Theatrical Starts March 28, 2025
114 MINUTES - USA - IN COLOUR AND BLACK AND WHITE
A FILM BY VARDA BAR-KAR
In the mid-60s, Janis Ian, a tiny teenage Jewish singer-songwriter from New Jersey, scores a controversial hit single called “Society’s Child,” about an interracial love relationship. The song launches her illustrious career but also ignites death threats, plunging her into an emotional tailspin—only to emerge from the ashes in the 1970s with an even bigger hit, “At Seventeen,” a song ahead of its time in confronting lookism and bullying.
Theatrical Starts July 22, 2025
USA - 2023 - 108 MINUTES
A FILM BY MAUREEN GOSLING
Barbara Dane: Folk, blues and jazz singer, international social justice activist and recording star, wife, mother of three, feminist, record producer, unwavering maverick and general troublemaker on the road at 90. THE 9 LIVES OF BARBARA DANE is a sonic boom, an explosion of music and passion, a celebration of one woman’s groundbreaking artistry and moral leadership. Standing strong with her singular confidence, Dane emanated the people-powered connectivity of folk, the defiance of blues and the elemental cool of jazz while propelling major historic events with boldness and subversion that cut through commercial artifice and earned her a 5” FBI file.THE 9 LIVES OF BARBARA DANE is an underground history of a singer-agitator whoseunbending principles guide her through notoriety, obscurity, and finally, music legend.
Theatrical Starts November 22, 2024
2023 - 85 MINUTES - ENGLISH/ FRENCH/ WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY LUCY LAWLESS
CNN combat camerawoman Margaret Moth walks the razor's edge between sanity and chaos. Her mystery and beauty bewitches lovers and her confidence intimidates powerful men. Moth stares down danger and she confronts those that perpetuate it. In vivid, emotional dioramas, we see what Moth and her camera crew felt; the nightmare dreamscapes of war. In footage - both what she shot, the production shot, and others - we go on a rollicking ride through love, truth and war. Early on in her career she covers conflicts in the Middle East before fatally, she is sent to Sarajevo to cover the Bosnian war.
Theatrical Starts May 17, 2024
2023 - 90 MINUTES - UNITED KINGDOM
A FILM BY PAUL SNG
A moving portrait of social documentary photographer and trailblazer Tish Murtha, who dedicated her life to documenting the lives of working-class communities in North East England.
2014 - COLOUR - CANADA - 88 MINUTES
A FILM BY JODY SHAPIRO
"Burt's Buzz" takes an intimate look at the world of Burt Shavitz, the face and co-founder of Burt's Bees, exploring his fascinating and unique life. Exposing the collision between business and personal values, the film is a compelling and fascinating portrait of this highly idiosyncratic pioneer, and a revealing study of what it means to be a living icon.
Theatrical starts April 23, 2021
2020 - 76 MINUTES - USA - COLOUR AND BLACK AND WHITE
A FILM BY JOHAN VON SYDOW
NARRATED BY WEIRD AL YANKOVIC
TINY TIM: KING FOR A DAY is a biographical doc about a musician who is not only well known for hits such as Tip Toe Through The Tulips but for his trail blazing personae that paved the way for other rock stars such as David Bowie, Prince, Iggy Pop and Boy George. An outcast from a young age, Herbert Khary’s rise to stardom as Tiny Tim is the ultimate fairytale. Considered a freak by many of his peers, Tiny Tim left no one unaffected. His wedding on the Carson Show was watched by over 45 million Americans and his queer personality have been celebrated by the likes of Bob Dylan, Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga. There were plans and hopes that Tiny Tim would be a lasting star, not only a novelty act but one man ruined these plans: Tiny Tim.
Theatrical starts April 16, 2021
2020 - BRAZIL, UNITED STATES - 77 MINUTES
A FILM BY MALIA SCHARF, MAX BASCH
When Kenny Scharf arrived in NYC in the early 1980’s, he quickly met and befriended Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat; There, amongst the fervent creative bustle of a depressed downtown scene the trio would soon change the way we think about art, the world, and ourselves. But unlike Haring and Basquiat, who both died tragically young, Kenny lived through cataclysmic shifts in the East Village as well as the ravages of AIDS and economic depression.
Theatrical starts October 30, 2020
2020 - USA - COLOUR
A FILM BY MARY WHARTON
This presidential portrait shows how Jimmy Carter’s lifelong passion for music gave him an unexpected edge as a presidential candidate. Through folk, soul, gospel, jazz, and rock ‘n’ roll, Carter tapped into a force that transcended racial and generational divides, and often party lines. Carter’s appreciation for all genres of music and friendships with the likes of Bob Dylan, the Allman Brothers, and Willie Nelson helped to define his campaign.
