Akajava Films

Director Irina Maldea and producer Brendan Culleton have been working together for 20 years to create insightful and entertaining documentaries dealing with historical, political and social issues. Their films often involve taking a new look at events of decades ago, through intensive film archive research combined with interviews with the participants of those events. They have dealt with global issues such terrorism, peacekeeping, famine, war, mental illness, racism, emigration, propaganda. Their films have been praised for their sensitivity and insight, and for how the participants emerge in a new light, offering the public a new understanding of their actions.