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A video report on the protests that occurred in connection with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions, Ground Noise & Static is a manifesto. “We went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. Corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians; we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, 'This is what democracy looks like'”.

Gritos en el Cielo (Cries in the Sky) is an observational documentary that looks at the people’s movement that emerged in Barcelona in May 2011 and defied the passivity of society by occupying the city’s main square. As the movement grew stronger, the government and the media repeatedly tried to discredit it and force it to end violently, but its members - Barcelona citizens - decided to resist peacefully in order to bring about real change. The film includes many dialogues between people, police, ideologies, political and economic forces and the government. The story revolves around Plaça Catalunya, the epicentre of the movement in Barcelona. During the months that the square was occupied, the participants demanded real democracy and the reformulation of the country’s economic and political structures.

Greenhouses left untouched for 15 years, nature reinstating its authority. When the farmer caught me coming out of them after filming, he called out - “bloody idiot, you could've had your head chopped in half!”

In Grass, Mann chronicles America's rocky relationship with marijuana and the perilous road this little weed has travelled in the land of “stars and stripes”. Grass is narrated by pro-hemp campaigner, the actor Woody Harrelson (The People Vs Larry Flynt, Natural Born Killers), who himself went to jail when protesting his right to plant industrial hemp on his farming property in Texas. Thrown into its mix is a pure blend of hilarious archival footage, disturbing information and a healthy pinch of government double standard. But as always Mann's skill with alternative arguments, facts and figures, allow it to transcend the fate of mere “agit-prop”. Just say yes to Grass.

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