“Brutal Beauty contextualizes the sport of roller derby and explores how participating in a full-contact sport can challenge our notions of traditional femininity.”
– Bitch Magazine
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Brutal Beauty: Tales of the Rose City Rollers
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo
From the Co-Director of Christmas on Mars – It’s Rodeo Time. At the Women’s Prison. Really!
Professor
A rabbi with a Ph.D. and a Glock teaches the children of Iowa.
Contrary Warrior: The Life and Times of Adam Fortunate Eagle
From the filmmakers of the award-winning Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart comes a documentary about one of our most important and controversial contemporary Native Americans leaders. Filmed in Nevada on the Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation, Contrary Warrior is an intimate first-person account of the life and work of Red Lake Reservation Minnesota-born American Indian activist, artist, ceremonial leader, author – and enemy of the state – Adam Fortunate Eagle.
Cropsey
A True Crime Story, About Urban Legends, and the Defense of Community “The cinematic version of peeking under the bed and not breathing a sigh of relief.” – John Anderson, The New York Times “… comes on like a true crime caper.” – Eric Hynes, Time Out New York “Beyond-disturbing.” – New York Magazine “The [...]
A Film About Anna Akhmatova
“A Film About Anna Akhmatova is an important happening for me, for all of us.”
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Serj Tankian – Elect the Dead Symphony
On March 16th, 2009, Serj Tankian, a Grammy Award winner and one of rock’s most unconventional frontmen, took the stage at the majestic Auckland Town Hall in New Zealand with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra to perform a very special orchestral interpretation of his critically acclaimed debut solo album Elect the Dead. The dynamic one-off performance was recorded and filmed in HD by six cameras, and the dramatic result has been captured in Elect the Dead Symphony.
R.E.M. – This Is Not A Show – Live at the Olympia in Dublin
In their acclaimed 2007 “working rehearsals” in Dublin, R.E.M. set up camp at the venerable Olympia Theatre in Ireland’s capital city and tested new material over five nights before passionate, capacity crowds.
Orange Winter
Revolution. Rivalry. Poison. This is the Ukrainian Election of 2004.
Musician
Common sense says you can’t make a living in America playing avant-garde improvisational jazz. But Ken Vandermark does it anyway.
Long Knives Night and Reporting from a Rabbit Hutch
A ferocious film in two parts, depicting and severely criticizing the rise and reign of Alexander Lukashenko, dictator of Belarus.
“Indelible portraits of power’s absolute corruption…an astonishing diatribe…heaves with disturbing scenes of violence against innocent Belarussians…a primal howl of outrage.”
- Jeannette Catsoulis, NY TIMES
Sheriff
“It’s like an extended episode of COPS directed by Frederick Wiseman… and I mean that as a compliment on both counts.” – CHICAGO READER
Bjork’s Voltaic: The Volta Tour Live in Paris and Reykjavik
Voltaic: The Volta tour Live in Paris and Reykjavik is a remarkable, multi-media document of Björk’s visually dazzling Volta tour.
