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"The Maiden Danced to Death", Canada-Hungary-Slovenia Co-production, 2010, Drama, Directed by Endre Hules, Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond, and the Budapest Dance Ensemble. Steve (Endres Hules) a dancer turned impressario returns from Canada to his native Hungary after 20 years. Communism is over, but the family-run dance company brings Steve into contact with old flames and new challenges in this dance-driven drama expertly shot with cinematographer Vilmos Zigmond (The Deer Hunter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Deliverance) Starring: Deborah Kara Unger (Silent Hill, The Game) Stephen McHattie (2012, 300, The Fountain) Endre Hules (Angels and Demons, Zoolander, Apollo 13) Gil Bellows (Weather Man, The Shawshank Redemption) CLICK TO SEE "THE MAIDEN DANCED" FILM PRE-TRAILER CLIP
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“Lovers in a Dangerous Time” Canada 2009
“An undeniably lovely film: natural, gorgeously shot, haunting funny and practically oozing with Canadiana!” — Eric Volmer, Calgary Herald It’s an award-winning comedy about youthful regrets, a love story without consummation, a return to a home that was never forgotten. A story where boy meets girl, only they have known each other since they were two. It’s a romance, Canadian style. CLICK TO SEE “LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME” TRAILER
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American Sunset , Canada, 2010, 90 min. Thriller
The Last completed movie with Corey Haim “Your wife, a call from a kidnapper, 6 clues, 24hrs to find her. CLICK TO SEE “AMERICAN SUNSET” TRAILER
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The Storm ,Canada, 2009, 84 min. Apocalyptic Thriller
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DOCUMENTARIES
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“Red Shirley” documentary 28 min.
-Sundance 2011 Red Shirley, a 99-year-old formally known as Shumalit Rabinowitz, is the star of this film co-directed by her cousin, none other than former Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed. Rabinowitz lived through the devastation of the First World war; and fled Poland for Canada during the Second. At 19, she immigrated illegally to the U.S where she spent 47 years toiling at a New York textile factory. She tracked down her long-lost sisters in Palestine, engaged in union struggles and took part un the Civik Rights March on Washington D.C. Enhanced by its dark soundtrack – courtesy of Mr Reed, naturally – and judicious use of freeze frames, this intimate cousin-to cousin encounter is a fascinating distrillation of an individual’s unique experience over a vast expanse of 20th-century history. CLICK TO SEE “RED SHIRLEY” TRAILER
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Lines That Divide USA, 52 min. -Official Selection California Independent Film Festival 2010
Stem cell technology: Miracle cure or biological colonialism? This film provides two completely different points of view in heated debate: “LINES THAT DIVIDE” First, the viewer is introduced to the basic science of stem cells and how they are gathered for medical use. Embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells are both explained along with their similarities, differences and methods of procurement. Scientific issues are examined, such as the benefits, drawbacks, and scientific and medical results of both. The documentary also introduces the moral issues being argued in the public square – issues of human life and the medical utilization of embryos, as well as women’s health issues that arise from the procurement of eggs used in much of the research. Scientists, doctors and ethicists on both sides weigh in with their views. CLICK TO SEE “LINES THAT DIVIDE” TRAILER
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“Independent America: The two-lane search for Mom and Pop“ , USA, 52min.
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Independent America: Rising from the Ruins, USA, 76 and 52min. An award winning documentary about the rebuilding of New Orleans. Second film in a series about big box stores and local mom and pop businesses, this film take s close look at the economic and social challenges ahead for New Orleans as a cultural and economic epicenter. by Open Door Productions CLICK TO SEE “INDEPENDENT AMERICA: RISING FROM THE RUINS” TRAILER |
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EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed, USA, 2008, 97 min., (NEW)
Theatrical doc. 5.5M budget, (HD & 35mm avail) , no. 2 top grossing theatrical documentary in USA 2008, $ 8.5M Box Office, held no. 1 spot on Amazon.com (USA) for documentary DVD for over 1 month upon DVD release
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Frag, USA, 2008, 88 min. theatrical doc, HD (NEW)
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Pussycat Preacher, USA, 2008, theatrical & TV length documentary digital betacam, (picked up by Channel Four, UK)
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Leaving the Fold, Canada, 2008, documentary, 52min, HD
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Pond Hockey, USA, 2008, theatrical doc, (NEW)
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Kids with Cameras, USA, 2009, 52 min. (Market Premiere)
“These kids are heroes and Koepenic their Pied Piper”
– Annie Potts |
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A War in Hollywood, Spain, USA, 2009, 92 & 52 min. HD (Market Premiere) Winner Best Documentary, New York Independent International Film & Video Festival-2009. Winner Best Documentary, Mollerussa’s “Som Cinema” Film Festival 2009 (Spain) Official Selection, Montréal’s World’s Films Festival 2009.. Official Selection, Mar del Plata Film Festival (Argentina) 2009 Official Selection Gaudí’s Awards 2010 (Catalan “Oscars”) Hollywood used the Spanish Civil War as a subject in more than 50 films. The defeat of the Democratic Spain left an “open wound” in the heart of liberal actors, directors and screenwriters who used affection towards democratic Spain as a symbolic feature to define the romantic spirit of their characters. |
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“Good Boys Go to Heaven, Bad Boys go to Europe”
Tomsk, the “Athens” of Siberia. 2008. Oleg, 28, is about to move to Europe with his wife Anya. He is getting ready to leave his lifelong friends, family and the city where he has spent his whole life. CLICK TO SEE “Good Boys Go To Heaven, Bad Boys Go To Europe” TRAILER |
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Mission TV: 13.x 26 min
Discover the inner workings a a group dedicated to working in mission fields, bringing needed help to a wide range of commmunities. |
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What do you get if you mix Donald Trump along explosive ONLINE business opportunities? THE NEXT INTERNET MILLIONAIRE, 13 x 52 min. |
In the future, Joseph enters a bookshop searching for an Italian writer. While he searches for the name “Firenze” in the database, he recounts the story of a woman he had met 30 years previously.
Lisbon, 2007: Joseph is a tormented American seminarian, a member of Opus Dei, who has come to Lisbon to help organize an exhibition of the Franciscan Order in Lisbon’s Cathedral. The exhibition brings to Portugal a legendary mirror, “The Mirror of St. Francis of Assisi”, that was said to have allowed St Francis to see the next morning.
On the day of his departure, Joseph, at the train station, literally bumps into Giulia, a beautiful and irreverent Italian writer with whom he establishes an immediate chemistry. Giulia tells Joseph she came to Lisbon to try to find a mysterious Portuguese singer who her father had a relationship with in Lisbon before he left to fight for the Portuguese in their colonial war. In the final letters that this woman had sent to Giulia’s father, her passion and feeling of abandonment seemed to be driving her to insanity. She was obviously unaware that an accident of war left her loving soldier with no memories of his past and unable to respond. Giulia came to Lisbon to bring the tragic news of her father’s death and to return her the letters… but the singer has seemed to disappear.
Joseph, fascinated by her story, suggests that he and Giulia take advantage of the 12 hour of delay of their trains, caused by the Pope’s visit to Portugal, to try to find the lost singer. The two depart on a journey around Lisbon, and discover a mystical city where they experience an adventure of mutual discovery, of attraction, of secrets and revelations… and of intimacy and desire.
Seemingly, the loneliest boy in the world has met the saddest girl and they can only fail to share a future togetherÖ yet, both with a tragic past, the new revelations and the old secrets draw them even closer…
Then Giulia promises Joseph: “If one day you find my book, youíll find me as well.”