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Landscapes

2022

Landscapes

2022
Valentyna and her bed-ridden mother live on a small farm surrounded by the evergreen, lush flora of the rain forest. The works and thoughts of the poet and the artist, though, are filled with the landscapes of their old home, Ukraine. Memories of snow and birch trees, thistles and orchids, vegetable gardens and their animal residents come to life in Tamara’s poems and Valentyna’s drawings.
Breaking the Chain

2020

Breaking the Chain

2020
It's a fate worse than death for countless animals: a life sentence of isolation and deprivation. Their only hope is PETA's Community Animal Project, a field team fighting against a national epidemic of animal overpopulation and neglect.
Chasing Childhood

2021

Chasing Childhood

2021
In today's highly charged world of structure, stranger danger, and helicopter parenting, free play in childhood has disappeared, giving way to unprecedented anxiety and depression. This phenomenon impacts kids from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds. Children's lives are consumed with wall-to-wall activities and constant monitoring-the overprotected, over-directed, over-pressured childhood is the new normal. This film takes us to schools in affluent Wilton, CT; working class Patchogue, NY; and metropolitan Manhattan. Throughout these different stories, a central question emerges: How can we eschew harmful parenting strategies and empower our kids to become their most fully realized, authentic selves? The film offers possible solutions as journalist Lenore Skenazy, evolutionary psychologist Peter Gray, former dean of freshmen at Stanford University Julie Lythcott-Haims, and leaders of the "free play" movement fight to restore a less curated childhood.
B4

2020

B4

2020
Alen (30), a director from Bosnia, attends the unveiling of a plaque dedicated to his parents who were killed in a bombing of his hometown. In the same incident he was nearly fatally wounded and the sole reason he survived was the quick reaction from his neighbour at the time who urgently took him to the hospital. The two of them have not met for 26 years until this day.
Cooking Milk with Hot Stones

1932

Cooking Milk with Hot Stones

1932
An ethnographic film by Milovan Gavazzi, the founder of Croatian ethnology. The films displays a practice that was already a rarity at the time.
Song for Our People

2021

Song for Our People

2021
Song For Our People is an inspiring new documentary about a group of a professional musicians and artists who come together one day in a Brooklyn recording studio to create a powerful new anthem to honor the perseverance of their African-American ancestors, and to energize the on-going fight for a more just American society.
Thunderbird

2017

Thunderbird

2017
Thunderbird is a short documentary exploring the story of Steven Collins, an international Olympic ski jumper. Using archive footage and photos, Thunderbird gives a genuine look at Steven’s story.
Father's Day

2020

Father's Day

2020
A short documentary containing images of a ghost town juxtaposed with a day in the life of a father coping with loss and old age. A story about absence.
The Fabulous Four

1990

The Fabulous Four

1990
This video profiles four legendary boxers - Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Thomas 'The Hit Man' Hearns and 'Marvellous' Marvin Hagler, whose rivalry commenced with the 'Brawl in Montreal'. This was the contest which saw an over-confident Leonard lose his crown to Duran. Hearns had lost out to Hagler in 1985, and it was the latter that Leonard selected to take on in his comeback for the World Middleweight Championship.
Microbudget Marauders Too

2020

Microbudget Marauders Too

2020
What is a micro budget film? Have you ever come across a super low budget movie on a streaming platform and thought, Wow, how is this here, in the marketplace, right next to the blockbusters? Who is making these movies?
Land of the Maharajahs

1931

Land of the Maharajahs

1931
This travel film takes the viewer to the northern part of Rajasthan. After a quick day tour in New Delhi and its surroundings we visit the magnificently painted havelis of Shekhawati, in Jhunjhunu, Mandawa and Fatehpur, an area that used to be one of the most prosperous parts of India. From there we visit Bikaner with its impressive fort, maybe the most beautiful in Rajasthan, and the city's Jain temples ending the tour with remarkable traditional music and dance in Kuri village right outside of Jaisalmer.
Pizzas

2016

Pizzas

2016
Marseille’s anchovy-cheese, the Bronx’s Neapolitan, Naples’ margarita… From the three cradles of pizza, this film is retying the knots of a worldwide history giving us the opportunity to gaze upon the glimmering lights of Times Square, explore the back alleys of Naples and land in front of a pizza van— an invention from Marseilles. There, we meet with loud mouth pizza chefs who have been mucking in, sometimes for five generations.
Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip

2020

Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip

2020
Energy freedom is at our fingertips, yet a powerful system is waging war against the solar industry and people's rights. Jonathan Scott travels the USA confronting those at the root of the issue and meeting with ordinary citizens fighting back.
ruth weiss, the beat goddess

2019

ruth weiss, the beat goddess

2019
In a life that has spanned 92 creative years, ruth weiss is one of the most influential writers of the Beat Generation. Born to a Jewish family during the rise of Nazism, as a 10-year-old refugee, she escaped to the United States. ruth became a Jazz troubadour exemplifying the zeitgeist of Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco. The film further highlights ruth weiss' electrifying and intimate poetry with breathtaking images of exquisite modern dance, art, animation, and music to embody her oeuvre. This film documents not only weiss' gift to humanity but archives significant historical moments in our world's social and literary movements. As a contemporary of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Kerouac, she innovated poetry to jazz.
D-Day and the Dambusters

2020

D-Day and the Dambusters

2020
On June 6, 1944, British, American and Canadian troops landed on the beaches of Normandy as part of largest amphibious assault in military history: D-Day. Lesser known is the role played by the elite squadron of British bombers known as the Dambusters, whose elaborate diversion convinced German high command that the assault was happening somewhere else. Relive the legacy of this legendary bomber outfit, thanks to recently declassified material, rare and restored footage, as well as modern-day interviews with the surviving members.
The War and Peace of Tim O'Brien

2020

The War and Peace of Tim O'Brien

2020
Called “the best American writer of his generation” and “our poet laureate of war,” Tim O’Brien is one of the great voices in modern literature. The Library of Congress recently named his groundbreaking novel-in-stories about the Vietnam War, “The Things They Carried,” one of the 65 most influential books in American history, and O’Brien’s “Going After Cacciato” won the National Book Award in 1979.
The Place That Makes Us

2020

The Place That Makes Us

2020
Although a portrait of the troubled Rust Belt city of Youngstown, Ohio, “The Place That Makes Us” offers a gratifyingly hopeful look at efforts to restore a town ravaged by the prolonged economic distress caused by the closure of its iconic steel mills and related industries.
One Word

2020

One Word

2020
A documentary about the impacts of climate change on the Republic of the Marshall Islands and its people. Most parts of the Marshall Islands are less than 5.9 feet above sea level. Forecasts predict the uninhabitability of the country by 2050.
How to Fix a Primary

2020

How to Fix a Primary

2020
Follows the story that is shaking up Democratic Party politics nationwide, highlighting the role of power and money in a system many believe is broken but can be fixed.
The Poets

2017

The Poets

2017
THE POETS is a documentary that follows two acclaimed West African poets, and lifelong friends, Syl Cheney-Coker and Niyi Osundare as they travel through their home countries of Sierra Leone and Nigeria to explore what has shaped their art. As the film unfurls, they find answers all around them; in the stunning landscapes, the culture, the history, political strife, terrible tragedies, their family homes, and their friendship. Weaved with the poetry of Cheney-Coker and Osundare, The Poets is an exploration of how art is shaped by life experiences, and of the power and urgency of art in the face of political adversity.