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FEATURED RELEASES - DOCUMENTARY

10 MPH extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
When their office jobs become soul-numbing, a pair of aspiring filmmakers ditch the cubicles and pursue the idea of riding a two-wheeled self-balancing Segway scooter coast to coast. They figure this would be a great way to help them capture a true sense of what America is all about. The journey from Seattle to Boston unfolds with beautiful scenery, humble American stories, Segway goofiness, and a road trip that is like no other.

With appearances by:
Michael Moore
Rosanne Barr
Tom Morello

“You'll dig every minute of it. ”
- Film Threat

Documentary | 92 minutes | HD | USA
© 2007 | All Rights Reserved.

10 Yards extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
This 90-minute documentary captures the phenomenon of fantasy football in the United States. As the football season progresses, the filmmakers travel the country interviewing a variety of diverse fantasy football leagues, NFL players, commentators, and the guys who started it all in 1963.

With appearances by:
Boomer Esiason
Desmond Clark
Shannon Sharpe
Steve Beuerlein
Ryan Longwell
Chester Taylor
Brad Lidge

Best Documentary at Wild Blue Yonder (2007)
Best Documentary at FSTA (2008)

“…the film captures the spirit of fantasy football.”
- New York Times

“It’s a journey that stretched from office cubicles to National Football League locker rooms...”
- Boston Herald

Blue Gold extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
Global Warming is an issue of "how" we live, the water crisis is an issue of "if" we live.

On every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an exponential level as population and technology grows. The rampant over development of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth.

Corporate giants force developing countries to privatize their water supply for profit. Wall Street investors target desalination and mass bulk water export schemes. Corrupt governments use water for economic and political gain. Military control of water emerges and a new geopolitical map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars.

"Sounds the same sweeping alarms as Inconvenient Truth, only about our dwindling water supplies." – Toronto Star

Narrated by Malcolm McDowell

Documentary | HD | 90 minutes | 2008 | USA

Different (Dis) Abilities – Not Like the Others extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
Each child's life reveals the obvious, clarifies the confusing, and inspires all.

This documentary highlights the captivating spirit of the Texas Lions Camp – which provides special needs children one week each summer an escape into a world tailored for them. The primary purpose of the camp is to offer, without charge, a camp for physically challenged, hearing/vision impaired, and diabetic children - regardless of race, religion, or national origin.

What part of our human nature believes harassing, ridiculing, and excluding those who are different from us is “right”? What makes us “normal”? “Different Abilities” opens a window showing how abnormal is far more normal than we thought.

Note: We recommend viewing the film with an open heart & a full box of tissue.

Winner Of American Airlines First Altitude Award: American Association Of People With Disabilities
Winner: The 2009 Accolade Award of Excellence (La Jolla, California)

Documentary | HD | 52 minutes | USA | 2009

Mile High extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
Mile High follows 17-year-old Luke Loper on his journey from Super Tuesday to Denver and through to Election Day. Along the way this documentary delves into his past, his efforts to help elect President Obama, and his hopes for the future -- both his own future and that of his country. The film also follows the presidential candidates themselves, talking to pundits and experts about what it really took to win… and lose… the White House in 2008.

Original Footage of: Interviewers with:

Barack Obama, Tim Russert, John McCain, Dan Rather, Hillary Clinton Joe Scarborough, Mitt Romney Joe Klein, John Edward, Steve Forbes, Chris Dodd, Keith Olbermann, Dennis Kucinich, Mike Huckabee, Chuck Norris, Ron Paul, Bill Richardson, Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, Pat Buchanan, Chelsea Clinton, Ted Kennedy

DOCUMENTARY | HD | 72 minutes | USA | 2009

The Pit extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
It’s a hard way to make an easy living.

What does the price of your clothes, your gas, your coffee have to do with a room full of screaming, running, shoving, pushing, spitting personalities speaking in code?

Everything.

“The Pit” takes us to one of the most primitive, yet highly ritualized arenas of the financial world, the floor of The New York Board of Trade. Billions of dollars of raw goods are traded daily at the NYBOT, setting the price of commodities from cotton to orange juice throughout the world. Using their own money, traders make and lose fortunes every day in this microcosm of raw capitalism. In the beginning of 2007, however, computerized trading platforms were introduced on the floor of the exchange, threatening to make this historic marketplace and way of life obsolete. “The Pit” is the story about this transformation.

