This documentary tells the hidden story of the Mayan Pyramids. Mystic Maya reveals the Sacred initiation rites of the Maya, Egypt, and modern Western Esoteric mystery schools through the lens of initiated Mayan Elders and lineage keepers.

Mystic Maya, Journey of Initiation

After meeting at an infamous clown school in France, five international theatre artists travel to Calgary, Canada with the goal of creating and staging four original shows in under three months.This documentary follows the creative process unfolding alongside the construction and realization of one of Canada's first independently-owned and privately funded theatres.

The Theatre Documentary

Wildland firefighters are falling to suicide in frightening numbers. Follow along as brave firefighters share their courageous stories of healing after trauma.

A Dirty Secret: Compassion in Wildfire

Irish filmmaker Sam Jones, in his first feature documentary, welcomes the newfound friendship of US citizen Gabe, and follows him to a remote Russian village in search of the mother he and his sister were taken from in childhood when they were adopted into America. What Gabe finds is not the loving parent he hoped for, but an alcoholic, a woman steeped in lies, darkness and death. With apparent arrogance and insensitivity, he determines to rehabilitate her but as the film progresses we learn of Gabe’s own traumas and this deeply unsettling story of friendship, adoption, addiction and identity takes ever darker turns.

My Lost Russian Mother

In "Guiding Light", the lead prosecutor, the defense attorney and the police chief tell the story of a young teen (Polly Hannah Klaas) in a small town in America (Petaluma, California) who was kidnapped from her bedroom during a slumber party while her family was asleep in the house.  In this film, India Mitchell, a teen growing up in the same town thirty years later weaves together past and present as she looks back on the Polly Klaas tragedy that rocked the nation, and the legacy of striving to keep children safe.

Guiding Light

Poland is in the group of countries threatened by water deficit. Forests are refuges of wild rivers today. Here we have a unique opportunity to observe still natural processes occurring in the natural environment. Polish foresters protect wetlands and carry out many small retention projects and sustainable forest management to protect such valuable biotopes.

Forest Rivers

After winning the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery, a Malaysian immigrant journeys to New York City to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a filmmaker. Through intimate recorded dialogues with his mother, the film poignantly explores the immigrant experience, the bittersweet act of leaving one's roots, and the complex allure of the American Dream.

Dual Horizons

"The Adventures at Comic-Con" is an experimental art documentary inspired by the Disney animated classic "Fantasia". It chronicles the adventures of experiencing the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con for the first time through musical soundscapes and spoken narrative. Ultimately, this film is a musical love letter to art, its visual components in storytelling, and a celebration of Comic-Con that honors the legacy of pop culture and its pioneers.

The Adventures at Comic-Con

Champion MMA fighter Fabricio Werdum is accompanied behind the scenes of the biggest challenge of his career and shows the other side of the athlete who has to face his worst enemy, his own pain.

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Werdum: Above the Pain

Mishkin-Qalam (1824-1912), which translates to “The Musk-Black Pen”, was the leading 19th Century calligrapher of the Persian Empire. He was a master of Calligraphy and Nail Script (which involves the use of a fingernail to inscribe artistic imagery onto specially prepared paper), an Astronomer, a Sufi, and one of the nineteen Apostles of the Baha’i Faith. Despite being an exile and prisoner of the Ottoman Empire for over 50 years due to his spiritual beliefs, he survived to live on 3 different continents and producing a body of work of outstanding beauty. Examples of this work may now be seen in locations including the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge) and the British Museum (London). Amongst the most recognisable images Mishkin-Qalam had produced in various formats is one of a rooster inscribed by Persian calligraphy, representing the dawn of a new age of universal peace.The documentary entitled MISHKIN-QALAM, filmed and produced in Cyprus- the island to which the artist was exiled to for 19 years- tells the story of his life and art through historical dramatic re-enactments, animations produced in the middle eastern “miniature” style, and Persian, Greek and Turkish language interviews all dubbed in English, with scholars and family members based in Cyprus, Italy, the USA, Israel and Australia.

Mishkin-Qalam (The Musk-Black Pen)

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