Druid Heights (2015)

Gênero : Documentário

Runtime : 20M

Director : Marcy Mendelson

Sinopse

Druid Heights is a short documentary film by Marcy Mendelson about a wild & wooly place. California’s hidden bohemia. Where sex, drugs and philosophy thrived among the eucalyptus just a few miles north of the Golden Gate.

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