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GLOBAL FRONTERAS PRODUCTION

 A New York City and Paris based
production company and film laboratory.

ABOUT

Global Fronteras Production is an independent production company and film laboratory co-founded by filmmakers and journalists Adeline Bailleul and Tarek Bouraque. Based in Brooklyn, NY and Paris, France, our team produces innovative, socially charged documentary films, hybrid films, media production, commercials, and branded content.

Our commissioned projects range from documentary features to web videos for international media, publishers, foundations, non-profits and corporate. We value a deeply collaborative relationship with our clients, and work hard to produce the most impactful films possible within the available timeline and budget.


FILMS

Time Machine

Time Machine explore the logics of enslavement, colonialism, eurocentrism and their interconnectedness in our globalized world. Mustapha Azemmouri, born in 1502, undertakes a journey to the 21st century to recount his own story of enslavement and exploration, and reflects on a collective puzzle of 500 years of hidden history.

Directed by: Tarek Bouraque
Produced by : Adeline Bailleul & Tarek Bouraque
Genre: Hybrid Documentary
Country: Morocco, Spain, France, United States


Ground Zero Peace

9/11. Lost lives and rubbles. For Sheerena and her husband Sheikh Moussa, this day was filled with pain and hope. The beginning of a grounded commitment to bring light from the midst of one of the darkest moments in American history. On this day, they opened the first Muslim school in New York.

* Screened at the Docfilm Institute, San Francisco, 2019.
* Screened at the Anthology Film Archive, New York City, 2018.
* Screened at the Academy of Film, HKBU, Hong Kong, 2018.

Directed by: Tarek Bouraque
Produced by: Adeline Bailleul & Tarek Bouraque
Genre: Short Documentary
Country: United States 

Agraw, Land Of The Free

At the top of Mount Alebban in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains, the Amazigh people of Imider are writing their own story of resistance against the most productive silver mine in Africa. In August 2011, the villagers set up a protest camp on the top of a Mount Alebban where the mine's water pipeline runs.

* OFFICIAL SELECTION, First-Time Filmmaker Sessions, 2020.

Directed and Produced by: Adeline Bailleul & Tarek Bouraque
Genre: Short documentary
Country: Morocco

African Brothers

Every year thousands of Sub-Saharan Africans enter Morocco hoping to make it to Europe as immigrants through the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Paying Moroccan security forces to keep them out, the EU is funding a brutal system of violence and abuse.

* Broadcasted on SIC Channel (Portugal) and ORF TV (Austria), 2015.
* Selected for the for the Rory Peck Trust Awards, London, 2014.

Directed & produced by: Adeline Bailleul and Tarek Bouraque
Distributed by : Journeyman Pictures
Genre: Short documentary
Country: Morocco, Spain

Driving Your Soul

In a cozy home located in the Bronx, New York, the Burhaniyya Sufi order meets every Saturday. The participants, both American-born converts and Sufi migrants, squeeze their eyes shut; some gently swayed, letting themselves be carried away by the rhythmic mantras. This film explores how the motion of culture and religion can be adopted from civilizations to another; from country to country, from insiders to outsiders.

* Screened at the Docfilm Institute, San Francisco, 2019.

Directed & produced by: Adeline Bailleul & Tarek Bouraque
Genre: Short documentary
Country: United States

Ara Yeke - Rise

From North Dakota to New York, protests swelled into a new movement for Native Americans. This movement echoes the resilience of Native Americans who share the same story of oppression and discrimination. Cynthia Fountain and Luis Sanakori Ramos guide us through a new momentum when tribes unite to fight back against a pattern of deep injustice.

Directed by : Adeline Bailleul & Tarek Bouraque
Genre: Short documentary
Country: United States


MEDIA PRODUCTION

One Strange Rock: Meteorite Hunters in Morocco

In Morocco, a chondrite meteorite has been found, which is the oldest form of solid material in the solar system.
One Strange Rock, a thrilling journey exploring the fragility and wonder of our planet, one of the most peculiar, unique places in the universe. This 10-part series was filmed in 45 countries, on six continents, and from outer space.

Field Producing in Morocco by: Adeline Bailleul & Tarek Bouraque
Production: Nutopia, Protozoa Pictures & Overbrook Entertainment Production
Distribution: National Geographic

Extinction Rebellion: Getting Arrested Beats Being Ignored

Climate action group Extinction Rebellion will not wait for politics to catch up with the climate crisis. For Brut, YouTuber Tiffany Ferguson joined the New York City chapter of Extinction Rebellion for two days of training and direct action. This is the story of the movement and her experience with the group.

