Documentary

Locarno 15 – ABOVE AND BELOW – Panorama Suisse

Festival Screening – August 9, 2015 @ 11:00 AM at Auditorium FEVI Far, far away and out of sight, that’s where April, Dave, Cindy, Rick and the Godfather are creating life on their own terms. From the depths of the flood channels under Sin City, to a reclaimed military bunker in the middle of the […]

Locarno 15 – BROTHERS – Semaine de la Critique

First Festival Screening – August 8, 2015 @ 11:00 AM at Teatro Kursaal Last Festival Screening – August 9, 2015 @ 2:00 PM at PalaVideo Brothers is the story of Mieczysław and Alfons Kułakowscy, two brothers sent to a Soviet gulag when they were children. They managed to escape and reach Alma Ata, where they […]

LA Release for Hubert Sauper’s Award Winning WE COME AS FRIENDS

OPENS AUGUST 21 IN LOS ANGELES “A SURREAL, MOVING, INFURIATING and PERSUASIVE argument that in South Sudan, there’s nothing ‘post’ about colonialism.” – Manohla Dargis, New York Times “PROVOCATIVE and UNAPOLOGETICALLY POLITICAL filmmaker Hubert Sauper returns to the kind of African situations that characterized his Oscar® – nominated Darwin’s Nightmare.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles […]

RIIFF 2015 – CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC

Festival Screening August 9, 2015 @ 12:15 PM at Metcalf Auditorium (RSID Museum) Children of the Arctic is a year-in-the-life portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers coming of age in Barrow, Alaska – the northern-most community of the United States. As they embark on their journey into adulthood in and outside of Barrow, they wrestle […]

Locarno 15 – K2 TOUCHING THE SKY – Semaine de la Critique

First Festival Screening – August 7, 2015 @ 11:00 AM at Teatro Kursaal Last Festival Screening – August 8, 2015 @ 2:00 PM at PalaVideo The children of acclaimed alpinists, who died on K2 in Karakorum Mountains, undertake an expedition to answer the question: what is the price of passion. In the summer of 1986, […]

RIIFF 2015 – HAPPYGRAM

Festival Screening – August 8, 2015 @ 6:30PM at The Bell St. Chapel Happygram explores one of the most egregious violations of informed consent in modern medical practice. Each year nearly 40 million women obtain screening mammograms for the early detection of cancer. For 40% of those women, those with dense breast tissue, a mammogram […]

RIIFF 2015 – PATIENT’S RITES

Festival Screening – August 7, 2015 @ 3:30 PM at Providence Public Library Director Issa Ibrahim spent 18 years as a patient in an insane asylum. Since his release in 2009, Ibrahim has used the arts as a tool of transformation and healing to create a dialogue about the mental health system. This documentary explores […]

RIIFF 2015 – FLORY’S FLAME

Festival Screening – August 5, 2015 @ 4:30 PM at McCormack Family Theater Flory’s Flame weaves the life story of 90-year old U.S. National Heritage Fellow musician Flory Jagoda with her September 2013 Celebration Concert at the US Library of Congress. The combined personal and musical overviews initially transport the viewer to the roots of […]

GAZE 15 – TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL – Closing Film & Irish Premiere

Festival Screening – August 3, 2015 @ 8:30 PM, Screen 1 – Lighthouse Cinema Smithfield In the 1950s, blonde, blue-eyed, squarejawed Tab Hunter is number one at the box office and number one on the music charts. He is Hollywood’s most soughtafter star and America’s boy next door. Hunter is Warner Bros.’ top-grossing star, and […]

GAZE 15 – GAME FACE – Irish Premiere

Festival Screening – August 2, 2015 @ 12:30 PM, Screen 1 – Lighthouse Cinema Smithfield In award-winning crowdfunded documentary Game Face the viewer is watching from the touchline as two athletes prepare for the biggest challenge of their careers – coming out. Fallon Fox, MMA’s first openly transgender pro fighter, and gay Oklahoma college basketball […]

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