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Here are two seemingly unrelated facts: Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries when it comes to the effects of climate change. Around 30% of girls in Bangladesh are married before their 15th birthday. Hidden Connections is a 20 minute documentary revealing how these two facts are intertwined.

HIDDEN CONNECTIONS

SHORT DOC

Here are two seemingly unrelated facts: Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries when it comes to the effects of climate change. Around 30% of girls in Bangladesh are married before their 15th birthday. Hidden Connections is a 20 minute documentary (directed by Liz) revealing how these two facts are intertwined.

A co-production of the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Participant Media, the video has had over 1.4 million views on Youtube. Check out the website and related content.

 
FOLLW UP TO MATTER v ANTIMATTER FILM: On 7 March, the journal Nature published the latest results from the ALPHA experiment at CERN. The findings were called "historic." ALPHA first made science history in 2010, when they created atoms of anti-hydrogen; in 2011 they succeeded in trapping and holding these atoms for an astonishing 1000 seconds.

CERN PEOPLE

SHORT SERIES

A series of online shorts about life inside CERN filmed between 2011 and 2013 - the most exciting time in particle physics in a generation. Directed by Liz Mermin in association with Films of Record and Crowhill Films, with support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council and Bord Scannán na hÉireann / Irish Film Board and Google. Series two premiered on The Intelligent Channel

 

SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS

Award winning series of 50 second spots for COURT TV based on the book Speak Truth to Power, profiling five prominent human rights defenders. Directed, Written, and Edited by Liz Mermin for Moxie Firecracker Films. Won five Telly Awards.

At 15, Dragan Kisin was beating kids up, drinking, and getting in all sorts of trouble. His father had left home to avoid gambling debts, and his mother was in despair. Then Dragan joined the Be a Man club in Bosnia and Herzegovina's Banja Luka. He is now a community leader and non-violence advocate.

POST-WAR MACHISMO: BE A MAN

SHORT FILM

More than 20 years after war left Bosnia scarred by violence and destruction, much of the generation born in the wake of that conflict has known little but struggle. Desperate and angry about their situation, many young men lash out violently and seek solace in drugs and alcohol. Post-war Machismo: Be a Man (directed by Liz) follows the journey of one Bosnian teen, Dragan, who turned his life around through the Be a Man club. An initiative aimed at teens living in post-war Balkan nations, Be a Man coaches young men to separate manhood and masculinity from violence, and find productive alternatives to anger and apathy. Winner of MY HERO RON KOVIC Peace Prize. Featured in AEON

 
Client: Sony Professional Brand: Sony Professional Agency: Antidote Sony Professional (Business to Business) was under threat on two fronts: small AV specialists like Red and big IT companies like Cisco. We needed to develop a single narrative to unite a diverse range of businesses - a narrative that would be relevant and differentiating for customers as diverse as TV broadcasters, film-makers, wedding videographers, video security specialists, hospitals, and retailers. Sony's customers needed to be better at bringing together creativity and technology to create, capture, manage and monetise content. With its experience in both the creation of high-end technology and content (through Sony BMG, Sony Pictures and Sony Playstation), Sony were best placed to service this need as they existed at the intersection of these two worlds. Idea: 'Creatology' - the beautiful collision of creativity and technology. 'Creatology' was not just used in advertising, it was used by the sales force to present their newly differentiated offer - it wasn't just a communications idea, it was a business tool. We also built a web portal through which customers could experience the concept and view mini documentaries of Creatology in action.

SONY - CREATOLOGY

BRANDED CONTENT

A branded content series for Sony Europe, directed by Liz, based on the campaign devised by the creative agency Antidote and produced by Tigerlily Films. This endearing series of shorts explores creative uses of Sony video technology by ordinary people.

What Brits Love is a five part series about being British, presented by Ben Lewis. It is a funny, warm, fresh, exciting, but also an insightful and critical view into what defines Britain at the outset of the twenty first century. http://www.benlewis.tv/shop/buy-dvds/buy-brits-love-dvd/

WHAT BRITS LOVE

SERIES - ARTE

Liz directed two episodes of the comic-documentary series for Arte from BLTV, executive produced and presented by Ben Lewis. What Brits Love is a series of five 45 minute films, which explore imaginatively, adventurously and wittily what makes the Brits so different from other nations today. Ben Lewis travels across the length and breadth of Britain, from castles in Scotland, to sandwich factories in the Midlands, hat festivals in Dorset and fashion designers in London, and meets people from every class and culture in Britain in his quest to understand twenty-first century Britain. Liz’s episodes were on estate agents and the British sense of humour.

 
Jayne Fleming is the leader of the Reed Smith Refugee Protection Project, a mobile legal clinic offering legal and psychosocial support to some of Jordan's most vulnerable refugees - mostly from Syria, Iraq, or Sudan. Their goal is to resettle their clients to third countries where they can start their lives anew.

NO EXIT: JORDAN’S MOST VULNERABLE REFUGEES

SHORT DOC

Jayne Fleming is an extraordinary American lawyer who heads a group of volunteers seeking creative solutions to find safe permanent homes for the most vulnerable refugees in Jordan and Greece. Their clients include victims of torture incapacitated by trauma, children with life-threatening or degenerative illnesses, and victims of rape or gender-based violence. A poignant story from the Thomson Reuters Foundation (directed by Liz) about hope in the face of hopelessness. Read the full story here.