Brimstone & Glory
Tultepec, Mexico is known for just one thing: fireworks. The city manufactures more than half of all fireworks made in Mexico, a good percentage of which will be set off at the small town’s annual festival for San Juan de Dios.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Viktor Jakovleski
An Apology to Elephants
Elephants are among the most majestic and intelligent creatures on Earth–but for hundreds of years, they have suffered at the hands of humans. Narrated by Lily Tomlin, this documentary short…
La Mami
One of the rooms inside the legendary Barba Azul Cabaret has become a shelter for the girls working there: the women’s bathroom. Every night La Mami, who’s in charge of…
National Gallery
A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of the employees and the experiences of the Gallery’s visitors. The film portrays the…
Dark City Beneath the Beat
Dark City Beneath The Beat is an audiovisual experience that defines the soundscape of Baltimore city. Inspired by an all original Baltimore club music soundtrack, the film spotlights local club…
Midnight Family
In Mexico City, the government operates fewer than 45 emergency ambulances for a population of 9 million. This has spawned an underground industry of for-profit ambulances often run by people…
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is a feature-length documentary film about the dismal commercial failure, subsequent massive critical acclaim, and enduring legacy of pop music’s greatest cult phenomenon, Big…
The Exorcism of Roland Doe
The Exorcist has terrified audiences since 1973, but few know the story is true. For the first time on television, investigators expose shocking secrets about the real-life exorcism of a…
Before The Wrath
While scholars debate the timing of the Rapture, the world has lost why this event is prophesied to occur in the first place; knowledge that was once understood by those…
Origins
“Origins” takes a journey through the biological roots of where we have come from and where we have gone. Using fire as a metaphor for technology, the film looks at…
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens
John Shepherd spent 30 years trying to contact extraterrestrials by broadcasting music millions of miles into space. After giving up the search, he makes a different connection here on earth.
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
Drawn from a newly discovered archive of 16mm film showing Tom Petty at work on his 1994 record Wildflowers, considered by many including Rolling Stone to be his greatest album…
Mount St. Elias
At an altitude of 18,000 feet, Alaska’s Mount St. Elias is the destination for a trio of mountaineers determined to reach the mountain’s summit, and to ski back down as…