Festivals:
Cinequest Film Festival (San Jose, California)
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (Hot Springs, Arkansas)

Executive Producers: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman (Howl / The Celluloid Closet / The Times of Harvey Milk / Paragraph 175)

Documentary | DV | 58 minutes | USA | 2010

Secrets to Love extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
A Journey to Find the Happily Ever After

Director Tracie Donahue sets out on a journey to find answers about what it takes to have a fabulous relationship and a lasting marriage. She interviews three couples of various backgrounds and bona fide experts on love. Actress Robin Givens and author John Gray offer a peek into their personal relationships. Secrets to Love provides fresh insight into love - do you want to know the secrets?

Starring: Robin Givens, Jack Gallagher, John Gray

Winner: "Outstanding Documentary" at the Global Arts Film Festival in
Sacramento, California (May, 2009)
Nominated Best Documentary: Milan International Film Festival
Nominated Best Documentary: Hawaii International Film Festival (Gold
Kahuna Award for Filmmaking)
2nd Place Best Documentary: Mammoth International Film Festival
Award of Merit: Indie Distribution Fest

Documentary | HD | 63 minutes | 2008 | US

A Single Woman extended description (play trailer)

Synopsis:
A Single Woman is the story of the first US Congresswoman and lifelong pacifist, Jeannette Rankin. She ran for Congress in 1916 and won. The subject of her first vote (against President WilsonÕs WWI war resolution) set the stage for her destiny.

In 1920, Jeannette was founding vice-president of the American Civil Liberties Union who, in 1933, tried to persuade President Roosevelt to revise immigration laws and allow Jewish refugees into the U.S.

In 1940, Jeannette was re-elected as Congresswoman from Montana on a peace platform and again voted against a world war, this time as the lone anti-war voice in the American Legislature. She was mobbed and vilified and spent the rest of her life traveling to India and studying the teachings and methods of Mohandas Gandhi and the effects of colonialism on peoples all over the world.

During the Vietnam era, she enjoyed a renaissance when the anti-war culture of the day celebrated her perseverance as a dedicated pacifist and human rights advocate. She died in 1973.

Cast/Narrator/Voices:
Martin Sheen (Apocalypse Now / The Departed / Catch Me If You Can)
Patricia Arquette (True Romance / Ed Wood / Stigmata)
Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club / Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back / St. Elmo's Fire)
Margot Kidder (Superman / Superman II / The Amityville Horror)
Frances Fisher (Titanic / Unforgiven / Guiding Light)
Elizabeth Peña (The Incredibles / Jacob's Ladder / Rush Hour)
Peter Coyote (The Story of Bonnie and Clyde / E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial)
Chandra Wilson (Frankie and Alice / Philadelphia / Lone Star)
Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces / House of 1000 Corpses / Nashville)
Cindy Sheehan (Keeping the Peace / A Soldier's Peace)

“Few members of Congress have ever stood more alone while being true to a higher honor and loyalty.”
John F. Kennedy (January 1958)

“It has been a privilege to support your efforts and to have my efforts supported by so great a woman. You have brought honor to yourself, America and womanhood.”
Corretta Scott King (1967)

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
Jeannette Rankin

Drama / HD / 95 minutes / USA / 2009

FEATURE FILMS - DOCUMENTARY

Every Step You Take extended description play trailer

Synopsis:
Ready for your close-up?

With an estimated four million surveillance cameras, Britain is by far the most-watched nation on earth. How could this come about in George Orwell’s mother country? What were the ignition sparks for this development? Why haven’t other nations copied the schemes if they really are as successful as the Home Office and the police are saying? Is there a real effect in crime reduction or has CCTV only been introduced for the people’s ‘peace of mind’?

• Nomination “Best Documentary” - Int’l Filmmaker Festival (Kent, UK, June 08)
• Nomination “Ebenseer Golden Bear” - Festival of Nations (Austria, June 08)
• Nomination “Peace Film Prize” at 22nd Unabhaengiges FilmFest Osnabrueck Independent Film Fest (Germany)
• Nomination “Best Documentary” - WT Os International Film Festival 2007 (Norway)
• Finalist “Audience Award” (top ten) - 27th Cambridge Film Festival (UK)

From a Silk Cocoon extended description play trailer

Synopsis:
Woven through their censored letters, diary entries and haiku poetry, is the story of a young Japanese American couple whose shattered dreams and forsaken loyalties lead them to renounce their American citizenship while held in separate American prison camps during World War II.

