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In honor of the passing of Sergio Mendes, we are running an encore show of the interview that originally aired on February 29th, 2020.
Encore! Legendary musician Sergio Mendes & Director John Scheinfeld discuss their documentary, "Sergio Mendes in the Key of Joy." Click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/xV6A0zl0VPo?si=ffIcDotk4vr5ZMiv – "Sergio Mendes in the Key of Joy" stars Harrison Ford, Sergio Mendes, and Quincy Jones, and is currently available to stream across digital platforms!
Sergio Mendes in the Key of Joy is a joyful, cinematic celebration of this singular musical artist, who remains as vital and relevant today as when he exploded on the scene with his group, Brasil '66. With a rich, multi-layered approach to storytelling, the film digs deep to reveal the forces that shaped his incredible journey.
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Award-winning producer/writer/director Zia Mohajerjasbi discusses his new film, "Know Your Place," currently playing in select theaters and film festivals – click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/1ERSLEoXGz4?si=_PdGEAvMYNFp9oou – “Know Your Place” was an official selection
at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival!
KNOW YOUR PLACE is a slice-of-life drama set in present-day Seattle, WA. Robel Haile, an Eritrean American boy of 15, embarks on an errand to deliver a huge and heavy suitcase across town destined for a sick family member in his parent's homeland. He enlists the help of his best friend, Fahmi Tadesse, when an unexpected turn transmutes his simple task into an odyssey across the city of Seattle, navigating directions to make his delivery on time, along with the challenges of familial responsibility, self-identification, and dislocation amid the ongoing redevelopment and economic displacement of the only community they've ever known as home.
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Award-winning film Producer Ray Roman discusses his new sports documentary, "Concussed: The American Dream," starring Brett Favre, Jim McMahon, and Christian Okoye! "Concussed: The American Dream" is now playing on Apple TV and Amazon Prime – click here to watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivaWd5qPjO8
The New York Giants drafted Tyler Sash and became a part of the 2012 Super Bowl-winning team. Concussions would cut Sash's career short, and the film is paralleled by NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre's CTE experience.
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Vice-President and Executive Editor of Variety and award-winning Screenwriter and Co-Producer Steve Gaydos discusses the Carmel International Film Festival and his new musical romance, "Heart Strings" – click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/W0LRiIeqUms?si=jcaXeTlG_K15wwC5
The Carmel International Film Festival will take place on October 5th and 6th – click here for more info: https://www.ciffest.com/.
In “Heart Strings,” singer-songwriters Billie Carton and Lucky Fontana are chasing fame in the cutthroat world of the “Americana Dream” music competition. To compete, they pretend to be a married couple, despite being complete opposites—he’s cocky and colorful, she’s quiet and introspective.
Selected by country music mogul Ray Pursell and his superstar wife, Precious Blue, they soon discover the real twist: they must compete against each other for a million-dollar prize and a record deal. As they fake their way through the competition, real emotions start to blur the lines between love and ambition.
Caught in a battle between love and greed, art and commerce, Billie and Lucky must choose what they truly value most. In the end, only one can win—but the true victory may be in discovering what really matters.
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Award-winning director & producer Robert Schwartzman discusses his new dramatic-comedy, "The Good Half," starring Nick Jonas, Brittany Snow, David Arquette, Alexandra Shipp, Matt Walsh and Elisabeth Shue! Click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/nBoKlnaf_Bc?si=f3O9o6VE0kcLnnCG – "The Good Half" will be playing in select theaters starting August 16th. Click here to purchase screening tickets at the SBIFF Riviera theater: https://sbiffriviera.com/film/the-good-half/
After years spent avoiding his problems, Renn Wheeland (Nick Jonas) is forced to face his greatest fear: the recent death of his mother, Lily (Elisabeth Shue). While traveling home to Cleveland for her funeral, he forges a new relationship with fellow passenger Zoey (Alexandra Shipp) and later heals an old one with his overbearing sister, Leigh (Brittany Snow). Together, with the help of his eager-to-connect father, Darren (Matt Walsh), an old high school friend and a hoarder-priest, Renn tries to confront his past, his problems, his step-father (David Arquette), his grief, and his new reality.
