Genres
2015

Movies

Killing Lazarus
Killing Lazarus
In this 120 minute feature we watch as a childhood friendship shaped by necessity, turns to an adult one of comfort. Local drug dealer Thurgood Jacobs (aka T), and his closest friend Lazarus James (aka L) have been in the business for years. Our story find the two just days before T’s 30th birthday. With the wear and tear of the business weighing on his conscious, the Police bearing down on his team and a purported rat in their ranks, T wants out. However L, who has always had somewhat of a sinister influence over T’s decisions somehow connivance him to stick it out for this one last big score.
Killing Lazarus 2015
Why She Cries
Why She Cries
Two sisters are trying to repair their relationship while one keeps a dark secret from the other. After crossing paths with a wealthy woman dealing with an illness that has caused her husband to be resentful and ashamed of her, they come to understand that secrets among the average and the affluent are truly not that different. Will fate bring them to face revelations from the past and start a journey of forgiveness and healing?
Why She Cries 2015
The Rider & the Wolf
The Rider & the Wolf
In 2009, Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee Mike “The Bike” Rust went missing from his off-the-grid property in Colorado's San Luis Valley. His disappearance—which received almost no press—remains unsolved. An innovator in his sport, Rust custom-built bikes for Colorado’s mountain passes, starting a fat-tire revolution and designing gear that transformed the industry. Salida native Nathan Ward, himself an intrepid mountain biker, set out to tell Rust’s story, tracking the pioneer’s subject through the infancy of the sport to his role in the thriving community that surrounds it today. Ward brings the riveting documentary to life with a unique local perspective and access. By combining interviews, re-enactments, home movies, and archival footage—and even consulting a psychic to communicate with Rust’s sprit—the director/cinematographer attempts to find answers to this mystery full of loose ends and cold trails. -Denver Film Society
The Rider & the Wolf 2015
City Slickers Can't Stay with Me: The Coach Bob Larsen Story
City Slickers Can't Stay with Me: The Coach Bob Larsen Story
The story of legendary Hall of Fame Coach Bob Larsen, his career, success and influence at every coaching level.
City Slickers Can't Stay with Me: The Coach Bob Larsen Story 2015
Gays in Prison
Gays in Prison
Gays in Prison is a documentary that puts Latrice Royale, popular star of RuPaul's Drag Race, front and center, as host, narrator and interviewer as she reveals her own experiences in jail and explores the stories of gay men in and out of prison. The film develops themes of redemption, lessons learned and, yes, even humor and love. The documentary also reveals gay prison pen pals and those on the outside finding love behind bars.
Gays in Prison 2015
Ninth Floor
Ninth Floor
In her first feature-length documentary, director Mina Shum (Double Happiness) takes a penetrating look at the Sir George Williams University riot of February 1969, when a protest against institutional racism snowballed into a 14-day student occupation at the Montreal university.
Ninth Floor 2015
First Love
First Love
She is an independent, strong woman running her own business and raising a child alone. He is a simple rural horse breeder whose only passion is hunting. And so they met and recognized their first love in each other.
First Love 2015
Emptying the Skies
Emptying the Skies
If you want to impress your dining companions in Cyprus, it's not caviar that you order, but ambelopoulia: a tiny songbird. But as this gripping doc reveals, the cost to bring such delicacies to the table is enormous. Bestselling novelist Jonathan Franzen takes a break from the world of fiction to guide us through an all too horrifying reality: tens of millions of protected migratory songbirds are illegally killed every year. Franzen, a longtime bird lover, accompanies young staffers of the Committee Against Bird Slaughter on their expeditions. With police enforcement in Southern Europe practically non-existent, they risk their lives to rescue trapped birds, and confront hostile poachers. It's a topic that proves a cultural flashpoint -- the Cypriot landowners cannot understand why a bunch of Italians can tell them what to do on their land.
