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Inside the delivery ward of a Greek hospital, two Syrian women have the same dream: to raise their newborn daughters far from war.
Taimaa and Nour begin a journey navigating an inflexible European resettlement program that rarely takes their needs into account. From TIME Studios comes a poignant, tender and at times, infuriating view into a new mother’s choices at the height of Europe’s refugee crisis. As refugees from around the world continue to pursue better lives in Europe, Paradise Without People offers a truly distinct POV, raising the question, does our outlook in life also determine our luck?
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The Team
From TIME's in-depth coverage of the refugee crisis comes a film that combines the magazine’s authoritative journalism with the unique power of cinematic storytelling. Building off the success of TIME’s award-winning “Finding Home” project, Paradise Without People was produced by TIME Studios.
Francesca Trianni
Director, Cinematographer, Producer
Lynsey Addario
Producer
Aryn Baker
Producer
Editor
Loulwa Khoury
Supervising Editor
Mark Becker
Composer
Max Avery Lichtenstein
For media inquiries or more information: paradisewithoutpeople@time.com
For international sales inquiries: Chloé Persyn cpersyn@zed.fr
To organize a screening: Francesca Trianni ftrianni@gmail.com
Screenings
Stockholm Film Festival
07
Sture 3 - Stockholm, Sweden
November 2019
Cinepolis Chelsea - New York City, NY
DOC NYC
November 2019
10
AMC Castleton Square 14 - Indianapolis, IN
Heartland Film Festival
October 2019
12
AMC Castleton Square 14 - Indianapolis, IN
Heartland Film Festival
October 2019
12
AMC Traders Point 12 - Indianapolis, IN
Heartland Film Festival
October 2019
13
Cinema São Jorge - Lisboa, Portugal
Olhares Film Festival
October 2019
31
Cinema São Jorge - Lisboa, Portugal
Olhares Film Festival
October 2019
31
Connect With Us
Francesca Trianni is an award winning cinematographer, producer, and director from Modena, Italy. Paradise Without People is her first documentary, and the first feature length film produced by Time. Most recently, her work won a World Press Photo award and was nominated for an Emmy. As a Senior Producer at TIME, she has contributed to many of TIME’s most important stories, including features for Person of the Year and Time 100. In addition to her feature documentary work, Francesca produced, filmed and reported Finding Home: a year-long multimedia project on the Syrian refugee crisis told through the lives of three babies: Rahaf, Heln, and Faraj. Finding Home won the top prize at the 2018 World Press Photo contest for Innovative Storytelling, a National Murrow Award and a POYi award, among others.
Francesca Trianni
Director, Cinematographer, Producer
Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist who regularly works for The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine. Over the past 15 years, Addario has covered every major conflict and humanitarian crises of her generation, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, South Sudan, Somalia, and Congo. She recently released a New York Times Best selling memoir, "It’s What I Do," which chronicles her personal and professional life as a photojournalist coming of age in the post-9/11 world. Addario has been the recipient of numerous international awards throughout her career, and in 2015, American Photo Magazine named Lynsey one of the five most influential photographers of the past 25 years, writing that "Addario changed the way we saw the world's conflicts."
Producer
Lynsey Addario
Aryn Baker is TIME Magazine's Africa Bureau Chief and international correspondent. Since joining TIME in Hong Kong in 2001, she has worked as a reporter, editor and correspondent, covering everything from the first Tibetan beauty pageant to Iran’s Paralympics volleyball team, Afghanistan's collapse, the Arab Spring, the Syrian war, and the 2014 outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. She served as Afghanistan-Pakistan Bureau Chief from 2006 to 2010, then as Middle East Bureau Chief from 2010 to 2014. Aryn has won numerous journalism awards for her work. She now covers African affairs, climate change and the global refugee crisis from her base in Cape Town, South Africa.
Producer
Aryn Baker
Loulwa Khoury is a New York based video editor who was born and raised in Beirut. Her work includes award winning documentary City of Ghosts as well as It Will Be Chaos, White Sauce Hot Sauce, The Joneses and Look at Us Now Mother.
Editor
Loulwa Khoury
Mark Becker co-directed and edited the documentary ART AND CRAFT (2014, Oscilloscope Laboratories), which was shortlisted for the 2015 Academy Awards, nominated for an Emmy Award, and won recognition with the National Board of Review. Becker directed and edited the Emmy-nominated film PRESSURE COOKER (2008) for Participant Media. He produced, directed and edited ROMANTICO (2005, Kino International), which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, received two Independent Spirit Award nominations. Becker co-wrote and edited the Emmy-nominated documentary CIRCO (2011), and co-edited the acclaimed LOST BOYS OF SUDAN (2003). He is currently developing documentary and narrative projects, and consulting on several documentaries.
Supervising Editor
Mark Becker
Max Avery Lichtenstein is a film composer whose melodic sensibilities, understated arrangements, and creative recording techniques infuse a special character into the movies his music accompanies. Max has written scores and songs for critically-acclaimed narrative features such as James Marsh's The King, Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, and the film adaptation of Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son. His scores can be heard in renowned documentaries including the Academy Award-nominated short Mondays at Racine, the Emmy-winning feature Very Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait of New Yorker Cartoonists, and Jonathan Caouette’s groundbreaking autobiography Tarnation. His latest projects include The World Before Your Feet (produced by Jesse Eisenberg) and the Maria Irene Fornes biography The Rest I Make Up. In addition to composing for film, Max records and performs under the name Camphor.