Directed & produced by: Adeline Bailleul
1st Assistant Camera: Tarek Bouraque
Hosted by; Tiffany Ferguson
Edted by: Justin Beltz
Production: Brut America and C Politique

Living Inside a Landfill

Welcome to one of Africa's largest dumps: the Jbel Borj Chakir landfill in Tunisia. It's so sprawling that it has absorbed Abdelhamid Jabril's home. Here he tells how his cries for help have not been heeded after the fall of the Ben Ali government.

Directed, edited and produced by: Adeline Bailleul & Tarek Bouraque
Production: AJ+

Reenacting America’s Largest Slave Rebellion

On January 8, 1811, over 500 enslaved people took up arms in Louisiana to fight for freedom. Two centuries later, hundreds retrace their path to honor the memory of the largest slave rebellion in American History.

Directed, produced by: Adeline Bailleul
1st Assistant Camera: Tarek Bouraque
Edited by: Justin Beltz
Production: Brut America

Sound Makes Sense

Can sound have a smell? Dr Slim Masmoudi, a cognitive psychologist in Tunisia believes it can in the domain of young learners. He has applied a multisensory approach to education at a kindergarten in Tunis and the children are reaping the benefits.

Directed, edited and produced by: Adeline Bailleul & Tarek Bouraque
Broadcasted on Euronews for Learning World TV Show


INTERACTIVE

Give Data Earn Money

“Give Data, Earn Money” is a web-based game that explores the value of our data in the age of Big Data. At the first stage of the game, users earn virtual money for each data submitted, at the second stage; users are engaged to set up a price for the data they submit. The goal of this project is to drive the users to re-think the value of their data, their data-privacy and to question the circuit of their generated-data.

Web-programming : Tarek Bouraque
Featuring : Vincent Miller
Produced by Adeline Bailleul

Shul in the Mosque

Shul in the Mosque is a nonfiction Virtual Reality film that explores the coexistence of a
Jewish-Muslim community in the Bronx, New York. The congregants of an Orthodox
synagogue and of a mosque gather in the same building to practice their religion. The
Muslim community opened its doors to the Jewish community so they could have their own
place of worship.

Genre : VR/360 nonfiction film
Directed, edited and produced by: Tarek Bouraque and Adeline Bailleul


EXPERIMENTAL

Found Garbage

Juxtaposing two different circuits of found footage: A 16mn found-footage developped in an Alternative Darkroom environment, the second video is a series of clips selected and reedited from Internet. While the words are tabbed from an essay by Robert Stam called ""From Hybridity To The Aesthetics Of Garbage."

Genre : Exprimental web-based animation
Edited and conceived by: Tarek Bouraque

Babel, Confusion of Tongues

Babel, Confusion of Tongues is an immersive VR/360 project where the viewer is placed in a black virtual reality space and explores the fragmentation of human languages, customs, patterns and spaces.

Genre : VR/360 experimental film
Directed, edited and produced by: Tarek Bouraque and Adeline Bailleul

Sufism Mystics - VR Experience

In a cozy home located in the Bronx, New York, the Burhaniyya Sufi order meets every Saturday. The participants, both American-born converts and Sufi migrants, squeeze their eyes shut; some gently swayed, letting themselves be carried away by the rhythmic mantras.

Genre : VR/360 experimental film
Directed, edited and produced by: Tarek Bouraque and Adeline Bailleul


TEAM


Adeline Bailleul is a hands-on video journalist and senior producer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Experienced in international reporting, she has covered stories in over 10 countries with a focus on underreported issues. Adeline has directed and produced content for several international news outlet such as The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera English, National Geographic, AJ+, Voice of America, Euronews, CNN, Brut America and others. She works on documentary, hybrid films, social media content and journalistic projects in the US and abroad. Adeline holds a master’s degree in TV Journalism from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Adeline Bailleul

Co-Founder, Producer & Journalist
bailleuladeline@globalfronteras.com
+1 929-216-6231


Tarek Bouraque is a documentary filmmaker, journalist and educator currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Through his projects, he focuses on social justice, migration, First Nation rights and identities. His films have screened at the Docfilm Institute, the Rory Peck Trust Awards, Anthology Film Archive and Hong Kong/New York Film Festival Exchange. As a journalist, Tarek has been directing and producing for international media outlets including Al Jazeera English, AJ+, AFP, National Geographic and others. Since 2016, Tarek teaches Emerging Media, Film and Documentary production at Hunter College, York College, Downtown Community Television Center and Educational Video Center. Tarek holds a MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and a BA in Journalism and Television from ESJ Paris/Casablanca.

Tarek Bouraque

Co-Founder, Director & Educator
bouraquetarek@globalfronteras.com
+1 929-216-6228

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