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Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE is an exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens.
3) The Mayor
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A small mountain town in southern California elects a dog for its mayor. his eccentric owners and the general population of the town believe that Mayor Max has brought nothing but sunshine, happiness and rainbows to a town previously divided by partisan politics.
4) Weiner
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sexts, lies & Carlos Danger. Get an inside peek at one of the biggest political scandals ever: Anthony Weiner's wild "comeback" mayoral run. Winner, Sundance Grand Jury Prize.
5) The Scribe
Publisher
Gogo Yolt Pty Ltd - Ruth Cullen
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From deep within the engine room of politics comes this superb documentary on the “Donald Bradman” of speech writing - Graham Freudenberg. A powerful journey into one of the great minds of Australian politics. Graham has written speeches for Labor leaders from Arthur Calwell to Simon Crean. This group includes Gough Whitlam, Neville Wran, Bob Carr and Bob Hawke, who described him as the “chameleon” of speech writers. The Scribe interrogates...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
COCAINE PRISON follows the lives of three Bolivians who work at the lowest levels of the cocaine trade. Two inmates of a prison film their daily experiences, while one inmate's sister must decide whether to traffic cocaine or pursue a college education. The film bridges the ever-widening gap between the North and the South and brings a new perspective to the War on Drugs being waged in the Andes.
8) Risk
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Filmed over six years, Julian Assange is undeterred to undermine the organization he leads and fracture the movement he inspired. In a new world order where a keystroke can alter history, RISK is a portrait of power, betrayal, truth, and sacrifice.
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Investigative journalist Anthony Baxter travels between the Presidential race and the timeless Scottish countryside to explore the troubling confrontation between a feisty 92-year-old Scottish widow and her family and Donald Trump. “There could not be a more important film than this,” wrote Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian, yet the film was temporarily shut down following legal threats from the Trump Organization. As thousands of journalists hang...
10) Generation 9/11
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Generation 9/11 marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks by telling the stories of seven young people whose fathers were killed that day. The film explores how a man they never met and an event they didn’t witness have shaped their world view and the world around them. Their experiences reflect those of an entire generation, whose lives so far have been bracketed by crisis.
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After one unassuming Chinese language teacher defected and spoke up against the Chinese government's multi-billion dollar Confucius Institute (CI) program, One of Canada's top 10 universities and its largest school board found themselves embroiled in a growing global controversy as scholars, parents, and officials question the CI program's political influence and true purpose.
12) Dream With Me
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Saba is one of the more than 800,000 "Dreamers" who took advantage of the DACA program in 2012. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama era program, provided some temporary protections to undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children. In 2017, the Trump administration made the decision to rescind DACA. With her immigration status once again in limbo, Saba must now face a new set of challenges.
13) Meeting Snowden
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Edward Snowden, a former CIA and NSA employee, made history in 2013 when he leaked information exposing the biggest mass surveillance scandal of the century. In this film, a secret meeting between him and global freedom and civil rights campaigners, Birgitta Jonsdottir and Larry Lessig turns into a freewheeling discussion about the future of democracy. The questions they ask are fundamental.
14) Love Free or Die
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
LOVE FREE OR DIE (Special Jury Prize winner Sundance 2012) is about a man whose two defining passions the world cannot reconcile: his love for God and for his partner Mark. It is about church and state, love and marriage, faith and identity-and one man’s struggle to dispel the notion that God’s love has limits. In the film, Gene Robinson becomes the first openly gay person to be elected bishop in the high church traditions of Christendom. Bishop...
17) Dope is Death
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
DOPE IS DEATH is the story of how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America in 1973 - a visionary project eventually deemed too dangerous to exist in America.
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
America has always been a land of extremes, but it is as polarised today as it's ever been. Travelling through its states, this timely documentary explores the influences that are changing the face of American culture. Meeting artists, musicians, locals and leaders, rich and poor, it takes a look outside of the political maelstrom at the complex dynamics and divides playing out at a grassroots level. What will become of the land of the free?
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
The much-celebrated peace agreement runs Colombia into chaos. FARC guerrilla Ernesto, poverty-stricken coca farmers, a mysterious aristocrat, and a passionate right-wing politician struggle at the edge of their morals as they reach for contradictory dreams for a better Colombia. What happens to a very fragile peace in an unequal country if doing the ‘wrong’ thing may easily be justified as the only viable means of struggle?
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