Tag: Documentary

  • Quirky Doc About One Man’s Quest For Supreme Tea

    Quirky Doc About One Man’s Quest For Supreme Tea

    Invest a little over an hour watching this documentary about tea and you might find yourself contemplating a new connection between rural farming communities and the tea farmers of China. That’s because All in this Tea deals with all aspects of Chinese tea production, but takes a special interest in how a new demand for…

  • Synth Britannia Shows The Future Was In Fact Delivered

    Synth Britannia Shows The Future Was In Fact Delivered

    Come on, you have to admit. It’s a lot of fun to stumble around YouTube with that old pre-internet habit of television channel surfing surprising you with random discoveries. When I do, I particularly enjoy reading comments left by others who have somehow found their way to whatever it is I happen to be watching. This…

  • Protecting the body in Combat- European Bronze Style

    Protecting the body in Combat- European Bronze Style

    This monograph provides for the first time a combined overview of all classes of metal body armour from the European Bronze Age in a holistic perspective, combining discussion of both traditional typo-chronologies and aspects of manufacture and use. The earliest metal body armour recovered comes from Dendra, Greece, and dates to the first half of…

  • LGBTQIE And Ecosexuality

    LGBTQIE And Ecosexuality

    Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anais Nin Nature is born of sexuality. The two are inextricable and inevitable partners. Where humans find fault with sex that does not suit their particular beliefs in what is right or wrong, nature transcends. There is no taboo in the…

  • Tony Hawk Videogame Documentary Coming In August

    Tony Hawk Videogame Documentary Coming In August

    LOS ANGELES: JULY , 2020 – Wood Entertainment is proud to announce the August 18 digital/VOD release of the highly anticipated documentary feature PRETENDING I’M A SUPERMAN – THE TONY HAWK VIDEO GAME STORY. Wood Entertainment acquired Worldwide rights to the film in May at the Mammoth Film Festival in a deal negotiated between CEO Tara Wood and…

  • Why I’m Still Here Is Such A Quirky Film

    Why I’m Still Here Is Such A Quirky Film

    Casey Affleck’s  I’m Still Here is a perplexing piece of modern motion picture history. I say history because this just might be a first. Not even Borat with its pseudo-documentary style captivated moviegoers with such unshakeable impact. This film had us all believing that what we were witnessing on screen was in fact real. That’s…

  • ELEKTRO MOSKVA- Intriguing Documentary About Soviet Music Synthesizers

    ELEKTRO MOSKVA- Intriguing Documentary About Soviet Music Synthesizers

    I spent most of yesterday afternoon watching and taking notes from the 86 minute documentary ELEKTRO MOSKVA. This film is so rich and interesting that I found myself sitting in reflection every time I jotted down another intriguing story element…..and believe me there were lots. The film’s official website describes itself like this: “ELEKTRO MOSKVA…

  • Dance Healing Immigrant Victims Of War Prejudice And Sexual Exploitation

    Dance Healing Immigrant Victims Of War Prejudice And Sexual Exploitation

    Study after study has shown that arts education nurtures students’ creativity and problem-solving skills, competencies that are critical for success in a 21st Century world, but how does dance and movement facilitate healing and transform at-risk youth? New York’s Battery Dance launched its Dancing to Connect programs in 2006. Since that time, the program has…

  • Videogame Battle For The Donkey Kong Crown

    Videogame Battle For The Donkey Kong Crown

    It may be hard for you to believe, but a very passionate group of game players are still contesting video game records, new and old, and vying to become champion in their particular game of skill in  order to be immortalized in the on-line video game record bible “Twin Galaxies”.   Go check it out. Maybe…

  • Animal Organizations Plead For Dolphins Exclusion In New Mississippi Aquarium

    Animal Organizations Plead For Dolphins Exclusion In New Mississippi Aquarium

    Gulfport, Miss. – Last week,  19 international animal protection organizations  joined forces for World Oceans Day  to plead for dolphins to be excluded from the new Mississippi Aquarium, slated to open in 2019. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Born Free Foundation, and Sonar are among the organizations that signed In Defense of Animals’ letter…

  • May 4 is Yom HaShoah ‘ Holocaust Remembrance Day ‘

    May 4 is Yom HaShoah ‘ Holocaust Remembrance Day ‘

    The Holocaust was a time of devastation, hate and corruption and is considered one of the most terrible events in human history. While the horror and mass extermination of more than six million Jews is known as fact around the world, it is more than just history to Arthur Weisze— it is his most vivid…

  • Outer Shores Expeditions Relive Canadian Documentary Haida Gwaii

    Outer Shores Expeditions Relive Canadian Documentary Haida Gwaii

    Please note, Outer Shores Expeditions is in no way affiliated with the ‘Haida Gwaii: On The Edge of the World’ nor is it portrayed in the documentary. What Hot Docs’ best Canadian Feature Documentary explores on film, Outer Shores Expeditions explores by classic wooden schooner. Documentary film fans were given an intimate look into life on the Haida Gwaii…