Sarasota Film Festival Collection
Browse our collection of DVDs featuring Official Selections from past years of the Sarasota Film Festival -- all of which are available for purchase online!
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Black Sun
$24.95 | 70 minutes
What happens when a visual artists is tragically robbed of his main tool -- his eyesight? Gary Tarn's remarkable, award-winning documentary, BLACK SUN, investigates this through the story of Hugues de Montalembert, a New York-based artist and filmmaker who was blinded by a vicious attack in 1978. Defying expectation, the remarkable artist&hellip…
Crazy Love
$16.95 | 92 minutes
Dan Klores's documentary takes viewers inside a relationship made famous by tabloid reports back in the summer of 1959. Burt Pugach and Linda Pugach met when Burt was already married but Linda was a young single woman. Embarking on a passionate affair, the two never guessed they'd land on the cover of magazines and newspapers later on&hellip…
Johnny Berlin
$14.95 | 55 minutes
With a dry wit and self-effacing humor, as well as an endearing eccentricity, Jon Hyrns gives voice to his life and dreams in Dominic J. DeJoseph's hour-long documentary, narrating a journey that traverses much of the West Coast by 1930's Pullman car. The camera is silent witness to a monologue delivered by 40-something Hyrns, whose job&hellip…
Living With The Tudors
$19.95 | 83 minutes
After years of participating as costumed historical re-enactors themselves, Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope decided to film this mysterious world. Given unprecendented access to England's oldest and largest historical re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in rural Suffolk, the capture the colorful characters among the 500 volunteers who spend their&hellip…
Murderball
$12.95 | 86 minutes
Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro's MURDERBALL is an inspiring documentary, which proves that physical limitations are no match for the human spirit. For the determined quadriplegic men who participate in the dangerous sport of "quad rugby," it's more than just a game: it's a chance to prove themselves in a much bigger way. With&hellip…
Orthodox Stance
$24.95 | 82 minutes
A NY TIMES Critic's Pick! For the last 60 years, the term "Jewish boxer" has been an oxymoron. But Dmitriy Salita, a 25 year-old Russian immigrant is making history as a top professional boxer and a rigorously observant Jew. While providing an intimate, 3-year long look at the trials and tribulations faced by an up and coming professional&hellip…
Up The Yangtze
$23.95 | 93 minutes
China's monumental Three Gorges Dam is set to generate 10 Hoover Dams worth of electricity, flood nearly 400 square miles of land, and displace over one million residents. This documentary follows Yu Shui, a young girl sent by her parents to work on the Farewell Cruises, pleasure boats that ferry tourists up and down the quickly vanishing&hellip…
Young@Heart
$11.95 | 108 minutes
As early as autumn 2006, surreal and hilarious video clips of Stephen Walker's documentary (which originally aired on the BBC) were making the rounds on YouTube and in email inboxes all over the U.S.--tantalizing, out-of-context glimpses of the Young@Heart vocal choir, composed of elderly men and women, having a go at chestnuts by Sonic&hellip…