Featuring cinema’s most celebrated names in film music, SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY offers a candid look into how composers developed, and continue to develop, some of the most iconic scores in history.
Mexico and the United States share the greatest border between the first and third world. Thousands of migrants expose themselves to every danger as they travel north on a train called The Beast. That’s where they meet the Patronas, a group of Mexican women who, every day since 1995, make food…
Before dinosaurs walked the earth, long before mammals, birds and lizards were ever created, the sea turtle, with its thick protective shell, roamed the seas. Many life forms have appeared and disappeared throughout our planet’s long existence, but the sea turtle has survived them all. Until now.…
Loved and cherished, feared and hated, cute and cuddly, majestic, monstrous and ferocious. No other animal on earth has captured our hearts and our imagination like the Brown Bear. Legends, movies and television have depicted the bear as everything from a cuddly toy to a raging monster. Coastal Brown…
In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became a missionary for mind altering drugs, asking us to think for ourselves, igniting a global counter-culture movement, landing…
A festival favourite with critics and audiences in 2013, A World Not Ours is an intimate, humorous portrait of three generations in exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive…
Accidents, close calls, near misses and crashes so brutal there can be no survivors. But there are! What’s going on? Is it random? Fate? God? Luck? These events really are… Miraculous! And you’ll only see them here, on Lucky Bastards!
Uncle Howard is an intertwining tale of past and present, the story of filmmaker Howard Brookner whose work captured the cultural revolution of late 70’s and early 80’s downtown NYC – and his nephew’s personal journey 25 years later to discover his uncle’s films and the…
AT/GER 2016, 98 min, Stefan Ludwig They exist at the edges of society and are considered troublesome and backwards. However, János Orsòs, a Romani from eastern Hungary, has taken a new approach. János founded a school inspired by the Buddhism of B.R. Ambedkar, who freed millions…
THIS RENTAL IS INTENDED FOR EDUCATIONAL USE AND IS ALLOWED TO BE STREAMED IN CLASSROOMS AND WORKSHOPS ONLY. For theatrical, community, or campus screenings, please e-mail info@mediaed.org for permission and fees. Filmmaker Daphne Valerius's award-winning documentary The Souls of Black Girls explores…
Big Love is a film about Swedish Gunnar Holma 35, a charismatic person with a big heart. Gunnar has always been attracted to larger women. Every year there is a BBW (Big Beautiful Women) convention in Las Vegas. We follow Gunnar across the atlantic to Las Vegas in search of true love. Will he…
The story of a terrorist monitoring system that was discontinued just weeks before 9/11. Featuring a former NSA analyst who was a leading expert on metadata responsible for the world's most sophisticated globall monitoring effort.
