A sudden, unexpected death from prescription anti-psychotics triggers a global investigation into the crimes of the pharmaceutical industry and the ways in which they turned dangerous, deadly medications into multi-billion-dollar blockbusters. In 2005, director Anniken Hoel’s sister Renate…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/death-row-p862.aspx Bruce Jackson, Diane Christian color, 59 min, 1979 in English Death Row is a film about daily life on Death Row in Texas. When the film was made in March 1979, 114 men were housed in the…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/himalayan-herders-p783.aspx John Bishop, Naomi Bishop color, 76, 1997 Himalayan Herders is an intimate portrait of a temple-village in the Yolmo valley of Central Nepal where Tibetan Buddhists consult shamans,…
Through a journey across Europe, starting in Rennes, finishing in Saint-Petersburg, a team of young documentarists spontaneously and poetically engage with an experience of culture, languages and borders. The camera follows Tao, a blooming artist travelling by the means of her skateboard. Along the way…
An unlikely hero who is revolutionising women's menstruation in rural India. Most men squirm at the mention of women's periods. And then there's Muruganantham, an illiterate school dropout. After discovering his wife's rudimentary means of managing her periods, he rolled up his…
smoKings tells the incredible story of "the Italian brothers who stoke the ire of both Big Tobacco and the Big Apple" (Marton Dunai, The Wall Street Journal). Synopsis: The Messina brothers are Yesmoke, a little tobacco company based in Turin, Italy. Originally, Yesmoke was an online store…
San Antonio, Texas home of the Alamo, Founded in 1718, is the 7th largest city in the United States. With a population of approximately 1.5 Million people; it is one of the fastest growing cities in the nation- especially for millennials. When you think of SA, you think The Alamo, the Riverwalk,…
An award-winning feature-length documentary film, Break the Chain captures the first-hand accounts of Debbie and Kwami, two survivors of child sex and labor trafficking. The film provides a startling look at how this overly sensationalized issue is, in reality, hiding in plain sight. Accompanied by interviews…
Aspire to the Sky: The Wilshire Grand Story is a documentary about the tallest building on the west coast at 1100 ft with a 180 ft spire. Soaring buildings in Los Angeles are difficult to find because of the risk factors associated with a highly seismically active zone, fire potential, and liquefaction…
‘Inside the Mind of Favela Funk’ is a documentary about love and relationships in the world of the extremely popular ‘favela funk’: pornographic music from Rio de Janeiro’s deprived neighborhoods. The documentary shows the perspective of the favela youth and aims to find…
Funk Queen Betty Davis changed the landscape for female artists in America. She “was the first…” as former husband Miles Davis said. “Madonna before Madonna, Prince before Prince”. An aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Betty arrived on the '70s scene to break…
Directors: Matthias Leupold, Jérôme Depierre The documentary captures the artist’s authentic descriptions concerning a considerable number of pictures. It provides an insight into their development and interviews some of the photographer’s companions. Hugo Jaeggi’s…
