Movies

Women around the world are delaying pregnancy until their late 30's and early 40's and are finding it difficult to become pregnant so they turn to the most invasive methods of medicine right away without further investigating how to get their own body into the best possible shape, changing the diet and enlisting the proper less invasive practitioner to help. We do not know the long term implications of using fertility drugs and in vitro fertilization: those studies just have not been done. In our film we present a well rounded picture of using a more gentle and effective approach as opposed to harsh and low yield methods of medicine yet we're not telling women to not utilize medical methods if necessary.

On the island of south Pacific, natives from Futuna created "The Vanuatu Kannibal Magic Tour". They dress up as cannibals for tourists from New-Caledonia and Australia. They need this subterfuge to earn their living. Johnson, the village's chief, is very charismatic. He creates the shows for the tourists. This money's not benefiting natives because the way of life in Port Vila, the capital, is very expensive. It is often used for health or school costs. Johnson has a dream: build his own village to protect his culture and to get some power. Waiting for his dream, Johnson and natives disguise, dance and play Kannibals for tourists. The movie is the story about the life of Johnson and the villagers. Through Johnson's point of view we discover the Tour Kannibal's effects on their culture : their denial of identity and the economical crisis.

The Great Flood of 1916 was Western North Carolina's worst natural disaster 100 years ago. The flood led to thousands of mudslides and landslides causing extensive damage and loss of life but it happened when relatively few people lived up on ridges or near streams. A flood of similar proportions today would be even more devastating. The film documents the lives that the flood touched, what we've learned and how the lessons of the Great Flood still impact us today.

The wild times of the 1970s and 80s Rock and Roll landmark Swingos Celebrity Inn of Cleveland, Ohio.

An introspective piece on Osteogenesis Imperfecta also known as Brittle Bone disease. A docudrama that revolves around the life and struggle faced by the people with O.I. and how they have formed a self-helped, non-profit Organization; Amrithavarshini in Kerala, India. The film also delves into the struggle of an actor and a film crew with hopes to expose the affected one's talents and propel the idea that 'seeing them as disable is our biggest disability'.

America is facing a food crisis driven by profitability and a lack of consumer education. While the window to transforming our heartland continues to shrink, passionate individuals have emerged who provide hope that the health of our nation might still remain within our grasp. Sustainable weaves together expert analysis of America's food and farming system with a powerful narrative of one extraordinary farmer who is determined to create a sustainable future for his community. Amidst the cornfields of Illinois lives the hero of the film - Marty Travis, a seventh-generation farmer who watched his land and community fall victim to the pressures of big agribusiness. Determined to create a proud legacy for his son, Marty transforms his profitless wasteland and pioneers the sustainable food movement in Chicago. The film unearths the future of agriculture - a marriage of age-old tradition and groundbreaking science. Industry pioneers from around the nation reveal the secrets behind human health and environmental protection. Woven into these stories are the foremost experts of the food industry - connecting the dots between agriculture, the environment, economics and public health. Their stories are a reminder of America's troubled past and the devastating consequences that await the country if left unchanged. Sustainable empowers audiences and gives them hope for the future - that through this food revolution, we can all save humanity.

An expansive and provocative documentary covering the Federal Reserve, U.S. foreign policy, corporate collusion and destructive agriculture, weaving together interviews with top thinkers to deliver an urgent yet hopeful message. Including interviews with the authors of groundbreaking works such as The Creature From Jekyll Island, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, and The Obama Syndrome, American Empire delivers the clearest and broadest picture yet of New Left thinking and the very real "conspiracy" under which we all live.

What is more powerful than 'the media?' What has more influence over your life than popular culture? YOUR SOCIAL CLASS! Directly, and indirectly, your social class impacts your beliefs, your attitudes, the number of children you are likely to have, how long you will live, and even the people you will choose as friends, lovers, or spouses. Masters Of Deception examines the role of popular culture in shaping Americans' beliefs and attitudes about social class as it relates to spending patterns, emotional disorders, beauty, romantic love, mate-selection, narcissism, and consumerism. Director Eddie Laury teams up with Sociologist Lynn McClaskey to take you on a joyride through the twists and turns of the American Class System...Masters Of Deception: Social Class in American Pop Culture

Set in America's most segregated city, this documentary profiles some of the creative and resourceful men struggling to survive in Detroit's underground economy.

The documentary exposes the ways in which America's foreign policy agenda in the Middle East drives the U.S. media's portrayals of Arabs and Muslims. The film lays bare the truths behind taboo subjects that are conspicuously avoided, or merely treated as sound bites, by the mainstream American media: "Why do they hate us?" "Why do we hate them?" What were the events that led to the 9/11 attacks? What are the politics behind the U.S.-Israeli relationship? Why is there a robust debate about these subjects in Europe, the Arab World and in Israel itself, but not in the U.S.? Valentino's Ghost provides a fresh inquiry which challenges the media's daily barrage of rhetoric and misinformation about our complex and vital relationship with this part of the world.

Angela Sun's journey of discovery to one of the most remote places on Earth, Midway Atoll, to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Along the way she encounters scientists, industry, legislators and activists who shed light on what our society's vast consumption of disposable plastic is doing to our oceans, and what it may be doing to our health.

During a trip to Seoul, translator Sabine Program was approached by a couple that claimed to be North Korean dissidents. They handed her a DVD with the request to translate and disseminate it. The film features a North Korean scientist whose identity has been concealed, who uses hundreds of TV excerpts and archive footage to show what's wrong with Western visual and consumption culture. In the tradition of Michael Moore, the film attacks the moral attenuation, political manipulation and hyper-consumerism that characterize the Western world. In chapters with titles like "Rewriting History," "Complicity" and "The Cult of Celebrity," we are treated to a lineup of the most embarrassing occidental excesses and globalization, a point of view that remarkably resembles the recent Occupy movement: the "psychological warfare" at the hands of multinationals, shopping-obsessed consumers and the failure of democracy. Toward the end of this propaganda piece, the role of North Korea in all of this becomes clear: the country would like to offer itself as headquarters for the mounting fight against consumer slavery and greed worldwide.

In 2010, nine people were charged and prosecuted for attacking Parliament in Iceland a year before. The 'Reykjavik 9' were a diverse group of people, 20-40 years old, who had gone a step further than the general public which later deposed Iceland's government: three anarchist activists, two Christian socialists, a happy-go-lucky, hedonist mailman, one former small time crook... This film is a portrait of those nine people and their political vision(s) in the suspense during their trial.

'We've been shortchanged on the change!' In 2009, two years before the Occupy Wall Street protests began, urban designer and policy analyst Michael E. Arth decided to take on the one percenters. While traversing the length and breadth of Florida on a bicycle, he found that running for higher office within the corrupt American political system is like wrestling a tornado, both literally and figuratively. Gov'nor is the inspiring true story of a Renaissance man with no money taking on a man with a questionable past who spent $73 million of his family's money to buy his way into office. 'Michael E. Arth is a hero for the people... a true, modern-day David against the Goliath...' - Sydney Solis

'Roots of Rescue' is a documentary featuring the culture of animal cruelty in Alabama. The narrative is provided by a vast network of animal rescuers who struggle every day to save abused and neglected dogs. Due to a lack of stiff animal cruelty penalties and animal legislation, many rescuers have resorted to vigilante behavior. Roots of Rescue introduces a passion for humanity so deep that it consumes the lives of those fighting to preserve it in a state where education and legislation are sub-par.