"In 1970s America, the legends of free climbing start out as young outcasts who didn’t want any part of a respectable American dream. They wanted to create a world for themselves where the ultimate self-expression was a climb to nowhere. Up was down, poor was rich, and what everyone else…
CLASSIC WILDLIFE : For millions of years the annual migration in the Masai Mara has survived everything that the natural world has thrown at it. Wildebeest, Zebra and countless other species set off on this journey of enormous proportions to reach the greener grasses thousands of miles away. But the…
WILDLIFE CLASSICS : JV and Gillian are given the task of reintroducing three magnificent cheetahs- two of which are the rare King Cheetah- back into their natural surroundings. JV and Gillian document and share their story as they follow the lives of the three cub’s journey from cub to adulthood…
PART (3) OF THE TRILOGY FRANCISCO VARELA Love – Presence – Death AUTOBIOGRAPHY (42 min) and ORAL ANTHOLOGY (155 min). AUTOBIOGRAPHY: The personal history of Francisco Varela as told by him on his veranda in Monte Grande, Chile, on February 17, 2001 when he was already…
Indigenous Running
A story of Legend and Legacy on the Flying Trapeze: After a noted film, television and theatre career in fiction, Tom Moore's first documentary feature is a fascinating, loving look at the world of the flying trapeze, starring one of the greatest trapeze acts of all time, The Flying Gaonas. The…
John Stanley fans rejoice! Homecoming 2 is a once-in-a-lifetime collection of brand-new material, and Stanley's classic short film Homecoming: A Fable, available on digital for the very first time. Included in this collection are: -Homecoming: A Fable, the 15-minute horror short by directed…
Filmed on location, Great Tales of Asian Art tells four beloved stories of India, Indonesia, Korea and Japan through the masterpieces of visual art and the stirring performances of masked dance drama, and shadow puppets, these tales have inspired for centuries.
The Emperor's Eye brings to light the priceless treasures of China's Imperial art collection, relating them to the political climate of their time. The Emperor's Eye is also the tale of a passionate collector, Emperor Chienlung, whose quest to create the greatest art collection in the…
TECHQUA IKACHI Land - my Life (in English, German & French) by James Danaqyumptewa, Anka Schmid, Agnes Barmettler Switzerland (1989), 109 mins. ENGLISH: Hopi elders in the village of Hotevilla (Arizona) relate the story of their people’s history. As witnesses themselves, they tell about…
Do you ever wonder why people race? Experience an absorbing and unusual documentary that captures the essence of the sport of automobile racing. Served up as the ultimate physical and spiritual backdrop, the Berkshire’s Lime Rock Park is presented with the haunting beauty of an entire New England…
http://www.ava-scheiner.ch Trails of a Jewish European in the 20th century Jerzy Czarnecki, the protagonist of the film, could have contented himself with a quiet retirement after many years of work as a nuclear technologist for the Swiss Federal Office of Energy. But he is driven to act: he has…