Emptying the Skies 2015
Transfixed
Transfixed
Transfixed tells the story of highly unconventional romance: Martine Stonehouse and John Gelmone are middle-aged underdogs, living with Asperger Syndrome - an autism spectrum disorder that makes communication with others extremely difficult. Despite their social limitations, both dream of getting married, but straight identifying John refuses to tie the knot until transsexual Martine gets a real vagina. The only problem: no doctor in Canada will perform operation because Martine's obesity makes her too great of a surgical risk. Will Martine and John find the happiness together that they deserve? Transfixed is a deeply human story about love, freedom, and self-actualization.
Transfixed 2015
Adina Howard 20: A Story of Sexual Liberation
Adina Howard 20: A Story of Sexual Liberation
In 1995, Adina Howard made waves in the world of music with her hit song “Freak Like Me.” Never before had a solo R&B female artist made such a bold and controlling stance sexually through song. Along with becoming one of the highest selling singles and most played music videos on MTV and BET in 1995, Adina Howard’s performance allowed young women of color and future recording artist to express their sexuality without shame. “Adina Howard 20: A Story of Sexual Liberation” shares Adina’s story through her own words as well as the impact that she made during the 1990s and thereafter. Adina speaks on her relationship with Tupac Shakur, the banning of her music video from BET, landing a cameo role in the movie “Waiting to Exhale,” her encounter with legendary vocalist Nancy Wilson, working with Hollywood giants Jackie Chan and Jamie Foxx and the sudden halt to her stardom due to her comments about record exec Sylvia Rhone.
Adina Howard 20: A Story of Sexual Liberation 2015
Breakfast at Ina's
Breakfast at Ina's
Famous for its Heavenly Hots (pancakes topped with fruit compote), Ina’s was a Chicago breakfast institution. Every customer received a warm welcome from proprietor and chef Ina Pinkney, the “Breakfast Queen.” After 33 years in the restaurant business, Pinkney retired in 2013. Following the restaurant’s final month, Breakfast at Ina’s celebrates a beloved Chicago eatery and a woman who achieved her dream against the odds.
Breakfast at Ina's 2015
In Between
In Between
Once there was an age of ice but it is disappearing. This is a lyrical and thought-provoking film about the death of an era and a moment in time. A time when stoic creatures are caught in between what once was and what will inevitably come.
In Between 2015
Trapped
Trapped
A hardworking father loses himself in winding corridors of a building, where his beloved daughter and wife are in danger of being destroyed by flames, but his authority is overshadowed by a strong arm that rules over the place.
Trapped 2015
Frances Stein
Frances Stein
Giving new life to the mad scientist genre with a twist! Join Big Biting Pig in taking their 9th feature film to a higher level!
Frances Stein 2015
In Stereo
In Stereo
David and Brenda are perfect for each other, and everyone knows it except David and Brenda. After a break-up, they each experience their own rough patch. For David, a self-destructive artistic endeavor and a relationship with an immature beauty—for Brenda, a failing acting career, an eviction notice, and a boyfriend who just doesn’t do it for her. A chance encounter brings them together on the streets of New York at a particularly bad time. David invites Brenda to the opening of his first photography exhibit and the stage is set for a night of drinking and flirting which leads to an untraditional proposal of how they can be together without getting back together. A sharply observed, un-romantic comedy by writer/director Mel Rodriguez III, IN STEREO is a stylish and striking first feature that offers an unflinching look at the complexity of modern relationships.
In Stereo 2015
The Quiet Zone
The Quiet Zone
Otherworldly frequencies and textured, fluctuating images beautifully visualize the distress of people who suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, and who must live in exile from cities in order to find solitude from the noise.
The Quiet Zone 2015
Jugaadi Dot Com
Jugaadi Dot Com
Jugaadi Dot Com is an Punjabi Romantic comedy film directed by Anil Vij, Starring Nachhatar Gill, Feroz Khan, Sarb Chawla, Rana Ranbir, Komya Virk, Megha Sharma, Ghulle Shah, Bhotu Shah, Parkash Gaadu, Dr.Ranjit Riyaz, Cheeku, Babbu Gill,Honey Shergill,Vishv Dipak Trikha & Gajender Fogat.
Jugaadi Dot Com 2015
Between the Devil and the Deep
Between the Devil and the Deep
An abalone poacher, a dead son, and a broken love story are all bound together by a single theme: the curse of the abalone - an endangered marine snail prized as an aphrodisiac in China, but illegal harvesting has disastrous effects on the traditional fishing community near Cape Town, South Africa.
