All Films

Shoot the Moon

2011 • 26 min

Shoot The Moon is the 3rd DVD from Videograss. It is quite simply a snowboarding video so if you’re heavily into that world, you will already no of this video. Featuring parts from Chris Grenier, Darrell Mathes, Gus Engle, Jake Olson-Elm, Jed Anderson, Johnny Miller, Jon Kooley, Jonas Michilot, Jordan Mendenhall, Justin Bennee, Louif Paradis, Mikey Leblanc, Nick Dirks, Nima Jalali, Will Tuddenham and Zac Marben.

Snipers, Inc.

2011 • 45 min • United States of America

In the town of Christiana, Tennessee, the Barretts, create firearms and ammunition for some of the best marksmen in the world.

The Wonder of Weeds

2011 • 59 min

Blue Peter gardener Chris Collins celebrates the humble and sometimes hated plants we call weeds. He discovers that there is no such thing as a weed, botanically speaking, and that in fact what we call a weed has changed again and again over the last three hundred years. Chris uncovers the story of our changing relationship with weeds - in reality, the story of the battle between wilderness and civilisation. He finds out how weeds have been seen as beautiful and useful in the past, and sees how their secrets are being unlocked today in order to transform our crops. Finally, Chris asks whether, in our quest to eliminate Japanese Knotweed or Rhododendron Ponticum, we are really engaged in an arms race we can never win. We remove weeds from our fields and gardens at our peril.

National Geographic Ultimate Factories: Porsche 911

2011 • 45 min

Ultimate Factories goes inside the famous House of Porsche to see how they create the Porsche 911, one of the most influential and recognizable vehicles in the world. Every distinctive element is manufactured at the Zuffenhausen factory in Stuttgart, Germany, a historical industrial monument. Examine the Porsche factory's innovative system of lifts, elevators and bridges, which conveys car bodies 50 feet above a public highway. Watch how approximately 120 cars a day are built with options for every interior feature finished in leather, and learn how this single rear-engine sports car lays claim to legendary handling of the road.

Curved Air - The Lost Broadcasts

2011 • 40 min

Curved Air - The Lost Broadcasts 01. Vivaldi 02. It Happened Today 03. Propositions 04. Back Street Luv I 05. Back Street Luv II 06. Piece Of Mind

Bryan Beller: Wednesday Night Live

2011 • 60 min

A raw, powerful, intimate live document of the Bryan Beller Band 2010 touring lineup playing a 45-minute set at The Baked Potato in Los Angeles, plus two bonus tracks from other shows. Featuring: Rick Musallam (guitar), Griff Peters (guitar), Mike Keneally (keyboards & guitar), Bryan Beller (bass), Joe Travers (drums)

Aaron Burr, Part 2

2011 • 8 min

A contemporary re-imagining of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr explores the idea of history as a contested narrative.

Eye of the future

2011 • 40 min • Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France

Five children from around the world charged by the earth to share their stories of climate solutions and sustainable designs from their home regions. They decide to scale back existing technologies and create sustainable designs, but the Earth's systems have already reached critical levels.

Chilean Miners: 17 Days Buried Alive

2011 • 60 min • United Kingdom

When the 33 Chilean miners emerged from underground before a worldwide audience of over a billion, they made a pact not to speak about what had happened underground. Now six of them remember the untold story of the first 17 days - when no-one outside knew if they were alive. Filming down a Chilean mine, the program explores the nightmare of living in the dark tunnels half a mile underground, eating a spoonful of tuna every two days and not knowing if you would ever be found.

Vision of Nature

2011 • 60 min

Visions of Nature is a German 3D film of beautiful scenery from Earth.

The Long Hope

2011 • 60 min

St John’s head on the Island of Hoy is a wild and remote 1150 foot sea cliff. It was first climbed in 1970 by climber and poet Ed Drummond together with Oliver Hill. They took 7 days to climb the cliff, sleeping on ledges and in hammocks along the way. Now, 40 years later, one of the World’s top climbers, Dave MacLeod, sets out to climb the cliff in a single day, finishing with a new desperately hard final pitch up the headwall.Macleod’s historic new climb, The Longhope Route Direct (E11), is captured close-up with the latest HD cameras and contrasted with the challenges of Drummond’s first ascent through interviews and archive material. The film also follows Drummond, now in his late sixties and suffering from Parkinson’s disease, as he makes a pilgrimage back to St John’s Head to look upon the route one last time.

