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American Commune
1 x 90’ or 1 x 60’, 2013, HD
In 1970, 1,500 hippies founded a commune in rural Tennessee. Members grew their own food, delivered babies at home and built a self-sufficient society. Raised in the commune by a Jewish mother from Beverly Hills and a Puerto Rican father from the Bronx, sisters Rena and Nadine return for the first time since 1985. American Commune finds that, perhaps surprisingly, communal values are alive and well in the next generation.
Mundo Films
Directors: Nadine Mundo & Rena Mundo Croshere
American Drug War 2: Cannabis Destiny
1 x 90’, 2019, HD
A boy lies in a coma and is dying. His father, reading about an ancient drug made from cannabis, secretly injects it into the feeding tube. The result is a “miracle” and when the doctors are told that cannabis was the cause they have nothing to say. Every war has unintended victims and it’s the children who are losing America’s longest running war. From the cartel recruiting grounds of Mexico - to a child being removed from his mother for smoking marijuana. Is it a conspiracy? Or simple profit that continues to keep marijuana inside the black market?
SCP Enterprises/Gravitas Ventures
Director: Kevin Booth
Amur: Asia’s Amazon
1 x 90’ or 3 x 60’, 2015, HD
Explore the unspoilt natural world along the Amur river, from its headwaters in Mongolia to its estuary in the northern Pacific. We meet Amur tigers, bears, gazelles and Manchurian cranes and follow soft-shelled Chinese turtles and taimen. Find out about traditional communities that battle to survive in a unique and, to western eyes, largely unknown environment, interwoven with shots of awe-inspiring sceneries, complete the picture.
Terra Mater Factual Studios/ Interspot Film/NDR Naturfilm/ Doclights/ARTE France
Directors: Franz Hafner & Klaus Feichtenberger
American Courtesans
1 x 90’, 2013, HD
‘American Courtesans’ is a feature documentary that takes you into the lives of American sex workers. These women discuss with you candidly what brought them to the doors of the sex trade, what they found when they got there and why they stayed. Follow eleven sex workers through the streets, massage parlors, brothels, and strip clubs to the high rises in New York and the bell captains in Las Vegas. This is a story, a different kind of American story, that will leave you speechless.
Centex Enterprises/ Gravitas Ventures
Director: James Johnson
American Made Movie
1 x 84’, 2013, HD
Look back on the glory days of U.S. manufacturing when there was a more balanced relationship between the goods produced and consumed, and how technology and globalization have changed the competitive landscape for companies doing business in the U.S. as well as overseas. See the successes of companies and entrepreneurs that have prospered without adopting the practices of their competitors, ‘American Made Movie’ shows the positive impact these jobs can have on national and local economies in the face of great challenges.
Life Is My Movie Entertainment Company/Gravitas Ventures
Director: Nathaniel Thomas McGill
Animal Homes: Natural
Born Enginners
1 x 90’ or 3 x 60’, 2015, HD
Animals build homes for very similar reasons to our own, but they have been doing it for much longer. Built with great complexity, usually with found materials, and sometimes with materials made from their own bodies. In this series, we investigate how skillful and diverse animal engineering and architecture can be, and explore the intriguing behaviours and social interactions that take place in and around animal homes.
Terra Mater Factual Studios/ Coneflower Productions/ Thirteen Productions
Director: Anna Johnson Prum Featuring: Chris Morgan
Feature Docs