"Streams of Gold" tells the story of a filmmaker's journey to uncover his family’s past in the gold mines of southern Ecuador. This one-hour documentary traces the history of an American company's presence in an Andean mining town called Portovelo from the 1890's to World…
On a Tightrope tells the story of four Uighur orphans in Xinjiang, China, dreaming of becoming professional tightrope walkers - an ancient Uighur tradition. A story about the oppression of the Uighur minority in China. On a Tightrope premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Our visit with Thomas Chimes (born 1921), one of Philadelphia 's most important contemporary artists, begins at the Philadelphia Museum whose collection inspired him as a school boy to become an artist. Here he was drawn to Thomas Eakins, a fellow Philadelphian, and to Duchamp and Van Gogh. Anne…
When photography was in its infancy, the American West was still a frontier; and, for a period of about fifty years, the two interacted in a complex and fascinating way. Dramatic subject matter in the West became accessible to photographers just when the newly-discovered wet-plate process enabled them…
"TO': Day of Days", the epic Oxbow trip to Tahiti where Laird broke the sound barrier of what was possible with tow surfing. The day-by-day, blow for blow account of this history making surfing trip and what has become known as 'the Millennium Wave'. (2000 / 28 minutes).
Through a first-person account and recoursing to archive material, the documentary traces the life of Roberto Delle Fave, known as the “Red Devil”, an infamous mercenary of the Balkan war in Bosnia and Croatia between 1992 and 1995. Professional mercenary once, poor and socially marginalized…
At mid-career, Meier guides the viewer on a retrospective of his white buildings, from private houses of the 1960s to the Frankfurt and Atlanta Museums of the 1980s--all variations on his trademark spatial and planar treatment. His influences from Corbusier, Wright, Mies, and Baroque Germany are shown.…
Ryan and Sam Weber are extremely talented, hard-working, storied musicians, who struggle to define success - a confusing and elusive concept for any artist. Their journey to this point has provided them with countless opportunities to learn more about themselves and what really matters in life. Their…
Director: Ellen Blom | 2012 | documentary | music | 55 minutes | Only You, The Great Pretender, Smoke Get's in your Eyes, the numbers by the Platters are well known, but who are the Platters? The answer to this question has 100 different answers. In The Hague lives Gaynel Hodge, who claims to…
Enter the badlands of Bundelkhand in central India and you have entered a place of desolation, dust and despair. And yet it is hope that we discover as we follow the pink sari-clad women of Gulabi Gang. These women travel long distances by cart and tractor, bus and train, to wrest justice for women and…
Can a school play undo an entire community? In this hilarious, coming-of-age film, a fifth grade production of “The Wizard of Oz” becomes an utterly charming look at American life...and childhood itself! Directed by Eddie Rosenstein and Rick Velleu Winner of 11 Film Festival "Best…
The Santurban paramo has become an example of community struggle to protect water sources successfully. Lawyers, community leaders and activists united to mobilized and demanded the protection of natural resources threatened by Vancouver-based Eco Oro projects. A palpable urgency surrounds this story…
