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The 414s: The Original Teenage Hackers
THE 414s tells the story of the first widely recognized computer hackers, a group of Milwaukee teenagers who gained notoriety in 1983 when they broke into dozens of high-profile computer systems, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a classified nuclear weapons research facility.
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American Renaissance
Explore the fantastic world of Elizabethan England… in upstate, NY. American Renaissance is a rollicking journey to one of the largest renaissance faires in the US, and a portrait of the characters that return year after year.
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Balancing Act
Balancing Act tells the story of DeMarcello Funes, a 22-year-old emerging circus performer. But Funes is no ordinary clown: he teaches a forgotten history of African American performance and its ties to the circus arts.
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Believe
Few people are as passionate about their craft as Santa Cliff Snider. Believe is a peek into Santa Cliff's life and motivation for following his passion to an unlikely career. If you don't believe in Santa Claus already, Believe, will change your mind.
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Boxedora
One woman defies Fidel Castro’s ban on female boxing to follow her dreams of Olympic glory and become Cuba’s first female boxer.
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Broken Branches
A fourteen year old Jewish girl from Poland is sent by her family to Israel on the eve of the second World War.
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Calls to Okies: The Park Grubbs Story
In the early 1980s, before the Jerky Boys brought prank phone calls to a mainstream audience, a group of Oklahoma teenagers were conducting strange backwoods experiments with their landline telephone. These underground prank calls gained infamy, and became known as Park Grubbs, garnering such fans as The Flaming Lips, Daniel Clowes (Ghostworld, Art School Confidential), and Peter Bagge (Hate). Directed by two Okie filmmakers, Bradley Beesley and Ben Steinbauer, and featuring interviews with both the pranksters and the pranked, the legendary Park Grubbs prank calls come to life in this one-of a-kind documentary.
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The Champion
A cinematic documentary about a former Iraqi boxing champion who overcame tremendous hardships in pursuit of his dream.
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The Columbarium
As the long-time caretaker of close to 80,000 cremated remains at the San Francisco Columbarium, Emmitt Watson, can't help but see life in the midst of death.
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Dolphin Lover
Dolphin Lover tells the story of Malcolm Brenner and his romantic and sexual love affair with a captive bottle-nosed Dolphin in a 1970's Florida amusement park.
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El Coyote
EL COYOTE is an animated documentary that tells the true a story of a human smuggler also know as a coyote. He describes his process and the mechanics of slipping between the Mexico and U.S. border. He shares the brief moments he’s has with the people he’s trying to cross over seeking for a better life.
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Finding Donut
Looking for your four-legged loved one? When your pet is lost, there’s one man to call. Pets go missing every day, but it's not every day that you meet someone like Valeriy -- the greatest (and only) pet detective in Russia. For 25 years, Valeriy has been searching the streets of Moscow for everything from cats and dogs to crocs and hedgehogs -- if it's a pet and it's lost, he'll find it (most of the time). Before turning his talents to the field of pet detection, Valeriy had been a police office in Moscow. With all this experience under his belt, being a pet detective is a job Valeriy not only takes very seriously, but one at which is he is incredibly talented.
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Framed Targets
Framed Targets, a new solo exhibition by artist Truong Tran, explores the plight of artists and other displaced communities in San Francisco as the city’s demographic changes with the rise of the technology industry and cost of living.
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HOPE Credit Union: A Bank With a Twist
How might we address income inequality, the civil rights issue of our time? What happens when you up-end all the negative stereotypes about banks and put them squarely in service of the community? When banks started disappearing in the Mississippi Delta, transforming low- and mid-income communities into 'bank deserts' where people couldn't get a loan or secure their savings, William Bynum turned despair into hope by founding a new sort of bank.
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Hotel 22
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless in one of the richest parts of the world.
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Last Day of Freedom
When Bill realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision - should he call the police? LAST DAY OF FREEDOM is a richly animated personal narrative, tells the story of Bill’s decision to stand by his brother in the face of war, crime and capital punishment.
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The Last Mile
THE LAST MILE is a tech incubator founded inside San Quentin, California's oldest men’s prison. The program teaches inmates entrepreneurship skills with the goal of having each participant found a company that addresses a social issue and includes a technology component - without any access to computers and the Internet. Many of these men have never used a laptop or smartphone, as they've been incarcerated for two decades. Award-winning filmmaker, Ondi Timoner, follows their journey as they struggle to craft a business plan, pitch their ideas in front of a live audience of venture capitalists at Demo Day, and then reenter society.
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Luchadora
Luna Magica, a professional Lucha Libre wrestling star in Mexico, dreams of becoming world wrestling champion while fighting to make ends meet as a single mom in Mexico City.
