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  1000 Journals A film by Andrea Kreuzhage (1 x 88 min)  
     

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A shared obsession links thousands of people around the world to the 1000 Journals Project. What began as a handcrafted "message in a bottle" is now a burgeoning global online and offline community that represents an astonishing cross-section of characters and cultures. More...

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www.1000journalsfilm.com

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  Blast! From Paul Devlin Productions in assoc. w/ BBC 'Storyville', YLE FST/Finland, Discovery Canada... (1 x 90/60 min)  
     

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Filmmaker Paul Devlin follows the story of his brother, Mark Devlin PhD, as he leads a tenacious team of scientists hoping to figure out how all the galaxies formed by launching a revolutionary new telescope under a NASA high-altitude balloon. This “front row seat to an extraordinary escapade in space exploration” has now been licensed to Al Jazeera, VPRO/Netherlands and DR/Denmark. More...

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www.blastthemovie.com

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  Citizen Architect A film by Sam Wainwright Douglas (1 x 53 min)  
     

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In 1993 the late architect and MacArthur Foundation Genius Samuel Mockbee started the Rural Studio, a design/build education program award recipient, in which students create striking architecture for impoverished communities in rural Alabama. Guided by frank, passionate interviews with Mockbee, Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio shows how a group of students use their creativity, ingenuity and compassion to craft a home for their charismatic client, Jimmie Lee Matthews, known to locals as Music Man because of his zeal for old R&B and Soul records. More...

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www.citizenarchitectfilm.com

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  Crazy Wisdom A Crazy Wisdom Films production in assoc. w/ BOS / Netherlands (1 x 90/60 min)  
     

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The first film on the life, teachings and “crazy wisdom” of Chogyam Trungpa, widely recognized as the most influential figure to bring Tibetan Buddhism to the west. Trungpa has been called a genius, a rascal and a social visionary. In order to better communicate with his students, he immersed himself in Western culture. More...

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  Do It Again A Robert Patton-Spruill film (1 x 90/60 min)  
     

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It is a quest. Geoff Edgers, a newspaper reporter dreading the approach of his 40th birthday, decides to take a most improbable leap. He sets out to find the still-surviving members of the long dormant British rock band, the Kinks, to convince them to reunite. There are other movies about music. But there’s nothing quite like “Do It Again,” a kind of “Sherman’s March” — with guitars. More...

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www.doitagainthemovie.com

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  El General An Altamura Films co-production in assoc. w/ LPB, CPB, POV and Sundance Doc Fund (1 x 83/60 min)  
     

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Awarded ‘Best Director’ 2009 Sundance Film Festival

According to Cara Mertes, the director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, El General highlights Almada's "cinematic imagination, bristling with beauty, contradiction, and the epic scope of Mexico's last 100 years of history. A hypnotic and deeply compassionate portrait of the Mexican people and the forces that have shaped their country.". More...

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www.altamurafilms.com

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  FTA (F*ck the Army) A Free Theater Associates production (1 x 97 min)  
     

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Banned by the military and hounded by the Nixon administration, this lost classic has not been seen since it was mysteriously pulled from theaters one week after its 1972 release. FTA referred to a military recruiting phrase “fun, travel, adventure”, more commonly used to mean “F*ck the Army”. More...

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  Hollywood Chinese A Deep Focus production (1 x 89 / 60 min)  
     

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Hollywood Chinese brings together a captivating portrait of filmmakers and iconic images for a high-spirited look at the ways the Chinese have been imagined in the movies, from silent classics to contemporary blockbusters. All star cast includes Ang Lee, Nancy, Kwan, Wayne Wang, Joan Chen, Amy Tan, and others. More...

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www.deepfocusproductions.com

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  Inside Islam A Unity Productions Foundation production ( 1 x 55 min)  
     

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Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Th ink explores the expertly gathered opinions of Muslims around the globe as revealed in the world’s first major opinion poll, conducted by Gallup, the preeminent polling organization.
Focused on the issues of Gender Justice, Terrorism, and Democracy - the film presents remarkable data, deftly showing how it challenges the popular notion that Muslims and the West are on a collision course. Like the research, the film highlights a shared relationship that is based on facts - not fear.. More...

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www.upf.tv


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  Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears A Riverhorse production ( 1 x 90/60 min)  
     

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Joe Frazier is lost in someone else’s legend. His life inside the boxing ring has haunted his life outside. But Joe Frazier is still a fighter. And although the sport that has dominated his life has caused him deep hurt, he still believes it has the power to transform people’s lives and offer hope to those with little else to hope for. More...

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  Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison A film by Northern Light Productions (1 x 90/60 min)  
     

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Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison remains one of the greatest live albums ever made, and the man himself one of America’s greatest troubadours and advocates for prison reform. Forty years later, the album still resonates today with a rawness and authenticity that few recordings have ever achieved. This film exposes a lesser known “Man in Black,” forever defined by darkenss and light. More...

