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Addicted To Plastic
Director: Ian Connacher |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 85 minutes
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| Awards Received: Winner - Youth Award: Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema, A Coruña,Galicia, Spain: FICMA 2009 International Environmental Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain - Winner - Golden Sun Award - Best International Documentary: Amazonas Film Festival, Brazil- Winner – Audience Favourite for International Documentary |
"Addicted To Plastic" is a feature-length documentary about solutions to plastic pollution. Encompassing three years of filming in 12 countries on five continents, the film details plastic's path over the last 100 years, including two trips to the middle of the Pacific Ocean where plastic debris has been steadily accumulating over time.
"Addicted To Plastic" provides a wealth of expert interviews on practical and cutting edge solutions to recycling, toxicity and biodegradability. These solutions - which include plastics made from plants - will provide viewers with a hopeful perspective about our future with plastic. |
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Blacks, The
Director: Goran Devic, Zvonimir Juric |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 75 minutes
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| Awards Received: Ljubljana International Film Festival: Kingfisher Award, Pula Film Festival: Golden Arena Award |
War. A city under the siege. The truce has been recently signed, and the squad known as the 'Blacks', who used to do the dirty jobs, needs to be disbanded. Ivo, the squad commander who has lost three of his soldiers, prepares the action to retrieve their dead bodies from the forest and, despite the ceasefire, blow up the dam, thus causing a great damage to the enemy: The survived members of the squad, tortured by their personal doubts and guilt, move into action. On the battlefield, they find the enemy they are searching for is in the place they least expect - inside themselves.
The Blacks, a trancelike, psychological thriller about a group of Croatian special forces during the Bosnian war. It’s being touted as the first Croat feature to address Croatian war crimes. |
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Burma: An Indictment
Director: Jeremy Taylor |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 69 minutes
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Murder! Rape! Slavery! Torture! - part of the daily routine for the Burmese people. 'BURMA: AN INDICTMENT' shows the inhumane conditions the gentle Burmese people suffer every day.
Watch families snake their way across the Thai border to receive the most basic health care. Experience the hell of a man who was kept in solitary confinement for fifteen years! Listen to the monks - now living in exile - who started the 'Saffron Revolution.'
Witness the squalor of the Tal refugee camp and view shocking footage of Cyclone Nargis victims. 'BURMA: AN INDICTMENT' exposes a wealthy country whose people are starving in the streets helpless at the hands of a brutal military dictatorship |
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Burning In The Sun
Director: Cambria Matlow |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 81 minutes
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| 26-year-old charmer Daniel Dembele is equal parts West African and European, and looking to make his mark on the world. Seizing the moment at a crossroads in his life, Daniel decides to return to his homeland in Mali and start a local business building solar panels – the first of its kind in the sun drenched nation. Daniel's goal is to electrify the households of rural communities, 99% of which live without power. BURNING IN THE SUN tells the story of Daniel’s journey growing the shaky startup into a viable company, and of the business’ impact on Daniel’s first customers in the tiny village of Banko. Taking controversial stances on climate change, poverty, and African self-sufficiency, the film explores what it means to grow up as a man, and what it takes to prosper as a nation. |
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Cash & Marry
Director: Atanas Georgiev |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 76 minutes
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| Marko and Atanas are two friends whose lives would be sweet as strudel but for an annoying little problem with their papers. They need a European passport and they are prepared to do almost anything to get one, including buying a wife. With nothing but their brass necks and 7,000 euros, they set out to find the woman of their dreams - one who will walk them down aisle and then hang around long enough for the divorce. An odyssey through Vienna's immigrant netherworld, this real-life Green Card is an hilarious and touching insight into what it takes to jump the barriers of Fortress Europe. |
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Charlie Valentine
Director: Jesse V. Johnson |
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| Rating: R Running Time: 97 minutes
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| Awards Received: 5 Wins / Action Of Film International Film Festival: Action Film Of The Year, Best Cinematography, Best Picture, Best Score and Best In Show |
CHARLIE VALENTINE is an “old school” gangster, a man of great wisdom and even greater class. Unfortunately, he’s also quite poor (he’s spent all his money on women, gambling and the rest of those things commonly known as The High Life), and since he isn’t getting any younger he realizes he needs a load of money if he’s going to be able to retire.
