An unlikely musical collaboration, Doors keyboardist, Ray Manzarek, and slide-guitarist extraordinaire, Roy Rogers, write, record and perform their second album, Translucent Blues. It's truly an insider's look into the process of creation between two cultural icons. Given the filmmaker's…
Suzan was born with both male and female sex organs. When she was 5 months old, her parents decided she would be a female. She learnt about it only at the age of 35. Ofer was born intersexual, too, but his parents decided against surgery and accepted him the way he was born. Is there a right to be an…
Seven African American artists set Project Row Houses into motion, transforming their inner-city Houston neighborhood using art as the engine of change. With houses for single mothers going to college, after-school programs, international art stars and local artists, Project Row Houses goes from a "drive-by"…
The causes for the rise in the enormous debts of Third World countries. A survey of the causes for the rise in the enormous debts of Third World countries to Western banks and a discussion between Denis Healey, Roy Jenkins and Terrence Higgins, chaired by Brian Walden, on suggested remedies. Made…
From a tender age, Scott Townsend’s life is ruled by his slippery gender. Growing up a girly-boy in the projects of Cambridge, MA, under the care of Doris, his dysfunctional single mom, Scott is prey to bullying and assault. Already a talented singer and performer, Scott grows up to be revered…
Will there be enough water to survive? Thirsty Land is a documentary film about extreme drought, agriculture, & the water crisis in the Western United States and how these challenges impact farmers, cities, and local communities. We hear from world-renown water and climate experts, farmers, city…
"Steel buildings do not globally collapse due to fire, and yet on 9/11, we're told that three of them came down from office fires alone in the same day." From Architects & Engineers for 9/11Truth and filmmaker, Dylan Avery, creator of Loose Change (leading Vanity Fair to say it…
Roots music icon Chris Strachwitz is a detective of sounds, an archaeologist of deep American music, the antithesis of the corporate mouse music that dominates the American ear. Born a German count, Strachwitz fled his homeland after WWII at 16. In the United States he discovered, and shared, a musical…
This Baba is a universal story of grandmothers from every country across the globe who are divided between here and there, isolated by a lack of English, stuck in suburbs, missing their friends and loved ones back home. Produced by Mary Sherhart Directed by Bogdan Darev Featuring Penka Encheva
This Business Of Autism is an expository documentary film about the economic and societal benefits of employing young adults with autism. Spectrum Designs is a custom screen-printing and embroidery business located in Port Washington, New York. 75% of Spectrum Designs’ employees are on the autism…
A hauntingly beautiful meditation on genius and madness. Even at a young age, Elizabeth Wiltsee was different. With an IQ of 200, she was reading classical Greek at ten and taught herself Mandarin for fun. After graduating, the world should have been Elizabeth’s oyster. But she shunned what she…
Reveals the invisible and silent epidemic of permanent traumatic brain injury in women from domestic violence.
