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Forgetting Dad
1 x 83’, 2008, HD
A week after an apparently minor car accident, Richard Minnich wakes up with total amnesia. He no longer recognises his wife and children, re-christens himself ‘New Richard’ and begins a completely new life. A psychological detective story in the best sense, this award-winning film searches for Richard’s lost memory through interviews with family members and co- workers, eventually uncovering startling facts about the amnesia itself.
Rick Films
Directors: Rick Minnich & Matt Sweetwoof
Genius Of Nature
1 x 90’ or 3 x 60’, 2014, HD
Life has been evolving on Planet Earth for over three billion years. The process of natural selection has been like an arms race, shaping creatures’ ability to survive in virtually every corner of the planet. Each episode begins by identifying a selection of human problems, explores how nature has solved them, and reveals the way that modern science has adapted nature’s solutions to our own ends.
Terra Mater Factual Studios/Oxford Scientific Films/BBC
Directors: Steve Nicholls & Graham Booth
A Girl And A Gun
1 x 76’, 2013, HD
Reaching far beyond hypersexualised femme fatales, the film candidly explores the relationship between gun violence and the modern American woman, encompassing issues of protection, power, and feminism. This is a thoughtful meditation on a deadly serious issue. We meet women who’ve carved themselves a home in the gun community, but their personal journeys reflect the same issues every woman faces today.
Salted Media
Director: Cathryne Czubek
The Game
1 x 66’ or 1 x 106’, 2017, 4K
This is a story of Hip Hop culture conquering the world and today being a lifestyle and global business. Artists like 50 Cent, Ice T, Chuck D, Young Thug, Grandmaster Caz, Melle Mel... and the leading engineers of this success explain the mechanics of this accomplishment and project themselves into the digital future. See the story of the artists that have become global brands and changed the rules of “The Game”, entering a forbidden frontier for black artists: Wall Street.
@ Brainworks 2017 Director: Alex Jordanov
Genius Within: The Inner Life Of Glenn Gould
1 x 108, 1 x 86’ or 1 x 60’, 2009, HD
An enigmatic musical poet and the most documented classical musician of the last century, pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate international audiences twenty- six years after his untimely death. This film weaves together an unprecedented array of unseen footage, private home recordings and diaries, as well as compelling interviews with Gould’s most intimate friends and lovers, piercing through the myths, revealing the man beneath.
White Pine Pictures
Director:s Peter Raymonth & Michele Hozer
Google And The World Brain
1 x 89’ or 1 x 60’, 2013, HD
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to scan every book in existence. The giant global library would be available to the public, but the eventual purpose was to create a higher form of intelligence, as predicted by HG Wells in his essay, World Brain. Since more than half the books scanned were in copyright, authors launched a campaign to stop Google. But is this kind of artificial intelligence an inevitable part of our future?
Polar Star Films Director: Ben Lewis
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