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Award-winning filmmaker and entrepreneur Amish Shah discusses his new documentary, "The Natural Law," featuring Deepak Chopra! Watch “The Natural Law” for free at www.thenaturallaw.com/film -- click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/1iVKfDD-o44?si=HsEpBM-TdS8bP6gb
"The Natural Law" chronicles Amish Shah's decade-long battle with life-threatening illnesses, leading him back to the ancient wisdom of Mother Nature. Faced with the limitations of conventional medical treatments, Shah embraces Ayurveda, a 5,000-year-old science revealing nature’s secret code for human health. His journey includes encounters with experts like Deepak Chopra, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Sahara Rose, and Dr. Vasant Lad. Combining Shah’s personal experiences with insights from wellness luminaries, the film offers a narrative of hope, timeless knowledge, and transformative healing. It explores why we fall out of health, the root causes of illness overlooked by modern medicine, and how to reclaim holistic well-being. In an increasingly sick and overwhelmed world, "The Natural Law" suggests that the most important answers lie in nature.
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Award-winning director and producer, Meredith Yinger discusses her new documentary, "Scars Unseen,” currently screening at film festivals!
Click here for more info: https://www.shetv.me/scarsunseen. Click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/GDlUm5C0AWo?si=dnAKoaBVegGIwear.
Scars Unseen is a 'triumph of the human spirit' documentary following three inspiring women who have overcome domestic violence and are paying it forward.
Scars Unseen aims to illuminate the power of healing, de-stigmatize victimhood, and encourage open communication about the causes, treatment, and prevention of domestic abuse.
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Award-winning writer, producer, and director Jordon Prince-Wright discusses his new war drama, "Before Dawn,” available to watch in theaters or digitally! Click here for more info: https://wellgousa.com/films/before-dawn. Click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/70BQggkYv9Y.
After leaving his family’s sheep farm in the Australian outback, a young man joins his countrymen on the western front of World War I with hopes of helping expedite an end to the bloody conflict. But as war rages on, he is forced to grapple with the brutal realities of trench warfare, including a near-constant battle to keep himself alive—without leaving another man behind.
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Award-winning director and producer Jay Silverman discusses his new drama, "Camera," starring Beau Bridges! “Camera” will be available to watch on video on demand on July 23rd! Click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/C6JaUwqrjus?si=L5kOkMDNp-zAA-eq
CAMERA is the heartwarming story of loss, hope, and healing, following a mute 9-year-old — OSCAR — who just moved with his widowed mom to a struggling fishing town. Picked on and bullied, nobody realizes that Oscar sees great beauty, whereas others only see despair. Nobody, that is, until a broken camera brings him together with ERIC, an eccentric old repairman, and an unlikely friendship develops. Under Eric’s mentorship, Oscar finds his voice through photography and, in doing so, heals a wounded community.
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Award-winning writer and director AJ Schnack discusses his new documentary, "Majority Rules," currently playing in film festivals and select theaters -- click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/qtw05u5lw9I?si=aeduXZgFsfLt6XgB
With America's democratic experiment mired in division and dysfunction, the state of Alaska votes to revolutionize its election system. The surprising results spark new alliances, a growing call for election reform, and fierce pushback from political parties. Could changing how Americans vote also change politics for the better?
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Award-winning director Armani Ortiz discusses his new biographical documentary, "Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story,” -- click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/DjXlidHoPyU?si=e5kKCwG-MdZUXnVJ
Armani Ortiz, a Bronx-born Afro-Latino director, writer, and actor, effortlessly merges his unique perspective with his exceptional talent and unparalleled work ethic. As Tyler Perry boldly proclaimed, "Once the world can see what he can do, it’s going to blow some people’s minds."
