Documentary

2015 Newport Beach Film Festival – ION THE BARREL VOL. 2

Festival Screening – Sunday, April 26 @ 5pm Synopsis: This film has what is the “Holy Grail” for surfers at its heart: the barrel. With the soul and purpose of surf movies of old, it celebrates the beautiful places, characters, and stories we find along the road. Join Harro’s crew, made up of surfers like […]

Hot Docs 15 – BEING CANADIAN

Saturday, April 25 @ 9:45pm First Festival Screening Synopsis: In this playful and charming ode to Canadiana, Calgarian-turned-Hollywood comedy writing guru Robert Cohen (The Simpsons, The Big Bang Theory) comes home on an epic quest to rediscover Canada’s national identity. Shocked and amused by how little his American friends and colleagues know about their northern […]

THE HUMAN EXPERIMENT To Hit Theatres & VOD Platforms

Area 23a and FilmBuff present The Human Experiment to Hit Theatres & VOD Platforms on April 17, Leading up to Earth Day Directed by Emmy®-winning journalists Don Hardy and Dana Nachman, Narrated and Executive Produced by Academy Award®-winner Sean Penn With thousands of untested chemicals in our everyday products, have we all become unwitting guinea […]

World Premiere of THE ANIMA PROJECT @ the Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Premiere: Saturday, Jan 24th, 9pm @ TEMPLE THEATRE What began as a love story between two women turned into an international socio-political thriller―spotlighting media excesses and the thin line between truth and falsehood in the Internet age. Now, the story behind this incredible true-life drama is the subject of a new feature documentary. The […]

Slamdance 15 – IN FOOTBALL WE TRUST

Premiere Screening: Friday, January 23 @ 7:00pm – Grand Theatre – Salt Lake City SYNOPSIS: IN FOOTBALL WE TRUST captures a snapshot in time amid the rise of the Pacific Islander presence in the NFL. Polynesians are changing high school, college and professional football. To understand this phenomenon, one must appreciate the individuals and cultures […]

Slamdance 15 – THE ROYAL ROAD

2015 Sundance – World Premiere – New Frontier Section – Friday, January 23 @ Noon, Temple Theatre, Park City A deeply personal cinematic essay set against a contemplative backdrop of urban California landscapes, Jenni Olson’s The Royal Road offers up a primer on the Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate […]

‘Life Itself’ on VOD, DVD & Blu-ray

A film by Steve James Available on Video On Demand and iTunes February 3, 2015 DVD and Blu-ray February 17, 2015 Official Selection 2014 Festival de Cannes 2014 Sundance Film Festival 2014 Sheffield Documentary Festival (Toronto) Life Itself, the heartwarming documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams) […]

‘HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO’ T.V. Rights Acquired by HBO Documentary before World Premiere @ Sundance

‘HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO’ T.V. Rights Acquired by HBO Documentary before World Premiere @ Sundance

NEW YORK – HBO Documentary Films has acquired U.S. television rights to HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO. Directed by Alexandra Shiva (Stagedoor, Bombay Eunuch), the film will have its world premiere Sunday, January 25 at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Documentary Competition, and will debut on HBO later this year. A first […]

Slamdance 15 – ‘Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World’

Slamdance Premiere Screening: Saturday, Jan 24th @ 12:50pm – Ballroom KTF FILMS PRESENTS One child. One wish. Millions touched. Who would have thought a 5-year-old boy who fought leukemia would transform a city and a nation for a day? No one. Not his family. Not his friends. Not the thousands of volunteers who came from […]