Carhenge: Genius or Junk extended description play trailer

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Did you know that America had its own version of Stonehenge? Located in Western Nebraska, Carhenge has become a huge tourist attraction—and also a center of local controversy. It all comes together in a humorous and visually stunning documentary.

Children of the Amazon extended description play trailer

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Children of the Amazon follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed fifteen years ago. Part road movie, part time travel, her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart.

Selection: Mill Valley Film Festival (October 2008)

From a Silk Cocoon extended description play trailer

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Woven through their censored letters, diary entries and haiku poetry, is the story of a young Japanese American couple whose shattered dreams and forsaken loyalties lead them to renounce their American citizenship while held in separate American prison camps during World War II.

Our Heroes (and Their Ladies In Waiting) extended description play trailer

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The documentary was filmed during a reunion for the 109th Infantry Regiment Veterans of WWII. The Veterans and their families share their stories of survival, on and off the battlefield. It is a chance to see WWII in a new dimension, one that isn’t written in the history books, but in the hearts of these American Heroes.

Put the Needle on the Record extended description play trailer

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'PUT THE NEEDLE ON THE RECORD' is an award-winning documentary which explores the evolution of electronic music and the rise of the DJ in pop culture. Filmed in Miami during the hot and sexy Winter Music Conference, a yearly week-long event attended by over 20,000 electronic music professionals and fans, the film takes an inside look at a growing global phenomenon in the world of music. Interviews with top artists, footage from events around the globe and a brilliant soundtrack are combined to create a highly energetic piece of filmmaking. First-time director Jason Rem brings an unexplored genre of music to the masses for a glimpse at a movement that is driven by passion, creativity and business. The film has been called “A rock solid documentary,” and “An event to savor in wonderment,” and is not to be missed.

Scrabylon (extended description) (play trailer) 

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Scrabylon is a critically-acclaimed, award-winning documentary on the cut-throat world of tournament Scrabble®. Featuring the most fierce anagrammers, rack balancers, and bingo experts in competitive Scrabble®, Scrabylon delves deep into this sometimes wacky, sometimes odd, always compelling subculture. Shot primarily during the World Scrabble® Championships in Las Vegas, Scrabylon features players from around the globe and gives an up-close look at why people get so obsessed with that seemingly benign game played at countless kitchen tables.

She Said extended description play trailer

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"She Said" explores the secret world of young women in their 20's with unprecedented candor.  This feature documentary takes a first hand look at "what goes on behind the smile".

Speed City extended description play trailer

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Speed City is a picture of the city centre of Sydney told from the frenzied point-of-view of three bicycle couriers: the accident prone former BMX bike racing star “Crash Test” Danny, his mate Skater (an educated English lad with an attitude), and Kiri (one of only a handful of women couriers in the city). Like soldiers or cowboys, strength, camaraderie, danger, law-breaking, injury and confrontation have all become part of the job.

Sustainable Table extended description play trailer

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Sustainable Table is a feature documentary that takes an unadulterated look into the food that you buy and eat. What’s on your plate? Where does it come from? What effects does it have on the environment and your body? What can you do to help?

Sustainable Table introduces some of the alternatives to conventionally-produced food. It may not be enough to buy your food from Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. A new kind of food system is needed, where food is produced locally using sustainable methods.

Tibet Hope extended description play trailer play clip

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Action or Apathy? Historically, Tibetans choose Action—striving to preserve their invaluable culture, language and heritage. Tibet Hope features His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other Tibetans exiled from their home and way of life.
  • Learn about the Tibetan people, cast out from their sovereign home.
  • Listen to the Dalai Lama and other Tibetans tell their stories appealing to your understanding of the need for freedom.
  • Witness the current situation on the Tibet-Nepal boarder as Tibetans flee Chinese occupied Tibet only to find Civil war in Nepal.

Tibet Hope has received the Accolade Competition 2007 Award of Excellence.

Worldwheel extended description play trailer1 play trailer2

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This one-hour documentary follows one woman’s pilgrimage for Global Peace. Vijali Hamilton travels from California to New York, Spain, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, India, Tibet, China, Siberia, & Japan -- leaving behind stone carvings that attempt to remind people that we’re all one on this planet.

There is also a 30-minute version. This condensed version covers the entire trip & also includes a segment in Ecuador. Vijali travels to the Andes of Ecuador and works with the villagers on a sacred boulder. There, they make an inspiring carving as well as strike a water spring that gushes from the stone.