Hex Suffice Cache Ten

2011 • 13 min

A surreal escape of a disintegrating mind into neon-lit nightmares from a discarded future. Suddenly interferences from sub-particle proliferation occur within the protagonist’s body, a transformation can’t be avoided. This exploration of cinematic space within an implosion of cerebral space is a daring tale of aliens, experiments on humans, video games and mutation. It is showering the unsuspecting viewer in handmade visual and aural stimuli from planet Fleisch.

North Dixie Drive

2011 • 52 min

North Dixie Drive is the portrait of a small community of businesses and people residing in the Northridge section of Dayton, OH. It is the story of big time wrestlers, mechanics, a donut salesmen, an eccentric country singer, barbers, exotic dancers and car repo men. This collection of people, from all walks of life, live and work around a traffic circle situated along highway I-75, and fight to keep their lives and careers afloat in a failing economy. This debut film by Brooklyn, NY filmmaker Eric Mahoney showcases an off beat group of characters in today's Middle America.

John Newton

2011 • 45 min

This documentary explores Newton's life from his turbulent youth to his involvement in the 18th century African slave trade, his dramatic conversion aboard a sinking ship and on through his remarkable ministry as an evangelistic preacher, hymn writer and abolitionist.

Aion

2011 • 50 min • Ukraine

A portrait of four abandoned spaces inside the so-called “Zone of Alienation” in Chornobyl, Ukraine: a dripping swimming pool, a ruined concert hall, a mould-infested gymnasium, and an old village church. In each room, he made a recording of 10 minutes and then played the recording back into the room, recording it again. This process was repeated up to ten times. As the layers got denser, each room slowly began to unfold a drone with various overtones. For the visual representation of the four rooms, Kirkegaard explored a variety of techniques, working with layers, overexposure, and video feedback, that can be understood as analogous to his acoustical method.

The Space Shuttle: A Horizon Guide

2011 • 59 min

This poignant film is a biography of the shuttle told using three decades of BBC programmes. The film asks if the shuttle will be remembered as an impressive chapter in human space exploration, or as a fatally flawed white elephant.

Zielinski

2011 • 60 min • United States of America

Acclaimed writer/photographer John Zielinski became known as the "most blacklisted author" in the history of Iowa following his famous contract dispute in 1984. Zielinski follows his rise to fame and fall from publishing grace.

Routes

2011 • 1 min

"Tree rhythms in the backyard of my parents’ house" -Dan Browne.

Remake

2011 • 31 min

A remake of the 1960 Italian horror film Seddok, l'erede di Satana.

Shark Attack Experiment Live

2011 • 45 min • South Africa, United States of America

Are sharks really out to get us? Are these predators mindless man eaters demonized by the popular media and movies like "Jaws"? That's the driving question behind this high-adrenaline, two-hour live National Geographic event. Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE! will beam from the world's most shark-infested location off the coast of South Africa. Here, a team of free-diving shark junkies and conservationists put their own safety on the line to run a series of hi-tech tests to separate shark attack myths from realities. Also on location during Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE! are shark attack survivors willing to tell their stories and enter the water, some for the first time since their traumatic encounters. Their objective is no stunt; their goal is to raise public awareness that the world's shark species are being destroyed by over-fishing.

To Dance Like a Man

2011 • 58 min • Cuba

Identical triplets Angel, César and Marcos, age 11, are passionate about becoming ballet dancers. And they all want the same thing: to be picked for a role in an important ballet in Havana, Cuba. Who will be chosen?

Clifford the Big Red Dog: Dog Days of Summer

2011 • 30 min

Every summer day, Clifford™ sets out on fun-filled adventures with his friends and learns big lessons about friendship, loyalty, and other ways to BE BIG! In these five playful stories, Clifford discovers that one of the best ways to BE BIG is to always be truthful. From Emily Elizabeth teaching Clifford that it doesn’t help to hide things, to T-Bone learning to do the right thing, to Cleo learning a lesson when she plays tricks on her friends, cuddly Clifford leads the way for neighbors and friends around Birdwell Island to learn how to BE BIG by always being kind to each other and being truthful! Includes five stories: Special Delivery, Welcome to Birdwell Island, Doing the Right Thing, The Dog Who Cried Woof, and Jetta’s Sweater.

Maria Prean

2011 • 55 min

This documentary profiles Austrian Maria Prean, who at 60, began life anew and moved to Uganda to help care for the country's more than 2 million orphans. The award-winning film reveals the remarkable impact Prean has had on her adopted nation.

Breaking Out of the Box

2011 • 40 min

A touching, funny documentary on the lives of black lesbians in South Africa through the apartheid era to the present. It covers six women, talking about their African identity (“if you say being gay is not African then you insult me, because you are saying I am not African”), falling in love during the apartheid struggle, contemporary lesbian culture, being successfully out, and more.