DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS
In Alphabetical Order
Bringing King to China (Click Title for Trailer)
Director: Kevin McKiernan
Caitrin, a young American, struggles to bring Martin Luther King’s dream of non-violence to China. Relocating to China to teach civil rights, she fends off criticism about U.S. foreign policy by staging a play about Dr. King to show ‘a positive face of America.’ Her dream of building a bridge of understanding is shaken by cross-cultural misunderstanding, strained relationships and the awareness that her father, the filmmaker, is suffering from post-traumatic stress due to reporting from Iraq. http://www.bringingkingtochina.com/
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S. (Click Title for Trailer)
Director: Matthew Pillischer
Philadelphia, March 28, 2011
The movie centers around Michelle Alexander’s theory in her groundbreaking book, ‘The New Jim Crow:’ through the rise of the drug war and tough on crime policies. Discretion within the system allows for targeting people of color at disproportionately high rates. Mass incarceration is the new caste system in America. The movie dissects the War on Drugs and ‘tough on crime’ movement. It illustrates how the emerging Occupy movement offers hope for change and explores possible reforms and solutions.
http://www.brokenonallsides.com/
Crocodile in the Yangtze (Click Title for Trailer)
Director: Porter Erisman
“Crocodile in the Yangtze” follows China’s first Internet entrepreneur and former English teacher, Jack Ma, as he battles government bureaucrats, international media and US giant eBay to build China’s first global Internet company. The inside story of China’s Internet revolution told through the eyes of an American who worked in Ma’s company, Alibaba.com.
https://www.facebook.com/CrocodileInTheYangtze
Face 2 Face (Click Title for Trailer)
Director: Katherine Brooks
“Face 2 Face” follows the 11,000 mile cross country adventure of Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Katherine Brooks. After major surgery, Katherine found herself feeling isolated and alone. Spending her days on Facebook, Katherine noticed she had 5,000 virtual friends, but no one had hugged her in over a month. Struck with the idea that it takes more than a friend request to be a friend, she posted the status update: the first 50 people who say YES…I’m coming to your city to meet you face to face. http://www.face2facemovie.com/
The Naked Brand (Click Title for Trailer)
Director: Jeff Rosenblum
Shaquille O’Neal
“What you see is what you get.”
“The Naked Brand” is a story about how corporations can help save the planet one small step at a time. It’s an introduction to a bright new future where companies tell the truth and work hard to create better products and a better planet. Corporations have incredible influence on the world we live in and that’s given them free reign to pollute, collude and mislead us, but advances in technology are rapidly making them accountable not just to shareholders, but to everyone. Big brands are realizing that looking great isn’t enough. It’s time to actually be great. http://www.thenakedbrandfilm.com/
The Real Social Network (Click Title for Trailer)
Directors: Ludovica, Isis Thompson, Srdjan Keca
At the end of 2010, following the British government’s intention to raise tuition fees, a broad student protest movement arose. A moment before the “Arab Spring” and protests for social justice around the globe, the British students already deployed methods that would characterize the new wave of protest: organizing in real time through social media, “occupying” the university; ultimately extending their scope to include wider social issues. “The Real Social Network” captures the passion, the anger and the technology that has forever changed the game between those in power and us. http://www.realsocialnetworkfilm.com/
This Space Available (Click Title for Trailer)
Director: Gwenaëlle Gobé
The new Venice?
Billboards and commercial messages dominate the public space like never before. Can we reverse this visual pollution? This Space Available looks at diverse activists from the worlds of advertising, street art, and politics. Influenced by the writing of Marc Gobe (Emotional Branding), his daughter Gwenaelle directs with tremendous verve in her depiction of New Yorkers and others around the world who want to reclaim the integrity of their cities against an onslaught of visual pollution.
http://thisspaceavailablefilm.com/
NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS
InContact (Click Title for Website/Trailer)
Director: Ann Oren
“InContact” examines intimacy in our universal state of voyeurism, evoking an age of lost romance and melodrama. A love triangle unfolds through an online platform called InContact, which is a hybrid of facebook and reality TV, giving users a constant live video feed from their friends’ computers. InContact explores levels of spectatorship and exhibitionism in our everyday life, when every user is both a viewer and a performer. *WORLD PREMIERE*
The Last Push (Click Title for Trailer)
Director: Eric Hayden
A science fiction art film about an adventurous mission to Jupiter’s moon that is cut short when disaster strikes, killing the co-pilot. The story follows the surviving astronaut’s struggle to keep his spacecraft and his sanity together for the long journey home. “The Last Push” stars Kary Payton and features Lance Henriksen (“Aliens,” “The Right Stuff”) and Brian Baumgartner (“The Office.”)
