Category Archives: Documentary

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening – women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. FEMINISTS: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change. Director : Johanna DemetrakasContinue reading “Feminists: What Were They Thinking? – 2018”

Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and aficionados, this four-hour mini-series follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus and brings to life an era when Circus Day would shut down a town and its stars were among the most famous peopleContinue reading “The Circus – 2018”

In commemoration of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination in 1968, this film is the story of an integral Afro-centric Washington D.C. Sculptor and arts activist, Uzikee Nelson, who has navigated through the decades of key pivotal moments in the shifting history of the D.C. Capital as it faced systematic dismantling of its once emblematicContinue reading “Uzikee – 2018”

Director : Geoff Morrison Cast : Genre : Documentary Release Date : 9/27/2018 Country : Canada

A fever dream vision into the dark history behind the US housing economy. Tracking its overtly racist beginnings to its unbridled commoditization, the doc exposes a foundational story few Americans understand as their own. Director : Giorgio Angelini Cast : Genre : Documentary Release Date : 9/23/2018 Country : United States

A city seems traumatized. Even a year after the G20 summit, the police are still looking for hundreds of suspects. 17 interviewees from the police, media, science, stock in this film. Director : Marco Heinig|Steffen Maurer Cast : Genre : Documentary Release Date : 6/22/2018 Country : Germany

Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, “93Queen” follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their community by creating the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City. With unprecedented-and insider-access, “93Queen” offers up a unique portrayal of a group of religious women who are takingContinue reading “93Queen – 2018”

A documentary detailing the effort dedicated filmmakers went through to bring Orson Welles final feature film, The Other Side of the Wind into the public conscience Director : Ryan Suffern Cast : Bob Murawski|Filip Jan Rymsza|Frank Marshall|Michel Legrand|Peter Bogdanovich Genre : Documentary Release Date : 9/1/2018 Country : United States

Everyone has seen a Trumbull sequence in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001 A Space Odyssey”, Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” or Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. Recognized and respected SFX maestro, he has also directed two full-length films which left their mark on sci-fi cinema: “Silent Running” and “Brainstorm”. Today, at over 70, Trumbull-the-pioneer continuesContinue reading “Trumbull Land – 2018”