ASIA-AFRICA KAPPA PRODUCTIONS
Asia-Africa Kappa Productions currently have several documentary films in productions and in development.
Here are our documentary films that we produced, in production and in development:
Here are our documentary films that we produced, in production and in development:
DOWNFALL!
“DOWNFALL!” is a feature documentary film (122 minutes) which the award-winning Australian filmmaker - John Pilger - described as “a big, raw, angry, often eloquent work in its imagery.” Pilger concluded: “The rawness is so interesting; you wield it as a weapon of the truth and persuasion, and the images you bring together, almost defiantly, are often painful to watch. Thank you for making the film and for keeping alive the hope of an Indonesia before 1965.”
The director travelled to virtually all the parts of Indonesia, over the last quarter of a century, covering and filming conflict zones, natural disaster areas, as well as the social and intellectual upheaval and final collapse of this the 4th most populous nation on Earth.
Collecting footage began when the greatest Indonesian thinkers, including the most prominent Southeast Asian novelist, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, as well as the former President and progressive Muslim cleric Abdurrahman Wahid, were still alive and happy to talk to the director.
“DOWNFALL!” is about the revolutionary enthusiasm of the Sukarno era, it is about the U.S.-military coup of 1965 which took 2-3 million lives and converted Indonesia into a poor, secretive, oppressive society without a single important thinker or scientist.
To date, corruption reigns, the environment has been thoroughly ruined, and statistics manipulated.
The director interviewed hundreds of people, from Presidents to sex workers, from artists to farmers. His conclusion is: 1965 was an intellectual Hiroshima, imposed from abroad, and replicated in many countries such as Chile, and Yeltsin’s Russia. It was a model, a monstrously destructive model. And nobody noticed. A loyal friend of Washington, London and Canberra, Jakarta is hardly ever criticized by the mass media in North America and Europe. The more cruel it gets, the more it is ruined, the more it gets hailed as a ‘free market’ example, a ‘democracy’ and a ‘tolerant state’.
Now, “DOWNFALL!” is challenging the official narrative. Unsettling, frightening but brutally honest, this film shows to the world what precisely happens to a country fully that has been fully abandoned to a market and religious fundamentalism, and to the imperialist diktat.
The director travelled to virtually all the parts of Indonesia, over the last quarter of a century, covering and filming conflict zones, natural disaster areas, as well as the social and intellectual upheaval and final collapse of this the 4th most populous nation on Earth.
Collecting footage began when the greatest Indonesian thinkers, including the most prominent Southeast Asian novelist, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, as well as the former President and progressive Muslim cleric Abdurrahman Wahid, were still alive and happy to talk to the director.
“DOWNFALL!” is about the revolutionary enthusiasm of the Sukarno era, it is about the U.S.-military coup of 1965 which took 2-3 million lives and converted Indonesia into a poor, secretive, oppressive society without a single important thinker or scientist.
To date, corruption reigns, the environment has been thoroughly ruined, and statistics manipulated.
The director interviewed hundreds of people, from Presidents to sex workers, from artists to farmers. His conclusion is: 1965 was an intellectual Hiroshima, imposed from abroad, and replicated in many countries such as Chile, and Yeltsin’s Russia. It was a model, a monstrously destructive model. And nobody noticed. A loyal friend of Washington, London and Canberra, Jakarta is hardly ever criticized by the mass media in North America and Europe. The more cruel it gets, the more it is ruined, the more it gets hailed as a ‘free market’ example, a ‘democracy’ and a ‘tolerant state’.
Now, “DOWNFALL!” is challenging the official narrative. Unsettling, frightening but brutally honest, this film shows to the world what precisely happens to a country fully that has been fully abandoned to a market and religious fundamentalism, and to the imperialist diktat.
Rwanda Gambit
To watch it online: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/rwandagambit
Rwandan Gambit is a ground-breaking feature-length documentary film, written and directed by Andre Vltchek.
Rwandan Gambit challenges the official Western narrative on Rwanda and the genocide that occurred there. Is Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame really a savior of the nation, or one of the perpetrators, who was at least partially responsible for the 1994 bloodbath?
Kagame’s armed forces – RPF – were, before 1994, supported by the United States and by its close ally – Uganda. Was RPF responsible for the 1994 downing of the plane carrying the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi?
