AWARE – GLIMPSES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
is the fourth collaboration between Frauke Sandig and Eric Black, of Berlin and San Francisco.

Their previous work together includes:

HEART OF SKY, HEART OF EARTH (98 min., 2011, with ZDF/3SAT, ITVS) “It is quite possible our great corporations will succeed in finishing Nature off … and expel the Indigenous from their lands. On the other hand, resistance is growing. Many young Maya say the world will not go under. It will start anew, but we all have to fight for it, here and now. If one is searching for impressive evidence of this tenacious determination, Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth is it“ (Thomas Assheuer, DIE ZEIT). Theatrical release in Germany and Japan. Screened at 115 international film festivals, including IDFA Masters Section, DokLeipzig, Vancouver IFF, Thessaloniki Int. Doc FF, Margaret Mead FF. Winner of 15 awards including: First Prize Toronto’s Planet in Focus, 3 top awards in Montréal’s First Peoples Festival (Co-Presentation with RIDM). Opening Film at the Muestra de Cine International, Guatemala. First Prize, Pukañawi Award, in Bolivia. Website    Watch Film

FROZEN ANGELS (93min., 2005, with ZDF and ITVS/PBS), premiered at Sundance FF, “a mesmerizing work that is not so much a science film as a startling conduit into the future of the American Dream, where "perfect children" can be added to the shopping list. In their visually enthralling documentary, Eric Black and Frauke Sandig brilliantly evoke an atmosphere of familiar otherworldliness as they survey the field of assisted human-reproductive technologies." (Shari Frilot, SFF). Other festivals and awards include Prix du Public at Visions de Réel, Nyon, Prix de Cinephage, Creteil, Special Jury Mention at FICCO, Mexico, German Competition at DokLeipzig, International Competition at HotDocs Toronto, Mill Valley IFF, Sheffield Doc. Festival, Vancouver IFF. Nominated for the World TV Award Banff, chosen by the IDA for Academy Award qualification. Theatrical Release in Germany. Website

AFTER THE FALL (86min., 2000, with ITVS, SFB, SR) documented the mysterious, disturbing and almost complete disappearance of the Berlin Wall after its fall. The film was awarded a Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco IFF: “We award this film for its stunning cinematography in conjunction with its combination of profound and absurdist meditations on the meaning of the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. Through its careful structuring of personal interviews, it provides a stunning example of the documentary film as intellectual history.” The film was selected for more than 40 international film festivals, including the Berlinale, IDFA Amsterdam, Karlovy Vary, DOCAVIV and shown at the MOMA New York. Translated into thirteen languages, it was broadcast on public television worldwide including PBS. Website