Two artists and long-term AIDS survivors bring joy and color to a broken community through activism, art, and love.
Details Title: Jamesie: King of Scratch Director: Andrea E. Leland Year: 2006 Country: U.S. Virgin Islands Runtime: 70′ Language: English Subtitles: English ☀ Synopsis Award-winning filmmaker Andrea E. Leland collaborated with James Brewster to create a 70-minute documentary and archiving…
Comedian Gary Mule Deer’s career has always taken an oddball path. From his start in “show business” at a South Dakota brothel, performing Johnny Cash covers for the awaiting johns, to his over 350 televised performances, his career has been as strange as his comedy itself. He’s…
Alexe Poukine 85 minutes - 2019 - VF Ada a 19 ans. Elle accepte d’aller dîner chez un type qu’elle connaît. Tout va très vite, elle ne se défend pas. Son sexe est déchiré, son esprit diffracté. Malgré ça, ou à cause de ça, elle retourne seule,…
This ten part, Golden Sheaf nominated series, shares untold stories from diverse communities, celebrating individual perseverance and community resiliency. Available for rental US and Worldwide. For access in Canada, please watch here. https://www.knowledge.ca/program/behind-facade Films include:…
Harika is a child whose family was set refuge from Siirt to Manisa at the end of 1980’s. With his own words, he is a transsexual feeling female spirit in his own body since early childhood. He lives in Izmir since 2000 and makes a living by prostitution. Harika (literally translated as wonderful)…
80 YEARS LATER Directed by Celine Parrenas Shimizu 2022 | 50 minutes | Color Through multigenerational conversations with survivors and their descendants, 80 YEARS LATER (dir. Celine Parreñas Shimizu, THE CELINE ARCHIVE) explores the racial inheritance of Japanese American family incarceration…
After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history. Director Jon-Sesrie Goff follows his father, a minister, in the aftermath of a mass shooting at his church, Mother Emanuel AME, in Charleston, South Carolina. Goff explores South Carolina as a site…
Director and island resident James Waldron answers the question, “Who fishes Plum Island and why?” The answers bring light to a wonderful, intermingled sub-culture revolving around the single-minded pursuit of the big one. Reel People: Fishermen of Plum Island is a one-hour documentary…
Gürol Kaplan is a champion wrestler who created himself out of nothing. His dramatic journey from a small village in Turkey to Germany and France continues with his forced return to the same village after a purification process. Kaplan meets the audience in this biographical documentary with his…
ALL MY LIFE'S BURIED HERE tells the remarkable story of George Butterworth's life and music - from his early childhood to his final hours in the violence of the trenches on the Somme. We follow Butterworth on his forays in rural England collecting folk songs with his friend Ralph Vaughan…
Il film che prende come scansione temporale il passaggio delle stagioni e come partitura letteraria e narrativa alcune notazioni di illustri viaggiaori, si confronta con la celebre piazza del Duomo a Pisa come crocevia di popoli e rappresenta la sua babele linguistica come simbolo di pace e incontro…
