Release year: 2011 | Directed by Kerry Candaele.

Following The Ninth: In The Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony, is a documentary film taking us on a cinematic journey across five continents and into the heart and soul of one of the world’s greatest works of art.

Completely deaf and adrift from the people he loved, Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Ninth Symphony an act of transcendence near the end of his life, in 1824. Looking into his own abyss, Beethoven wrote his Ode to Joy for himself, for the people of his day, and for all generations to come.

Today, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony resonates still as the international anthem of hope. The Ninth buoyed the protesters in Tiananmen Square, provided solace to those struggling for freedom in Pinochet’s Chile, and continues to fill seats in symphony halls and karaoke bars from  London to Tokyo and Cape Town. Following The Ninth captures the power and beauty of Beethoven’s grand and world-transforming achievement, touching  the lives of people around the world for nearly 200 years.

Beethoven’s Ninth offers beauty in the face of suffering, presenting ideas all can understand:  art allows us to transcend, heal, repair, and bring people together across every boundary that divides us.

The key line from Fredrich’s Schiller’s poem set to music by Beethoven in the Ninth, Alle Menschen werden Bruder (All Men Will Become Brothers) makes this monumental symphony a constant reminder of our human potential for creating a more sensitive and humane connection to everything and everyone around us.

Following the Ninth is a cinematic celebration of the most profound musical testament to tolerance, peace and connection across all borders the world has shared for centuries. A tapestry of cultures, musicality, voices and ideas, Following the Ninth traces an indelible path from Beethoven’s pen to the sights and sounds of virtually every corner of the world where his final symphony has sounded. Join us.

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Release Year: 2008 |  Director: Roger Weisberg

Critical Condition, a new feature from Academy Award-nominated documentarian Roger Weisberg, paints a disturbing and gripping portrait of what happens when you’re sick and uninsured in America. The unforgettable subjects of this cinema verite documentary discover that being uncovered can cost them their jobs, health, homes, savings, and even their lives.

Unlike Michael Moore’s Sicko, which illustrated the problems of people with private insurance, Critical Condition looks at the harrowing struggles of people battling serious illness with no insurance whatsoever. By exposing the tragic human dimensions of this crisis, Critical Condition will make viewers feel both outraged and motivated to address this national disgrace at the precise moment when health care reform will be debated during the run-up to the presidential election.

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“Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue…”
– Carl Sagan

The Mars Underground is a landmark documentary about renowned aerospace scientist and visionary, Dr. Robert Zubrin, and his struggle to get the first human mission to Mars off the ground.

Shot entirely in breathtaking high definition (HD) and directed by accomplished documentarian, Scott J. Gill (Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy, The Blood Earth), this film brings to life Dr. Zubrin’s vision, known as ‘Mars Direct,’, through startling 3-D CGI animation of the launch, voyage and landing of spacecraft, as well as glimpses into the future of man’s reign on Mars.

Through Dr. Zubrin’s compelling words, moody cinematic visuals and lush original score, The Mars Underground is a surreal journey from the glory of the 1960s Space Race, the decline of NASA in the 1980s and 1990s, through the faltering moon and Mars programs of today, and into one man’s quest to propel humanity towards a new world.

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Release Year: 2006 – present  |  Director: Scott J. Gill
Available Content: 26 episodes x 30 minutes

* Season 1 – 6 episodes x 30 minutes
* Season 2 – 10 episodes x 30 minutes
* Season 3 – 10 episodes x 30 minutes (available March 2009)

Wall Street and the global financial markets are in turmoil. By following the lives of an eclectic group of individuals who battle daily to hold onto their jobs, the series uncovers the brutal reality of the financial world while underscoring the tension and personal struggles they must face during these challenging times. The only ‘real time’ series to show the unfolding of the global financial markets. A must see!!!

“Wall Street Warriors” SEASON 3

EPISODE 301:  “ENTER THE BEARS”

EPISODE 302:  “THE FEAR GAUGE”

EPISODE 303:  “THE STRANGLE”

EPISODE 304:  “VOLATILE, VOLATILITY”

EPISODE 305:  “OPTIONS, OPTIONS”

EPISODE 306:  “BETWEEN THE TRADES”

EPISODE 307:  “MELTDOWN!”

EPISODE 308:  “THE FALLOUT”

EPISODE 309:  “THE BEATDOWN”

EPISODE 310:  “THE FINAL BELL”

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Release Year: 2009  |  Directed by: Alex Rotaru

Produced by: Lori Miller

THEY CAME TO PLAY is a documentary about the International Amateur Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, hosted by the Van Cliburn Foundation. With humor and drama, it portrays several multi-talented amateur pianists as they strive to balance their work, home and musical lives. Many of them have overcome extraordinary challenges — like drug addiction, AIDS, heartbreak, or political asylum — and they all share an overwhelming need to express themselves, musically and otherwise. Their intense preparation comes to a climax during the week-long competition, when they perform in front of a professional jury and discerning audience, in three highly competitive elimination rounds.

