What do you do when you think you’ve found the perfect guy online, but all isn’t as it seems? Matched with a Predator exposes the crimes of prolific romance fraudster Christopher Harkins. Harkins stalked dating apps in search of his prey: attractive, smart, career-driven women. His charming, successful and generous front concealed a darker truth, as he stole from and abused women he’d met online, and was found guilty in one case of rape. This is the story of those same women’s fight to be heard when their initial police complaints went nowhere, and of their fight for justice against this insidious form of male violence.
A filmmaker revisits home videos of her 13-year-old self, reflecting on the loss of innocence, self-awareness, and memory, creating a dialogue between past and present.
Back in the early 1990s, a stunning new science fiction series Starwatch premiered on British television. It was a massive success and became a global phenomenon, giving its star Jon Pertwee his greatest role as Jason Havlin… well perhaps in an alternative reality this is what happened. Who knows? But here, on this Earth, all that remains is, quite literally, a teaser of what might have been. In this new documentary, we delve into the story of Starwatch, how it was created and why it never reached our screens.
Television was invented as a result of scientific and technical research. Its power as a medium of news and entertainment altered all preceding media of news and entertainment
Virginie & Stéphane, two broken souls who are going to rebuild the broken walls of their childhood. A biopic and a true story, directed by their children.
‘Under the Weight of a Waking Dream’ is Zefier's debut swan song to the ending year. Comprised of poetry and endless enumerations is a diaristic film chronicling the lessons and contradictions found throughout the human experience.
Shot shortly before and after the 2024 presidential election, 15 different people answer one question, "What will the United States be like in 10 years?"
Documentary film about the iconic 1960s-era poet, songwriter, and vocalist of the Doors. Unlike prior Morrison media, Before the End’s focus is on the humanity behind the hype, including Jim’s formative years. The documentary features exclusive interviews with his brother, Andy Morrison; cousins Ellen Edwards and David Backer; high school swim coach, Ash Jones; college roommate, Bryan Gates; Doors-era lovers Judy Huddleston and Anne Moore; Doors booking agent, Todd Schiffman; Doors roadie, Gareth Blyth; and the first appearance by Jim’s Paris-era personal assistant, Robyn Wurtele.
After Stalin ordered the forced collectivization of all the farms in 1930s Ukraine, Maxim, a humble cucumber farmer, rebels. He is arrested by local authorities and shipped off to forced labor camps of SIberia. In a bid to survive and return to his family, he steals away in the dead of night and begins the 1,000km journey home.
Dutch-born Holocaust survivor and retired teacher Anita Magnus Frank narrates her story from childhood trauma to adult healing, when she finally opened up to the world as one of World War II’s “hidden children,” dramatized with a collage-like combination of interviews, archival footage, and animation.
A girl learns about caring for a duck with special needs during her first year on the farm. An animated documentary rendered in plant based inks about a little runner duck who couldn't. Director’s Statement: Sosuke was one of the first ducks on our farm. Created over the course of seven years, this animated short tells his story. The animation was created using digital rotoscoping (where the animator traces each frame of live action footage to create hand drawn scenes) and then printed onto over 2,400 pieces of printer paper and coloured in inks made by hand from flowers, nuts, vegetables and berries cultivated and foraged on our farm. This is a story about becoming more connected to ecology, about learning to farm, and what animals can teach us. It is told with colours from the landscape, including acorn, black walnut, goldenrod, sunflower, haskap berry, purple cabbage, sumac and more.
Follows the work of icon master Pavel Varunin from 2021 to 2023 - how the wood-carved icons that end up in chapels are created. In addition, the film also takes a brief look at Varunin's other creative fields.
In a new Channel 4 series Mysteries of Stonehenge explores the strange and unknown details of three iconic sites and phenomena, starting with Stonehenge.