Category: Film & Video

Cinema Libre Studio announces release of social issue titles and new blog.

Interest in social issue documentaries as a tool for advocacy is seemingly on the rise. Online sales and submissions to film distributors is on the rise while festivals such as SilverDocs and Full Frame are including panel discussion focused on social activism and marketing. Cinema Libre Studio, a leader in the distribution of social issue titles, is currently in production on a feature length documentary on the true roots of poverty. To begin building its coalition building, the company will launch an interactive blog, calling it: "CinemActivist."

Mississippi Queen, a new documentary by filmmaker and producer Paige Williams, will begin production in Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Memphis and Louisiana May 14 - 31st. The film explores the complex and unique relationship between the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) community and the ex-gay ministry in the South. Mississippi Queen provides two compelling views of the controversial topic of homosexuality and Christianity.

Do you wait for the State of the Union Address to find out where our country stands? Would you believe them anyway? According to its makers, the recently released documentary One Nation Under Siege discloses all.

To ancient Mayans, the monstrous jungle caves known as Actun Tunichil Muknal represented the underworld.

But to a group of videographers and archaeologists who visited the caves in modern-day Belize last December, it was just another day at the office. They were there for a week to shoot the latest segment of the Inner Earth Film Project, a work in progress documenting the most spectacular, unusual and remote caves on Earth.

From Brooklyn, New York, Cameroon (West Central Africa), to Kwazulu-Natal (South Africa), African documentary filmmaker, Boniface Ndemping Wewe, aka The Ngonyama "Lion" of Brooklyn, and his co-narrator Barbara Temfack Wewe peruse some of the ills (ritual murders and body part extraction for different macabre purposes, rape of little girls as an erroneous cure for AIDS) and stereotypes about contemporary Africa.

ATLANTA, Aug. 30, 2005 -- RMAX.tv Productions today announced the release of the Prasara on DVD. Sanskrit for "flow without thought," Prasara is a unique system of physical and mental exercise through which the practitioner learns to integrate breathing, movement, and the physical structure of the body.