http://youtu.be/9IQCLwURWQ0 Some ritual deaths are voluntary: Rio Di Angelo tells an insider’s story of the Heaven’s Gate Cult, who committed mass suicide in 1997. Director, Producer, Writer: Jan Wellmann Sudden Death is one episode of HISTORY CHANNEL series STRANGE RITUALS, produced by Fox Television/Incubator TV. Shot around the world, including Russia, Africa, India, China, this series deals...
http://youtu.be/detzySQ7nds Apocalypse deals with mankind's obsession with the apocalypse. It is one episode of HISTORY CHANNEL series STRANGE RITUALS, produced by Fox Television/Incubator TV. Shot around the world, including Russia, Africa, India, China, this series deals with Sex, Magic, Miracles and Murder throughout history to the present. Director, Producer, Writer: Jan Wellmann
http://youtu.be/QuW4-JUcHgM "In Ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins pledged themselves to a life of chastity. In 1970s China, Anchee Min was forced to live in a Maoist work camp where sexual contact was punishable by death. Director, Producer, Writer: Jan Wellmann Forbidden Sex is one episode of HISTORY CHANNEL series STRANGE RITUALS, produced by Fox Television/Incubator TV. Shot...
One of the first interviews with Julian Assange after Wikileaks erupted unto public consciousness. I made this interview in Oslo, Norway, in 2012, after trying to lock him for an interview over several months of back-and-forth and supposedly security checks. After having a 90-minute sushi lunch with him in Berkeley he finally agreed to an interview… in Oslo. I didn’t mind...
http://youtu.be/sB_78_3z_iw Spec teaser made on commission for History CHannel, about creationism in America. Almost half of Americans believe the world is less than 6,000 years old... one of them even has the scientific proof. Director/Writer/Producer: Jan Wellmann
http://youtu.be/07jHqPO7dWg Teaser of feature doc RIOT ON! Director: Kim Finn Writers: Kim Finn, Jan Wellmann, John Hakalax Producers: Jan Wellmann, John Hakalax Production Company: Hakalax Productions This feature doc won a host of festival prices and worldwide distribution, and features ourselves as the stars of a mobile entertainment startup that burns through $21m just a tad too...
This clip features General Buttnaked (a.k.a. Joshua Milton Blahyi), who reputedly killed over 25,000 people during the civil war in Liberia, making him history’s greatest mass murderer. I interviewed and filmed him near Monrovia/Liberia in 2008, where he said he had”converted” to Christianity and was saving former child soldiers. During the war Buttnaked and his child soldiers...
Feature documentary on the private masseur ofHeinrich Himmler, architect of the Holocaust and head of SS. Felix Kersten’s therapies went beyond the ordinary. Supposedly being able to influence Himmler, Kersten was said to have saved thousands of people from certain death. But the truth behind this “hero” is discovered only during the making of this film. Producer:...
The Dreamtribe presents the dream culture of the Temiar Senoi indigenous people of Malaysia. Allowing their waking lives to be guided by their dreams, the Temiar Senoi live in peace and harmony. The tribe does not engage in violence or warfare, and is free of the problems of mental illness that plague the so called more civilized cultures....
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