The special will include powerful readings from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book, it will also incorporate documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.
The special will include powerful readings from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book, it will also incorporate documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict is a feature documentary about the life of art icon Peggy Guggenheim, based on her sole authorized biography. Peggy was an heiress to the Guggenheim family who would become a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but artists. Her colorful personal history included trysts, affairs and marriages with such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless others. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, which is today enshrined in her famous Venetian palazzo. The film is a compendium of the greatest 20th century art mixed with the wild and iconoclastic life of one of the most powerful women in the history of the art world.
In August 1969 – against a backdrop of a nation in conflict over sexual politics, civil rights, and the Vietnam War – half a million people converged on a small dairy farm in upstate New York to hear the concert of a lifetime. What they experienced was a moment that would spark a cultural revolution, changing many of them and the country forever. With never-before-seen footage, WOODSTOCK: THREE DAYS THAT DEFINED A GENERATION tells the story of the political and social upheaval leading up to those three historic days, as well as the extraordinary events of the concert itself, when near disaster put the ideals of the counterculture to the test…
An emotional and inspiring look at the people who use and champion the treatment of cancer with Cannabis.
This documentary follows three Newtown families as they rebuild their lives after 12/14. Over a year, we follow families of victims, and survivors. Some are taking the lead in community healing, others advocate for a change in gun laws, all are seeking healing. In their journey, some venture out of their ‘safe’ suburban community with new eyes:- engaging with black urban America; youth from all walks of life coming together to make change; gun proponents; prisoners incarcerated for violent crimes. This film shows the audience how even amidst such a horrific event, people find a way to survive, and brings a unique perspective to the ongoing gun debate. A film about grief, hope, love and guns.
The story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counter-culture.
An examination of the research by forensic psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis who investigated the psychology of murderers.
A documentary following a group of London based Mexicans, campaigning for democracy and an end to the forced disappearances of 43 farming students in September 2014 and the routine killings of Mexicans, including all too often students, journalists, and the systemic political and economic issues surrounding these circumstances.
GRAY IS THE NEW BLONDE is an inspiring documentary whose time has come. En masse, women all across the world of all ages, ethnicities, and socio-economic backgrounds are choosing, on purpose to ditch the dye and embrace their gorgeous grays. They are no longer willing to succumb to the outdated notion that they must cover their grays in order to be an attractive, desirable and respected member of society. This long-held view has begun to change and this film, produced and directed by Victoria Marie will serve as a historical account of this cultural shift. It will explore how the world has negatively viewed women with gray hair for decades and more importantly how this has begun to change. Simply put, our mission is to show the world how beautiful natural, gray hair can be on a woman and to provide encouragement for all those seeking it. And in the process move towards acceptance and eventual reverence as enjoyed my our male counterparts. IT’S EVOLUTION. IT’S REVOLUTION. IT’S …
WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists, takes us inside the complex culture and history of Anonymous. The film explores early hacktivist groups like Cult of the Dead Cow and Electronic Disturbance Theater, and then moves to Anonymous’ own raucous and unruly beginnings on the website 4Chan.
A documentary about the phenomenal resurgence of the modular synthesizer; exploring the passions, obsessions and dreams of people who have dedicated part of their lives to this esoteric electronic music machine.
A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and the collective unconscious, Memory: The Origins of Alien unearths the largely untold origin story behind Ridley Scott’s cinematic masterpiece, and reveals a treasure trove of never-before-seen materials from the O’Bannon and Giger archives — including original story notes, rejected designs and storyboards, exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, and Dan’s original 29 page script from 1971, titled Memory.