Salim Baba is the directorial debut of Tim Sternberg who most recent film “WAR DON DON” is on the festival circuit. It is a portrait of a traveling bioscope projectionist Mohammed Ali Salim, a true living link between the birth of cinema at the dawn of hte 20th century and the digital age of today. [...]
SEPTEMBER RELEASES September 17th CATFISH – Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost SYNOPSIS: The vague synopsis explains that filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost began to document an online relationship that was developing between Ariel’s brother Nev and a girl that he met on the internet. They eventually decided to take a road trip from New [...]
WE LIVE IN PUBLIC – a fabulous film by Ondi Timoner, 2009. It took ten years to make the film from 5000 hours of footage. This is the story of the greatest internet pioneer you’ve never heard of – JOHN HARRIS and his vision of what the internet can and will do. The film is [...]
What if you had a dream that came true and then you had another dream and you learned that you were going to die. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? One night filmmaker Amy Hardie dreamed that her beloved horse, George, had died. She awoke and was horrified to find that the dream had come true. Not [...]
Floating tomatoes is a 34 minute documentary by Burmese filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi. Water, Water everywhere but not a drop that is safe to drink. With the fifth anniversary of hurricane Katrina fast approaching and the devastating floods in Pakistan, I was looking for a documentary about water, for the ‘film of the [...]
Prodigal sons is a personal documentary about Kimberly Reed, a transgendered and lesbian filmmaker. In the film, Kim reveals that the first part of her life, she tried to deny the fact that she was really a girl and tried hard to fit in and do everything a teenage boy would do. After she transitioned [...]
Yesterday, I received a coupon (photo above) in the mail for a free smoothie or frappe at participating McDonalds. I would have tossed it in the bin, but, some words on the flyer that did not seem like English caught my attention. My initial reaction was, it must be Spanish, but it did not sound [...]
RABBIT A LA BERLIN BERLIN WALL DOCUMENTARY from an unusual perspective – A rabbit’s point of view The untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls. For 28 years Death Zone was their safest home. Full of grass, no predators, guards protecting them from human disturbance. They were closed but happy. When [...]
Where The Mind is Without Fear Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the [...]
No, No one found an ant colony in one of the Southwest planes. Southwest airline is very special for me. In 2008, when I moved to Austin, Texas to pursue my graduate degree, I was entering into the world of long distance relationships. For the next three years, My husband was to live in Maryland [...]
