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| ESCAPE FROM SUBURBIA 5/6 |
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Beyond the American Dream ...
Suburbia and all it promises has become the American Dream. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, THE END OF SUBURBIA explores the American way of life and its prospects as the planet enters the age of Peak Oil. Through personal stories and interviews, this sequel examines how declining world oil production has already begun to affect modern life in North America. Expert scientific opinion is balanced with "on the street" portraits from an emerging global movement of citizen's groups who are confronting the challenges of Peak Oil in extraordinary ways. And the clock is ticking ...
This insightful documentary from director Gregory Greene won the grand prize at the 2007 Rhode Island International Film Festival, and is available on IndiePix.
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| SKID ROW - Activist Edition 5/6 |
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In this feature documentary, Pras Michel - one third of the successful hip-hop group The Fugees - lives on the streets of Skid Row for nine straight days and nights as a homeless person. His journey is a difficult one, riddled with hunger, exposure to the elements, criminals, drugs and danger. It is also life-changing.
Take charge of your own experience of this film and share it with others! The Activist Edition comes with everything you'll need to organize and promote your own screening of SKID ROW, in support of whichever homeless support organization you'd like to sponsor. Join the hundreds already getting involved in partnership with Brave New Theaters to make the dream of eradicating poverty a reality. Also included in this edition are informative documents that reveal the true scope of this issue, as well as checklists and links to get you quickly on your way to mobilizing friends, family, and associates to join you in support of the homeless.
The Skid Row Activist Edition, at a very special price, only available on IndiePix.
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| STREET CHILDREN 5/13 |
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Also known as Ndako Ya Bandeko, this film tells the tragic story of homeless children living on the streets of Congo-Brazzaville. With only the limited support and protection of an Italian priest, these children face daily depravation, and the constant threat of rape, assault, illness and death. Rod, the oldest of the children, shares his story of survival, complicated by a life-long struggle with sickle cell anemia and diabetes.
Join these incredible children in their struggle for safety in the documentary short STREET CHILDREN, available only at IndiePixFilms.com.
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| PREACHING TO THE PERVERTED 5/13 |
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A film about lust, law, and latex...
Peter, an innocent and upstanding young man, is dispatched by moral crusaders in Parliament to infiltrate fetish clubs operating all over Britain, and to gather evidence for a private prosecution. He finds himself quickly thrust into an unfamiliar world of sex, glamour, and S&M games in a mesmerizing underground society lorded over by sex goddess Tanya Cheex. Slowly taken in by this powerful, sexual woman, Peter finds himself infatuated, and pushes her to become 'normal' and avoid prosecution. She wants to destroy his ideas of 'love' and 'normalcy', reforming him into her latest and greatest sex slave. But who will win?
Peter's journey is amusing and upbeat, even as his adventures turn increasingly more bizarre. Drawn from accounts from the 90's underground sex scene, this film plays in an audio/visual arena far removed from the traditional realism of British cinema.
Perhaps unexpectedly, PREACHING TO THE PERVERTED has screened at over 20 film festivals, winning the Audience Award at Cinekink and taking home Best Actress honors for the performance of star Guinevere Turner (The L Word) at the festival in Beziers, France.
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| OFF THE GRID: LIFE ON THE MESA 5/20 |
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Twenty-five miles from town, a million miles from mainstream society, a loose-knit community of eco-pioneers, teenage runaways, war veterans and dropouts live on the fringe and off the grid, struggling to survive with little food, less water and no electricity, as they cling to their unique vision of the American Dream.
OFF THE GRID has screened at over 20 major film festivals, including Slamdance, True/False, AFI Los Angeles, and the Sarasota Film Festival, and won the Jury Award at the 2007 Ann Arbor Film Festival. At times poignant, at times shocking, this "insightful study of an alternative American lifestyle" (John Anderson, Variety) is now playing to sold out houses in limited theatrical engagements across the country, and is only available on DVD at IndiePixFilms.com.
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| DREAMS ON SPEC 5/20 |
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Featuring interviews with James L. Brooks, Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher and other filmmaking luminaries, DREAMS ON SPEC takes an intimate look at how far people will go - and how much they will sacrifice - for the chance to pursue their dreams. This feature documentary delves into the lives of three aspiring Hollywood filmmakers as they pour their hearts into spec scripts, pitch their ideas to anyone who will listen, go to meetings, hold table reads and work at low-level 'day jobs', all in the hopes of one day seeing one of their beloved creations made into a movie.
Praised by film critics and filmmakers alike, DREAMS ON SPEC is available for the first time on IndiePix DVD, a must-have for any artist's film collection. Find out more about David, the screenwriter moonlighting as an agent's assistant, Joe, the family man splitting time between caring for his autistic daughter and writing the next great American screenplay, and Deborah, driven by the dream of becoming one of the few African American women to write and direct a feature film, right here on IndiePix.
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| MANANA 5/27 |
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MANANA is about procrastination, or how the road to hell is paved with good intentions...
Marie wonders why people find it so hard to be good. Seeing her neighbor is sick, she decides that buying her flowers would help make her a good person. But this simple gesture turns out to be difficult to accomplish, what with all the stresses of life, and the ideal of goodness more elusive than she thought.
This fast-paced, hilarious short, set on the streets, restaurants, and old apartments of Paris, was praised by director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, Timecode) as "a real film, a rare thing these days." Cinematic and life-affirming, MANANA is available on DVD at IndiePix.
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| National Film Board of Canada - THIN DREAMS 5/27 |
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How do women in high school generally feel about their bodies? Whether fat, skinny, or "just right" - whatever that means - North America is obsessed with thin. From the National Film Board of Canada comes THIN DREAMS - an excellent discussion starter on female body image. Produced as part of a training program for young female filmmakers and sponsored by the Secretary of State's International Youth Year Secretariat and Studio D of NFBC. By Susie Mah.
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