Out of Iraq is an epic and unlikely love story. The story begins in Iraq in 2004 during the war. Nayyef a young art school graduate joins the US Marines as an interpreter. While stationed in Ramadi as the war rages on, Nayyef meets a young Iraqi soldier, Hayder, known as Btoo. In a country whe...
This is the story of Chaz Bono's transition from a woman to a man, a journey of identity and self-discovery that has lasted most of his life. Growing up, Chastity was a shy person who never felt comfortable in the spotlight as the daughter of Sonny & Cher. She also felt uncomfortable as a man and...
For over 300 years, the laguna pueblos have celebrated the feast days of the catholic saints by throwing grocery items from their rooftops.
Historically, the lagunas are intensely private. This is the first time that cameras have been welcomed to film this annual summer event.
Party Monster tells the story of the rise and fall of Michael Alig, a kid from middle America who aspired to take the place of Andy Warhol. Michael quickly rose to become the biggest party promoter in New York and King of the so-called Club Kids. But after spiralling into drug addiction, Michael ...
Few Americans have had lives as intense and publicized, or been as adored and sometimes reviled, as Tammy Faye Messner. Four years after the award-winning documentary THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE, we catch up with Tammy Faye as she fights the biggest battle of her tumultuous life — against inoperable s...
Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes is an authored film by Jon Ronson exploring the hundreds of boxes the legendary film director Stanley Kubrick collected during his decades at Childwick Manor in Hertfordshire.
The film asks the question, Is it possible to get to understand the man - and his extraordinary...
From a distance - beekeeping has looked the same for hundreds of years, and serves as an example of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. As one of the beekeepers in "The Last beekeeper" puts it - "Bees are here to serve and to help. They make enough honey for themselves and everyone...
For more than 50 years Navajo people have gathered in the capital of the Navajo Nation to witness the Miss Navajo Nation beauty pageant. MISS NAVAJO follows 21-year-old Crystal Frazier's quest for the Miss Navajo crown, and explores the important role of women in Dine culture. Featuring personal...
Knowing your queer history is essential, and the award-winning When The Beat Drops offers an immersive deep-dive inside the growing culture of bucking—an energetic, hyper-athletic, dance phenomenon cultivated by queer people of color in the Deep South.
RED LAKE is an intimate portrait of three survivors of a 2005 high school shooting on the Red Lake Indian reservation in northern Minnesota as they continue to heal ten years later.
When New York City's dilapidated downtown was starting to wake up and smell the cocaine, the South Carolina expatriate Nelson Sullivan had already quit his music store job, moved into an old building in the Meatpacking District (where meat was still being packed), and begun videotaping 24/7 what ...
Video diaries from ten Los Angelinos after the L.A. riots interwoven into a feature film.
Originally known for his global hit You Spin Me Round, 80s electro-pop icon Pete Burns is now more famous for his love of plastic surgery and brutal telling-it-like-it-is attitude. After his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother, his career was re-launched and primed for success. But within months ...
101 Rent Boys is a documentary look at the boys who work the Santa Monica strip. There is nothing as fascinating as sex workers. Even though we may not have purchased sex or sold our bodies, the world's oldest profession has a certain mystique that holds all of us in thrall. This film satisfies ...
The week before Kurt Cobain was found dead from a single gunshot, he went missing. His whereabouts for that week has remained a mystery until now. But for the first time, the story of what happened to him can now be told, using the testimony of people who knew him, the witnesses who saw him in th...
Lesbians go wild at a resort in Spain! We join the winner of a National Lesbian Beauty Contest and her pals, a group of 40 other lesbians, on a holiday in Spain. Even the gay men admire these girls as they dance on podiums and seek their own holiday thrills and romances! What will the locals thin...
Welcome to Walt Whitman High School in Dallas, Texas. At Walt Whitman, lesbian and gay students from around the South are welcome to move in with host families and attend a controversial high school specifically set up for them. The film follows the lives of eight students attending Walt Whitman ...
Furries, as they are known, take on personas of the animal images they adored in childhood as a means of self-expression, dressing in elaborate suits and often adopting a name and character. Sometimes their furry behavior gets sexy. However, furries often clarify that they’re lifestyle should not...
Ghetto Ballet follows the inter-linked stories of a number of students in a groundbreaking program called Dance for All.
The raison d'etre of the program- founded by Philip Boyd and his late wife Phyllis Spira - is to give disadvantaged kids in the townships the opportunity to study ballet and, ...
A documentary about pioneering British advertising executive and self-proclaimed genius, David Ogilvy, who led a revolution in advertising, feeding dreams and shaping aspirations with famous campaigns, slogans and jingles. He started what eventually would become conglomerate Ogilvy and Mather in ...
Two years later, we check back in with Nayyef and Btoo!
The story behind the woman who wrote the wildly popular Harry Potter book series. Director: Frances Dickerson
