Full length documentaries
Producing full length issue-related documentaries is extraordinarily satisfying. A full length documentary allows you to explore the topic and present it in an appealing form. People enjoy watching documentaries.Most mondofragilis network and messaggio studios documentaries are original productions conceived by the team. Most of those are produced in full partnership with foundations, United Nations agencies and civil society organisations.
The team is available for on order documentaries. If your organisation is interested in exploring the potential of producing a documentary you will meet with the group’s executive producer and discuss the possibilities, costs, distribution expectations, etc. Please note that otjiwarongo consulting and messaggio studios together handle every aspect of the production, post-production, dissemination and promotion.
Clients who would like to produce a full length documentary may also want to consider partnering with other organisations working in the same field.
Job types:
Full length documentaries are divided into two job types:
- Editing only documentary
- Filmed documentary
- Filmed and investigated documentary
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Our group has produced several full length documentaries. Our two part Women are... films, coproduced with the World YWCA and UNAIDS were distributed worldwide. So too was ’40 First Ladies’ coproduced with the Clinton Foundation and recently, our four part ‘Cancer is...’ series was produced in partnership with the IAEA, WHO, the American Cancer Society and UICC. We love documentary production. |
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Cancer is...
mondofragilis group and its subsidiaries are truly proud to have produced over ten full length documentaries. To date, the one that stands out as the greatest challenge was the four-part Cancer is... series. Producing four full length films, in 30 countries with 52-interviews is no easy task. Add to that a limited budget, mostly self-financed, and you have to be inventive in addition to creative. We must say that this film taught us many lessons. We believe it made us both into better film makers and producers. The lessons learnt were varied ranging from how to light in impossible conditions to filming an open brain surgery to crossing borders with customs officials who wanted remuneration in exchange for safe passage. Equipment was lost in transport, countries refused us entry, visas were not granted... and yet the project saw the light at the end of the tunnel. If nothing else, Cancer is... taught us the importance of documentaries in today’s advocacy landscape inasmuch as the films have become arguments for change with many in the cancer community.
This film series also showed us how to maximise private public partnerships. It was not small affair putting these partners together: the International Agency for Research on Cancer (part of the World Health Organizations), the American Cancer Society, the International Union Against Cancer and the Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (part of the International Atomic Energy Agency). We also had the private financial support of Sanofi-Pasteur MSD who were brilliant sponsors inasmuch as they kept to their word of non-interference. Indeed, while they could have asked us to put an emphasis on matters of interest to them, they did not. What’s more, some parts of the films were critical of the pharmaceutical industry and of one of their own vaccines and the segments were left in.
A final word of thanks for this project goes to Dr. Peter Boyle, then Director of IARC and now CEO of the International Prevention Research Institute without whom these films would not have been possible.
The company was the result of a merger between the mondofragilis network studios and those of natura print in 2005. It brought together two creative teams with highly complementary skills. Together, they are able to deliver output that is either local in flavour or global in scope. The team is spread across timezones allowing it to deliver content almost 24/7.