Category Archives: Documentary

Director : Cast : Genre : Documentary Release Date : 1/1/2012 Country : United States

Jeffrey Catherine Jones is one of the most revered comic book and fantasy artists of all time and a complex character with an unusual life, an ideal subject for an insightful and captivating documentary. Tracing the early history as part of The Studio with fellow artists Bernie Wrightson, Barry Windsor-Smith and Michael William Kaluta throughContinue reading “Better Things: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones – 2012”

Within the coming decades we will be able to create AIs with greater than human intelligence, bio-engineer our species and re-design matter through nanotechnology. How will these technologies change what it means to be human? Director Doug Wolens speaks with leading futurists, computer scientists, artificial intelligence experts, and philosophers who turn over the question likeContinue reading “The Singularity – 2012”

Katja is a young retiree. At 24, she is living in a circle of solitude, spending her days walking her dog and looking out of the window. Director : Iiris Härmä Cast : Genre : Documentary Release Date : 9/1/2012 Country : Finland

The suspenseful chronicle of how the prodigious Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman helped save Europe’s premiere Jewish musicians from obliteration by the Nazis during World War II. In three years, he transformed from a world renowned violinist to a humanitarian racing against time. Director : Josh Aronson Cast : Adam Boncz|Chris Kardos|Geno Lechner|Itzhak Perlman|Joshua Bell|Michael LeviContinue reading “Orchestra of Exiles – 2012”

This film tells the surprising story of how the Allegheny Observatory has been a world leader in the study of the stars since the 1860s. Self-educated, and often facing unrelenting hardships, the people associated with the Allegheny Observatory defied the odds to make enormous contributions to the founding of astrophysics and early aviation. Director :Continue reading “Undaunted: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory – 2012”

After escaping a Communist dictatorship in Eastern Europe to make his American dream come true, together with his close friend Ed Wood, Stephen became the father of sexploitation cinema – before the liberalization of pornography. Chronicling his life and work including a hilarious look at his directorial debut / breakthrough, “Orgy of the Dead, whichContinue reading “Dad Made Dirty Movies – 2012”

How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, subject to successive mythifications throughout Portuguese history? Director : Diogo Costa Amarante|João Pedro Rodrigues|João Rui Guerra da Mata Cast : Alejandro Gomez Gonzalez|Blas Ocepek|Borja Rodriguez|Daniel Maroñas Mourelos|David Gomez Pazos|David Hermida Lovelle|Jorge Saavedra Miranda|Oscar Miguel Rodriguez Lema|Pablo Tenreiro Fernández|VictorContinue reading “The King’s Body – 2012”