A shooting case involving an activist becomes a revealing window into urban development and gang activity.
Snugly nestled in the natural amphitheatre of the Hollywood Hills, the world famous Hollywood Bowl has been a venue for all styles of the world’s greatest music since 1922. The history of one of Southern California’s most recognizable cultural icons is told in The Hollywood Bowl: Music…
THE HOLLYWOOD SHORTIES is a documentary on the birth of organized sports in the American dwarf community. Beginning in the 1950s and rising to prominence in the 1980s, the Hollywood Shorties were a basketball team, the first of their kind and unique in the history of dwarf athletics. Formed from an insular…
What the heck is a heritage breed, anyway, and why should we all care? What started out as a simple question at a livestock fair inspired filmmakers Rick and Elara Bowman to search for answers across North America, from those who actually do the work and the experts that back it up with science. With…
June 27th, 1945. The norwegian resistance fighter Kai Holst travels to Stockholm. According to witnesses, he's going to "sort something out", and someone will be pale by the results. A day later he is found dead on a stairwell, shot in the head with his own gun. Despite mysterious circumstances,…
Three families make the confronting pilgrimage to the largest and oldest religious festival on earth, the MAHA KUMBH MELA, on the banks of India's sacred river, the Ganges. It's an ancient event with a modern Australian twist as we follow a two devout Hindu families and one non-Hindu family…
"The Holy Game is a feature documentary that takes viewers within the Vatican walls into the unseen world of young men studying to become priests. Every year these priests-to-be (also called Seminarians) compete in a World Cup-style soccer tournament called the Clericus Cup. These are young priests…
A film by Maxi Cohen about the Santo Daime, a legal Brazilian, syncretic ayahuasca church - from the Amazon Rainforest and remarkable healings to its legal status in the US and Europe.
In his 30-year career as a documentary filmmaker, Jos de Putter has travelled hundreds of thousands of kilometres, placing a heavy burden on the planet. For The Homecoming, he stayed home to use existing footage to shape the disturbed relationship between man and nature. Around the world, local initiatives…
So the story goes.I was sitting in a park one day, when a homeless couple came and sat around the same table as myself. We started talking, and not before long, they were showing me where they sleep. upon their permission the camera was rolling. The it cost me a pack of cigarette however, which was reasonable…
Can the global housing crisis be solved? Is Australia out of ideas, or political guts, when it comes to making housing affordable? Foreign Correspondent's reporters fan out abroad - to London, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Tokyo and New York - in search of some solutions. From left-field entrepreneurs…
The Home Team tells candid and heartfelt stories of new immigrants who have left big cities and warm climates to live in a tiny, isolated, frozen corner of Northern Canada. Despite the challenges of leaving children and careers behind, these newcomers bring a piece of their world to the North; introducing…