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Daddy I Do
Director: Cassie Jaye |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 90 minutes
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| The Purity Ball symbolizes a father's protection over his daughter's virginity, but how does this reflect in the choices she makes, understanding her sexuality, and knowing her worth as a woman? This documentary examines the effects of Abstinence-Only Programs versus Comprehensive Sex Education in schools and what society can do to help lower teen pregnancies, abortions, and STDS, as well as poverty and sexual abuse. |
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Dark Souls
Director: César Ducasse, Mathieu Peteul |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 97 minutes
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| A young girl, Johanna is attacked and seemingly murdered. Her father receives a phone call from the police pronouncing her dead as he sees her walk in the front door of their house. Strange things begin to happen to Johanna, she is disorientated and becomes pale and unresponsive. Similar attacks begin to happen and Johanna’s father takes it on himself to find out the truth. He embarks on a dark thrill ride of lost memories, conspiracy and zombie-like symptoms. Finding the mysterious darkness within is the source of the bizarre world he has uncovered. |
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Desert Of Forbidden Art, The
Director: Tchavdar Georgiev, Amanda Pope |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 80 minutes
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How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental hospitals or Gulags.
Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art but instead daringly rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artist’s works and creates a museum in the desert of Uzbekistan, far from the watchful eyes of the KGB. Though a penniless artist himself, he cajoles the cash to pay for the art from the same authorities who are banning it. Savitsky amasses an eclectic mix of Russian Avant-Garde art. But his greatest discovery is an unknown school of artists who settle in Uzbekistan after the Russian revolution of 1917, encountering a unique Islamic culture, as exotic to them as Tahiti was for Gauguin. They develop a startlingly original style, fusing European modernism with centuries-old Eastern traditions.
Ben Kingsley, Sally Field and Ed Asner voice the diaries and letters of Savitsky and the artists. |
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earthwork
Director: Chris Ordal |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 93 minutes
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| Awards Received: SXSW Film Festival Audience Award, Santa Fe Film Festival: Audience Award, Creative Spirit Award. Kent Film Festial-Best Cinematography. Indie Spirit Film Festival-Best Feature Film. Cape Fear Independent Film Festival-Best Feature. Black Hills Film Festival-Best Feature. Tupelo Film Festival-Best Feature |
| 'earthwork' is the story of real-life crop artist Stan Herd. In 1994, Stan travelled from Kansas to New York City to create a massive environmental artwork on land owned by Donald Trump. The multi-acre piece was made from soil, rock, plants and vegetation near an underground railway tunnel. Stan recruited a number of homeless individuals living in the tunnel as his crew. Over the months it took to complete the earthwork, Stan dealt with the difficulties of bringing his unique, rural art form to an urban canvas and the many costs exacted upon his life. In an effort to show his unique perspective to a larger audience, Stan unexpectedly encountered the true meaning of his art and it's ultimate, lasting rewards. |
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Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
Director: Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 107 minutes
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From the shifting faultlines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and racial tensions of Reagan's America, Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last 25 years. With a blistering combination of punk and funk they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the racial stereotypes and political order of the music industry and the nation. Telling it like it is, the iconic Laurence Fishburne narrates EVERYDAY SUNSHINE, a story about music, history, fear, courage and funking on the one.
At the heart of the film's story is lead singer Angelo Moore and bassist Norwood Fisher who show how they keep the band rolling out of pride, desperation and love for their art. To overcome money woes, family strife, and the strain of being aging Punk rockers on the road, Norwood and Angelo are challenged to re-invent themselves in the face of dysfunction and ghosts from a painful past. |
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Five Cardinal Points, The
Director: Fridolin Schonwiese |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 94 minutes
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For many years already the inhabitants of the impoverished Mexican village Tres Valles
(Three Valleys) have been following the call of the American Dream and have left their native community heading in the direction of the USA.
