Independent Feature, Independent Documentary
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war.
Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
For John Lennon fans, this will fill in some of the details of his life, as well as provide footage and interviews previously unseen. For those unfamiliar with Lennon, particularly young people, it's a good introduction to the music and character of one of the most interesting people in the last third of the 20th century. As a political document, it's rather naive and incomplete, but the parallels and differences between Lennon's era and ours don't go unnoticed.
Jesus Camp
2007 Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary. A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival underway in America that requires Christian youth to assume leadership to assume leadership roles in advocating the causes of their religious movement.
JESUS CAMP, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, follows Levi, Rachael, and Tory to Pastor Becky Fischer's "Kids on Fire" summer camp in Devils Lake, North Dakota, where kids as young as 6 years old are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in "God's army."
The Betty Mystique
"Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food", a book by Susan Marks. Marks created this film on the same subject.
A Short History of Sweet Potato Pie & How It Became A Flying Saucer
Here is the real life story of Pearl Mallory who works as a cook at St. Pary's Court Retirement Community. But Pearl's cuisine is not the beige offering usually found in senior citizen centers. Her specialty--Sweet Potato Pie. 'Sweet Potato Pie' is all the evidence you need to know that, "You are what you eat."
Utu
Lush Pacific backdrops and a provocative script fuel this tale of vengeance set in New Zealand. The time is 1870, and the English are ruthlessly colonizing the island. Te Wheke (Anzac Wallace) is a Maori tribesman serving in the British Army. But after his own village and family are wiped out in a senseless raid, Te Wheke vows "utu"--the ritualistic revenge demanded by his culture. Deserting, he tatoos his face with colorful symbols and leads other Maoris on a rampage of retaliation and rebellion. Pitted against them are Lt.
A Soldier's Duty? The Ehren Watada Story
On June 22, U.S. Army First Lieutenant Ehren K. Watada became the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment to the unlawful Iraq War and occupation. For the first time since 1965, the military is prosecuting an objector for his opinions. He faces over eight years in prison - over six years for First Amendment speech alone!
I Know I Am Not Alone
Micheal Franti (Spearhead)’s film on traveling through war zones in the middle east as musicians and humanitarians. Franti visits with American soldiers, Iraqis, Palestinians and Israelis, in a film about peace and compassion.
Hijacking Catastrophe
Hijacking Catastrophe describes the cost of empire in a way so comprehensive that it becomes clear that neo-conservatism, as a foreign policy guide, comes with a very real moral, political and financial garnishment of every American, and of American children yet unborn. The cost is shown not only as a current financial outlay or in lives unlived on the part of soldiers and marines, but in terms of an alarming debt burden, loss of domestic freedom, the growing and invasive state, a permanent tattering of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, Co-Directors Sut Jhally and Kenyan King.