The Motivation (2013)

Cuatro amigos skaters deciden seguir a su ídolo en sus vacaciones de verano, tratando de seguir sus pasos y conseguir así un sponsor para llegar a ser unas estrellas del monopatín.

Un grupo de cuatro amigos, fanáticos de Star Wars se vuelven juntar años después de graduarse para intentar cumplir la promesa que le hicieron a un amigo fallecido: Ver antes que nadie el Episodio I, secuestrando a George Lucas si fuera necesario.

'Ringers: Lord of the Fans' is a feature-length documentary that explores how "The Lord of the Rings" has influenced Western popular culture over the past 50 years.

The story of a man that earned his place as an innovator, motivator and legend in skateboarding that now creates inspiration and opportunity for a new generation. Cole's progression from humble neighborhood beginnings to the world of elite street skateboarding is revealed through recently discovered archival footage, presenting a skater that went on to achieve the highest amount of skate contest wins, a list of defining video parts, being twice selected as Thrasher magazine's Skater of the Year, back-to-back X-Games gold medals, and becoming the 2013 Street League Super Crown World Champion

La vida de Camille como una adolescente solitaria suburbana cambia dramáticamente cuando se hace amiga de un grupo de chicas patinadoras. A medida que se adentra en esta subcultura cruda de la ciudad de Nueva York, comienza a comprender el verdadero significado de la amistad, así como su ser interior.

A hilarious look at the universe's most fervent fans.

Documental sobre la serie Firefly, desde el punto de vista de los seguidores de la serie, con entrevistas y colaboraciones de los actores de la misma.

Denise Crosby takes another look at the huge fans of "Star Trek" and how the series from around the world has affected and shaped their lives.

Realizado tras un llamamiento a todos los fans norteamericanos que quisieran hablar sobre su amor/odio hacia Lucas y el universo de "La guerra de las galaxias", "The People vs. George Lucas" se centra en el fanatismo alrededor de esta saga y su propio creador, George Lucas.

Trek Nation is a documentary film directed by Scott Colthorp examining the positive impact that Star Trek and creator Gene Roddenberry may have had on people's lives as seen through the eyes of his son, Eugene Roddenberry, Jr. ("Rod"). It includes interviews with castmembers and crew from all five Star Trek shows, as well as various fans and celebrities who were markedly influenced by the show while growing up. Rod Roddenberry also visits Skywalker Ranch to interview George Lucas on the influence that Star Trek had on him. Lucas shares how he had gone to Star Trek conventions prior to creating Star Wars.

¿Han imaginado un lugar donde vulcanos y vampiros caminen juntos? ¿Donde magos y wookies puedan ser ellos mismos? Bienvenido a la Comic Con de San Diego. Lo que comenzó como una convención de comics para 500 fans se ha convertido en el evento pop del año, con una asistencia de 140,000 personas, y que influye en cada forma de entretenimiento. (FILMAFFINITY)

Documental biográfico que documenta la vida y la carrera de Bruce Springsteen a través de las vivencias y declaraciones de sus fans alrededor del mundo.

A film profiling the unusual cross-demographic fandom of the ostensibly girl oriented television series "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic"

Invisible skateboards, Eric Koston, super duper slo mo, Brandon Biebel, Marc Johnson, Owen Wilson, Rick McCrank, The Skatetrix, Gino Iannucci, Mike Carroll, The Magic Board, Brian Anderson, and the entire Girl and Chocolate Skateboard teams are all part of Girl Skateboard Films’ fourth video feature, Yeah Right!

Somm takes the viewer on a humorous, emotional and illuminating look into the mysterious world of the Court of Master Sommeliers and their massively intimidating Master Sommelier Exam.

Christian Slater es un adolescente experto en el skateboard que se verá envuelto en una investigación cuando su hermano adoptado vietnamita aparece muerto en un motel. Esa película cuenta con espectaculares escenas de virtuosos del monopatín, que hacía furor allá por los 80'.

Paranoid Park es el parque más frecuentado por los skaters de Portland, situado en una zona peligrosa de la ciudad. Allí van también Alex y su amigo Jared, todavía principiantes, para ver a los más expertos hacer sus acrobacias con el monopatín. Pero una noche, todo cambia para Alex. Un guardia de seguridad muere, la policía comienza a investigar, y él está en el centro de todas las miradas...

durante cerca de 30 años: volver a rodar "En busca del arca perdida" toma a toma.

Each year, the world’s best 7 year-old golfers descend on Pinehurst, North Carolina to compete in the World Championships of Junior Golf. The Short Game follows eight of these very young athletes on their quest to become the sport’s next phenom.

From the masters who create the mind-bending diversions to the tense competition at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, Patrick Creadon's documentary reveals a fascinating look at a decidedly addictive pastime. Creadon captures New York Times editor Will Shortz at work, talks to celebrity solvers -- including Bill Clinton and Ken Burns -- and presents an intimate look at the national tournament and its competitors.