Composer
Max Avery Lichtenstein
Producer
Lynsey Addario
Producer
Aryn Baker
Editor
Loulwa Khoury
Supervising Editor
Mark Becker
Composer
Max Avery Lichtenstein
Cinepolis Chelsea -
New York City, NY
DOC NYC
November 2019
10
AMC Castleton Square 14 - Indianapolis, IN
Heartland
Film Festival
October 2019
12
AMC Castleton Square 14 - Indianapolis, IN
Heartland
Film Festival
October 2019
12
AMC Traders Point 12 - Indianapolis, IN
Heartland
Film Festival
October 2019
13
Cinema São Jorge - Lisboa, Portugal
Olhares
Film Festival
October 2019
31
Cinema São Jorge - Lisboa, Portugal
Olhares
Film Festival
October 2019
31
paradisewithoutpeople@time.com
“Finding Home”
Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist who regularly works for The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine. Over the past 15 years, Addario has covered every major conflict and humanitarian crises of her generation, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, South Sudan, Somalia, and Congo. She recently released a New York Times Best selling memoir, "It’s What I Do," which chronicles her personal and professional life as a photojournalist coming of age in the post-9/11 world. Addario has been the recipient of numerous international awards throughout her career, and in 2015, American Photo Magazine named Lynsey one of the five most influential photographers of the past 25 years, writing that "Addario changed the way we saw the world's conflicts."
Producer
Lynsey Addario
Aryn Baker is TIME Magazine's Africa Bureau Chief and international correspondent. Since joining TIME in Hong Kong in 2001, she has worked as a reporter, editor and correspondent, covering everything from the first Tibetan beauty pageant to Iran’s Paralympics volleyball team, Afghanistan's collapse, the Arab Spring, the Syrian war, and the 2014 outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. She served as Afghanistan-Pakistan Bureau Chief from 2006 to 2010, then as Middle East Bureau Chief from 2010 to 2014. Aryn has won numerous journalism awards for her work. She now covers African affairs, climate change and the global refugee crisis from her base in Cape Town, South Africa.
Producer
Aryn Baker
Loulwa Khoury is a New York based video editor who was born and raised in Beirut. Her work includes award winning documentary City of Ghosts as well as It Will Be Chaos, White Sauce Hot Sauce, The Joneses and Look at Us Now Mother.
Editor
Loulwa Khoury
Mark Becker co-directed and edited the documentary ART AND CRAFT (2014, Oscilloscope Laboratories), which was shortlisted for the 2015 Academy Awards, nominated for an Emmy Award, and won recognition with the National Board of Review. Becker directed and edited the Emmy-nominated film PRESSURE COOKER (2008) for Participant Media. He produced, directed and edited ROMANTICO (2005, Kino International), which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, received two Independent Spirit Award nominations. Becker co-wrote and edited the Emmy-nominated documentary CIRCO (2011), and co-edited the acclaimed LOST BOYS OF SUDAN (2003). He is currently developing documentary and narrative projects, and consulting on several documentaries.
Supervising Editor
Mark Becker
Max Avery Lichtenstein is a film composer whose melodic sensibilities, understated arrangements, and creative recording techniques infuse a special character into the movies his music accompanies. Max has written scores and songs for critically-acclaimed narrative features such as James Marsh's The King, Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, and the film adaptation of Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son. His scores can be heard in renowned documentaries including the Academy Award-nominated short Mondays at Racine, the Emmy-winning feature Very Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait of New Yorker Cartoonists, and Jonathan Caouette’s groundbreaking autobiography Tarnation. His latest projects include The World Before Your Feet (produced by Jesse Eisenberg) and the Maria Irene Fornes biography The Rest I Make Up. In addition to composing for film, Max records and performs under the name Camphor.
Composer
Max Avery Lichtenstein
Hideout Theatre - Austin, TX
Austin Film Festival
October 2019
30
Alamo Drafthouse Village - Austin, TX
Austin Film Festival
October 2019
25
Hideout Theatre - Austin, TX
Austin
Film Festival
October 2019
30
Alamo Drafthouse Village - Austin, TX
Austin
Film Festival
October 2019
25
Upstate Films - Rhinebeck, NY
Woodstock Film Festival
October 2019
04
Bearsville Theater - Woodstock, NY
Woodstock Film Festival
October 2019
05
Bearsville Theater - Woodstock, NY
Woodstock Film Festival
October 2019
05
Upstate Films - Rhinebeck, NY
Woodstock Film Festival
October 2019
04
Thailan Black - Wilmington, NC
Cucalorus Film Festival
November 2019
13
Thailan Black - Wilmington, NC
Cucalorus
Film Festival
November 2019
13
Jengo's Playhouse - Wilmington, NC
Cucalorus Film Festival
November 2019
16
Sture 2 - Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm Film Festival
November 2019
15
Sture 1 - Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm Film Festival
November 2019
14
Jengo's Playhouse - Wilmington, NC
Cucalorus
Film Festival
November 2019
16
Sture 1 -
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm Film Festival
November 2019
15
Sture 1 -
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm Film Festival
November 2019
14
Hellgate Elks Lodge - Missoula, MT
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
19
February 2020
Hellsgate Elks Lodge - Missoula, MT
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
February 2020
19
Online
IRC's Refugee Film Festival
April 2020
8
Online
MDFF (Melbourne Film Festival)
June 2020
29
Online
Taormina Film Festival
July 2020
11
Online
IRC's Refugee Film Festival
April 2019
8
Online
MDFF (Melbourne Film Festival)
June 2019
29
Online
Taormina Film Festival
July 2019
11
Fotografiska Museum
June 2022
27
New York, NY
ftrianni@gmail.com