Activized follows the stories of seven ordinary Americans who, for the first time in their lives, have left their comfort zones and become involved in gun violence prevention, voting rights and immigrants’ rights.
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Activized follows the stories of seven ordinary Americans who, for the first time in their lives, have left their comfort zones and become involved in gun violence prevention, voting rights and immigrants’ rights.
Three veterans share their personal stories from D-Day when they were young, inexperienced soldiers and sailors heading for Omaha Beach.
We're back bitches and we're giving the world the perfect way to kick-off the summer with the Fans Come First livestream. Broadcasting live on May22nd - the Friday of Memorial Day Weekend, the show will stream globally at 2:00PM PDT (Los Angeles), 5:00PM EDT (NYC) and 10:00PM BST (London). Fans Come First will differ from any other livestream we've done since the setlist will be curated directly from the Fanthers - you!
A dead father's recently discovered radio sends his adult son on a twisting journey that slowly unravels a dark, unimaginable secret.
The story of a young man who accidentally kills the love of his life in a car crash, and seeks resolution and escape with her mother. This psychologically complex yet subtle story brings us into post-recession rural Ireland. A community has turned its back on who they believe is a perpetrator rather than a victim. Steven has done time for the incident, and can’t find a way to reconcile himself to his new life. He turns to his dead girlfriend’s mother for solace, and a strange relationship unfolds.
Good-natured waitress Jessica goes on a date with a handsome customer, Eric. In the course of their long night, he shows her a site on the dark web. Jessica thinks she recognizes a local missing teenage boy on the site, but when she tries to report it to the police, she finds the site has been removed. Driven to save the missing boy, Jessica begins her own investigation that dredges up horrors from her own past.
Alan is an insecure, perfectionist, mostly-closeted man from Minnesota. Jesse is an unpredictable, mysterious woman from West Virginia. They’re complete opposites - and they’ve found themselves partnered together on a low-budget children’s theatre tour for indifferent audiences across the Upper Midwest. Unsettled by each other, and each quietly suffering from emotional wounds of their own, they’re a study in avoidance -- until the reality of their forced proximity compels them to open up. As their friendship deepens, they begin to go rogue with their shows -- rewriting them and redesigning them in order to better represent their voices, and as they do so, they find the courage to begin writing a new life for themselves.
Often discussed as an urban legend or a failed architectural project, Solomon Riley Presents Negro Coney Island redresses the erasure around Riley’s completed amusement park for the Black Residents in Harlem and the Bronx in 1924 on Hart Island. Working across archives, contemporary footage of Hart Island, and speculative interviews with key Black cultural producers of the time, including Riley, the film reimagines what we know about Negro Coney Island and its legacy with New York City’s still active potter’s field, Hart Island.
A documentary on Scanner Cop and Scanner Cop II: The Showdown
Love in Dehradun is an upcoming Bollywood film produced by Shafeeq Rahman while Sagar Joshi is Director of this film. Love in Dehradun will be released on 16 April 2021. The film will feature actors like Laxman Singh Rajput, Shivam Roy Prabhakar, Bhavesh Kantaria, Sohail Khan, Zareena Khan.
Despite concerns about a new strain of COVID-19, Cleo decides to film a new vlog with her friends at a recently-opened club. Her best friend Lea refuses to join, believing that partying will risk their lives – but a cruel twist of fate leaves Lea feeling helpless and desperate.In their pursuit of more subscribers and followers on social media, a group of vloggers ignores warnings about new COVID-19 cases. As they set out to enjoy their first taste of freedom after a long time, an unexpected consequence arises.
Inspired by the text " Art, Truth and Politics " of British writer Harold Pinter (1930-2008), Nobel for Literature in 2005, The Great Volcanos is an attempt to reflect on narratives in their capacityto reveal or subjugate the truth. In an era of post-truth and fake news, the healthy shock between art and society may project some light on our reality and our lives.
From a selection of films excerpts, the video features isolated characters seeking comfort in an always unattainable ideal.