Writer, actor, filmmaker, studio head, and media titan Tyler Perry is America’s consummate multihyphenate. But underneath this entertainment behemoth is a man working humbly to heal his childhood trauma by transforming his pain into promise. Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story, a nod to his mother’s love, is a tender and intimate portrait of visionary and innovator Tyler Perry: his harrowing but faithful road to the top of an industry that didn’t always include him. With unfettered access, first-time directors Gelila Bekele and Armani Ortiz lead us into the inner world of a man whose story has never fully been told as he becomes a father and a media mogul with a mission to pave his own road to the top. The product is a profound lesson on remembering where you came from to know where you want to go.
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Award-winning Director Shane Dax Taylor discusses his new WWII action-thriller, "Murder Company," – available to watch in select theaters, on digital and on-demand July 5th!
"Murder Company" stars William Moseley, Pooch Hall, Gilles Marini, Joe Anderson, and Kelsey Grammer -- click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/NKIAEVuLETI?si=xK3b-bB2k4C6xTP-
In the midst of the D-Day invasion, a group of US soldiers are given orders to smuggle a member of the French resistance behind enemy lines to assassinate a high-value Nazi target.
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Oscar-winning Makeup Artist Lois Burwell discusses her fascinating career!
Lois Burwell makes faces. From the prosthetics that transformed Tim Curry into the Lord of Darkness in Legend to the war paint and wounds that won her an Oscar® for Braveheart to the realism of Almost Famous and Lincoln, she has proven her mastery in a career spanning over 50 years. Burwell's interest in makeup started at an early age. While attending dance classes in her native London, she started making up her fellow students for recitals. She got her first break when director Bill Forsyth hired her as the entire makeup department for his breakthrough film Gregory's Girl (1980). She first worked with prosthetics on Legend, followed by more fantastical work on films like The Princess Bride (1987), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and The Fifth Element (1997). In 1989, she made her first film with Mel Gibson, Air America (1990), followed by his Hamlet (also 1990) and her Oscar-winning work on Braveheart. Another important collaboration started in 1998 with her Oscar-nominated work on Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998). She's worked with him on six more films, including War of the Worlds (2005) and Lincoln. In addition to her Oscar, she has won awards from the Online Film & Television Association for The Fifth Element and Saving Private Ryan.
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Award-winning Director-Producer Peter Byck discusses his 4-part documentary series, Roots So Deep (you can see the devil down there)" – available to rent at https://rootssodeep.org/. Click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/3PpPmkSAiEw?si=97WSspyjHiyvs30O
Roots So Deep (you can see the devil down there) is a 4-part documentary series about inventive farmers and maverick scientists building a path to solving climate change with hooves, heart, and soil. Can an underutilized way to graze cattle that mimics the way bison once roamed the land help get farmers out of debt, restore our depleted soils, rebuild wildlife habitat, and draw down huge amounts of carbon? Cattle have been seen as eco-villains for a long time. What if they can help us revive rural economies and ecologies? One question looms over the whole series: even if science shows that the adaptive way to graze is better for the land and the farmers' pocketbooks, will the old-school farmers change, or will they adopt a different method?
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Award-winning director and producer Vanessa Hope discusses her award-winning documentary, "Invisible Nation," – available to watch in select theaters! Click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/RNUHWnt0bb0?si=06qXtoY3w-eUGMY1
With unprecedented access to Taiwan's sitting head of state, director Vanessa Hope investigates the election and tenure of Tsai Ing-wen, the first female president of Taiwan. Thorough, incisive, and bristling with tension, Invisible Nation is a living account of Tsai's tightrope walk as she balances the hopes and dreams of her nation between the colossal geopolitical forces of the U.S. and China. Hope's observational style captures Tsai at work in her country's vibrant democracy at home while seeking full international recognition of Taiwan's right to exist. At a time when Russia's invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated the ever-present threat of authoritarian aggression, Invisible Nation brings punctual focus to the struggle of Taiwan as it fights for autonomy and freedom from fear.
