Film Category: Library
The Dead Center
WHEN JOHN DOE ROSE FROM THE DEAD, HE BROUGHT SOMETHING BACK. When a very dead suicide victim (Jeremy Childs, Preacher, Nashville) disappears from the morgue, it sets in motion a chain of events that has the power to immolate everything, and everyone, it touches. Troubled psychiatrist Daniel Forrester (Shane Carruth, ...Read More
GIFT
Inspired by Lewis Hyde’s beloved classic The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, GIFT is a richly cinematic film, interweaving character‐driven stories. On North America's Pacific Northwest Coast, a young Indigenous artist and carver undertakes the elaborate preparations for a potlatch - to make a name for ...Read More
DESOLATION CENTER
Desolation Center is the previously untold story of a series of early 80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have paved the way for Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella, collective experiences that have become key elements of popular culture in the 21st century. ...Read More
NY DOG FILM FESTIVAL
The NY Dog Film Festival™ is an annual celebration of the love between dogs and their people, through short films from around the world that inspire, educate and entertain, benefiting local animal welfare groups that bring people and pets together. [These films are free of physical or verbal abuse toward ...Read More
NY CAT FILM FESTIVAL
The annual NY Cat Film Festival™ is a philanthropic celebration through film of our relationship with the mysterious felines who share our world. After a New York City premiere every December with two new programs of short films, the festival travels to dozens of cities nationwide, benefitting a local animal ...Read More
Meeting Gorbachev
Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Encounters at the End of the World) and Emmy Award-winning André Singer teamed together to make this riveting documentary on Mikhail Gorbachev, the visionary last President of the Soviet Union, who tried to make the world a safer place. Filled ...Read More
HALSTON
America’s first superstar designer, Halston rose to international fame in the 1970s, creating an empire and personifying the dramatic social and sexual revolution of the last century. Reaching beyond the glitz and glamour, acclaimed filmmaker Frédéric Tcheng reveals Halston’s profound impact on fashion, culture, and business. HALSTON captures the epic ...Read More
FREE TRIP TO EGYPT
Seeking to build a bridge of mutual understanding and friendship, a Canadian-Egyptian entrepreneur of Muslim faith decides to reach out to the very people who fear him. Traveling across the U.S. to find Americans concerned about an Islamic threat, Tarek Mounib makes them an intriguing offer ... a Free Trip ...Read More
BE NATURAL
When Alice Guy-Blaché completed her first film in 1896 Paris, she was not only the first female filmmaker, but one of the first directors ever to make a narrative film. Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché follows her rise from Gaumont secretary to her appointment as head of ...Read More
THE SWAN
THE SWAN is Ása Helga Hjörleifsdótirr’s astonishing feature debut--A poignant and unique coming of age story set in Iceland and told from a powerful and nuanced feminine perspective. In contemporary rural Iceland, a wayward 9-year-old girl, SÓL,is sent to distant countryside relatives for a summer to work and to mature. ...Read More