Race Around The World: Filmmakers Embark on Global Adventure
Six young filmmakers are three weeks into their global journey, creating short films with limited notice.
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- Six filmmakers in ABC iview's Race Around The World are three weeks into their global adventure, creating short films with only 10 days' notice for each destination.
- Viewers can vote for their favorite film each week.
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Why It Matters
Six young filmmakers are participating in ABC iview's Race Around The World, a global adventure where they create short films with limited notice. Viewers can vote for their favorite film each week.
The six young filmmakers taking part in ABC iview's Race Around The World are three weeks into their global adventure.
Only finding out their destination with a day's notice, each filmmaker had just 10 days to find a story and produce a short film, to be judged by a panel of experts.
But we also want your two cents. From rug making in Morocco to small-town struggles in China, check out every week three film, choose your favourite, and find out where they're headed next.
Take part in our audience poll at the bottom of this page, or save the scroll and click here.
William in Costa Rica
Title: La Pura Vida de la Abuela Rica (The Pure Life of the Costa Rican Grandmother)
What's it about? If you want to live a stress-free life, just ask an abuela.
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Where is he headed next? Italy
Lucinda in Sweden
Title: Allemansrätten
What's it about? Sweden is one of the most expensive places in the world. Unless, of course, you abide by an ancient, sacred and terrifying rite of passage.
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Where is she headed next? Taiwan
Elliot in California, USA
Title: Edge of the Sea
What's it about? Bombay Beach is a town suspended between collapse and rebirth. The water has receded, the fish are gone, and the shoreline has turned into a haunting wasteland. But artists and residents have built something strange, colourful and alive among the ruins.
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Where is he headed next? Norway
Kate in England
Title: Black Bananas
What's it about? Frankie wrestles with his inner child as he confesses around London, in places symbolic and reflective of his writing, about being an outsider in an age where we are more alone than ever.
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Where is she headed next? Vanuatu
Mikaela in Morocco
Title: The Source
What's it about? A rug maker in Taznakht, a rural Moroccan tapestry village, reminds consumers why it’s important to recognise the source of the products that we buy.
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Where is she headed next? Brazil
Jayden in China
Title: Huáijiù (Nostalgia)
What's it about? When a once-booming working-class town with a population of more than 100,000 runs out of oil, it leaves behind a local man who struggles to find his place in what's left of his home.
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Where is he headed next? Arkansas, USA
Pick your favourite
We want to know your favourite film from this week's line up.
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Note: This poll doesn't determine the results of the show.
The poll will close on Friday, June 26, at 4pm (AEST).
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Open Questions
- Who will win Race Around The World?
- What are the criteria for judging the films?
- How are the destinations chosen?