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3-Time Oscar-winning filmmaker & Award-winning Author Mark J. Harris discusses his new book, "Misfits," an acclaimed collection of arresting short stories.
Following a kaleidoscopic array of characters adrift in a precarious world, Misfits grapples with the challenges of contemporary life, including climate change, inequality, uncertainty, and pain.
A depressed accountant stumbles on a teenage eco-terrorist in a parking garage; a middle-aged psychiatrist buys a drink for a seductive young artist during a flight delay; an out-of-work journalist recruits Chicano gangbangers to help a desperate tennis partner; a troubled biologist runs into J. Robert Oppenheimer in a Santa Fe hotel.
These fraught encounters all have unexpected and startling consequences. Despite their differences in age, background, and circumstance, the characters in Misfits share a common sense of dislocation and alienation. They struggle to find a sense of belonging and connection but ultimately discover unexpected sources of resilience and hope.
With its evocative portrayal of Los Angeles as a microcosm of contemporary society, Misfits offers a compelling exploration of the human condition in an unpredictable and rapidly changing world.
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Renowned film critic Alonso Duralde discusses his new book, "Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film."
For generations, members of the LGBTQ+ community in Hollywood needed to be discreet about their lives, but make no mistake, they were everywhere, both in front of and behind the camera. With Hollywood Pride, renowned film critic Alonso Duralde presents a history spanning from the dawn of cinema through the "pansy craze" of the 1930s and the New Queer Cinema of the 1990s, all the way up to today. He showcases the hard-working actors, writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, art directors, and choreographers whose achievements defined the American film industry and charts the evolution of LGBTQ+ storytelling itself—the way mainstream Hollywood decided it would portray (or erase) their lives and the narratives created by queer filmmakers who fought to tell those stories themselves.
Illustrated with more than 175 full-color and black-and-white images, Hollywood Pride points to the bright future of LGBTQ+ representation in cinema by revealing the story of the community's inclusion and erasure, its visibility and invisibility, and its triumphs and tragedies.
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Pulitzer Prize-nominated national and international best-selling author Noah Benshea discusses his inspiring film, "Jacob the Baker." Noah Benshea is the writer, producer, and star of "Jacob the Baker." This film will lift lives around the world!
Click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/t95cxi0mRdU?si=8cSjQlM3jHlVbmiZ "Jacob the Baker" is now streaming on Amazon Prime, Vudu, and Tubi.
Based on the international bestselling book series. When a young, skeptical reporter is assigned to interview the author of a bestselling book series, she discovers the incredible story of how the author and his fictional character, Jacob, provide help and hope to countless people around the world. In the interview, the reporter's own secret struggle comes to light, making her reconsider the author and her own life.
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Award-winning TV/film/comic book writer, producer, and director Aron Eli Coleite & #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black discuss with Jan Price their new television series, "The Spiderwick Chronicles," starring Christian Slater! "The Spiderwick Chronicles" is streaming exclusively on Roku – click here to watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/gQWPARkTyUo?si=C2_PktAmlzh9mNJ8
The Spiderwick Chronicles follows the coming-of-age story of the Grace Family as they move from New York to Michigan and into their family's ancestral home. Upon arrival, the family uncovers mysteries hidden inside their great-grandfather's Spiderwick Estate and discovers a fantastical world around them.
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Award-winning filmmaker, Doug Pray discusses with Jan Price his new TCM Original Documentary Series, “The Power of Film,” currently streaming on MAX!
THE POWER OF FILM is a 6-part television event from legendary UCLA film Professor Emeritus Howard Suber, analyzing why certain films have remained both popular and memorable for generations. He uncovers mysteries, dispels myths, and explains with clarity and humor the defining principles and inner workings of some of the most powerful and beloved films of all time. Scenes from hundreds of these much-loved movies are featured throughout.
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