Action Center to End World Hunger [watch sample video]

Commissioned by the cutting edge interactive design firm, ESI Design and the international aid organization Mercy Corps, Ager Meillier Films produced and edited over fifty unique films for this first-of-it's-kind public installation. Hosted by Tina Fey, the Action Center teaches it's visitors about they myriad causes of hunger around the world and what can be done to mitigate it's effects. Currently open to the public in Battery Park, Manhattan. www.actioncenter.org

Theater of War [watch excerpt]
Director & Editor: John Walter
Principal Cast: Meryl Streep, Tony Kushner,
Kevin Kline, George C. Wolfe, Barbara Brecht-Schall
Producer: Nina Santisi
Line Producer: Adriane Giebel
Executive Producer: Jack Turner
Music: Robert Miller
Motion Graphics & On-Line Editorial: Tanya Ager Meillier, Alexander Meillier

"Theater of War" follows a production of Bertolt Brecht's classic anti-war play "Mother Courage and Her Children" as staged by the Public Theater in 2006, starring Meryl Streep as Mother Courage, featuring a new translation by Tony Kushner, and directed by George C. Wolfe. The film uses the production as a vehicle to explore the life of Bertolt Brecht and to raise questions about the perils of living in a society that perpetuates war.

Obscene [watch excerpt]
Executive Producers/Directors: Daniel O'Connor, Neil Ortenberg
Producers: Tanya Ager Meillier, Alexander Meillier
Director of Photography: Alexander Meillier
Editor: Tanya Ager Meillier
Original Score by Askold Buk
A Double O Film Production
http://www.doubleofilm.com

Obscene is a feature length documentary film on American publishing maverick, Barney Rosset. Under Rosset, Grove Press and the legendary Evergreen Review fought decisive battles against literary censorship in the United States, opening American life to new and dangerous currents of freedom. Distributed by Arthouse Films.

Ketahanan (Resilience)
Executive Producer: Ricardo Lobo
Producers: Tanya Ager, Alexander Meillier
Camera & Editing: Alexander Meillier, Tanya Ager
Produced for the United Nations Development Programme
www.undp.org

Produced, photographed and edited on location Banda Aceh, this film tells the story of the unprecedented international response to the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 that devastated Sumatra and the surrounding region. Available in English and Bahasa Indonesian through United Nations televison. Subtitled. 26 minutes

Kbiit (Courage)[watch trailer]
Produced, Photographed and Edited by Alex Meillier & Tanya Ager.
Executive producer: Dr. Ricardo Lobo.
26 mins.
Distributed by the United Nations (www.un.org)

Produced, photographed and edited on location in Dili, East Timor, Kbiit (Courage) chronicles the evolution of the United Nations Mission to East Timor and the partnership between the East Timorese and their international counterparts while building the world’s first new democracy of the millennium.

Whatever I Was Thinking Of   [watch excerpt]
Directed, Shot and Edited by Alex Meillier
Poem "Whatever I Was Thinking Of" written and performed by Bob Holman
Original Score by Brandon Evans

This highly-acclaimed poetry-on-film project was originally produced for the first East Village Festival, where it screened on the closing night of the festival at Loew's Cinema on 3rd Avenue as part of the EV/DV compilation project. EV/DV featured short films about the East Village produced by a variety of directors including Michael Almereyda (Hamlet 2001), Steve Buscemi, Ilya Chaiken, Larry Fessenden, Alex Meillier, Bill Morrison, Nick Zedd and others.

This film was also featured in Berlin at the Zebra Award Festival and published by Spoken Word Berlin as part of the compilation Poetry Clips {Vol. I}. www.bobholman.com
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