u16.co

Award-winning, critically-acclaimed films that derive a humanist perspective from particular cosmopo

u16.co is an ongoing film project, originally from Sydney and today based in New York, that has been programmed at the Maysles Documentary Center and Harvard University. Founded in 2015 by Lorenzo Benitez, James Holloway and Jonathon Parker as a three-person collective, it has since become a moniker under which Benitez continues to produce cinema that derives a humanist attitude from cosmopolitan

experiences. Follow our social media for updates on works-in-progress and watch our short films on our website.

'An Unscripted Earth' (2020), our award-winning second feature, is available on Amazon Prime Video after having been officially selected by international festivals including the Montreal Independent Film Festival. It follows two friends who reunite in Manila, among Asia’s fastest-growing megacities, untouched by Duterte’s War on Drugs yet unable to drown their own nostalgia and anxiety. Awarded for its direction and a lead performance, it is a micro-budget film that features the late Carlos Celdran’s final on-screen role.

'Six Months to Salvation' (2017), our critically-acclaimed first feature, follows seven volunteer teachers in the mountains of northern Thailand. Praised as “breathtaking”, “thought-provoking”, and “fascinating”, by publications including Film Courage, Study Breaks and Film Blerg, it is the first documentary of its length to ask if ‘voluntourism’ is a modern form of colonialism. An advanced micro-budget production, it has exhibited theatrically in New York and Melbourne, and had its Australian national TV premiere on the ABC.

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An Unscripted Earth (2020), our award-winning second feature, is now available on Amazon Prime Video after having been selected by international film festivals. It follows two Australian friends who reunite in Manila, among Asia’s fastest growing megacities, untouched by Duterte’s War on Drugs yet unable to drown their own nostalgia and anxiety. Awarded for its direction and a lead performance, it is film about memory, the alienation of wealth, and the uncertain youth of our globalised world.

Six Months to Salvation (2017), our first feature, follows a group of teachers in the mountains of northern Thailand. Critically-acclaimed as “breathtaking”, “thought-provoking”, and “fascinating”, by publications including Film Courage, Study Breaks, Film Blerg, and The Harvard Crimson, it is the first documentary of its length to consider whether ‘voluntourism’ is a modern form of colonialism. It has exhibited theatrically in New York and Melbourne, and had its Australian national TV premiere on the ABC.

Our shorts are also freely available on our website, and our diverse collaborators have included Emmy®-nominated crew and political dissidents. Formed in 2015, we are Lorenzo Benitez, James Holloway and Jonathon Parker.

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