Between the Devil and the Deep 2015
Active Shooters
Active Shooters
In a time of corruption, four brothers are deputized to apprehend the man behind all of it. Until everything goes terribly wrong.
Active Shooters 2015
Al Madrigal: Half Like Me
Al Madrigal: Half Like Me
In “Half Like Me,” actor, comedian and “Daily Show” correspondent Al Madrigal takes us on a Pocho quest as he explores the confusing reality of being half—dealing with white people who think he’s too Mexican, and Latinos who don’t think he’s quite Latino enough.
Al Madrigal: Half Like Me 2015
Friend Request
Friend Request
The lessons of this movie can be summed up thus: if a ghost tries to friend you, and you want to live, do not accept.
Friend Request 2015
Surviving Skokie
Surviving Skokie
Surviving Skokie, an intensely personal documentary, explores the effects of a late 1970s threatened neo-Nazi march in Skokie, IL on its large Holocaust survivor population. Thousands of survivors comprised 10 percent of this Chicago suburb, including Jack, the father of co-producer, Eli Adler. The relationship between father and son deepens as they return to Poland, where Eli learns more about the extended family that perished during the Shoah. Together they retrace the painful and debilitating journey through two ghettos and two concentration camps. Included are poignant commentaries and archival footage of the historical events spanning 70 years and two continents.
Surviving Skokie 2015
Wide Open Sky
Wide Open Sky
Wide Open Sky follows the heart-warming story of an outback Australian children's choir. Chronicling their journey from auditions to end-of-year concert, the trials of trying to run a children's choir in a remote and disadvantaged region are revealed. Here, sport is king and music education is non-existent. Despite this, choir mistress Michelle has high expectations. She wants to teach the children contemporary, original, demanding music. It becomes clear for the children to believe in themselves, they all need someone who believes in them. Set against a landscape of devastating beauty, Wide Open Sky is a moving portrait of the fragile world of possibility that is childhood and reminds us why no child, anywhere, should grow up without music.
Wide Open Sky 2015
Thunderlust and The Middle Beast
Thunderlust and The Middle Beast
Long-haired, loud, and a real long way from home. The hip thrusting glam metal band with an image problem has come to a part of the world that suffers the same. The Middle East. Their mission: make music videos, and get out alive. The band are furious though when they learn that management has given the job of directing their videos to a relatively inexperienced Jordanian film maker by the name of Anas. Dealing with the band's egos, tantrums and paranoia, Anas struggles to help the band create the right image for their new songs. It all makes for a volatile but hilarious mix. The band soon falls apart though and Anas faces even greater pressure to pull the video clips off. For as he knows too well; in a world that rocks, image makes the difference.
Thunderlust and The Middle Beast 2015
Wolf Mother: Hunted
Wolf Mother: Hunted
Our fearless pack leader finds herself turning on the hunter as she stares down the barrel of his rifle, only to meet the true mastermind behind this twisted plot. After coming face to face with another radical member of a fanatical sect of Fenris Hunters, the wolf mother decides she needs another pack member rather than a partner.
Wolf Mother: Hunted 2015
No Boyfriend Since Birth
No Boyfriend Since Birth
A wedding planner who's never been in a relationship courts romance as she re encounters a high school crush.
No Boyfriend Since Birth 2015
Pups of Liberty: The Dog-claration of Independence
Pups of Liberty: The Dog-claration of Independence
After the Boston Tea-Bone Party, the Pups of Liberty continue to assert themselves against Catland. But the Royal TomCat refuses their requests for representation in the government and issues orders that make life miserable in the 13 Ameri-canine colonies. Witness Paul Ruffere’s famous midnight run to warn the MinuteMutts at Lexington and Concord. Join Anne Kennel and Bonejamin Franklin in Philadelphia. Be there as Thomas Jefferhound writes, and the Continental Congress votes on, the Dog-claration of Independence, starting the Revolutionary War and putting America on the path to freedom.
