REVELATION PERTH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS... www.revelationfilmfest.org www.revstream.com.au Dir: Kim Longinotto Year: 2000 Country: UK Duration: 106mins As lovers of both documentary and pop-culture , Gaea Girls is in many ways a perfect Rev film. Made in the great great Verite…
Director's Statement My dialogue with Spoon — a black American poet condemned to a life-sentence without possibility of parole — started inside a prison, where I had come to research a film. A suitcase full of letters and numerous telephone calls later, Spoon’s words are a strange…
This feature documentary relates the experience of various militant anarchists from Quebec, who represent different sides of this political movement. Drawing from more than 40 hours of interviews, countless manifestations, and numerous libertarian initiatives, this film strives to be a tool for popular…
The film draws us into the lives of two young leaders: Marylynn Poucachice, a mother of five, and Norman Matchewan, the soft-spoken son and grandson of traditional chiefs. Both spent their childhoods on the logging blockades their parents set up to win a sustainable development plan protecting their…
This film is part of the CRUDE GOLD series, and is focused on a particular mining company. The story of how Gran Colombia Gold came to be formed is the story of abuses of power against a worker's union as a rightful owner of the mine. The story takes place in Segovia, a town with a long and proud…
Three Arab-Canadian men are detained and tortured for months and years in Syria and Egypt. Upon their release they return to Canada struggling to find some answers as to why they were detained and tortured. An internal inquiry into their cases, the Iacobucci Inquiry, reveals that the Canadian government…
It stands as the highest peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. At over fourteen thousand incredible feet, Longs Peak is an exceptional challange. From the television series, A Walk in the Park, comes the ascent of a lifetime. Join Nick Molle, guide Lisa Foster, and mountaineer Jim Detterlin, Ph.D.,…
Pioneers of the Video Game Revolution… First there was Pong… well actually first there was Ralph Baer. This documentary meets the great pioneers of video games and uncovers the truth about who really came first and how the industry evolved from whizz kids in hot tubs to a business bigger…
(English Synopsis follows) Cuando un joven alcalde descubre que sus planes de reelección están siendo amenazados por la campaña de un expastor evangélico, se lanza a la batalla por ganar los corazones y las almas de sus fieles. Entre caravanas, peleas de gallos, conciertos…
A man writes a letter. It is not just any letter and it is not just any man, but Arthur Miller. It is the year 1966, and Miller is already a world famous playwright, who is defined by the Americans as their moral conscience. The letter he writes is addressed to Nigeria’s violent dictator General…
Armed with a camera, we follow the Austrian sculptor Erwin Wurm on a tour around the world. We document the set up of large exhibitions in Beijing, Moscow, Paris and in Miami. Over the course of four years, the artist let us follow him with a camera and gave us an insight into his world, his work, his…
This documentation chronicles Peter Eisenman's creation of a major public sculpture in the center of Berlin, a soccer-field sized space filled with 2711 concrete stele. The stele are of varying heights, tipping to the left and right on a shifting, undulating ground, reminiscent of a wheat field…
