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Dead Side Manor: Prescription for Fear

2021

Dead Side Manor: Prescription for Fear

2021
After Dr. John Bell's unexpected suicide, owners of his home begin to experience strange noises, ghost sightings and discover creepy bloodstains on the floor. Second Sight Paranormal TV is called to investigate the haunted house and find out why Dr. Bell still lingers and what he wants. They soon discover he's not haunting alone.
The Birth of Innocence

2021

The Birth of Innocence

2021
5
Narrated by world-renowned spiritual guru Don Miguel Ruiz, Birth of Innocence is a beautifully woven marriage of dreamlike visuals, music, narrative, and sound design that invites audiences to shed their intellect and connect with the deepest part of their being - yet respecting audience members' core beliefs.
Con il mare negli occhi

2021

Con il mare negli occhi

2021
7
A young Calabrian woman just back from Gorizia tells a friend about her trip: what prompted her to go to Friuli-Venezia Giulia was her discovery of the poems and novels by one Carlo Michelstaedter, an author and philosopher who had died young, in 1910. What was the reason for his tragic death? And that odd yet familiar figure glimpsed on the beach, at the end of the trip, as the woman told it: who did it belong to?
Crouch, Bind, Set, Slay

2020

Crouch, Bind, Set, Slay

2020
A day of a Rugby play between Tamanduas (Brazil) and Ciervo Pampas (Argentine), two inclusive teams. Before, during and after the game, we get to know a little bit of the players' relationship with sport and their own identity. It was a game held in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the Diversity Week program.
Killing the Shepherd

2021

Killing the Shepherd

2021
A remote community in Africa, led by a woman chief, attempts to break the stranglehold of absolute poverty by waging a war on wildlife poaching. For decades illegal wildlife poaching by both subsistence and bush meat gangs has led to the government declaring this community’s homeland “depleted” of wildlife. The chief finds help in the form of a safari operator and they work together to bring stability to the community. But all was not well. Disease, food stability, and rampant alcoholism hamper basic needs like health care and education. Even young girls, just after reaching puberty, are sold by their parents as child brides in order to feed their family for one year. Dark forces including South African land speculators, criminal poaching gangs, and her own people conspire against the chief. Even elements from the modern world work against the chief’s wishes. Will the chief and her community see success?
Eagles: The Long Run

1980

Eagles: The Long Run

1980
A documentary about the Eagle's The Long Run album.
Memphis Belle: America's Most Famous Bomber

2009

Memphis Belle: America's Most Famous Bomber

2009
This riveting doc covers the years 1942-1945, when the United States built the Eighth Army Air Force, the largest overseas air unit in its history.
For the Love of Food

2019

For the Love of Food

2019
Go behind the scenes with the influencers inside the food media industry capitalizing on the public’s growing appetite for culinary-related content.
Born in a Ballroom

2019

Born in a Ballroom

2019
"Born in a Ballroom," explores the relationship between the Hütte Restaurant, its founder, Eleanor Mailloux, and the rural Appalachian village she called home, Helvetia, West Virginia.
Running for Freedom: My Journey as an Ultra Marathon Runner

2019

Running for Freedom: My Journey as an Ultra Marathon Runner

2019
3
Gerald Tabios, Filipino Ultra Runner, runs his 5th Badwater 135, considered as the world's toughest footrace. Together with his crew, Gerald has to run 2 deserts, climb 3 mountains, run 135 miles during record breaking heat across Death Valley within 48 hrs.
The Road Up

2020

The Road Up

2020
From the award-winning team behind the Chicago International Film Festival hit poetry slam documentary Louder than a Bomb comes this inspiring and emotional film following Jesse Teverbaugh, a charismatic leader at the job-training program Cara. With tough-love and dedication, Teverbaugh mentors four Chicagoans during their precarious journey from homelessness, addiction, and incarceration to stable employment. The Road Up powerfully chronicles not only America’s unforgiving economic and social structures, but also the essential role that community, connection, hope, and love play in overcoming adversity.
House of Stronzo

2018

House of Stronzo

2018
5
Journey with an eccentric folk art collector, as he seeks out permanent homes for 5,000 pieces of eclectic, original work, before he passes away.
Liberdade é uma Palavra

2020

Liberdade é uma Palavra

2020
Vespasiano, in the interior of Minas Gerais, is home to one of the few national penitentiaries specifically for pregnant women and mothers with young children. Guided by these women, we entered fragments of the daily life of the prison unit: evangelical services, conversations, confessions, doodles, vanity, fear, censorship, punishment, longing, memory and the constant struggle for the experience of motherhood.
Maharajin

2018

Maharajin

2018
In Hinduism, women are prohibited from entering the cremation ground but Gulab Maharajin performed Cremations at Rasoolabad Ghat, Allahabad for more than 60 Years.
Schurback

2012

Schurback

2012
7
Some make documentaries of successful people, while others - like the case of this short film - prefer to look at those who have not fared so well. Herr Shurback is more than just a failed entrepeneur. This is his movie.
Libertai

2019

Libertai

2019
Botswana artist Crawford Mandumbwa speaks openly about African politics, society, art and culture, and also addresses the question of why Africa remains with major problems of social vulnerability.
The Counterfeiter

2017

The Counterfeiter

2017
The FBI attempts to bring down the world's greatest autograph forger after he joined a counterfeit ring that took off during the 1998 home run chase between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
Strange 80's 2: A Charity Rockumentary

2018

Strange 80's 2: A Charity Rockumentary

2018
Strange 80's is a benefit concert for mental health in Los Angeles, which features a rotating cast of the biggest marquis talent and emerging artists in rock, performing songs from the world's favorite decade, the 80's. Strange incorporates musicians, comedians, and cast members from the latest binge-worthy series in pop culture. Most importantly, proceeds raised in Los Angeles go to support 320 Changes Direction in partnership with Give An Hour.
The Lighthouses - 11.3 PROJECT

2011

The Lighthouses - 11.3 PROJECT

2011
Documentation video of an action carried out after the Tohoku Earthquake on March 11, 2011.
The Battle of Ypres

2017

The Battle of Ypres

2017
5
A documentary detailing the four battles fought during WWI for the control of the Belgian town of Ypres.