The close-knit men of Millennium Wrestling Federation of Lincolnton, North Carolina work hard to deliver the goods week after week: vivid costumes, elaborate backstories, gripping choreography, and high-octane simulated violence. Performing to small crowds of locals, some of these wrestlers...
The Redemption of Ge...
Joshua Milton Blahyi –aka General Butt Naked –was a ruthless and feared warlord during Liberia’s 14-year civil war. Today, he has renounced his violent past and reinvented himself as a Christian evangelist on a journey of self-proclaimed transformation. Blahyi travels the...
Where Soldiers Come ...
From a snowy, small town in northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan, Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood friends who join the National Guard after graduating from high school. As it chronicles the young men’s transformation from restless teenagers...
12th and Delaware
April 26 – 8pm Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Test. The seemingly sleepy intersection of Delaware Ave. and 12th St. in Fort Pierce, FL is ground zero for the ferocious abortion rights battle raging in America. On one corner stands an abortion clinic; across the street...
Rain in a Dry Land
How do you measure the distance from an African village to an American city? What does it mean to be a refugee in today’s “global village”? Rain in a Dry Land provides eye-opening answers as it chronicles the fortunes of two Somali Bantu families, transported by relief...
The Order of Myths
April 12 at 7pm Directed by Margaret Brown The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown, herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city’s two...
Loot
March 29 – 7pm Directed by Darius Marder Loot is a feature length documentary that follows two WWII veterans and aused car salesman across the globe in search of their buried wartime treasures. During WWII, Darrel was stationed in Europe. Andrew was in the Philippines. In the chaos of...
David Wants to Fly
March 15 – 7pm Directed by David Sieveking To meet his favorite director David Lynch, aspiring filmmaker David Sieveking flies to the United States to hear Lynch speak about his passion for Transcendental Meditation. Sieveking is granted an interview with Lynch, who encourages him to try...
The Edge of Dreaming
March 1 – 8pm Directed by Amy Hardie Scottish filmmaker Amy Hardie has built a career making science documentaries that reflect her rational temperament. When she dreamed one night that her horse was dying, only to wake the next morning and find the horse dead, she dismissed the...
Secrecy
February 15 at 7pm Directed by Peter Gallison and Robb Moss In a single recent year the U.S. classified about five times the number of pages added to the Library of Congress. We live in a world where the production of secret knowledge dwarfs the production of open knowledge. Depending on whom...
