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Injection

AIDS is a global tragedy, striking Africa especially hard. Rampant reuse of disposable syringes is responsible for as many as seven million cases of AIDS in Africa alone.
In 1999, five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were arrested in Libya and convicted of infecting over four hundred Libyan children with HIV in a Benghazi hospital. Libyan prosecution, operating at the discretion of infamous dictator Moammar Kaddafi, has maintained at trial that the nurses conspired with the American CIA and the Israeli Mossad to maliciously infect the children.

In this hard-hitting film, Mickey Grant travels to Kenya, Bangkok, Sofia, Libya, Rome and London in an attempt to discover the hidden truths. He follows the trail of syringes from hospital to garbage dump, and then back into Africa's health care system.

Could these healthcare workers have committed this horrific crime? Or, are they scapegoats to divert attention from institutional shortcomings? Is Moammar Kaddafi ultimately responsible for this tragedy? Is syringe reuse common in Libya and the rest of Africa? If syringe reuse is spreading HIV, why is it allowed to continue? Bottom line, millions more will continue to die unless the world health care community addresses these issues.

Michael Franti, world-renowned musician and human rights worker, travels to Iraq, Palestine and Israel to explore the human cost of war with a group of friends, some video cameras and his guitar.

A compelling soundtrack, visual and musical montages and Franti's intimate voiceovers make the film speak to the MTV, X, Y & Z generations, as well as the baby-boomers. A true armchair travel film pulling the audience into these war zones in the company of Michael's guitar, eloquence and wit - you feel the humanity, artistic resilence and sometimes horrific experience of what it's like to live under the bombs and military occupation.

May 2008

Dangerous Living 

Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World is the first documentary to deeply explore the lives of gay and lesbian people in non-western cultures. Traveling to five different continents, we hear the heartbreaking and triumphant stories of gays and lesbians from Egypt, Honduras, Kenya, Thailand and elsewhere, where most occurrences of oppression receive no media coverage at all. 

April 2008

In Debt We Trust
Emmy Award winner Danny Schechter's 'In Debt We Trust' explores the relationship between Congress and the credit complex and how it is having an enormously negative impact on the country's financial health.

March 2008

China Blue
China Blue takes us inside a blue-jeans factory, where Jasmine and her friends are trying to survive a harsh working environment. But when the factory owner agrees to a deal with his Western client that forces his teenage workers to work around the clock, a confrontation becomes inevitable.

Shot clandestinely in China, under difficult conditions, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retail companies don't want us to see how the clothes we buy are actually made.

February 2008

Who Killed the Electric Car?
"A murder mystery, a call to arms and an effective inducement to rage, Who Killed the Electric Car? is the latest and one of the more successful additions to the growing ranks of issue-oriented documentaries." - The New York Times 

January 2008

Sicko
Michael Moore's Sicko is an Academy Award nominated documentary film by American filmmaker Michael Moore that investigates the American health care system, focusing on its for-profit health insurance and pharmaceutical industry. The film compares the private-sector U.S. system with the socialized systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba.

December 2007

Shadow Company
This film explores the moral and ethical issues private military solutions create for private military companies (PMCs) employees, for the Western governments who foot the bill for their salaries and for everyday citizens like you. So what is really at risk?

November 2007

War Made Easy: Presidents, Pundits & Spin
This film reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations. 

October 2007

Marjoe
This Oscar^®-winning 1972 documentary, directed by Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan, does more than expose an evangelical fraud. It is a story of celebrity, faith and showmanship. It follows the story of Marjoe Gortner. Marjoe became an ordained minister at the age of 4 and preached to a large flock of believers, even though Marjoe didn't believe himself. 

September 2007

When I Came Home
A film about homeless veterans in America: from those who served in Vietnam to those returning from the current war in Iraq. The film looks at the challenges faced by returning combat veterans and the battle many must fight for the benefits promised to them. 

August 2007 

Out of Balance: Exxon Mobil's Impact on Climate Control 
Discusses how they spearheaded the climate misinformation campaign along with their refusal to take action against climate control.

July 2007

American Blackout
Many have heard of the alleged voting irregularities that occurred during the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Until now, these incidents have gone under-reported and are commonly written-off as insignificant rumors or unintentional mishaps resulting from an overburdened election system.

American Blackout chronicles the recurring patterns of voter disenfranchisement from Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004 while following the story of Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. McKinney not only took an active role investigating these election debacles, but has found herself in the middle of her own after publicly questioning the Bush Administration about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Featuring: Congressional members: John Conyers, John Lewis, Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, Bernie Sanders and jounalists Greg Palast and Bob Fitrakis.

June 2007

Sir! No Sir!
This is the story of one of the most vibrant and widespread upheavals of the 1960's - one that had a profound impact on American Society, yet has been virtually obliterated from the collective memory of that time. "Perfectly time with the doubts of the Iraq War" Variety.

May 2007

Jesus Camp
Follows a group of children to Pastor Becky Fischer's "Kids on Fire Summer Camp," where kids are taught to take back America for Christ. The film is a first-ever look into an intense training ground that recruits born-again Christian children to become an active part of America's political future.

April 2007

Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine and the Law
It’s the first documentary to examine the movement to legalize cannabis for medical use.

March 2007
no film screened

February 6, 2007

Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety 
It is an easy-to-follow documentary that walks the audience through the problems caused by pharmaceutical industry marketing tactics like TV ads, sales reps and free drug samples.

January 2, 2007

Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the 'War on Terror

Outlawed places the post-9/11 phenomenon of renditions and the "war on terror" in a human rights context and calls for action end these human rights abuses.

December 5, 2006

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, and  Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of corporate greed in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private security companies making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow it.

November 2006

The Corporation
Winner of 25 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS including 10 AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS Explore the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask, "What kind of person is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION features 40 interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.

October 2006

An Inconvenient Truth
From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his "traveling global warming show," Gore also proves himself to be one of the most misunderstood characters in modern American public life.

November 2005

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of a Low Price
The documentary film sensation that's changing the largest company on earth. The film features the deeply personal stories and everyday lives of families and communities struggling to survive in a Wal-Mart world. It's an emotional journey that will challenge the way you think, feel and shop.