In Kansas City they have re-founded their village and christened it Tres Vallitos (Three little Valleys). With the dollars they earn there they want to realize their Mexican dream: a carefree life in their own country.
In an apparently never-ending spiral of hope and disappointment, these people move back and forwards between two countries and two cultures, legally or illegally. In the process they experience the inexorable disintegration of their families and engage in a continuous search for new social solidarity.
The Five Cardinal Points tells of the subject of migration from both the American and Mexican perspectives and it creates a differentiated picture of the complexities of neighborly relations.
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Harvest
Director: Marc Meyers |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 102 minutes
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| Awards Received: Winner, Best American Independent Film, 2010 Cleveland International Film Festival |
Three generations of a family come together one summer, around the eventual passing of the patriarch of the family, a WWII veteran. Gathered at the family home and in and around their beautiful shoreline town, years of resentment and betrayal within the family surface, and the grandson, a college student, does his part to hold them all together, growing up in the process. Harvest is a poignant story that is ultimately uplifting, with moments of humor anchoring this realistic portrait of a family hanging on to what was, what is, and to each other.
Stars Academy Award nominees Robert Loggia and Barbara Barrie, newcomer Jack Carpenter, Arye Gross, and Tony Winner Victoria Clark. Original Music by Grammy & Tony Winner Duncan Sheik.
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Holy Wars
Director: Stephen Marshall |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 82 minutes
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| Touching down in four hotbeds of religious fundamentalism – Pakistan, Lebanon, UK, and heartland America – Holy Wars goes behind the scenes of the 1400 year old conflict between Islam and Christianity. The film follows a danger-seeking Christian missionary and a radical Muslim Irish convert, both of whom believe in an apocalyptic battle, after which their religion will ultimately rule the world. Tracking their lives from the onset of the “War on Terror” through the election of Barack Obama, Holy Wars shows that even the most radical of believers can be transformed by our changing world. |
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Immigrant Nation!: The Battle for the Dream
Director: Esau Melendez |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 96 minutes
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| Awards Received: -Best Documentary -26th Chicago Latino Film Festival |
| Immigrant Nation! is a feature documentary film about the modern immigrant rights movement. In particular, it is the story of the struggle of Elvira Arellano, a single mother from Chicago, who fought her deportation. The film also interweaves the stories of individuals, organizations, activists and community leaders united by passion and a concern for justice. This film illustrates the opposition to the controversial HR4437 immigration bill as well as the ongoing struggle and demand for comprehensive immigration reform. |
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In My Sleep
Director: Allen Wolf |
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| Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 104 minutes
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| Awards Received: Best American Indie-Audience Award- Ft. Lauderdale Interntional Film Festival |
| In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, Marcus struggles with parasomnia, a rare sleepwalking disorder. After Marcus wakes up with blood on his hands and a knife at his side, he is startled to hear that a close friend has been found stabbed to death. Marcus frantically tries to put the pieces together could he have murdered his close friend in his sleep to hide a secret between them? The police close in as Marcus investigates his own nocturnal activities, desperate to figure out what happens after he goes to sleep. His journey to uncover the truth leads him to a shocking revelation. |
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Inside Job, The
Director: Charles Ferguson |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 120 minutes
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'Inside Job' is the first film to provide a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.
Narrated by Matt Damon. |
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Jack Goes Boating
Director: Philip Seymour Hoffman |
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| Rating: R Running Time: 89 minutes
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| Jack Goes Boating is a tale of love, betrayal, friendship, and grace set against the backdrop of working-class New York City life. The film stars John Ortiz (Pride and Glory), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Broadway's Rent), Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote); with Hoffman making his feature directorial debut. Bob Glaudini adapted his acclaimed Off-Broadway play for the screen. Jack Goes Boating is the story of four New Yorkers. Jack (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Connie (Amy Ryan) are two single people who on their own might continue to recede into the anonymous background of the city, but in each other begin to find the courage and desire to pursue their budding relationship. In contrast, the couple that introduced them, Clyde (John Ortiz) and Lucy (Daphne Rubin-Vega), have been together a long time and are confronting unresolved issues in their marriage. |
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Last Survivor, The
Director: Michael Kleiman, Michael Pertnoy |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 92 minutes
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The Last Survivor presents the stories of genocide survivors and their struggle to make sense of tragedy. They work to educate, motivate and promulgate a civic response to mass atrocity crimes, with a focus on awareness, prevention and promoting social activism and civic engagement.
