While You Were Sleeping has been involved in a number of projects:
In 2011, we hosted the Freedom to Create Documentary Week in collaboration with Freedom to Create, an organisation founded to support programmes and projects around the world that unleash people’s creativity.
The following films were shown during the event:
• The Lost Girls of South Africa
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In 2012 we were involved in organising the Eco Kids Film Initiative, a film festival to inspire real change among the children of today and generations to come by promoting a proactive strategy of environmental awareness using film as medium.
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In 2014 we organised the inaugural Cape Town Eco Film Festival, screening 24 documentary films with environmental themes over a five day period. Find more info HERE.
In 2015, we organised the South African Eco Film Festival!
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In February 2015, we were privileged to be part of Sense Africa, a retrospective of the films of the fabulous Foster Brothers.
The films we screened during the festival were:
• The Animal Communicator
• My Hunter’s Heart
• Cosmic Africa
• Iceman
• The Great Dance
• Sharkman
• Into the Dragon’s Lair
• Touching the Dragon
• Nature of Life
• Antarctica
• Africa Unbottled
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The many excellent documentary films we have shown include:
• The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
• The Take
• Uranium Road
• Living Utopia: Anarchism in the Spanish Revolution
• Garbage!
• Fahrenheit 2010
• You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train
• The Cove
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
• Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
• Gasland
• Imagina na Copa (Imagine the Cup)
• Diaries Of A Dissident Poet
• Gore Vidal – The United States of Amnesia
