1999 San Francisco International Film Festival
Death: A Love Story
$21.95 | 63 minutes
Golden Gate Certificate of Merit
Filmmaker Michelle Le Brun and producer/actor Mel Howard (HESTER STREET, RENALDO AND CLARA) were married only two years when Mel was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Accustomed to living life through the medium of film, the couple courageously decided to document Mel's yearlong struggle with&hellip…
Dancemaker
$24.95 | 98 minutes
Golden Spire, Best Arts Documentary
A breathtaking journey into the world of preeminent choreographer, Paul Taylor. Winner of the 1999 Golden Spire Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award the same year. The DVD release contains a rare, full-length Paul Taylor performance of "Aureole"&hellip…
Regret to Inform
$25.95 | 72 minutes
Golden Spire Award, Bay Area Documentary
Director and writer Sonnenborn's universally acclaimed film about Vietnam, told from a very personal viewpoint. Sonnenborn's first husband was killed in the war, and he left her an audio tape of his thoughts and feelings about his experience. Sonnenborn refused to listen to the tape for&hellip…
Genghis Blues
$25.95 | 80 minutes
Audience Award
Grand Jury Prize
In 1995, blind bluesman Paul Pena, who has played with Muddy Waters, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Jerry Garcia, and Merl Saunders and wrote the Steve Miller Band hit "Jet Airliner," traveled to Tuva, a small land in Northern Mongolia, with a small film crew and radio DJ Mario Casetta. Pena had&hellip…
Little Dieter Needs To Fly
$25.95 | 74 minutes
Golden Spire - Television History
An extraordinary documentary about an extraordinary man, Werner Herzog's LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY details the life of Dieter Dengler, a survivor of both WWII and Vietnam. Dengler grew up in Germany, and, dreaming of one day flying a plane, left for the US when he was 18, unable to speak English&hellip…