Playing with Fire showcases a radical subculture known as FIRE, that embraces frugality and financial optimization to achieve financial independence. Follow one family’s journey to acquire the one thing that money can’t buy: a simpler — and happier — life. Featuring: Mr. Money…
Eight people embark for a month on a sailboat from Edinburgh to the Lofoten Islands. On board: sailors, mountaineers, an author, an artist. Between sea and mountain, they will learn to share, surpass themselves and organize the future of this project which aims to alternate expeditions to the far north…
Via in-store organizing and actions, Black Friday strikes, small group meetings, community outreach, national gatherings of workers, and online conversations with thousands of employees, Walmart workers build a new labor movement that has compels the retail giant to make changes, but not without setbacks.…
Ruled by social media and internet fame, today's music industry has become much more about industry and much less about music. We judge music by the numbers associated with it, and often times we listen with our eyes. This phenomenon inspired a group of music industry dropouts to embark on a 10,000-mile…
Pipe Dreams follows 5 young organists as they compete in Canada’s International Organ Competition. Who will come out victorious in Montreal? Will it be Yuan Shen, the daughter of China’s most famous organist, or Alcee Chriss III, a young African American musician who plans to draw on…
Los Angeles has had the most Alien and U.F.O. sightings in the entire world since the 1950's. This unique documentary takes an unparalleled look at several of those encounters over the years with shocking, previously unseen eyewitness interviews, evidence and re-enactments.
A criminal court judge starts a running club on LA’s Skid Row, where he trains a motley but motivated group of homeless, addicted, and criminal men and women to run international marathons.
In December 1963, less than a month after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the parishioners of Epiphany Roman Catholic Church in New York City were dealt another emotional blow: their beloved place of worship was destroyed. A fire lit in the confessional led to the destruction of the nearly…
Heroin’s Grip is a documentary film that tells the story about the heroin and opioid epidemic from the viewpoint of those on the front lines of this national crisis. The film features four families whose lives have been impacted and forever changed by addiction, and includes stories from those…
"Chicago Boys" After the 1973 coup which brought Augusto Pinochet to power, a group of Chilean economists were given the power to turn Chile into a laboratory for the world's most radical neo-liberal experiments. These men, including Sergio de Castro and Rolf Luders, both of whom would…
The award-winning film Modified follows a personal and poignant mother-daughter investigative journey into the world of genetically modified foods (GMOs). Filmed over 10 years and anchored in the filmmaker’s relationship to her mother (a gardener and food activist who battled cancer during the…
A crew including musicians Oscar-Winner, Glen Hansard (Once, The Frames) and Brendan Begley, artist Liam Holden, stonemason Brendan Moriarty, and the writer and poet Danny Sheehy, embark on a Camino by sea in this 2,500km modern day Celtic odyssey, all the way from Ireland to Northern Spain. This…
