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Publisher
Premiere Digital
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning documentary feature film that gives viewers a glimpse of what it’s like to experience the world through the eyes of Callie Truelove, an angelic teenage girl with a rare genetic disorder known as Williams syndrome, that gives her the superpower of LOVE! Rooted in a deletion of a group of specific genes on chromosome #7, this condition can manifest in devastating physical and developmental challenges, but it also often comes with...
82) Muscle Shoals
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Located by the Tennessee River, MUSCLE SHOALS, Alabama has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time. Gregg Allman and other musicians bear witness to MUSCLE SHOALS’ magnetism, mystery and why it remains influential today.
83) Counting
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In fifteen linked chapters shot in locations ranging from Moscow to New York to Istanbul, COUNTING merges city symphony, diary film, and personal/political essay to create a vivid portrait of contemporary life. COUNTING measures street life, light and time, noting not only surveillance and overdevelopment but resistance and its phantoms as manifested in music, animals and everyday magic Winner of Best Cinematographer at **DOC LA**. Official Selection...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Featuring interviews with Cedric the Entertainer, John Salley, and Stic of the hip-hop duo Dead Prez, this documentary shows how intertwined histories of slavery, twentieth-century socioeconomic inequalities, and the rise of Big Food, have led to the increased consumption and dependence on meat, processed, junk, and fast food.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"IN FULL BLOOM: TRANSCENDING GENDER" follows the courageous journey of thirteen transgender and two gay actors as they transform their lives through the use of monologue, dialogue and performance art while preparing for the world premiere of the original stage play, Lovely Bouquet of Flowers: An Exploration of Non-Traditional Gender Voices, written by Jazzmun Nichcala Crayton and David Hays Gaddas. Behind-the-scenes, rehearsal and performance footage...
86) Beauty
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a world of fixed positions and prescribed roles, expanding the definition of gender requires the courage to dive deep into understanding and acceptance. Christina Willings’ documentary BEAUTY explores the lives of five gender-creative kids, each uniquely engaged in shaping their ideas of what it means to be fully human. Claiming your own sense of gender when everything around you insists that you comply and conform can be challenging, and sometimes...
87) What Sex Am I?
Publisher
Hope Runs High
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Lee Grant's groundbreaking "WHAT SEX AM I?" follows a group of Transgender individuals struggling to make their way in every strata of 1980s America. From finding employment to finding acceptance, the first question the world forces them to ask is always, "WHAT SEX AM I?"
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 2007, four teenagers from disparate backgrounds are voted “MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED” during their senior year of high school. Filmed over a ten-year period and directed by award-winning photographer Pamela Littky, we watch as they each chart their own version of success and navigate the unpredictability of American life in the 21st Century.
89) Polar Extremes
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Renowned paleontologist Kirk Johnson takes us on an epic adventure through time at the polar extremes of our planet. Following a trail of fossils found in all the wrong places–beech trees in Antarctica, redwoods and hippo-like mammals in the Arctic–NOVA uncovers the bizarre history of the poles, from miles-thick ice sheets to warm polar forests teeming with life.
90) Chinese Portrait
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
China in all its diversity. Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaus of people and environments, each one more extraordinary than the last.
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Mauro Salcido Rodriguez performs "Amar Y Vivir" in Agua Prieta Mexico where he lived. This music video produced and directed by Harrod Blank, was filmed in 2005-6 but wasn't edited until 2014 by Benjamin Abrams. This short was made as a tribute to both Harrod's father Les Blank and Mauro who both passed away in 2013.
94) 306 Hollywood
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When siblings Elan and Jonathan Bogarín undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house, they embark on a magical-realist journey in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind. 306 HOLLYWOOD transforms the dusty fragments of an unassuming life into an epic metaphor for the nature of memory, time, and history. Nominated for a Best of Next! Award at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Winner of an Emerging International...
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Albuquerque’s Rusty Tidenberg, auto mechanic and drag-racing aficionado, shocked friends and family by coming out as trans. Followed for eight years by filmmaker Harrod Blank (son of Les Blank), Rusty guides us through the aftermath of her transition, as growing acceptance among her straight-talking Southwest community still doesn’t ease her romantic and professional woes. Interwoven with lively tales of gender non-conforming individuals on the...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
There are 8,000 miles of roads and paths in New York City and for the past six years Matt Green has been walking them all – every street, park, cemetery, beach, and bridge. It's a five-borough journey that stretches from the barbershops of the Bronx to the forests of Staten Island, from the Statue of Liberty to Times Square, with Matt amassing a surprisingly detailed knowledge of New York's history and people along the way. Something of a modern-day...
99) Defining Hope
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This documentary weaves the stories of patients with life-threatening illness, with the stories of the nurses who guide them as they make choices about how they want to live, how much medical technology they can accept, what they hope for and how that hope evolves. DEFINING HOPE focuses on palliative care, end of life issues, hospice care and what 'quality of life' really means. It offers a hopeful message about bringing power back to the patient...
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