Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi is a play retelling the Jesus story, with Jesus as a gay man living in the 1950s in Corpus Christi, Texas. This documentary follows the troupe, playwright, and audience around the world on a five-year journey of Terrence McNally’s passion play, where voices…
HOME: A Rockumentary, spends a year behind the scenes with public school music teacher Chris Argerakis (Mr. A.) and the middle school rock band HOME at the Andrew Jackson School in South Philadelphia. Jackson is a K-8 neighborhood school with a small budget and a big heart, which has thrived in spite…
From Dangerous Minds: "In 1978, Toronto (and some Hamilton) punks answered Scorsese’s The Last Waltz, a movie lousy with Canadians, by putting on their own star-studded farewell concert at the city’s Horseshoe Tavern. The Diodes were missing from the bill, but plenty of other Canuck…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/singing-pictures-p422.aspx by Lina Fruzzetti, Ákos Östör, Aditi Nath Sarkar color, 40 min, 2005 Bengali w/ English subtitles For generations, Patua (Chitrakar) communities of West Bengal,…
Shot on three continents, this film provides an inside look at Christopher Kirkley’s project “Sahel Sounds” - a blog, record label and platform to explore arts and music of the Sahel region through non-traditional ethnographic fieldwork. We follow Chris from Portland to Niger, where…
This is a story about a Polish milkbar and a stubborn woman running a business that springs from another time. Danuta has a mission to serve healthy and cheap meals. Look at Mc Donalds what kind of food is that? Danuta says, they are all over the world! Why can’t there be milkbars all over the world?
The Ahikuntaka are the snake catchers of Sri Lanka, performing a service that is valuable for both the environment and the economy. 19th-century British adventurers described them with these words: They treat their children with affection and their animals with the greatest care. Thirty years ago the…
While having children is apparently “the most natural thing in the world”, it is not always the easiest – whether it be due to the biological shortcomings of the parents or dif cult care- er and life plans. These days, the desire to have children has various motivations: it is a legitimate…
As the top-rated A&E paranormal special of 2011, The Ghost Prophecies follows Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker and renowned paranormal investigator Chad Calek and his investigative team, comprised of Justin Holstein, Joe Ansley and Mary Beth Wylie, as they travel to the St. James Hotel in Cimarron,…
Three former political prisoners tell the story of their imprisonment in the “Perm-36” prison camp. Years later they return to the camp (now a museum) to participate in the “Pilorama” Forum, a campsite reflecting, mirror-like, Russian society haunted by phantom pains after the…
A journalist is delving for years into the organization of the Greek neoNazi party “Golden Dawn”. The financial collapse, the political instability and the family relations are placed into the spotlight as the documentary is trying to discover “what’s in the head of GoldenDawners,…
Director Paul Oremland sets out to track down and talk to some of the memorable men he’s met through sex. In the process, he finds himself exploring four decades of changing attitudes towards homosexuality. Gay men have never had it so good, but amongst the gains there have been losses. Told…