New York Times Critics’ Pick!
“Beautifully executed…you can feel the joy and surprise that must have gone through the concert hall and the winner.” – Neil Genzlinger, New York Times

“I fell in love with the brilliantly talented ‘amateurs’ I got to know  in this movie; I was inspired by them and proud of them. No screenwriter could come up with a feeler-gooder movie than this one!” – David Pogue, The New York Times

“Delightful and disarming” – Ronnie Scheib, Variety

“…a wonderful and inspiring chronicle of amateur musicians with a lust for life that is truly infectious.”  -Bryant Manning, Chicago Sun Times

Winner
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Audience Award
Bucharest’s B-EST International Film Festival
SENE Film, Music & Arts Festival

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Release Year: 2002  |  Director: Scott J. Gill.

The film that was a theatrical phenomenon across the nation, Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy offers audiences a penetrating look inside the world of Ron Jeremy, America’s most unlikely sex star and hero to millions.

With nearly 25 years in the adult film industry and over 1600 films to his credit, Ron Jeremy is huge. In his world, Ron reigns supreme – he’s made millions of dollars and slept with thousands of beautiful women, and is indisputably the industry’s biggest star. And everyone who’s anyone knows Ron – a pop icon to millions, he is a beacon of hope for many an American male, since he stands as living proof that pretty much anyone can get some.

So how did such a classically unhandsome, big and hairy ugly guy get to be such a super stud? In one of the most fascinating and entertaining comedies of the last year, audiences finally get a chance to get inside the life and times of Ron Jeremy, and find out what’s really behind the hardest working man in show business.

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Release Year: 2006  |  Director: Hermann Vaske
Cast: John Cleese, Pelé, Wim Wenders, Elton John, Ronaldo

John Cleese takes us on a wild ride through the crazy and creative world of football (a.k.a. soccer) . Superstar players like Pelé, Ronaldo and Beckenbauer as well as celebrities like Elton John, Dennis Hopper and Henry Kissinger join Cleese for an unconventional look at the world’s most popular game.

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Big Rig is a film about the soul of the American truck driver. Filmed in gorgeous high-definition from every corner of the United States, it is a powerful, entertaining, and intimate road movie about the lives and experiences of the men and women who haul every object we touch.

The first and only film of its kind, Big Rig provides a candid look at a profession that faces difficult government regulations, low pay, skyrocketing gas prices, and freeways jammed with unsympathetic ‘four-wheelers.’ But it also explores deeper questions: What is the allure of the road? What do truckers believe in? Where is their world headed?

For the record, Big Rig is not a sensationalized show about drug abuse or truck stop prostitution; these issues will come up, but rather than stereotype or glorify, Big Rig allows drivers to tell the truth about their experience in their own words.

The film was shot in four two-week tours throughout the 48 continental United States during summer and fall 2005 and winter 2006.

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Release Year: 2011 |  Director: Peter Baxter

WILD IN THE STREETS tells the story of an ancient football game that is the lifeblood of an English market town and the origin of rugby, soccer and American football.

Every Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday the people of Ashbourne gather in the center of their town to renew the longest running sports rivalry on earth. The game is called Shrovetide Football and originates from two medieval communities living opposite the river Henmore. Today, they are called the Up’ards and Down’ards.

Each team consists of hundreds if not thousands of people. The field of play…the town itself. There is no referee and few rules. Each game begins at 2pm and ends at 10pm. The ball cannot be carried in motorized transport. Cemeteries, churchyards and memorials are out of bounds. Under no circumstances is manslaughter to be tolerated.

The object of the game is simple: Get a 4 pound ball to one of 2 goals that lay 3 miles apart.

For the last 1000 years, Kings, Wars and Revolutions have tried to stop this ancient tradition. Against all odds, the Ashburnian people have kept alive the game from which developed rugby, soccer and American football.

For the last 10 years the ‘posh’ Up’ards have dominated every contest. As the ‘dirty’ Down’ards prepare for revenge, both teams will have to fight an additional battle: modern society.

Ultimately, the film shows how a passionate community and an ancient game combine to provide a true meaning of life – a value, not costed in pounds or dollars, acres or hectares but in sportsmanship and friendship…to the play the Game. In the making this documentary we’ve discovered the purest and most unpretentious of sporting heroes.

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