Ted Botha

Todo empezó cuando Frank Bender, siendo estudiante de arte, entró en una sala de autopsias y, al ver el cadáver de una mujer con tres balazos en el cráneo, sintió que sería capaz de dibujar su rostro tal como era antes de haber sido desfigurado. De ahi paso a convertirse en una valiosa ayuda para investigadores forenses y departamentos de policia. La policia del estado de Chihuahua, en Mexico, le encargo la reconstruccion del rostro de cinco victimas de los celebres feminicidios de Ciudad Juarez. Encerrado en un hotel en opresivas condiciones de seguridad, Bender empezo a forjar su propia teoria sobre los asesinatos.

Mother. Nurse. Gold-digger. Cause célèbre. When Daisy de Melker stood trial in 1932, accused of poisoning her son and two husbands, the public couldnt get enough of her. Crowds gathered outside court

In 1913, a secretive American millionaire, who lived on the top fl oor of the famous Carlton Hotel, had a crazy idea: to make movies in Johannesburg. And not just any movies but the biggest in the world, huge spectacles with elaborate sets, thousands of extras and epic story lines.Isidore Schlesinger better known as IW built a studio on a farm called Killarney, where he set out to challenge a place in America that was in its infancy: Hollywood.The glamour, gossip and high drama of IWs studio fitted perfectly into a city experiencing an intoxicating golden age. There was as much action on the movie sets as there was on screen: from political intrigue and the clashing of massive egos to public outbursts, fiery judicial inquiries, disaster and death.Behind this mad enterprise was a maverick, a tycoon, a recluse, a friend of the famed and the connected. Schlesinger could have held his own in California but he chose as his base the City of Gold, and his indomitable ambition saw his Hollywood on the Veld soar. This is the untold story of the rise and fall of the strangest and most unique movie empire ever.