Pups of Liberty: The Dog-claration of Independence 2015
Madina's Dream
Madina's Dream
An unflinching and poetic glimpse into a forgotten war, Madina’s Dream tells the story of rebels and refugees fighting to survive in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains. After decades of civil war, South Sudan achieved its independence from Sudan in 2011. But inside Sudan, the conflict continues. Sudan’s government employs aerial bombings and starvation warfare against the inhabitants of the Nuba Mountains. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled to refugee camps in South Sudan or remain trapped in the war zone. Eleven- year -old Madina and countless others dream of a brighter future for the Nuban people.
Madina's Dream 2015
Barge
Barge
A towboat drifts down the Mississippi River, due for the port of New Orleans. The water, the banks, the bright lights of a port ahead; the lure of a coming paycheck and a home-cooked meal. This is the world of BARGE. A green deckhand following his father into the family business. A former convict working his way upward job by job, in the hopes of being First Mate. A thirty-eight year veteran engineer in no hurry to retire. An ancient waterway pulling a double shift as the backbone of a national economy; a tangle of thick steel cables, tied together just right. As long as the boat’s moving, they’re making money. An intimate portrait of the machinery of American ambitions.
Barge 2015
Stink!
Stink!
"Stink!" opens with a foul smell and a pair of kids pajamas. And a single father trying to find out what that smell could possibly be. But instead of getting a straight answer, director Jon Whelan stumbles on an even bigger issue in America, which is that some products on our store shelves are not safe -- by design. Entertaining, enlightening, and at times almost absurd, "Stink!" takes you on a madcap journey from the retailer to the laboratory, through corporate boardrooms, down back alleys, and into the halls of Congress. Follow Whelan as he clashes with political and corporate operatives all trying to protect the darkest secrets of the chemical industry. You won't like what you smell.
Stink! 2015
Rust
Rust
Heather and her best friend Morgan make the mistake of meeting up with friends at an abandoned haunted attraction. Inside the decrepit scarehouse, a cannibalistic monster lives, and stalks all those unlucky enough to enter his lair.
Rust 2015
Monster Madness: The Gothic Revival of Horror
Monster Madness: The Gothic Revival of Horror
With sex, gore, and the Dracula/Frankenstein combo, Hammer's House of Horror changed the genre forever in the 1950s. With marquee actors like Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, Hammer ruled the horror world for a decade. See the legendary tale of blood, babes, and vampire bats here.
Monster Madness: The Gothic Revival of Horror 2015
Pain Is Beautiful
Pain Is Beautiful
How far would you go to feel - anything.
Pain Is Beautiful 2015
Twisted
Twisted
After a night with the girl of his dreams, Michael has a story to tell. And a favor to ask.
Twisted 2015
Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play
Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play
From Brazilian favelas to dusty Congolese villages, from a neolithic Scottish island and Mayan royal courts to modern English soccer pitches, “Bounce” explores the little-known origins of our favorite sports across the centuries, and traces how a simple invention like the ball has come to stake an unrivaled claim on our passions, our gaming consoles, our money, and our lives. Equal parts science, history and visual essay, “Bounce” removes us from the scandals and commercialism of today's sports world to uncover the true reasons we play ball, helping us reclaim our universal connection to the ball games we love.
Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play 2015
Cold Nights Hot Salsa
Cold Nights Hot Salsa
The passionate story of two young salsa dancers from Montreal, in love with dancing and each other, who, over three ambitious years, set their sights on winning a World Salsa Championship
Cold Nights Hot Salsa 2015
Nelson
Nelson
Two teenage boys are looking to lose their virginity and visit a pair of prostitutes. But will the experience be anything like they expect?
Nelson 2015
The Legend of Black Annie
The Legend of Black Annie
A young girl is wrongfully killed. The ghost exacts revenge on the guilty parties.
The Legend of Black Annie 2015
Be Known: The Mystery of Kahil El'Zabar
Be Known: The Mystery of Kahil El'Zabar
An unflinching documentary portrait of the Jazz percussionist.
Be Known: The Mystery of Kahil El'Zabar 2015
The Trap
The Trap
A man tries to convince his skeptical friend that he has invented a trap for catching extraterrestrials.
The Trap 2015