomination, the film has won a string of other awards, Best Short Film Dubai Intl Film Festival, Audience Award Iffla in LA , Audience award, Lucas InternationalFestival.Germany, Human Rights Award Lola Kenya Festival (Kenya ) . It has shown at major international Film festivals around the world including the prestigious Idfa Amsterdam film Festival and Human Rights Film Festival in Prague.
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Client : five TV, UK
Target Audience: 4-10 year olds
No. of episodes: 13 X 22 min
TX : winter 2005 |
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| Stories about British young people whose families chose live an alternative life: In a sailing boat, in a small town in India and in the middle of wild lions in Botswana. |
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Client : five TV, UK
Target Audience: 4-10 year olds
No. of episodes: 13 X 22 min
TX : winter 2004 |
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| A series about British children whose parents chose to live in unusual places: In a sailing boat, behind a fish and chip shop and in an ecological commune. |
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Client : five TV, UK
Target Audience: 4-10 year olds
No. of episodes: 13 X 22 min
TX : winter 2003 |
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| Stories about British children from travellers families growing up in a multicultural Britain |
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Have you ever wondered what children do to chill out in America? what the coolest fashion labels are in Japan? what growing up is like in Brazil? or what British teenagers take on the drug scene is? ... well 'You Know What I'm Saying' tells it how it is and provokes you to ask even more questions. |
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They say that great minds don't think alike - but we found a diversity of thought and opinion amongst young people too. From the radically politicised to the latest recruits in the gender wars we've trawled the world to find out what pressing issues keep you thinking. |
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The programme that explores the ever changing youth cultures around the world. We travelled across the world to find out what the thoughts of contemporary teenagers. |
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| Commissioned as a second series for Channel 5, 'First Kiss' is a 13 part documentary programme focusing on aspects surrounding sexuality, love and romance for young people in the 21st century. Taking the camera to a host of different countries with youngsters black and white, male and female, gay and straight - 'First Kiss' creates a fascinating snapshot of opinions, beliefs and practices across the modern globe. |
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| With engaging candour, colourful arrays of characters discuss the philosophies, morals and practical complexities, joys, pains and dangers of the mating game. |
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The show looks at attraction, first dates, the ways people choose and pursue partners, and how relationships are built. - Sex and its implications on the individual, families and friends; the experience of being gay, and how couples break up. |
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| Finally we find out what our subjects expect of future lives and loves. Filmed on DV, the shows are fast paced, intimate and warm hearted, often with a sense of humour. |
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| A celebration of young achievement - sometimes against the odds - of unusual talents, hobbies, jobs and circumstances, the programme asks teenagers at the turn of the century to share their personal experiences and stories. |
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| Commissioned for Channel 5 and broadcast as part of a Saturday magazine strand aimed primarily at teenagers and young adults, 'My Story' is a 26 part series of short films exploring the exciting, challenging and uplifting lives of a group of varied young people from all backgrounds, classes, races, colours and creeds in the United Kingdom. |
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In addition to making youth programmes, Flying Elephant has also made a highly successful religious series. Broadcast in 2000 and subject of a Channel 5 nationwide advertising campaign, 'Miracles of Faith' is a 10 part series broadcast on Sunday mornings, exploring contemporary religious phenomena worldwide. |
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| Visiting sites in the U.K., Ireland, India and America, the programme tells extraordinary stories from the mouths of the ordinary people who experienced them, often filming the evidence first hand. Ranging across the esoteric |
| spectrum from cures to apparitions, spirit guides to signs and symbols, 'Miracles of Faith' investigates fascinating occurrences in a down-to-earth way. |
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| In a small U.S town the appearance of an modern-day barefoot Messiah has brought about new questions of faith and resulted seemingly in miraculous healings. |
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| Over in India a cure for asthma in the form of a small fish digested live, draws thousands of believing sufferers to the same festival each year. |
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| The appearance of a weeping icon in a church and on a pane of glass has altered the fortunes of a Catholic American family...whilst shining crosses of light have altered another woman's life and those who visit her home. |
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| Do guardian angels exist, to protect and guide those in danger? One hill walker in North England is convinced a mysterious light saved her from near death. |
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| An experienced medium tells his story and demonstrates how he communicates with the dead. |
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| For a paralysed woman consigned to bed, a miraculous blessing from the Virgin Mary during a church service not only brought a full recovery but set her on a mission to heal others. |
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| In Leicester Square, London, a group of portrait artists come every day to draw portraits of tourists passing through. As we watch them at work the filmmaker creates a portrait of their lives. We hear the stories which have brought them to this place. |
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| A half-hour documentary following the process of Murali making his second feature "A Dog's Day" on the island of Moncombu in Kerala. Containing interviews with the director, as well as the local people who took part in the film, this film provides an important insight into the director's thought processes while making the film. It also illuminates the everyday lives of the cast of non actors who took part in the film. |
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