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Little Alien
Director: Nina Kusturica |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 94 minutes
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They’re alive. Because they fled.
Teenagers Juma and Hishame attempt an extremely dangerous journey to Europe, hiding in the chassis of a truck, where they will become the prey of border officers. Ahmed, Nura, Achmad and Asha haver managed to get over the fences.
After arriving in Austria, they try to reorder their lives and fight for their rights to a more or less trouble-free youth. Jawid and Alem have already spent a year and a half in Vienna, hoping their asylum applications will be approved.
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Made In Dagenham
Director: Nigel Cole |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 113 minutes
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MADE IN DAGENHAM is about the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant when 850 female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination in their job performance evaluations.
Their actions gave a huge boost to the women's rights movement in the country and helped bring about equal pay for women in the workplace.
During the protest, the strike committee was invited to tea by Barbara Castle, employment secretary in then-prime minister Harold Wilson's Labour government. It was during that meeting that the strikers raised the issue of equal pay for the first time. |
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Men Who Swim
Director: Dylan Williams |
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| MEN WHO SWIM is a humorous look at a group of middle aged men who have found unlikely success as members of Sweden’s all male synchronized swimming team. What began as a weekly escape from the daily grind of work and family responsibilities, gradually evolved into a more serious commitment. Inspired by classical Esther Williams’ techniques from the 1950s, this group of train drivers and meat buyers, archivists and teachers soon became passionate exponents of the sport. |
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Milking The Rhino
Director: David E. Simpson |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 83 minutes
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The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Namibia's Himba - two of Earth's oldest cattle cultures - are in the midst of upheaval. Emerging from a century of "white man conservation" that turned their land into game reserves and fueled resentment towards wildlife, they are now vying for a piece of the wildlife-tourism pie. Charting the collision of ancient ways and Western expectations, MILKING THE RHINO tells intimate, hopeful and heartbreaking stories of people facing deep cultural change.
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Murder By Proxy: How America Went Postal
Director: Emil Chiaberi |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 75 minutes
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| Murder by Proxy is a feature-length documentary that examines the growing phenomenon of spree killings in the US. The film explores the basic question of what brings a seemingly normal person to the point of committing mass murder. It examines the complex interplay of personal and societal factors leading up to incidents of workplace massacres, starting with the earliest post office massacre in 1986. Ultimately, it provides a thorough and provocative examination into the increasing number of mass murders in the United States, examining how and why they continue to occur, and what this phenomenon might lead to in the future. |
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My Run
Director: Tim VandeSteeg |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 85 minutes
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| Awards Received: Austin Film Festival: Audience Award, Las Vegas Film Festival: Grand Jury Award, Mammoth Film Festival: Best Documentary, Doc Miami Festival: Best Documentary, VisionFest Film Festival: Best Documentary, Newport Beach Film Festival: Outstanding Achievement In Documentary. |
| After losing his wife to breast cancer and driven by the experience of raising three children on his own, Terry Hitchcock wanted to accomplish the impossible: to run 75 consecutive marathons in 75 consecutive days to bring awareness to the struggle of single-parent families. Despite being 56 years old and having a weak heart, bad knees, and shaky ankles, Terry did it! Terry crossed his finish line in Atlanta in time for the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics. Terry’s story shows one man’s love for children and his concern for the plight of those who struggle every day with the often heartbreaking challenges of single-parent families. He wanted his feat to shine a light on the challenges involved and the need for more support for these parents and children. MY RUN is narrated by Academy Award winner Billy Bob Thornton. |
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Nowhere Boy
Director: Sam Taylor Wood |
