In this documentary director Agnès Varda deals with the issue of wealth and poverty in modern day France by exploring the world of gleaners and pickers. Gleaners are individuals who search farmers’ fields for produce the mechanical harvesting equipment may…
A career retrospective of British punk band The Clash, featuring exclusive interviews with the entire band.
It begins in 1979 with the chance meeting in a Salt Lake City parking lot where filmmaker Trent Harris is approached by an earnest small-town dreamer from Beaver, Utah. Harris jumps at the chance when the young man invites him…
Seven of today’s top scientist/researchers are the subject of this humourous exploration of real people behind the white lab coats; more about what makes the tick than what they have per-se accomplished. Chosen because the subjects are the very best…
A documentary about freestyling–the improvised, on-the-spot rhymes that demonstrate the skills of hip-hop MCs.
A film featuring performances of several stars of the Latin Jazz music scene.
The inspirational story of Marta Becket: 76-yr old singer, writer, dancer, painter, visionary, and her creation Amargosa.
The books of Edward Abbey carry on the tradition of activism, with memoirs like Desert Solitaire and the classic comic novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, taking on the degradation of the American Southwest. Abbey’s anarchistic spirit and riotous novels influenced…
The Other Brother illuminates the extraordinary lives of Jesse and Tom Flowers. Jesse, solitary and troubled who found solace in little else but his art; Tom, successful artist and professor. Jesse’s work feels crowded, humorous and primordial; Tom’s feels open…
The Club tells the story of three motherless daughters- Ginger, a southern artist reinventing herself after her mother’s sudden death; Leticia, a young mother in a new country discovering her genetic fate and Jordyn, a high-school senior seeking independence from…
Filmmaker Jacob Bricca follows the extraordinary journey of his father Kit, a man whose uncompromising idealism changed the world but nearly tore his family apart. Using home movie footage of Kit organizing with Joan Baez and Cesar Chavez in the…