The Possibilities Are Endless details the recovery of Edwyn Collins, the singer/songwriter who fronted the Scottish alt-rock band Orange Juice, from two massive strokes that made him unable to use his right hand, sing, read, write or speak more that four phrases: "no," "yes," "Grace…
FLIM: The Movie is a sharp and hilarious mockumentary about the making of a film. Ravi (played by director Raffaello Degruttola) is a simple man who spent his youth lurking on the outer fringes of the Bollywood movie scene and dreams of becoming an A-List Hollywood film director. He claims to have made…
Discussions on drug abuse by young people in Nottingham. Made by Nottingham Drug Prevention Unit for The Home Office, by a group of young people under the direction of Richard Flewitt of Central Television. The aim is to create an open forum for discussing the issues of drug abuse, personal relationships,…
Memories of a 95 year old Birmingham woman, who was an athlete. A life history of a 95 year old Birmingham woman called Phyllis Ethel Knowles. Born in 1898 in the last years of Victoria's reign, she remembers her youth and the coming of the modern mechanised age. Phyllis was third in the country…
A documentary shot in Sarajevo, after ten years from the Civil War. It witnesses the great work that the Benevolentia association did during the war to rescue and give care to both the Muslim faction and the Christian one. The film is told by Ivan Ceresnjes, at the time the head of the Jewish Community,…
A film about the spiritual leader, M. Mendel Schneerson of the Hassidic Lubavich Community in Brooklyn. Members of Brooklyn's Lubavicher community, an ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism, discuss their devotion to Rabbi Menachem Schneerson (who died after the program was completed). The documentary…
RASH is a contemporary story of modern urban Australia and artists making it a living host for illegal artwork called ‘street art’. This film explores the cultural value of unsanctioned public art, and graffiti’s contribution to a very public dialogue.
Wanda Sieradzka, a Holocaust survivor was a journalist, poet, translator and a TV producer. She also wrote lyrics to many Polish songs, and she was the author of one of the biggest Polish hits Don't Cry When I'm Gone (Nie płacz, kiedy odjadę). The song was created in 1961 and has since been…
A film by BEN DAITZ Smithsonian Magazine once asked the rhetorical question, 'Can a weekly paper in rural New Mexico raise enough hell to keep its readers hungry for more, week after week?' The Rio Grande Sun, published in Espanola, New Mexico is considered one of the best weekly newspapers…
This Digital Version of the iconic swim film Touch the Wall SPECIAL EDITION contains all sorts of goodies from the film: Audio Commentary from Kara & Missy and directors Christo & Grant: Recent Interviews; Deleted Scenes; and new Featurettes. Go behind the scenes to hear what the women were…
Visions of Utopia II documents life in 10 diverse intentional communities in the United States. Learn what is like to live, work, and play in communities, directly from people who are doing it. Profiles of communities include: Catholic Worker’s House (San Antonio TX) Community Alternatives…
The film takes a cross-country look at drilling, highlighting its variety of contaminations, the stories of its victims, the false promise of an economic boom, with a focus on clean energy solutions that would allow us to proceed towards a future that does not rely on yet another dirty fossil fuel extraction…
