October 9, 2015

THE CHAMPIONS

NYC PREMIERE In recent decades, mainstream media has portrayed pit bulls as vicious killers, with several states even banning the breed. When Atlanta Falcons’ star quarterback Michael Vick’s brutal dog-fighting ring was exposed, this stigma resulted in calls for euthanasia of the pit bulls involved by PETA and the Humane Society. The Champions intimately chronicles […]

October 9, 2015

TROUBLEMAKERS: THE STORY OF LAND ART

In the 1960s and ‘70s, a group of NYC-based artists abandoned the constraints of gallery spaces and the demands of the marketplace, moving to the expanse of the American Southwest to engage in a radical reconceptualization of their artistic practice. Turning to nature, acclaimed artists like Michael Heizer (Double Negative) and Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty) […]

October 9, 2015

BOXEADORA

NYC PREMIERE Cuba’s only female boxer seeks to defy Castro’s ban on women in the sport and become the country’s first woman boxer to compete in the Olympics.

October 9, 2015

THE END OF THE WORLD

NYC PREMIERE The End of the World is an intimate, creative and immensely visual documentary where a couple of stories weave into one narrative over the course of one night.

October 9, 2015

HYENA BOYS

NYC PREMIERE Follow Nigeria’s elusive hyena boys into their secret world of animal magic and voodoo.

October 9, 2015

THE REINVENTION OF NORMAL

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE The Reinvention of Normal follows Dominic Wilcox, an artist-inventor-designer, on his quest for new ideas.

October 9, 2015

ROTHMAN

Rothman, the son of a small time crook who grew up to become the kind of lawyer that helps crooks — a New York criminal defense attorney.

October 9, 2015

TIGER HOOD

NYC PREMIERE Patrick Barr, a.k.a. “Tiger Hood,” has a passion for golf, but lacking the proper equipment, Tiger ‘hits the links’ on the corner of Spring St. and Lafayette, amidst the hustle and bustle of New York City.

October 9, 2015

THE ABSENTEES

WORLD PREMIERE   A story of thousands of Rohingyas–a people persecuted at home and abroad–told through the voice of Raees, a refugee in Dubai.

October 9, 2015

DUNK TANK CLOWNS

Three men discuss their lives working as dunk tank clowns, a job requiring quick wit, a thick skin and stamina, in carnivals across the north-east.