Catalog 2010

In the middle of summer 2010, during the now so-called "Grenoble speech", President Nicolas Sarkozy triggers a huge controversy by ordering the Ministry for Home Affairs to shut down the unlicensed settlements of Roma people in France. Public officers are ordered to "evacuate 300 camps or illegal settlements, primarily those of Roma people", before December, 5th 2010. Women with children begging...

In 2010, the scandal burst. For the first time ever, the Catholic Church had to acknowledge that thousands of cases of child abuse had occurred within the institution. The scandal - an obsessive fear for the Church - is not about to fade away. The Catholic Church authorities covered up pedophile priests. Members of the Church have hidden, exfiltrated and helped some of those priests to escape...

A generation is being courted by the big brands of clothes, sports shoes, mobile phones, video games. More and more often, these brands use insiduous marketing techniques to sell their products to our children. Investigation into theses new strategies targeting youngsters....

It’s the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Nearly 800 million litres of crude oil spewed out into the Gulf of Mexico. It is also the most baffling. Few coasts affected, few birds coated in crude and oil that seems to have disappeared from the surface of the water. A team from the PREMIERES LIGNES News Agency got as close as it could to the invisible spill. With the fishermen hired by BP to...

While Hollywood groans under the strain of the current economic climate, Nigeria's film industry is booming. It's called Nollywood. Since the 1990’s, it has grown to become the second largest annual film producer, ahead of the US and just behind India. The very limited technical and financial ressources don't affect the strong desire to tell stories. Nigeria productions export well throughout...

The biggest controversy of the digital age. This revealing film highlights the latest developments in the WikiLeaks scandal as more sensitive state secrets are published for all to see. Featuring a brand new interview with WikiLeaks founder and the enemy of the Pentagon, Julian Assange, as bio-pic The Fifth Estate hits the big screen. We meet journalists and hackers from London, Washington,...

In recent months, thousands of Colombians have rushed to look for gold somewhere along the Dagua River, on the Pacific coast near the town of Buenaventura. The new vein of gold is situated in the heart of the Andes; a very muche tense area as the year before it was still held by the rebel Farc guerrillas. There are some 8,000 miners by the river, in one of the poorest regions of the country...

A report on a disturbing new trend in French society: ageism. For many older people, discrimination because of age has become a daily humiliation. We join Noëlle, 82, and Francoise, 76, as they try and complete simple tasks that most of us take for granted, such as paying for household goods by installment, renting an apartment, insuring a car, and getting a mortgage. Both women have secure,...

Burma’s repressive regime has turned its nation into one of the most isolated countries in the world. It’s impossible to work freely there as an independent journalist. Translators and guides work with foreigners at their own peril, which is high. Everything has to be captured in secret. Nevertheless thanks to the courage of the resistance movement we were able to work under-cover amid the...

Since the beginning of 2011 the French ‘Poste’ or Post Office lost its virtual monopoly and has been facing competition from private operators for all mail weighing less than 50 grams. With 260,000 employees the Poste is, after the National Education service, France’s largest employer. Once a public service the Poste is now a public enterprise. The difference is that the Poste now has to...

Facing members of the public on a live television debate in 2009, French President Nicolas Sarkozy defended his economic policies. On the show was a carefully selected young entrepreneur, Elodie, a wedding planner, who took advantage of the new tax-incentived "Auto-Entrepreneur" status to launch her own business. To Nicolas Sarkozy the plan is one way to reduce unemployment; now the status of...