Wendy Ettinger

A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. The film unfolds mimicking a game of telephone, where sound’s feeble transmissibility is proven as the story bends and weaves to human interpretation and miscommunication. The result is a stunning contribution to cinematic language. O’Daniel has developed a syntax of deafness that offers a complex, overlaid, surprising new texture, which offers a dimensional experience of deafness and reorients the audience auditorily in an unfamiliar and exhilarating way.

Una exploración de la memoria de una mujer cuando ésta se ve obligada a revaluar su primera relación sexual y sus historias basadas en el autoengaño.

La Patagonia, sur de Argentina. Después de la muerte de su madre, Nahuel, un adolescente violento, se reencuentra con su padre biológico, Ernesto, un experimentado guía de caza; pero su reunión resulta áspera, ya que en sus almas imperan solo el orgullo y el resentimiento.

Sigue a un montañista huyendo de las autoridades que sobrevivirá el invierno irrumpiendo en casas de vacaciones vacías. Perseguido por el recurrente sueño de estar perdido en el mar sólo para descubrir que el sueño es real: es un hombre en dos cuerpos.

Totalmente desatendida por su marido, Sarah se embarca en un improvisado viaje por carretera en compañía de su hija y su mejor amiga, Mindy. A lo largo del camino, la relación entre las dos amigas se intensifica antes de que las circunstancias las separaran. Años más tarde, Sarah intenta reconstruir su relación en los días previos a la boda de Mindy.

Dos hermanas co-dependientes, una adicta al sexo en recuperación y la otra una lesbiana solitaria, trabajan como sirvientas de un hotel en Fresno. Para encubrir un crime accidental,se veran metidas un muchos lios.

Will y Eden perdieron a su hijo años atrás. La tragedia afectó su relación de forma irreversible, hasta el punto de que ella desapareció de la noche a la mañana. Un día, Eden regresa a la ciudad; se ha vuelto a casar y en ella parece haber cambiado algo, convirtiéndola en una presencia inquietante e irreconocible incluso para Will.

Dos ex cuñados comienzan un viaje por Islandia en un intento de recuperar su juventud a través de clubes nocturnos de Reykjavik, balnearios de moda y campings. Esta aventura algo subida de tono supone un regreso a la década de los ochenta y las road movies, así como una franca exploración de la vejez, la soledad y la amistad.

One in four women experience violence in their homes. Have you ever asked, “Why doesn't she just leave?” Private Violence shatters the brutality of our logic and intimately reveals the stories of two women: Deanna Walters, who transforms from victim to survivor, and Kit Gruelle, who advocates for justice.

Narra la historia de una adolescente afroamericana del Bronx de 17 años que va descubriendo su propia sexualidad en una atmósfera represiva. Alike entabla complejas relaciones con sus amigos, su padre confidente y su conflictiva madre mientras reflexiona sobre su identidad.

The film features 85-year-old Mr. Armstrong, an African American barber in Birmingham, Alabama, as he experiences the manifestation of an unimaginable dream: the election of the first African American president. This colorful and courageous activist of the Civil Rights era casts his vote, celebrates Obama's victory and proudly unfurls the American flag as he is inducted into the Foot Soldiers Hall of Fame. Mr. Armstrong links the magnitude of the present paradigm shift with challenges he faced in the past: from his sons' integration into an all white school to the Bloody Sunday march for voting rights. The documentary raises questions about democracy and patriotism in the face of adversity, and the vigilance and action required to ensure continued forward movement to end racial injustice.

Extraordinary behind-the-scenes access reveals a drug company's fevered race to develop the first FDA-approved Viagra for women - and offers a humorous but sobering look inside the cash-fueled pharmaceutical industry.

A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the local sheriff embarks on a quest to uncover the roots of a gruesome crime. He's led to Ainsley DuPree and her new husband, Jack, a man whose interest in family may very well outweigh his morals.

Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with the married Clara and becomes her lover. But they are separated when Giorgio is posted far away, where he meets the unhappy, unhealthy, and unattractive Fosca, who develops a passionate love for Giorgio and tries to make him love her. This rendition of Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical was recorded on the stage with it's original all-star Broadway cast. Originally broadcast as part of "American Playhouse" on PBS (season thirteen, episode six).

Otoño de 1936. David Carr (Ian Hart), un joven comunista en paro, deja Liverpool para intervenir en la guerra civil española, dentro del bando republicano, e ingresa en la Brigada Internacional del frente de Aragón. Allí conocerá a muchos milicianos procedentes de toda Europa y Estados Unidos, en especial la española Blanca (Rosana Pastor), una atractiva anarquista. David y Blanca están convencidos de luchar por la defensa de la libertad. La igualdad entre las personas y el compartir tierra y bienes, sin existencia de clases sociales son los ideales que defienden. Pero a veces el enemigo no solo está entre las filas del bando adversario.

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Clinton for President campaign, focusing on the adventures of spin doctors James Carville and George Stephanopoulos.

My Favorite Neoconservative offers a rare glimpse of intimate Washington politics through a unique father-daughter relationship. The main character is the filmmaker’s father, Edward Luttwak, who makes a living as a military strategist. He devised the air campaign of the first Iraq War; his life was threatened on the nightly news by the notorious terrorist, Abu Nidal. The film tells a father-daughter story with a massive military and political twist.