First-Run Features (Firm)
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Over the course of several months in 2007, photographer Aurélia Frey, journalist Sébastien Jallade and film director Stéphane Pachot immersed themselves in the Andean communities that populate the Qhapaq Ñan, the primary ancient Incan royal road. They traveled over 1,200 miles in southern Ecuador and Peru and captured the contemporary Andean reality of this recently designated Unesco World Heritage Site.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In 1986 Michael Morton's wife Christine is brutally murdered in front of their only child and Michael is convicted of the crime. Locked away in Texas prisons for a quarter century, estranged from his son, he has years to ponder questions of justice and innocence, truth and fate. Though he is virtually invisible to society, the innocence Project and Michael's pro bono attorney spend years fighting for the right to test DNA evidence found at the murder...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Two friends, one is the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, the other's grandfather was a Nazi officer, meet Israeli immigrants to Germany and Austria and try to understand what prompts them to return to the countries their families were once forced to flee, what challenges and opportunities they face.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This documentary examines the personal and social impact of the impending retirement of America's 77 million Baby Boomers. By Emmy-Winning filmmaker Nina Gilden Seavey, Director of A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
New York in the Fifties is the story of a unique time and place, when New York was the hotbed of new artistic expressions, free love, drinking, hot jazz, and radical politics. The film combines archival footage of New York with interviews and footage of icons of the day: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Baldwin, Mailer, Basie, etc. Offering modern day perspective and reminiscences are writers, actors, and artists such as Joan Didion, Robert Redford, Nat Hentoff,...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Multiple
Description
Story of the Roma, commonly referred to as Gypsies, a people who have been both romanticized and vilified in popular culture. The Roma have endured centuries of intolerance and persecution in Europe, most notably the Holocaust genocide where an estimated 500,000 were murdered. A People Uncounted documents their culturally rich yet often difficult lives, and demonstrates how their present state has been deeply shaped by the tragedies of the past. Filmed...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In recent years, many people are redefining their American Dream to focus on flexibility, financial freedom, and quality of life over quantity of space. These self-proclaimed "Tiny Housers" live in homes smaller than the average parking space, often built on wheels to bypass building codes and zoning laws. Tiny takes viewers inside six of these homes stripped to their essentials, exploring the owners' stories and the design innovations that make them...
8) Orgasm Inc
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Explores the strange science of female pleasure and reveals the warped mentality of the pharmaceutical and medical industries. Director Liz Canner embarks on a nine-year odyssey as she follows the companies who are racing to be the first to win FDA approval for a product to cure 'female sexual dysfunction.' The prize: billions of dollars in profits. Featuring illuminating footage and interviews with activists, doctors, and medical experts.