A woodsman from the Catskills helps a group of people get through the COVID-19 pandemic with a daily livestream.
It's summer in Westopia, and crooked mayor Mr. Tucker has hatched a new trick: a Christmas In July Gold Rush. Santa travels to Westopia on a quest to uncover Mr. Tucker's scheme.
Aape pein siyaape is the story about three boys who are optimistic towrds life and try to get sucess but life give them kick always so finely they planned to commit crime andwant to make money.
A girls'-night-in dinner party among three friends turns into a disaster when one of them makes a hurtful remark.
This phenomenon stretches far beyond the boundaries of England with over a thousand crop circles spanning the globe. Although there have been some claimants to come forward to take responsibility for the creation of some crop circles, this documentary seeks out the most incredible crop circle designs and a possible E.T connection to their making. Realities that some may never have been exposed to before in regards to the UFO and crop circle phenomena.
The story of a dino named Danny and his two friends Sadie the Stegosaurus and Dolton the Velociraptor. While staring at the clouds he gets a fateful visit from God... Music by Deerhoof, from the album Surprise Symphonies
After the accidental death of her 4 year old son, a mother battles with her inner fears and demons as she come to terms with the fact that her older son is responsible for this tragedy.
In this animation, artificial intelligence is used to transform a dancer into a crow. The result is a haunting and compelling piece that follows the crow through its brief dance in a landscape of post-apocalyptic barrenness, to its inevitable demise.
Madonna was born in Bay City, and when she referred to Bay City as a "smelly little town" on national TV in 1987, local media and residents never forgave her. Now the town's government is strapped for cash and falling on hard times -- can they put the past behind them and embrace their most famous native?
Chronicles a chance meeting with His Royal Badness, Prince, back in 2001. This animated short tells the tale of a chance encounter-turned-serendipitous elevator ride with The Purple One.
Hosts Dean Cain and Laura McKenzie host this all-new holiday special which showcases how Christmas is celebrated around the world.
Piri Thomas, a painter, poet, author, ex-con, and ex-junkie, describes the life of a Puerto Rican in the Spanish Harlem ghetto in New York City.
A young man carrying the make-up of his past tries his hand at a new skill, enriching his present and starting him on a journey towards a better future.
Yuri's recipe book is stolen by thieves infiltrating her apartment while she preparing breakfast for her boyfriend on their anniversary.
A text, some images, and an unstable arrangement of durations to which one can devote a fluctuating form of attention.
A group of ladies seeking the perfect faces soon realise when they conjure a demonic plastic surgeon, that no surgery comes without a price.
In March 2021, the Suez Canal was blocked for six days after the grounding of Ever Given, a 20,000 TEU container ship bigger than the Empire State Building. With hundreds of ships backed up on both sides, a catastrophic jam is created with a staggering daily price tag of $10 billion! This brand-new documentary investigates the origins of this epic mishap, chronicling every step of the dramatic rescue with the use of dramatic archive footage, CGI, and key interviews with experts and eyewitnesses.
Professionally filmed and recorded before a sold-out crowd at New York City’s historic Beacon Theatre on November 6, 2019, the live concert extravaganza, Summer Of Sorcery Live! At The Beacon Theatre, expertly captures Little Steven bringing the house down with his Disciples of Soul as they showcase their acclaimed 2019 album, Summer Of Sorcery: a 12-track record about the first rush of summer and the electric feeling of unlimited possibilities.
Liam Payne announced in December that his livestream concerts are coming to an end with the LP Show Act 4: The Final Act. Promising to bring the past, present, and future together, Liam is throwing a very special show on January 9th.
A fleeting love encounter between two men with opposing views on love proves that, like a plum, the sweetest turn bitter too soon.
A deranged ex-con seeks revenge after his screenplay has been stolen.
During an isolation lock down, a young suburban woman with a twisted obsession begins to act on old grudges.
After his co-host's spin-off show The Colin McDonald Show explodes in popularity, Sailor Dreps spirals into insanity and conquers the Earth to fuel his own pathetic ego.
