NEW FILM BY FREDRIK GERTTEN - RELEASE 2019

Landlords without faces. Apartments without tenants. A documentary exploring the new, un-livable city.

Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities worldwide. Incomes are not. The working and middle classes are getting pushed out of cities, while financial powerhouses use housing as a place to park money. 

PUSH investigates why we can’t afford to live in our own cities anymore. We follow UN Special Rapporteur on Housing, Leilani Farha, on her quest to understand who’s getting squeezed, who’s getting rich and why housing has become one of today’s most pressing world issues. 

A trailer for Fredrik Gertten’s new film PUSH is out now! The film will be released next year. 

You can support the film here

OUTREACH & COMMUNITY STRATEGIST

WG Film produces award winning international documentaries. When people who want to change the world use our films as tools, we feel proud. Our audience is global and we communicate with them on a daily basis. After successes like BANANAS!*, Big Boys Gone Bananas!*, Bikes vs Cars and Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas, we now want to strengthen our outreach team.

We are looking for a passionate co-worker for our team at WG Film. You are interested in and have some experience of:

• online strategic communication

• outreach and impact work

• community building

• communicating in English

• documentary film

From the WG Film office in Malmö, you will be part of developing and implementing strategies around community building and outreach. You will also be working with our social media accounts to keep in touch with existing fan base as well as work to broaden it. As being part of a small team, in a small company, you will also take part of finding funding for the outreach work.

About You
We are interested in people from different backgrounds, perhaps you have a background in communications or you have worked at an NGO, for instance. Either way, an interest in world political issues is crucial. Please send your application as soon as possible to film@wgfilm.com. We will start interviewing from September 1st 2018 and forward.

WINNER OF BEST FEATURE AWARD

Bikes vs Cars is the winner of the SEFF – Smaragdni Eco Film Festival, in Croatia, International Best Feature award! Thank you for honoring the film!

“Bikes vs Cars provides an engaging and intelligent look at the issue of biking in modern cities. The film focuses on inspirational characters who are fighting like David against Goliath to make a place for bikes in the global car culture, and it thoughtfully examines urban biking, car driving, and the history of urban planning in several locations. With strong production values, good editing, and a sense of humor, Bikes vs Cars echoes the spirit of this festival by shining a light on the value of bikes.”

WG FILM IN CANNES

Producers Kerstin Übelacker and Margarete Jangård. Photo: Emma Anckar

Producers Kerstin Übelacker and Margarete Jangård will be heading to Festival de Cannes, in France, between May 9-16th. While there, Kerstin will attend the Young Nordic Producers Club, a program from The Danish Film Institute and The National Film School of Denmark, meant to strengthen the Nordic Producer’s network and to support international co-production. 

If you’ll also be in town for the festival and want to meet up, email margarete@wgfilm.com or kerstin@wgfilm.com. If you are interested in our projects in development, you can find out more here.

"DEAD DONKEYS FEAR NO HYENAS" DVDS NOW AVAILABLE

The DVDs for Joakim Demmer’s Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas are now available and ready to be shipped anywhere in the world (with free shipping!). We’ve included 12 subtitle options (Amharic, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish & Swedish), as well as French and German dubbed versions. We hope this will make the film more accessible to communities around the world.

Please keep in mind that the DVDs are meant for private use. To set up a screening, contact glynnis@wgfilm.com

Purchase your DVD here! And if you prefer to go digital, you can watch the film on Vimeo on Demand, below.

DEAD DONKEYS WINNER OF THE 2018 SIMA JURY PRIZE FOR TRANSPARENCY

We are very honored to share that Joakim Demmer’s “>Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas is the recipient of the International Social Impact Media Awards 2018 Jury Prize for Transparency!

From SIMA:
The annual SIMA Awards celebrate the best impact filmmaking from around the world that inspires activism, compassion and social transformation. 

SIMA’s jury of award-winning media industry leaders, impact producers, educators, film and human rights experts select winners for each award category and jury prize. Films are judged on their potential to ignite critical consciousness through concept, direction, storytelling, integrity and creativity, and their ability to inspire awareness, dialogues, actions, and best practices for progressive social change.

“SIMA2018 Winners allow us to witness the most crucial global challenges and opportunities of our time. With breathtaking authenticity they offer a fierce understanding of what it means to be human and participate in this global movement called humanity.” – Daniela Kon, SIMA Founder and Executive Director

Thank you to SIMA and the jury for recognizing our work, and a special thank you to all the brave people who shared their important stories with us for this film. We will keep doing our best to get those voices heard, far and wide.

See the full list of award recipients here.

BRING "DEAD DONKEYS FEAR NO HYENAS" TO A THEATRE NEAR YOU!

There is now an easy way to bring Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas to a cinema near you, in numerous countries around the world! We’ve partnered up with Demand Film to set up crowd-sourced cinema and special screenings in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland. 

For screening requests in the above countries, please contact Demand Film at david@demand.film and erica@demand.film, or fill out forms from the links above.

See how Demand’s crowd-sources screenings work, below:

1. DEMAND

Simply fill out our screening request form.
We will be in touch to confirm where and when.

2. YOUR PAGE

We will sort out the details and build you a customised screening page.
It will show the minimum number of tickets to be sold by the deadline for the screening to go ahead.

3. PROMOTE

Promote your screening to your friends, community and anyone that may be interested.
If enough seats sell by the deadline, your screening confirms and the tickets are sent out.
If there are not enough tickets sold, the screening cancels and no one is charged
– there is zero risk for you.

4. ENJOY

Have a great time watching the film on the big screen – how it was meant to be seen
– with all the people you invited. You’ve even made money on every ticket sold.

DEAD DONKEYS FEAR NO HYENAS - 2017 IN REVIEW

After a 7 year-long journey, WG Film was very proud to be able to share Joakim Demmer’s “>Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas in 2017. Now, as we come to the end of the year, we look back on the film’s travels and achievements so far.

Since our world premiere at CPH:DOX in March 2017, the film has met audiences in 25 countries and 60+ cities at festivals, cinemas, conferences and community screenings, plus many more places online and on TV. Director Joakim Demmer has traveled to screenings in cities from San Francisco to Warsaw to Beirut. Our German theatrical release brought the film to 38 cities across Germany. AfriDocs and BET Africa joined together to televise the film across Africa. Joakim, along with outreach producers Glynnis Ritter and Kerstin Übelacker, pitched the film’s outreach campaign at Good Pitch Copenhagen. With the help of more than 700 friends from around the world, WG Film had a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, which has helped us continue our work with the film to bring it to new people and places. We have also been honored with numerous awards, such as San Francisco Green Film Festival’s “Green Tenacity Award” and Life After Oil’s “Best International Documentary”. We were nominated for the prestigious European Film Academy Award for “Best Documentary” and Prix Europa’s “Best TV Documentary”.

Our work is certainly not done. One of our main goals with this film is to bring it to those communities affected by land grabbing, both in Ethiopia and other countries around the world. We hope for Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas to help facilitate critical conversations with local people and communities, politicians and decision makers, investors and NGOs. To help spread the film as far as possible, we now have the film translated into 9 different languages, including a French dubbed version and soon, an Amharic version. During 2018, we will be working hard towards bringing this film to the people who need it most and are eager to see what kind of change it can contribute to.

On behalf of WG Film and Joakim Demmer, we thank you for supporting us on this incredible journey. We look forward to seeing where 2018 brings the film and hope you will continue to join us along the way.

For now, have a look at some photos from the many screenings so far:

To follow us along in 2018, find us on Facebook and Twitter