Films In Release
Today The Hawk Takes One Chick
Screening at The Docyard (Q&A to follow.)
August 16th, 7:00pm. The Brattle Theatre, Harvard Square.
I’m Just Anneke
Directed by Jonathan Skurnik.
Winner of the Outfest LA – Audience Award for Outstanding Achievement in Short Documentary.
Accelerating America
A remarkable portrait of an inspirational principal, two of his most challenging students, and a school that offers at-risk youth a second chance. Despite abandonment, poverty, and troubled pasts, America and Yazmine struggle to turn their lives around over the course of a single make-or-break year.
Baby It’s You
“A whimsical and completely moving meditation, simultaneously warm, funny, and painful, on what family and children mean in today’s ultra-confusing world”
-Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Brother Outsider
Directed by Nancy Kates & Bennett Singer.
Now available on Netflix and in distribution on DVD.
A Chance To Grow
A Chance to Grow follows three families on an intimate journey as they navigate the unpredictable terrain of a neonatal intensive care unit. The inevitable shifts in each baby’s condition provide dramatic twists that challenge family stability and redefine parental love.
DooF (F-o-o-D backwards)
DooF combines a high-energy game show with something none of us can live without: food! DooF (F-o-o-D backwards) challenges kids to discover the backwards, forwards, sideways, right-side-up, upside-down and inside-out amazing and colorful world of food.
Downside UP
What happens when an impoverished, working-class town decides that its only hope for survival lies within the world of contemporary art? Can these two disparate worlds possibly benefit each other? And why would they even try?
Family Affair
Screening in the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival. September 24-26, 2010.
Camden International Film Festival. September 30th – October 3d.
Lowell Blues: The Words of Jack Kerouac
Lowell Blues remembers the place Jack Kerouac could not forget. Fusing visual history, language and jazz into a 30-minute film poem, Lowell Blues illuminates Kerouac’s childhood holy land.
Murder On Beacon Hill
This original production is a first-of-its-kind location-based adaptation of a major documentary film. Evidence of the story still remains in Boston’s old Beacon Hill neighborhood. Use your iPhone to follow geocoded videos that reveal the evidence, characters, and feeling of a time when mystery stories, detective work, and a century of progress were just starting.
My Father, The Genius
When long-estranged father, dreamer and visionary architect, Glen Small bequeaths his daughter the task of writing his biography, she answers instead with an irreverent film about his precarious career and rocky private life – while he is still alive.
Nations of Peace
Leading politicians and peace experts from the world’s 5 most peaceful countries define and stress the necessity for ‘positive peace’ in creating healthy, wealthy societies.