A traveller must make his way to the prize. But what could it be? A surprise? A life changing experience? Perhaps a lifelong friendship.
After the death of his mother, a little boy encounters a magical creature in the woods who promises to return her to him if he will simply chop down the tree he is trapped within
A woman goes home for the holidays to Kentucky, where she's forced to confront an unresolved family trauma.
In this moving story of love and dedication, Bernard Brash heals and finds hope by learning how to dance.
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A true crime podcast host sits down with an Indigenous woman to record her sister’s cold case, but their individual intentions for telling this story come to a head as they examine the night in question.
Zach and Kayla Wheeler are trying to cope with the loss of their mother after her funeral. Kayla is the younger sister who is still grieving and Zach is the older brother who is now about to take legal guardianship over his little sister. Life will be hard going forward but they'll rely on each other to get through this difficult time.
Filmmaker, Grant Conversano, interrogates the medium of the family photo, and what means to be photographed as a child by one's father while exploring inter-generational trauma, grief, and addiction.
A hardened, time-travelling, hitman reluctantly chooses between eliminating his high-profile target or stopping the painful (and pivotal) heartbreak of his younger self happening across the room.
Recollecting her youth during the 'Baby Scoop Era', Edith looks back on Solidago, an all-female rural community she was sent to in order to give birth to a child conceived outside of marriage.
Filmed collaboratively during lockdown, this short film is an exploration of the hidden moments in life that typically go unnoticed, and the acceptance of our given situations through appreciation for the mundanity of existence.
At the edge of the Moroccan Sahara a man contemplates his nomadic past and the turn his life has taken, whilst scientists in a German lab analyse deep-sea mud cores to unravel the Earth’s history.
Quinqui cinema encompassed a series of Spanish crime films with a unique national sensibility, as they reflected the times of the Franco dictatorship transition. Guided by academics Mery Cuesta and Tom Whittaker, this featurette explores this explosive subgenre.
At an orphanage for girls, the group's unchecked pack mentality alienates a new arrival. To swing the balance of power, Marina invents a manipulative night game.
A woman travels to her family’s cabin to find comfort in the familiar belongings held within.
The Quint Family Funeral Parlor has served the citizens of Morgan County for over 100 years. Siblings Mae, Lottie and Cy tend to the residents' journeys into eternity. However, not all of the folks will rest in peace.
A sleep-deprived boy battles to face what's real and what is not when a mysterious figure shows up at his house.
A live-action, psychological thriller short film set in a small, run-down laundromat located off Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway. The story follows the mysterious Sarah, a staff worker, and her interactions with Jason Cormack, a customer who hides a dark secret. As we find out more about Jason’s past and his reasons for being there, we realize that the laundromat is not what it appears to be.
Triptych (2020) is a homage to the the radical, political album, ‘We Insist!’ (1960) by the jazz musician Max Roach – the ideas of which prefigured the themes that became the Civil Rights and anti-apartheid movements. The catalyst for this film was the broadcasted portraits of figures such as Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, and the evident incongruity between the beguiling ordinariness of the images that represented them with the violent end we know they endured. Through a rare focus on portraiture, Akomfrah seeks to express the diversity of Black characters, characteristics and characterisations that should form the bedrock of any de-colonial or anti-racist future.
A serial killer must retain the urge to kill her latest victim as guests are on their way for dinner.
A skyscraper windshield wiper encounters a strange occurrence on a dull work day and dissatisfied with repetitive work every day
This current affairs documentary focuses on the trial of Louise Woodward, the 19-year-old British au pair accused of the murder, by shaking, of nine month old baby Matthew Eappen who was in her care while she was working in the US. At the time the highest profile court case in the US featuring a British defendant, the trial was played out on television screens across both sides of the Atlantic. This programme, marking 25 years since the 1997 trial, features access to many of the key figures closest to the case, aiming to illuminate each key step of the trial and its aftermath.
First Lady 3 will show how everyone will know who their family really is.
An oblivious young man refuses to take a life-saving antidote when the climate crisis results in a lethal gas emerging from the earth.