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The Man Behind 55,000 Dresses
Who is the man Behind 55,000 Dresses? Why did he collect dresses for 56 years? These are some of the questions explored by this film. Sometimes when you try to hide something about yourself, there are tells that give it away. Imperceptible nuances can bring the audience another viewpoint about the desire to collect. The hardships of his life as a child, and the horrors of the Second World War affected him, however there is a deeper need for his desire to buy dresses. The documentary attempts to delve into the reasons for Paul’s obsessive collection through present day interviews, archival footage, public sales and private appointments to sell the dresses. Come in and follow the zany life full of contradictions. Is it love or a lie? Remember everyone has a secret.
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Mars Barb
Barbara Keith lives in Surrey, BC and wants to go to Mars with Mars One, a mission that plans to establish the first permanent human settlement in the Red Planet. From an original pool of 200,000 applicants worldwide, Barb has made it to the last 700. Mars Barb explores this woman’s fearless attitude and her extraordinary dream.
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Monumenting
A third-generation gravestone magnate reflects on memorializing one's legacy.
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My Mom's Motorcycle
A look into how objects can connect us to people places and ideas.
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New Mission
A Chicano man endures the loss of his community in San Francisco's Mission District.
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Oak and Scott: Pausing at High Speed
Oak & Scott: Pausing at High Speed is an urban tale told by the long term residents of an ever changing intersection of San Francisco. The film inquires about the changes in this central neighborhood and the impacts of these changes on the residents. This area of San Francisco is remarkable in many ways which is reflected in the film's topics: Transportation history, Freeway Revolt, first neighborhood association, location on the bicycle route The Wiggle, economic changes, history of the African American population in the area, diversity, children, traffic, gentrification and how all these changes impact the people who call this place their home.
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Perpetual Ed
An eccentric musician faces his imminent death with cynicism, humor, and defiance.
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Point of Pride: The People's View of Bayview-Hunter's Point
POINT OF PRIDE is a documentary film that tells the story of the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood by utilizing archival footage from the 1950's 60's and 70's with present-day viewpoints and reactions to these images from the past to create a compelling portrait of a community marked by struggle and fueled by hope.
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Read Chuna
With a population of about 27 million people - more than half living on less than $2 per day - Nepal is one of the poorest nations in the world. Many Nepalese women don't have the opportunity to go to school and believe that they won't be able to achieve anything. Their illiteracy profoundly impacts their self-esteem, their ability to achieve, and their relationships. Chuna Devi Pangeni couldn't correspond with her husand who worked abroad, or help her mother who was ill with cancer. Through the READ Center, Chuna has learned to read and is now helping women in her community to become literate.
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Ruler of the Roost
Ruler of the Roost is a comedic documentary that follows a young Toronto filmmakers struggle with the obnoxious city pigeons that live outside his bedroom window. After his initial attempts to scare off the pigeons are foiled, the filmmaker seeks an expert's opinion and is soon led down a bizarre path of airborne diseases, grisly coincidences, and self-discovery.
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Seven Ways From Sunday
Every once in a while, often when we least expect it, somebody randomly interacts with us in a way that forces us to gaze upon ourselves through the lens of how others see us and that can forever alter our perception of how we fit into the world. Through an innovative blend of documentary audio and mixed media visuals, Seven Ways From Sunday compellingly chronicles a series of these unexpectedly startling moments of personal revelation, resulting in a powerful meditation on how seemingly fleeting moments of human contact can have profound long-term repercussions.
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Spearhunter
Deep in the wilds of rural Alabama, a spear-hunter proclaims himself the world's greatest and erects a museum dedicated to his own bizarre obsession. In this atmospheric and darkly funny documentary, an offbeat cast of lovers, acolytes, and critics of the megalomaniacal spear-hunter remember his distinctive tactics both for killing and for leaving a legacy.
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Steve Shirley Shark Tagger
From Sport Fisherman to Ocean Conservationist, Steve Shirley guides viewers to understand and to care about his shark tagging study in the San Francisco Bay.
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Terms of Intimacy
A glimpse into the emerging industry of professional cuddling and the lives of the clients that use this service.
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Tiny Out Loud
Tiny Out Loud is a film where size matters but not in the way you think. It is a short documentary about Stephanie Rond’s gender gouging street art and dollhouse art galleries. Tiny Out Loud’s fun but evocative exploration makes gender roles smaller and the art world’s accessibility larger.
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Tomgirl
Girls play with dolls and boys love sports, right? This film takes a look at what happens when those stereotypes are called into question.
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Treasure Island
Children living on a former naval base contemplate the threat of radioactive waste buried beneath their homes
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The Typist
A gay Korean War Vet reflects on his time as the office clerk tasked with writing the discharges of outed gay sailors.
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Unmappable
Unmappable weaves together the life and work of noted iconoclastic psychogeographer, and convicted sex offender, Denis Wood.
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Wake Up
A filmmaker explores her role in three generations of women artists through photographs, films, and conversations left unspoken.
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