Anne Frank Remembered is the first ever eyewitness account of the life and legacy of Anne Frank. Combining personal testimony, never-before-seen photos, family letters and rare archive footage with evocative contemporary film, Anne Frank Remembered documents the history of the Frank family, focusing on the spirited girl whose Holocaust Diary has sold over twenty-five million copies in fifty-four languages since its first publication in 1947.
Allah Made Me Funny – The Official Muslim Comedy Tour has had hundreds of shows throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The Tour was originally created to relieve tensions and address negative stereotypes about Muslim religion and culture.
Magdiel, an aspiring “corrido” composer from the drug capital of Mexico, faces two options for a better life: trafficking drugs or crossing the border illegally into the US. “Narco-corrido” is one of the most vital forms of music in North America, a chronicle of immigrant life and the narcotics underworld – a cross between a medieval ballad and gangsta rap.
In the summer of 2000 a San Francisco artist known only as Someguy released 1000 blank journals into the world. In them, he wrote: “This is an experiment and you are part of it. Add anything you like, then pass it on.” Three years later, journal number 526 found its way back to him. But where had the other 999 journals disappeared to?
Summer Pasture a.k.a. A Nomad’s Life is a feature‐length documentary that chronicles one summer
with a young family amidst this period of great uncertainty. Locho, his wife Yama, and their infant daughter, nicknamed Jiatomah (“pale chubby girl”), spend the summer months in eastern Tibet’s Zachukha grasslands, an area known as Wu‐Zui or “5‐Most,” the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, and most remote county in Sichuan Province, China.
This insightful and warm profile comes on the occasion of the 70th anniversaries of Rosalind Russell’s breakthrough role as Sylvia Fowler in The Women (2009) and her most famous role as Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday (2010).
RAISING RENEE is the story of a family’s remarkable response to being broken apart and rearranged after nearly 50 years. The film explores deep themes of family dynamics, disability, race and class through the interplay of painting, cinema and life.
Kimberly Reed returns home to a small town in Montana for her high school reunion, hoping for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother.
The film focuses on two women from meager means who immigrated to the US nearly a hundred years ago, reinvented themselves and ultimately created the cosmetics, health, and beauty industry we know today.
Examining war, teen pregnancy, foster care, child abuse and molestation, this vibrant film captures a working class family struggling for stability. Richly photographed over a year from one Halloween to the next, October Country hums with textured visual metaphors, offering subtle motifs that illuminate each character.
