Tag Archives: Documentary

Los Angeles’ Skid Row is home to one of the largest homeless populations in the United States. And we found, inside that community, the remarkable and enormously moving stories of Olympic athletes, Harvard attorneys, accomplished musicians, scholars. We found poverty, drugs and mental illness, of course – but more importantly we found life, hope andContinue reading “Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home – 2012”

Australia’s El Dorado was found by Lewis Harold Bell Lasseter – if we believe his claims in the late 1800s to have discovered a vast gold deposit in central Australia. This mysterious place has never again been found, and many believe it doesn’t exist. But one thing is certain: Lasseter was a larger-than-life character. SeenContinue reading “Lasseter’s Bones – 2012”

Experience a virtual Bahamas dream in 3D. The turquoise blue sea, glittering in the sunlight, invites us to explore its secrets. From the depths, the mysterious contours of a huge, sunken ship appear. Accompany us on an extraordinary subterranean voyage to the still largely unexplored cave systems of the Bahamas. Director : Benjamin Krause CastContinue reading “Adventure Bahamas 3D – Mysterious Caves And Wrecks – 2012”

The story of the lone inventor who fought all his life to be recognized as the originator of one of mankind’s most significant inventions. John Atanasoff, a physics professor at Iowa State College, needed a better calculator that could quickly solve advanced equations and when he tried to find such a machine, realized none existed.Continue reading “Atanasoff: The Father of the Computer – 2012”

Dreaming the Quiet Man’ includes interviews with aficionados of Ford like, Martin, Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovicz, Jim Sheridan, William Dowling, and Joe McBride. There is mesmeric archive and rare photographs of the making of the film. The main location of the documentary is Ford’s ancestral homeland of Connemara, on the west coat of Ireland, where hisContinue reading “John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man – 2012”

A poetic portrait of the world-renowned Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris as they mount a new work by famed contemporary choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Rain is a formalist exercise in documentary filmmaking that at times resembles long lost outtakes from The Red Shoes. Director : Gerard-Jan Claes|Olivia Rochette Cast : Anne Teresa DeContinue reading “Rain – 2012”

Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative growth since his early adolescence has undergone almost relentless media scrutiny. This is a playful yet deeply intimate portrait of Lee, exploring his meteoric rise to pop stardom and the issues of celebrity and spirituality that arise when launched into the spotlight. DirectorContinue reading “Ben Lee: Catch My Disease – 2012”

The main character of Swedish director Sara Broos’s documentary is her godfather and close family friend Lars Lerin, one of Scandinavia’s most highly regarded modern painters. After a complicated period during which the extravagant artist pushed back waves of anxiety by overindulging in alcohol and pills (ultimately entering an abuse program), he focused on findingContinue reading “For You Naked – 2012”

In the fall of 1962, a dramatic series of events made Civil Rights history and changed a way of life. On the eve of James Meredith becoming the first African-American to attend class at the University of Mississippi, the campus erupted into a night of rioting between those opposed to the integration of the schoolContinue reading “Ghosts of Ole Miss – 2012”