'Up For Air' explores the human spirit's fight for survival through the eyes of Jerry Cahill - a 53-year-old pole-vaulter who continues to fight respiratory degeneration, depression and a potentially fatal double-lung transplant. Shot over a period of five years, Up For Air captures the…
In the early 1800's in the town of Springfield, NY, there lived a man named Dr. David Little. His story could be the weirdest, most interesting, and yet widely unknown story of our time. tumblerockmedia.com
MIGRANT DREAMS tells the undertold story of migrant agricultural workers struggling against Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) that treats foreign workers as modern-day indentured labourers. Under the rules of Canada’s migrant labour program, low wage migrants are tied to one…
There can be no doubt that we live in one of the most tumultuous political climates of the nation’s history, a climate where politicians can be toppled on a whim, election results disputed in the country’s highest courts, and governors unceremoniously recalled. It’s enough to leave…
Every year, on the 2nd Thursday of November, the entire country of South-Korea is put to the test. That day, more than half a million senior high school students take part in the National University Exam, better known as Suneung. ‘Reach for the SKY’ tells the story of several South-Korean…
Written By LARRY GELBART (based on his Broadway play) Directed by MICHAEL ENGLER Produced by DAVID JABLIN Exec. Producers CHARLES H. JOFFE & ROBERT B. WEIDE PROCEEDS DONATED TO NORMAN LEAR'S PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION "A TONGUE-TWISTING, BRAIN TEASING SATIRE... WICKED…
"Employment Matters Too" is a documentary by filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk that discovers how large corporations benefit from hiring employees with intellectual disabilities.The film shows how businesses like Stantec, ATB Financial, Swiss Chalet, Pacific Rim Cabinets and the City of Edmonton are…
A blend of documentary and drama exploring the world of boxing, centred on the gym run by George Bowes in Hartlepool.
A film about the rope-hauled raIlway, built in the 1820s by George Stephenson, which linked Kibblesworth Colliery with Jarrow Staithes, where the coal was loaded on to ships.
A film about death, legacy, keeping going, the Tyneside percussionist Bruce Arthur and the Aladdin's Cave of instruments he left when he died in 2002.
A short film about Swan Hunter's Brass Band and The Rising Sun Legionnaires juvenile jazz band, culminating in performances as part of Wallsend Festival in 1972.
Starting with the workers' discussion of the future of factory horse, the documentary records a handmade brickworks in Swalwell on the south bank of the Tyne. Adamsez, the well known bathroom ware manufacturers, went out of business in 1975. One of the casualties of the closure was a small self-contained…
