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CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: MONSTER CHILDREN
The idea that music can change the world, or possess any real power beyond its ability to entertain can seem a little farfetched at the best of times. But that’s exactly what Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson’s 1994 show in Sarajevo proved, and watching this documentary about it reminded me how much hope music can bring to the people who need it most.
CLIENT: SPEEDFIT
OUTLET: THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
IT’S a tasty prospect — just 20 minutes in the gym can melt as much flab and build as much muscle as two 90-minute heavy weight sessions.
And if my aching buttocks are any indication, it really does work.
At first the mild electric shocks feel like pins and needles but when the dials are cranked up your muscles contract so tight just moving your arms gets a sweat going.
CLIENT: AIRMOW
OUTLET: BUSINESS INSIDER AUSTRALIA
Ahmed Ismail was working in the home solar installation industry and was using satellite imagery to quote jobs when he realised the technology could be used in sectors less vulnerable to the vagaries of government policy. He also became frustrated trying to find someone to move his own lawns.
CLIENT: AIRMOW
OUTLET: THE AUSTRALIAN
Australia has its first on-demand marketplace for lawnmowing, as Airmow uses satellite technology to bring lawnmowing firmly into the 21st century.
Most service industries, from food to massages, have shifted to on-demand, and Airmow founder Ahmed Ismail said lawn mowing was one of the last to make the leap.
He said lawn mowing had had little innovation since the invention of the Victa lawnmower, and was slow to move given each property needed an inspection in order to quote on it. He said providing an hourly rate disadvantaged top contractors who mow faster than others.
“The way we see it, using satellite technology is the way to get fair and accurate pricing,” he told The Australian. “I used to operate a solar installation business, and I wasn’t able to physically go to each individual for site inspection. I started using satellite imagery to quote the jobs, and now I’m using that for this industry.”
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[VIDEO: My Year With Helen tells a story of leadership, women and power through the prism of the UN secretary general selection process]
BY VAN BADHAM: A documentary playing in Australia this month [in cinemas via Demand.film] provides a happy and timely reminder that before there was Jacinda Ardern, there was Helen Clark.
The extraordinary post-parliamentary career of the former New Zealand prime minister is the subject of My Year With Helen. In it, filmmaker Gaylene Preston tells a story of leadership, patriarchy, women and power as she follows Clark into one of world’s most secretive – and significant – power processes, the one to be elected secretary general of the UN.
Clark’s pursuit of the position in 2016 was well known, but the precise mechanisms of her defeat in the shadowy, secretive realm of geopolitical horse-trading less so. Clark describes the film documenting her campaign as “fly on the wall”, but the revelation of its story is just how many more walls its other subjects are willing to erect. “It’s a bit of a thriller,” Clark tells me in our interview. “It’s the equivalent of the House of Cards of the UN. Metaphorically, candidates are [killed].”
Two years after losing the race for secretary-general, the former New Zealand prime minister says the UN needs an "injection of sheer political reality."
Here is a chance to see some of the inside workings of one of the world's largest, most important organisations from the viewpoint of a former New Zealand Prime Minister. There is a film about to be release called "My Year with Helen."
'Geek Girls' director Gina Hara took four years to find women who would speak about the secretive female geek community. She tells CNET how she did it.
Past events would strongly suggest the geek world isn't ready to have it's #metoo moment. (Mentioning the given name of said past events is like saying "Voldemort" so I'll decline to elaborate further here). But here's another perspective.
You've seen them before 6am on the roads in Darwin, MAMILs are everywhere and Nick Bird the Director of MAMIL the documentary is here to talk about them.
