Documentary

Surviving Sex Trafficking

Surviving Sex Trafficking

Brave and resilient sex trafficking survivors around the world share their struggles to break free from their past and find hope for the future. Synopsis With 45 million sex trafficking victims worldwide, only 1% manage to escape. SURVIVING SEX TRAFFICKING…

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Fighting for Daybreak

Fighting for Daybreak

At the inaugural Daybreak music festival, 2000 camping fans suffer freezing winds, pouring rain, and knee-deep mud in hopes of seeing their favorite electronic artists. All the while, behind the scenes, a struggling crew fights to keep the multimillion-dollar show…

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Live at Mister Kelly's

Live at Mister Kelly’s

An incomparably diverse collection of Twentieth-Century Entertainment Icons including Barbra Streisand, Richard Pryor, Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Herbie Hancock, Diane Ladd, Bob Newhart, Lenny Bruce, Dick Gregory, David Mamet, Dick Cavett and Ramsey Lewis celebrate the legendary and progressive Chicago…

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Sign the Show

Sign the Show: Deaf Culture, Access & Entertainment brings together entertainers, the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HOH) community, and American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters to discuss accessibility at live performances in a humorous, heartfelt, and insightful way. Director Biography…

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One Pint at a Time

One Pint at a Time

Craft beer generates tens of billions of dollars annually for the US economy. Despite beer’s Egyptian and African heritage, these traditions have been mostly forgotten and are rarely found in American brewing culture. Today, Black-owned breweries make up less than…

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Manscaping

Manscaping

Logline:Black American visual artist Devan Shimoyama, transgender Canadian barber Jessie Anderson, and Australian fetish barber/porn producer Richard Savvy are three queer men reimagining the traditional barbershop and styling new conceptions of masculinity along the way. Synopsis:Manscaping is an intimate documentary…

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rez metal

Rez Metal

When Kyle Felter, the lead singer of I Don’t Konform sent out a demo album to Flemming Rasmussen, the Grammy Award-winner producer of Metallica, they never imagined themselves a few months later rehearsing with Rasmussen inside a hot hogan on…

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THE STORY WON'T DIE

THE STORY WON’T DIE

A Syrian rapper, tortured by Bashar Al-Assad for his lyrics, uses his music to survive one of the deadliest wars of our century. Together with other creative personalities of the Syrian uprising, a Post-Rock musician, a breakdancer, and visual artists,…

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