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www.johnnycashatfolsomprison.com

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  Killer Poet: The Double Life of Norman Porter A Northern Light Production (1 x 90/60 min)  
     

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Killer Poet tells the story of Norman Porter, a convicted double murderer from Massachusetts who served 25 years in prison before escaping to Chicago. There he spent the next two decades living as a poet/intellectual by the name of JJ Jameson - an elaborately crafted false identity - until he was apprehended in 2005, thanks to a relentless police investigation and a compromising trail left by his audacious personna. He had just been named Chicago’s “Poet of the Month” when the law finally caught up with him. More...

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The Loving Story An Augusta Films production in assoc. with HBO(1 x 90/60 min)

 
     

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A heart-rending love story and a racially-charged criminal trial converge in this documentary about Richard and Mildred Loving, set during the turbulent Civil Rights era. The Lovings' painful story is part of a compelling saga that plays out in rural towns and grimy jail cells and comes to a momentous climax in the halls of the US Supreme Court. More...

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The Music Instinct: Science and Song An Elena Mannes Film (1 x 90/60 min)

 
     

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Featuring: Bobby McFerrin and Dr. Daniel Levitin, author of This is Your Brain on Music. This groundbreaking exploration of how and why the human organism –and the whole ebb and flow of the cosmos— is moved by the undeniable effect of
music. Airs on PBS June 24, 2009. More...

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  October Country A Wishbone Films production (1 x 80 min)  
     

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Every family has its ghosts. In a decaying industrial town on the Mohawk River in upstate New York, the Mosher family has more than most. Examining war, teen pregnancy, foster care, child abuse and molestation, this vibrant fi lm 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. More...

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  On a Wing and a Prayer A Unity Productions Foundation production (1 x 56 min)  
     

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In a small town in the Pacific Northwest, an American Muslim sets out to achieve his lifelong dream, a pilot’s license. Monem is a financial advisor, the son of a Pakistani commercial pilot for Saudi Airlines. His wife Iman’s family is Palestinian and although initially dubious about the marriage, now accept the cultural differences. With three young
children, Iman’s prankish student days are behind her. She’s happy to find time to cultivate her inner domestic diva, wisecracking about her entertaining skills and her husband’s flight plans.. More...

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  The Powder and the Glory A PowderGlory production (1 x 86 / 56 min)  
     

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Recently featured in Boston Magazine, USA Today, Vogue, Nylon Magazine and more!!! The story of Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden, who nearly a hundred years ago, created the cosmetics, health and beauty industry we know today. Airs nationally on PBS March 23, 2009 during Women’s History Month!. More...

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www.powderandglory.com

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  Prodigal Sons by Kimberly Reed in assoc. w/ BBC 'Storyville', CBC/Canada and Sundance Channel (1 x 86 min)  
     

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Filmmaker Kimberly Reed dives headfirst into an unflinching portrait of her family that is absolutely engrossing and marks her coming-out, in more ways than one. Returning home to a small town in Montana for her high school reunion, Reed hopes for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother. But along the way PRODIGAL SONS uncovers stunning revelations, including a blood relationship with Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, intense sibling rivalries and unforeseeable twists of plot and gender. More...

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www.prodigalsonsfilm.com

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  Raising Renee A West City Films production in assoc. with HBO(1 x 90/60 min)  
     

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From acclaimed producer/directors Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan of So Much So Fast and the
Academy Award nominated Troublesome Creek: a Midwestern Raising Renee reveals the life of an extraordinary family as seen through the eyes of painter Beverly McIver. Beverly’s work centers on her identity as an African-American woman, her mother Ethel’s life as a maid and her sister Renee who is developmentally disabled. When Ethel died suddenly in 2004, Beverly’s promise to take care of Renee was put to the test. Raising Renee explores the intersection of paint, experience and film.. More...

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  Rosalind Russell: Life is a Banquet A Total Media Group Production (1 x 60 min)  
     

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The star of Auntie Mame, His Girl Friday, Gypsy and scores of other memorable films and Broadway shows, Rosalind Russell came into her own during Hollywood’s Golden Era and
was paired with many of the luminaries of that time, including Joan Crawford, Cary Grant and Kirk Douglas. This insightful and warm profile comes on the occasion of the 70th
anniversary of her breakthrough role as Sylvia Fowler in The Women (2009). More...

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  The Tiger Next Door A film by Camilla Calamandrei (1 x 90/60 min)  
     

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Premiering at Hot Docs 2009

Based on figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, experts estimate that there are currently 7-10,000 tigers being kept by private individuals in the United States. Twenty-four of them live in Flat Rock, Indiana, in Dennis H’s backyard. More...

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www.thetigernextdoor.com


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  Vows of Silence A film by Jason Berry (1 x 90/60 min)  
     

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A film by Jason Berry that tells the haunting saga of Father Marcial Maciel who, despite years of pedophilia accusations,
won the favor of the Vatican. Now revealed – Maciel has a daughter in Madrid. **ABC News is planning an April report on the Legion of Christ that will include footage from Vows of Silence and an interview with Jason Berry**. More...

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