All the passengers on-board died; the event that triggered the genocide. Why did the international community derail the investigation?
What came after the genocide? Rwanda and Uganda invaded DR Congo, overthrew governments and engaged in the plundering of natural resources, on behalf of Western companies and governments.
The plunder still carries on, as well as mass slaughter that could be easily defined as the worst genocide since WWII. Between 6 and 10 million Congolese people have died in the past two decades.
Rwandan Gambit was filmed over more than three years, in the territories of Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, DR Congo, Kenya, South Africa, as well as the United States, Europe and Japan. It contains exclusive footage and dozens of key interviews with the victims and perpetrators, as well as members of international tribunals, diplomats, UN employees, Kagame’s close circle of friends, investigative journalists and other key figures in this complex and ongoing tragedy.
On Western Terrorism
The Faces of North Korea
This is my 25-minutes piece about the DPRK (North Korea) – country that I visited recently; visited and loved, was impressed with, and let me be frank – admired.
I don’t really know if I could call this a ‘documentary’. Perhaps not. A simple story, a poem, you know: I met a girl, tiny and delicate, at the roller-skating ring in Pyongyang. How old was she? Who knows; perhaps four or five. She was first clinging to her mom, then to a Korean professor Kiyul, even to a former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Then she began skating away, waving innocently, looking back at me, at us, or just looking back…
Suddenly I was terribly scared for her. It was almost some physical fear. Perhaps it was irrational, like panic, I don’t know…
I did not want anything bad to happen to her. I did not want the US nukes start falling all around her. I did not want her to end up like those poor Vietnamese or Iraqi or Afghan children, victims of the Western barbarism; of the chemical weapons, depleted uranium, or cluster bombs. I did not want her to starve because of some insane sanctions pushed through the UN by spiteful maniacs who simply hate “the Others”.
And so, I produced a short film, about what I saw in North Korea. A film that I made for, dedicated to, that little girl at the roller-skating ring in Pyongyang.
TERLENA - Breaking of a Nation
With MillaChe Production, we produced "TERLENA - Breaking of a Nation" . It is a documentary about Indonesia and its people who are unaware of their recent history. The society still believes the propaganda created by one general and his army. This independently produced documentary gives voices to those silenced during the dictatorship of Soeharto (1965 - 1998).
The documentary "TERLENA - Breaking of a Nation" takes an in-depth look at the effects of Soeharto's dictatorship both on a cultural and personal level. How has the culture been altered? What are the consequences for Indonesian society in the long term? People from the country's cultural and scientific community share their ordeals and views.
Voices are reaching out from a prolonged silence, and these voices are Indonesian. It is time to rewrite the history of Indonesia!
The documentary "TERLENA - Breaking of a Nation" takes an in-depth look at the effects of Soeharto's dictatorship both on a cultural and personal level. How has the culture been altered? What are the consequences for Indonesian society in the long term? People from the country's cultural and scientific community share their ordeals and views.
Voices are reaching out from a prolonged silence, and these voices are Indonesian. It is time to rewrite the history of Indonesia!
Chile Between Two Earthquakes
Chile Between Two Earthquakes is 8 minutes documentary film from the country hard hit by the earthquake, tsunami and election of the new right-wing government. Filmed and directed by Andre Vltchek and edited by Vincenzo Cavallo.
Link to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2krn2JibS2s
Bethzatha Orphanage
Documentary film about humanitarian tragedy in Western Kenya - part of the country plundered by HIV/AIDS epidemic, draught and unemployment - this film being produced for UNESCO is depicting brave attempt of Bethzatha Orphanage to reverse sad lot of the local children.
DJOKOPEKIK - thepeople's artist
Documentary film highlighting work and life of a great Southeast Asian Marxist painter.
SINGING COMMUNISTS IN INDONESIA
Singing marxist ladies in Indonesia
Singing Communists in Indonesia - 1965 coup in Indonesia killed between 2-3 million people including members of PKI. All that was 'left-wing' was destroyed. This emotional documentary visits few old surviving Marxists in the country and listens to their songs.
SINGING THAI COMMUNISTS
Singing Thai Communists - songs of those who fought on the Left side of the barricade in Thailand.