Press Releases

(San Francisco, CA)— Beverly May and Terry Ratliff grew up like kin on opposite sides of a mountain ridge in eastern Kentucky. Now in their fifties, the two find themselves in the midst of a debate dividing their community and the world: who controls, consumes, and benefits from our planet’s shrinking supply of natural resources? A very personal look at an…

(San Francisco, CA) — The Parking Lot Movie, a droll look at a singular parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been selected as the season opener for the Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. A brainy Slacker for the post-millennium, Meghan Eckman’s quirky documentary follows a unique rite of passage as a select group of…

(San Francisco, CA)—Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes an entertaining, insightful, and often humorous look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North American Natives through a century of cinema and examining the ways that the myth of “the Injun” has influenced the world’s understanding—and misunderstanding—of Natives. Narrated by…

(San Francisco, CA) — George Lois, Mary Wells, Dan Wieden, Lee Clow, Hal Riney, and others featured in Doug Pray’s ART & COPY may not be household names, but the advertising slogans they helped create — “Just Do It,” “I Love NY,” “Where’s the Beef?,” “Got Milk,” and “Think Different” — are embedded in our national psyche. The social and cultural…

(San Francisco, CA) – Carmen, a 17-year -old girl living in the gypsy village of Glod, located in the remote mountains of Romania, dreams of a future bigger and brighter than the quiet life she is currently living. Working at her father’s store and being courted by a boy she does not love, Carmen believes her only chance of experiencing a life like the ones she…