In this Tribeca Film Festival selection, filmmaker Bruce Broder trains his camera on a crop of talented young jazz musicians as they play their way through the Essentially Ellington high school jazz band competition. Sponsored by the Jazz at Lincoln Center program, the prestigious contest gives the kids the chance to rub shoulders with legendary trumpeter Wynton Marsalis -- and put their budding improvisational skills to the test.
During the month Of October, A cult group of masked serial killers have spread across the country searching for new victims to hunt during the halloween season. While successful on never being apprehended, one halloween the cult attacks a seemingly normal group of teenagers unknowingly preying on one that they have never crossed before. One of those survivors has a dark secret...The following year this mysterious individual decides to go after the killers who murdered his friends and save others along the way. What is to come and how far will he go?
Inspired by Stephen Frears' "High Fidelity", filmmaker Lívia Sandim's short film celebrates the connection between art, music and identity. The story follows a protagonist who, while dancing to a David Bowie vinyl, explores his emotions and his relationship with representation. In the final act, Bowie's famous interview resonates as a manifesto of freedom and authenticity, reflecting the director's vision of the importance of expressing oneself freely.
The golden fairy Harmony and her fairy friend, Rainbow Rhapsody, join their friends Barnaby the Bizzy Buzzy Bee, the Fairy Tots, Elf Tots and children to have lots of magical fun. It's full of original fairy songs that kids, fairies and elves of all ages can dance and sing along with!
A gang robs a large donation to an orphanage for needy children and how do the protagonist and his friends recover from the disaster? and the struggle which takes a dangerous twists and turn from which they recover the lost gift?
"Saviors" offers viewers a voyeuristic glimpse into the boundless expanse of possibility within bdsm, a softer side not often portrayed in media, through the sensual rituals of Shibari (rope bondage) with dominatrix Azriel Black Wolf. The film is accompanied with synthesizer music by John Paul Bohon. "Saviors" is in part a continuation of Cecilia's first short film, untitled Experimental Erotica #1. Self-experiential, dream-like visuals of sensorial processing bliss, juxtaposing softness and the taboo.
Experimental video dance that goes through different levels of unconsciousness that connects the protagonist with the primordial basis of creativity: exploration and game.
The World Salsa Championships (W.S.C.), also commonly referred to as the “Olympics" of Salsa, brings the finest dancers from 5 continents every four years to compete for cash and glory.
Past Future is an intimate musical, a slice of life of an American family in the summer of 2020. It's a moving meditation on where we’ve been, where we are and where we might go as we share this world and pass through time together.
One of the most successful duos in the history of country music, who pushed the borders and included elements of rock, reggae and even rap. Their first hit 'Let Your Love Flow' in 1975 topped the pop charts and gained recognition throughout the '80s. Eighteen unforgettable tracks, including 'If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body," "Sugar Daddy" and "Redneck Girl." Directed by Bayron Binkley and Dennis Glore and recorded at Church Street Station.
It was the 80s: Hardcore punk got too violent and started getting banned in clubs and venues, new wave died as well as the clothes and the first wave of metal became stale; we were looking for a new sound and a new look. Bored with what we knew, we ushered in Bands that lived harder and drank more than we did - bands like Hanoi Rocks, Guns N Roses, Jane's Addiction. It was freeing to be young and rock'n'roll - we changed the fashion and its rules, ran the town, set the scene and remade Melrose ave. our street. It was OUR time, Scenester's in Los Angeles. This 80 minute documentary goes back to the clubs, the scenester's, and the 'mover and shakers" of the time - the bands. A non-judgemental look at a musical movement that defined a generation and explained a culture.
Using rare archive, live and studio footage and brand new interviews with many of those who worked with Van across the decade covered by this program, a rare glimpse into the world of this very private musician, performer and writer is revealed - one that many fans of his music may find both surprising and enlightening.
Andrew Duhon began writing in high school spurred on by a fascination with the literary works of Emerson and Thoreau as well as poets Walt Whitman and Robert Frost