No Ordinary Man
Virtual Showing
2020 | Canada | 48 min | Documentary
Directors: Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt
Producer: Sarah Spring
For decades, the life of American Jazz musician Billy Tipton was framed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. In NO ORDINARY MAN, Tipton’s story is re-imagined and performed by trans artists as they collectively paint a portrait of an unlikely hero. Together, the filmmakers join Tipton’s son Billy Jr. to reckon with a complicated and contested legacy: how do you tell the story of someone who was hiding in plain sight yet desperate to be seen?
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THE NEW CORPORATION
Virtual Showing
2020 |Canada | 106 min | Documentary
Directors: Joel Bakan, Jennifer Abbott
Producers: Betsy Carson, Trish Dolman
Editor: Peter Roeck
The New Corporation reveals how the corporate takeover of society is being justified by the sly rebranding of corporations as socially conscious entities. From gatherings of corporate elites in Davos, to climate change and spiraling inequality; the rise of ultra-right leaders to COVID-19 and racial injustice, the film looks at corporations’ devastating power. Countering this is a groundswell of resistance worldwide as people take to the streets in pursuit of justice and the planet’s future.
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THE CONDUCTOR
Virtual Showing
2018 | USA | 137 min | Narrative
Director: Maria Peters
Dutch-born 24-year-old Antonia Brico was a child when she and her parents immigrated to the United States. She dreams of becoming a conductor, but nobody takes her ambition seriously. Her piano teacher advices her against taking the entrance exam for the conservatory. Because she has little to lose, she returns to her motherland, where she begs the famous conductor Mengelberg to teach her conducting lessons. Mengelberg is not comfortable with the idea and sends her to Berlin where she, against all expectations, has a better chance as a woman to make it. After a two-year study at the State Academy of Music she becomes the first woman to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Emotional strain threatens to overwhelm her, when the love of her life puts her in a difficult position. What choice will Antonia make? This year, for the first time in Dutch history, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra appointed a woman as its Chief Conductor: Karina Canellakis.
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CENTIGRADE
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 127 min | Narrative
Director: Brendan Walsh
Producers: Bradley J. Ross Molly, Conners, Amanda Bowers, Vincent Morano, Jane Oster, Keri Nakamoto
Editor: Bradley J. Ross
In 2002, a young American couple, Matthew and Naomi, travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and Ice. As if the stakes aren’t high enough, it is revealed that Naomi is eight months pregnant in their frozen prison.
With few resources, a dwindling food supply, and nothing but time, tension, blame, and personal secrets bubble to the surface. Matthew and Naomi realize they must work together to survive in a crippling battle against the elements, hypothermia, disturbing hallucinations, and plunging temperatures reaching as low as -30C. Will they make it out of this alive?
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A CALL TO SPY
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 123 min | Narrative
Director: Lydia Dean Pilcher
Producer: Sarah Megan Thomas
As Great Britain’s forces were stretched thin during World War II, Winston Churchill’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) began to enlist women as spies. Their daunting mission: conduct sabotage and build a resistance. Spymistress Vera Atkins, later the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond franchise, was the chief recruiter for this secret army. Atkins selected two unusual candidates: Virginia Hall, an American journalist from Baltimore hampered by a wooden leg, and Noor Inayat Khan, a wireless officer of Indian descent and an avowed pacifist. Together, they worked to undermine the Nazi regime in France. The courage, sacrifices and grit of these three women helped quell the Nazi occupation – and ultimately turned the tide of the war.
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SHINY DIAMONDS
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 6 min | Narrative
Directors: Seth Chatfield, Toni Nagy
Producers: Seth Chatfield, Toni Nagy, Sophia Cacciola, Michael J. Epstein
Editor:Michael J. Epstein
Valerie has a job to do, but Todd is playing games. And there is something lurking in the night that doesn’t like to lose. With a surreal take on the analog, neon backdrop of the1980’s, Shiny Diamonds follows a religious acolyte on her first night out proselytizing. Valerie has her work cut out for her, seeking to change the status quo amid a culture of toxic masculinity in a work environment that’s anything but familiar.
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FANDANGO AT THE WALL
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA, Mexico | 93 min | Documentary
Director: Varda Bar-Kar
Producers: Kabir Sehgal, Doug Davis
Editor: Luisa María Martínez Arcaraz
FANDANGO AT THE WALL follows Multi Grammy Award winners Arturo O’Farrill and Kabir Sehgal, as they prepare to record a live album at the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The project is inspired by the annual Fandango Fronterizo Festival, which unites people on both sides of the Tijuana-San Diego border. This festival features son jarocho, a 300-year-old folk music tradition. Before recording, festival organizer, Jorge Francisco Castillo, takes O’Farrill and Sehgal on a tour of Veracruz, Mexico, where this musical mixture of indigenous, Spanish, and African traditions originated. As they travel, they meet legendary son jarocho musicians such as Patricio Hidalgo, Fernando Guadarrama, Ramón Gutiérrez, Wendy Cao Romero, Tacho Utrera, Andrés Vega, Martha Vega, Yaratczé Hidalgo Sandoval — and recruit many of these artists for the upcoming festival. Their travels cumulate with the annual celebration, promoting peace and celebrating unity. From executive producers, Quincy Jones, Andrew Young, Carlos Santana, the film introduces the beautiful music of the region through intimate interviews and captivating concert footage.
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VINYL NATION
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 92 min | Documentary
Director: Kevin Smokler, Christopher Boone
The vinyl record renaissance over the past decade has brought new fans to a classic format and transformed our idea of a record collector: younger, both male and female, multicultural. This same revival has made buying music more expensive, benefited established bands over independent artists and muddled the question of whether vinyl actually sounds better than other formats.
Vinyl Nation digs into the crates of the record resurgence in search of truths set in deep wax: Has the return of vinyl made music fandom more inclusive or divided? What does vinyl say about our past here in the present? How has the second life of vinyl changed how we hear music and how we listen to each other?
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TURNING SCHOOL INSIDE OUT
Virtual Showing
2019 | USA | 20 min | Documentary
Director: Chris Hardee
TURNING SCHOOL INSIDE OUT is a documentary about what happens when one school purchases a parcel of adjacent land and commits itself to figure out how to use that land to improve student learning and well-being. Set in a rural southwestern New Hampshire town, the film follows teachers, administrators, parents, and community members as they transform the curriculum for Chesterfield School students in nearly every grade (K-8) by moving part of the instruction outside. The film captures faculty and community visioning sessions, teacher’s reflections on the value of using the natural world, parents’ support of outdoor learning, and students’ experiences on the land.
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LOCALLY ROOTED
Virtual Showing
2019 | USA | 10 min | Documentary
Director: Greg Pregent
Four farmers from the Monadnock Region in New Hampshire share their experiences from receiving money from the Farm Fund funded by the Monadnock Food Co-op and the Cheshire County Conservation District.
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