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| Rating: R Running Time: 98 minutes
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| Awards Received: Nominated for 4 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 4 wins & 12 nominations. |
| Aaron Johnson (Kick Ass,The Illusionist) stars as John Lennon in NOWHERE BOY. Before The Beatles John Lennon was a smart and troubled teenager growing up in Liverpool. In a family full of secrets, two incredible women clash over John: Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas), the buttoned up Aunt who raised him and Julia (Anne- Marie Duff) the prodigal mother. Yearning for a normal family, John escapes into the world of rock n' roll, where his fledgling genius finds a kindred spirit in the young Paul McCartney. Facing tragedy while building his new life, a resilient young man finds his voice and an icon explodes into the world. |
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Pathways
Director: Brandon Verzal |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 67 minutes
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| A brain injury affects everything that makes a person who they are. It can rob sight, memory, communication, the ability to walk and hold things and even radically change personality. According to the Brain Injury Association of America, 1.4 million people in the U.S. sustain a brain injury each year. Meet Alexis, Derek, Mandy and Christian -- four young people with different types of brain injuries, sharing the same path to hope through rehabilitation. See how a team of dedicated rehabilitation specialists use their skills and innovative technology to help the four rebuild their lives. Through compassionate care, these amazing individuals defy the grim prognosis of their injuries and make incredible progress. |
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Please Remove Your Shoes
Director: Rob Delgaudio |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 89 minutes
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Please Remove Your Shoes is a revealing documentary about broken government process. It is also an empathetic story about a half dozen public servants who try to fix it. And it is a familiar topic to all of us who have flown in the last fifteen years:the security routine at the airport, first the FAA and now the TSA.
Please Remove Your Shoes examines the period before 911 and the current situation nine years later and asks the questions that make Washington squirm: “Are we really any better for all our money spent? Or is it safe to say that nothing has changed?"
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Rock 'n' Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher , The
Director: Justin Monroe |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 95 minutes
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| Duncan Christopher is an ordinary guy that grew up the wealthy son of a suicidal rock star in a reclusive compound in Collinsville, Oklahoma. He’s just what a young man ought to be: mild-mannered, awkward, naïve, and whole-heartedly aimless. He feels destined to follow his late father’s footsteps to rock greatness. Duncan has an obstacle like all the best heroes of Dungeons and Dragons, which he plays fervently, he’s not that good. |
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Room 36
Director: Jim Groom |
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| Rating: R Running Time: 90 minutes
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Savage, sexy and stylish. ROOM 36 is a tour-de-force thriller that combines the razor-edge suspense of classic Hitchcock with the uncompromising brutality and evocative visuals of Sin City.
As the sun goes down on a seedy London hotel, a politician arrives with classified information destined to bring down the British government, a prostitute begins her night's work, and a hitman contemplates his next assignment. Before the night is over, a convergence of duplicity and paranoia will draw each one into a remarkable and deadly chain of events that will forever leave a legacy of terror in Room 36... |
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Scientists under Attack - Genetic engineering in the magnetic field of money
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 88 minutes
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Árpád Pusztai and Ignacio Chapela have two things in common. They are distinguished scientists and their careers are in ruins. Both scientists choose to look at the phenomenon of genetic engineering. Both made important discoveries. Both of them are suffering the fate of those who criticise the powerful vested interests that now dominate big business and scientific research.
Statements made by scientists themselves prove that 95% of the research in the area of genetic engineering is paid by the industry. Only 5% of the research is independent. The big danger for freedom of science and our democracy is evident. Can the public – we all – still trust our scientists?
This is a documentary thriller about how Agro-Chemical multinational corporations victimise international scientists to prevent them from publishing their scary findings.
