Means TV
At a time when five companies control the vast majority of US media and entertainment, and distrust of the media is at an all-time high, consumers are hungry for truly independent media and contextualizing content. A leading source of revolutionary entertainment and news, Means TV is a worker-cooperative entirely funded by its viewers and owned and operated by its workers. OVID is proud to share a selection of their films and series.
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 01: Alfredo Garcia
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 5 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses real life stories as ...
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 02: Anatonio Llido
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 4 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses real life stories as ...
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 03: Julia Vega
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 4 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 04: Rodolfo Gonzalez
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 5 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses real life stories as ...
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 05: Dapollonio
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 5 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses real life stories as ...
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 06: Alfonso Chanfreau
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 5 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses real life stories as ...
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 07: Alvaro Barrios
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 4 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses real life stories as ...
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 08: Reinalda Pereira
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • With Alfredo Castro • 2017 • 4 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses...
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 09: Alan Bruce
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 4 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses real life stories as ...
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 10: Jorge Dorival
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 4 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses real life stories as ...
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 11: David Silberman
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 5 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses real life stories as ...
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 12: Claudio Thauby
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 4 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses real life stories as ...
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 13: Gonzalo Torogarland
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 5 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses real life stories as ...
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 14: Diana Aron
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 4 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses real life stories as ...
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 15: Ceclia Bojanic
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 4 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses real life stories as ...
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Una Historia Necesaria - Episode 16: Ana Gonzalez
Directed by Hernán Caffiero • Documentary • 2017 • 5 minutes
This gripping series examines 16 cases of disappeared detainees and human rights violations that happened during the heinous dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Chilean director Hernán Caffiero uses real life stories as ...
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Far Off Sounds (series) Trailer
Far Off Sounds is a documentary series that explores how people use, play, and connect with music around the world. Japanese noise artists, Ethiopian jazz musicians, cult leaders, heavy metal cruises and more. The show tells discreet, intimate stories, in the service of the larger, infinitely com...
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Far Off Sounds Ep 1 - Songs Of The Snake Handlers
Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 8 minutes
In Middlesboro, Kentucky, the Full Gospel Tabernacle has a dangerous method for showing their faith in God. They raise and handle deadly snakes with their bare hands. We travelled to Middlesboro to meet Pastor Jai...
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Far Off Sounds Ep 2 - The Rogue Generator Concerts of Tampa
Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 6 minutes
There's a gang of guys and gals in Tampa who, frustrated at the lack of venues for their experimental sounds, took to the streets in the early 2000's to perform under bridges, in alleyways, in construction sites, ...
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Far Off Sounds Ep 3 - Deep Black Sea
Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 8 minutes
We boarded 70,000 Tons Of Metal, a heavy-metal cruise ship sailing from Miami to the Turks and Cacos Islands, and drifted into the middle of the deep, black sea. We met metalheads of all persuasions, got seasick, ...
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Far Off Sounds Ep 4 - Kroncong Tugu
Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 6 minutes
We take a two hour taxi ride from South Jakarta to the Tugu area of North Jakarta - an area home to a small enclave of Portuguese descendent Christian Betawi folk - to visit with the band Keroncong Tugu. The group...
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Far Off Sounds Ep 5 - Hailu Mergia Takes Off
Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 10 minutes
Hailu Mergia was the leader of one of the biggest jazz funk bands in Ethiopia in the 1970′s. His band, The Walias Band, reached the pinnacle of success in Ethiopia, eventually being invited to play for the presid...
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Far Off Sounds Ep 6 - Chief's Funeral
Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 9 minutes
"For eight months in 2011 I was living and working in northern Ghana as a videographer. My company gave me a house near a small farming village called Fuo, where I lived alone for most of the time. One afternoon, ...
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Far Off Sounds Ep 7 - God's Singing Man
Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 22 minutes
In 1966, Dave Bixby burned out on LSD and went temporarily out of his mind. What pulled him back was his encounter with a wandering spiritualist named Don Degraff. Together they formed a prayer group and played m...