The story of a man that earned his place as an innovator, motivator and legend in skateboarding that now creates inspiration and opportunity for a new generation. Cole's progression from humble neighborhood beginnings to the world of elite street skateboarding is revealed through recently discovered archival footage, presenting a skater that went on to achieve the highest amount of skate contest wins, a list of defining video parts, being twice selected as Thrasher magazine's Skater of the Year, back-to-back X-Games gold medals, and becoming the 2013 Street League Super Crown World Champion

Each year, the world’s best 7 year-old golfers descend on Pinehurst, North Carolina to compete in the World Championships of Junior Golf. The Short Game follows eight of these very young athletes on their quest to become the sport’s next phenom.

At a time when powerlessness and resignation carry the day, Noam Chomsky's work is a radical antidote for all those who want to put an end to the factory of powerlessness and its intellectual media star watchdogs. Theoretician of language, born in Philadelphia in 1928, Noam Chomsky revolutionized linguistics with the "generative grammar." But Chomsky is also a political analyst involved in all political struggles for decades. His clear analysis and rational ideological mechanisms of our societies is a crucial resource for critical thinking today.

Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon.

A boy's childhood scars his life.

Kevin Gant was an inspired and beloved Austin musician, but in 1995 he disappeared from the scene. Who is Kevin? What happened to him? And, can he get back what he lost?

Joanna es famosa por su forma de enfrentarse a una enfermedad terminal. Madre de un niño pequeño, escribe un blog en el que intenta dejar reflejado lo que espera enseñarle. La película muestra el día a día de su vida.

Higher traces Jones’ snowboarding journey from hiking Cape Cod’s Jailhouse Hill as a child to accumulating several generations’ worth of wisdom and expertise about thriving and surviving in the winter wilderness.

A searing account of what happens when raw talent and extreme personalities collide. In this unflinching, never-before-seen account of drugs and the dark side of professional skateboarding, brothers Tas and Ben Pappas' intense bond and charisma take them from the pinnacle of their sport into a spiraling world of self-destruction.

An awkward teenage outcast finds unlikely companions in two aged residents of the retirement home in which she works.

When NATO troops withdrew from Afghanistan, the Afghan National Army (ANA) took over control of Helmand Province, an extremely dangerous region where attacks by Taliban fighters are the order of the day. Security, much less peace, would seem to be unattainable; it is even difficult to find a common language in a country where everyone mistrusts each other. The directors of this film accompanied an ANA company during a year of frontline duty in Helmand. The soldiers are paid irregularly, there are not enough supplies and their equipment is substandard. They cannot fight a war with the equipment left behind by the ISAF.

Los Angeles' Skid Row is home to one of the largest homeless populations in the United States. And we found, inside that community, the remarkable and enormously moving stories of Olympic athletes, Harvard attorneys, accomplished musicians, scholars. We found poverty, drugs and mental illness, of course - but more importantly we found life, hope and incredibly powerful human journeys.

De la mano de los productores de Teton Gravity Research (TGR), con la colaboración de Jeremy Jones, llega la película más progresista de snowboard hasta la fecha. Siga Jeremy y a otros de los mejores freeriders en su viaje a las mecas de snowboard por todo el mundo.

TK is a handsome and charming womanizer who runs at the first mention of commitment. His life changes when he meets Skiets, the one woman immune to his charms.

Sam Klemke has filmed and narrated 50 years of his life, creating a strange and intimate portrait of what it means to be human.

About the life and work of controversial American Jewish academic Norman Finkelstein.

Nick Koenig, aka Hot Sugar, is in a hot mess. Considered a modern-day Mozart, the young electronic musician/producer records sounds from everyday life—from hanging up payphone receivers to Hurricane Sandy rain—and chops, loops and samples them into Grammy Award–nominated beats. He’s living the life every musician dreams of, complete with an internet-phenom girlfriend, rapper/singer “Kitty.” But when she dumps him, Hot Sugar is set adrift. Fleeing to Paris, he tries to regroup, searching for new sounds and a sense of self. Filmmaker Adam Lough mixes scenes of Hot Sugar at work on his vintage recording devices with surprising soul-searching reflections he offers to the camera. As tweets and posts about the broken couple blow up on the internet, Hot Sugar’s road trip presses onward, revealing even more exotic layers of the man and his music. Fun and flash, this lyrical journey offers audiences a fascinating peek into a modern artist’s creative process.

Organized Noize shaped the landscape of Hip Hop music with a distinct sound created in the confines of a dungeon. They're responsible for the careers of Outkast, CeeLo, Goodie Mob, and the Dungeon Family. This is the story of the Art of Organized.

In the beginning the idea was to make something from nothing, in a neutral and unknown place. Collect images and sounds instead of producing them. The camera, the microphone and the mini-amplifier: tools that take away and then give back. We defined a rule: the sound shouldn't illustrate the image and the image shouldn't absorb the sound. Less than a hundred kilometres from Reykjavik we found Strokkur. For three days we saw and heard the internal dynamics of the crevice: the boiling water that spat out every seven minutes and the thermal shock, given the eighteen degrees below zero of the atmosphere.

A documentary that explores the range of experiences lived by transgender Americans.