Our Heroes (and Their Ladies In Waiting) extended description play trailer

Synopsis:
The documentary was filmed during a reunion for the 109th Infantry Regiment Veterans of WWII. The Veterans and their families share their stories of survival, on and off the battlefield. It is a chance to see WWII in a new dimension, one that isn’t written in the history books, but in the hearts of these American Heroes.

The film is filled with personal photos from the Veterans, as well as very rare color footage shot by one of the Veterans with a camera he snuck
into combat. This 8mm footage depicts their lives from Normandy, France to the Huertgen Forest and very exciting footage shot during their famous parade in Paris, August 29th, 1944. This private collection has never been seen on television or in the theatres. In addition to their personal collections, their stories are told with archival films and photos from the National Archives, Library of Congress and from the Military Archives at the War College of Pennsylvania. The filmmaker, with her very tight budget, strived to find as many photos and film that were available of the 109th or their Division. Her most amazing finds are featured extensively in the interview segments that cover the battles of Normandy and the Huertgen Forest. Most Americans don't know that the Huertgen Forest battle was the worst defeat in U.S. Military history. It was a battle that the U.S. Army wanted to forget, but the film is a chance for the Veterans that survived this, to finally be heard and to be recognized for their sacrifices made, in what became known as the "Death Factory in the Green Hell".

Put the Needle on the Record extended description play trailer

Synopsis:
'PUT THE NEEDLE ON THE RECORD' is an award-winning documentary which explores the evolution of electronic music and the rise of the DJ in pop culture. Filmed in Miami during the hot and sexy Winter Music Conference, a yearly week-long event attended by over 20,000 electronic music professionals and fans, the film takes an inside look at a growing global phenomenon in the world of music. Interviews with top artists, footage from events around the globe and a brilliant soundtrack are combined to create a highly energetic piece of filmmaking. First-time director Jason Rem brings an unexplored genre of music to the masses for a glimpse at a movement that is driven by passion, creativity and business. The film has been called “A rock solid documentary,” and “An event to savor in wonderment,” and is not to be missed.

Scrabylon (extended description) (play trailer)

Synopsis:
Scrabylon is a critically-acclaimed, award-winning documentary on the cut-throat world of tournament Scrabble®. Featuring the most fierce anagrammers, rack balancers, and bingo experts in competitive Scrabble®, Scrabylon delves deep into this sometimes wacky, sometimes odd, always compelling subculture. Shot primarily during the World Scrabble® Championships in Las Vegas, Scrabylon features players from around the globe and gives an up-close look at why people get so obsessed with that seemingly benign game played at countless kitchen tables.

Sustainable Table extended description play trailer

Synopsis:
Sustainable Table is a feature documentary that takes an unadulterated look into the food that you buy and eat. What’s on your plate? Where does it come from? What effects does it have on the environment and your body? What can you do to help?

Sustainable Table introduces some of the alternatives to conventionally-produced food. It may not be enough to buy your food from Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. A new kind of food system is needed, where food is produced locally using sustainable methods.

Tibet Hope extended description play trailer play clip

Synopsis:
Action or Apathy? Historically, Tibetans choose Action—striving to preserve their invaluable culture, language and heritage. Tibet Hope features His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other Tibetans exiled from their home and way of life.
  • Learn about the Tibetan people, cast out from their sovereign home.
  • Listen to the Dalai Lama and other Tibetans tell their stories appealing to your understanding of the need for freedom.
  • Witness the current situation on the Tibet-Nepal boarder as Tibetans flee Chinese occupied Tibet only to find Civil war in Nepal.

Tibet Hope has received the Accolade Competition 2007 Award of Excellence.

The Worldwheel Journeys extended description play trailer

Synopsis:
One Woman’s Quest for World Peace

From 1987 to 2008, Vijali Hamilton travels from California to New York, Spain, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, India, Tibet, China, Siberia, Japan, Senegal, & Ecuador on a pilgrimage for Global Peace. She leaves behind stone carvings and good will (as well as water in Senegal & Ecuador). Vijali attempts to remind people that we’re all one on this planet and that there’s only one planet.

2009 Humanitarian Award: Conscious Life Film Festival (Los Angeles)

Documentary | DV & HD | 28 minutes | 2008 | USA