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Sounds Of Beirut
Director: Seth Koury |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 54 minutes
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| Sounds of Beirut is a documentary that was filmed weeks after a major armed conflict that nearly cast the country back into civil war as militias battled on the streets of Beirut. The film explores how the past civil war conflicts and current tensions have influenced local artists to create music, what the music means to them, an what it means to the audience. The scene is very diverse with genres ranging from pop, hip-hop, opera, classical, traditional Arabic, acoustic, and rock. The various music genres are performed in three languages: French, Arabic and English. The documentary highlights four major themes that are present in the Beirut music scene: How the diverse culture is the gateway from the East to the West, How the music scene was born from crisis, How the people use music as a way to escape the troubles of the city, and how the troubled past and uncertain future has created a live for the day culture in the city. The musicians in the documentary also use their art to disabuse misconceptions about the country. |
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Stolen
Director: Violeta Ayala, Daniel Fallshaw |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 78 minutes
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Filmmakers Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw follow Fetim Sellami, a Saharawi refugee, to North Africa for her reunion with her mother. Mother and child were separated when Sellami was a toddler. But the UN-sponsored reunion reveals a secret which spirals the film into a dark world the filmmakers could have never have imagined. The black Saharawis start talking about a forbidden subject… Their enslavement.
The filmmakers recount moments of terror when their lives were in danger as well as extreme hardships in getting the footage across borders. Perhaps more disturbingly, it becomes difficult to distinguish who are the 'good guys', as the 'good guys' turn bad and the bad guys appear to do good.
STOLEN is a compelling, modern-day, real-life cloak-and dagger thriller. |
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Tapped
Director: Stephanie Soechtig, Jason Lindsey |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 75 minutes
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Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig’s debut feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water.
From the producers of Who Killed The Electric Car and I.O.U.S.A., this timely documentary is a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water.
From the plastic production to the ocean in which so many of these bottles end up, this inspiring documentary trails the path of the bottled water industry and the communities which were the unwitting chips on the table. A powerful portrait of the lives affected by the bottle water industry, this revelatory film features those caught at the intersection of big business and the public’s right to water.
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Tender Hook, The
Director: Jonathan Ogilvie |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 104 minutes
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| Set during Sydney’s Jazz Age, The Tender Hook infuses the look and doomed love-triangle storyline of a classical Hollywood film noir with a distinctively Australian edge. Hugo Weaving (V for Vendetta, The Matrix) is McHeath, a shady business man/boxing promoter who is married to Iris, the film’s enigmatic femme fatale played by Rose Byrne (28 Weeks Later, Sunshine). McHeath takes an interest in Art, an up-and-coming boxer, played by Matthew Le Nevez (Peaches, Garage Days). Iris is drawn to Art as she becomes increasingly repelled by McHeath’s tendency for violence. |
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War Against The Weak
Director: Justin Strawhand |
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| Rating: NR Running Time: 90 minutes
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Based on the book by New York Times best selling author and nine time Pulitzer Prize nominee, Edwin Black, War Against the Weak is the untold story of American Eugenics, a movement that attempted to breed a Nordic master race through the elimination of the “unfit'.
In the first three decades of the 20th Century, American corporate philanthropy, combined with the efforts of the scientific, academic and political elite, created the pseudoscience eugenics, and institutionalized race politics as national policy. The goal was to create a superior, white, Nordic race and obliterate the virtually everyone else.
Under the Nazis, American eugenic principles were applied without restraint, careening out of control into the Reich's infamous genocide. American eugenicists openly supported Germany's program, with both financial and intellectual capital. Once WWII began, Nazi eugenics turned from mass sterilization and euthanasia to genocidal murder.
War Against the Weak explores this complex relationship between American eugenics and the horrors of the Holocaust. |
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Woke Up This Mornin' in the Arkansas Delta
Director: Dr. Benjamin Meade |
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00/00/0000 at 00:00 AM |
| Rating: NR Running Time: 88 minutes
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| This quirky documentary film stems from the point of view that a filmmaker from Missouri travels with a crew from north to south in the Arkansas Delta with a fresh pair of eyes and discovers the humor, hardship, music & art that lies along the Mississippi River, largely ignored by the American people. Racism and the Elaine Massacre of 1919 are examined, a filmmaker is shot at, great food is consumed and multilevel generational poverty is examined in a system designed to keep people from working. Featuring cameos with Governor Mike Beebe, William Bowen, Senator David Pryor, Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame Chair Buddy Sutton, and Warren Stephens as well as a multitude of Delta residents and an amazing musical soundtrack, Woke Up This Morning in the Arkansas Delta is a fascinating and often disturbing examination of American Culture that has both been embraced and unfortunately ignored. |
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