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A humorous and heartfelt exploration of anxiety through the lens of some of today’s most brilliant comedians: Tiffany Jenkins, Joe List, Marc Maron, Aparna Nancherla, Mark Normand, Baron Vaughn, and Eva Victor. With a mix of stand-up performances, sketch videos, exclusive interviews, and relatable everyday life scenarios, they candidly share their personal struggles with the condition that affects more than 300 million people.
Phil Sharp’s journey from a Kentucky farm boy to Nobel laureate embodies the American Dream and the triumph of entrepreneurial spirit. His 1977 groundbreaking discovery of RNA splicing rewrote the rules of molecular biology and ignited a life-saving scientific revolution, laying the foundation for an industry that has become a cornerstone of global innovation and economic growth – and transformed the health of billions of patients worldwide.
The legacies we inherit the moment we’re born into our circumstances, the legacy we create throughout our time on this earth, and ultimately how our legacy is kept alive by those we impact after we’re gone are all explored through the weaving paths of two young men from SW Detroit who set out to uplift their worlds in the best way they know how: FIGHTING.
On the precipice of adulthood, teenagers converge at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway. Dropped at the edge of the world, they must rely on only themselves, one another, and a loyal pack of sled dogs as they all grow in unexpected directions.
Friday night Party with Arlo
Boston-based music writer and critic Jim Sullivan and Ty Burr, film critic, will join Elijah Wald, musician and author whose books have served as the inspiration for critically acclaimed films such as INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS and A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. He has toured as a performer on five continents and served as student and accompanist to the founding folk-blues revivalists Dave Van Ronk and Eric Von Schmidt, the legendary Congolese guitarist Jean-Bosco Mwenda, and toured for five years with the African-American string-band master Howard Armstrong. He was the Boston Globe’s world and roots music correspondent for twenty years. His books include Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues; Narcocorrido, about the Mexican ballads of drug smuggling and social struggle; Global Minstrels: Voices of World Music; Dave Van Ronk’s memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street, which inspired the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis; How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music; The Dozens: A History of Rap’s Mama; and Dylan Goes Electric!, which inspired the hit movie, A Complete Unknown, which was based on his book about Bob Dylan's relationship to Pete Seeger and journey towards rock 'n' roll, Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties.
Harriet, a once-promising filmmaker, is stuck in the suburbs of New Jersey. Alienated from her cheating husband and spurned by her teenage daughter, she secretly enrolls in film school. But, when she gets fired off her own film and found out by her daughter, Harriet must decide if her life’s ambition is pure folly or a dream worth saving.
In 1960’s Peru, a privileged French-Peruvian woman’s life unravels when her husband’s betrayal ostracizes her from elite society and leads her to embrace people from the very communities that she was raised to disregard. Amidst the backdrop of newfound alliances, she embarks on a transformative journey that challenges societal norms and reveals Peru’s authentic identity through a daring culinary venture that celebrates the country’s remarkably diverse cuisine and peoples and ignites a revolution that redefines her life.
In the Motherland, state-run Children’s Centers raise all citizens, ensuring a fair upbringing and freeing parents from child-rearing burdens. This seemingly utopian system turns into a nightmare for a Motherland enforcer who uncovers the true identity of a young woman in her care. When the Center launches a program to combat population decline, she becomes determined to protect the young woman from becoming part of it. Defying the system she once upheld, she risks everything to save her—that is, if the Motherland doesn’t stop her first.
Equestrian Phillip Dutton overcomes humble roots on an Australian cattle farm, inauspicious beginnings in the US, and a life-changing riding accident to become a seven-time Olympian in the sport of Eventing; but does the aging legend have enough left to qualify for his eighth Games at the age of 60?
Sometimes we get it right. Sometimes, not so much: A Radical • Alice • Crying on Command • Le Parrot • My Kind of People • Saverio • Swipe • Through Thin Ice
Join the filmmakers from Out of Plain Sight, Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp & the Biotech Revolution and Oceania: Journey to the Center for a conversation about making science documentaries in changing times.
High school hockey bruiser Will Mankus is struggling to navigate life as a teenager following the unexpected loss of his best friend and the school's star player to suicide. As he confronts his grief, Mankus must lift himself up from rock bottom with the help of his small-town New England community to find hope and purpose through his family, friends, and the sport he loves.
Traveling on his own to Arkansas to photograph migrant workers in 1961 gave Steve Schapiro his start as a photojournalist. He went on to photograph Andy Warhol, Muhammed Ali, David Bowie, the Selma March, James Baldwin, John Lewis, Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand, The Godfather, Taxi Driver, and countless more - bearing witness to some of the most significant social and cultural moments in modern American history.
In 1892 California, a woman contemplating adultery is forced to take refuge from a storm at the home of her first husband and his unstable wife, who claims to be haunted by their dead child.
A grief-stricken arborist and her son awaken a haunting when they begin felling trees at the estate of a mysterious recluse.
Betty Clark is an 80-year-old hospital chaplain and one of few African American women on staff at Highland Hospital, the trauma center in Oakland, California. Jessica Zitter is a white physician who has worked on the Palliative Care team with Betty for over a decade, caring for patients who are approaching the ends of their lives. Their relationship took years to develop, originally beset by racial tensions on the team and a professional hierarchy that siloes and divides. But over many years, their professional relationship blossoms into a deep and caring friendship which supports them both as they work to provide the best care possible— one patient at a time.
A traditional Ghanaian fisherman forced into retirement teams up with a sarcastic talking fish and his GenZ associates on a whimsical adventure to Accra, chasing their dream of owning a boat while learning to navigate the modern world.
Simon, a struggling documentary filmmaker, enjoys free flights courtesy of his best friend and roommate, Bruce, who works for an airline. However, when Beatrice, a more successful filmmaker, enters the picture and starts dating Bruce, Simon risks flying too close to the sun.
Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” but filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura calls him Dad. What begins as a documentary about his father’s career takes a turn with a Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis, and evolves into an exploration on art, activism, grief, and fatherhood.
Jay is a predominantly white town in the rural countryside of northwest Florida. Ask anyone who lives in the area – Black or white – and you’ll likely hear that the town simply does not welcome black people and almost no one, inside or outside the community, knows the origins of the town’s reputation. It simply persists. In 2010, Gus Benjamin, a Black teen from Brewton, Alabama, attended a party in Jay, only to wind up dead, a gunshot from a hunting rifle through his back. Robert Floyd, a young white man, is arrested and put on trial for second degree murder. The truths that emerge rip open deep wounds from the past between the black and white communities and lead towards reckoning with a dark history of racial violence that includes a shockingly similar fatal shooting that took place almost a century before.
Join Women in Film & Video New England along with the filmmakers of Maura Smith (Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere); Andrew Mudge (The Arborist), Wendy Lobel (Anxiety Club) and Dan Mirvish (18 1/2) for a conversation about getting a film made, seen and sold. Moderated by Grace-Mary Burega.
Rogelio is 8, his parents are never around and he gets his best birthday gifts from his dentist. This summer he is sent away to his nanny’s hometown, nestled in the Yucatan jungle. There, he embarks on a trip to the Mayan jungle with his nanny, where he will spy on the legendary "Xibalba Monster" and try to decipher the mystery of life and death.
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