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A documentary on the jazz musician Django Reinhardt & the way that his music has influenced others.
Documentary in which filmmaker Jamie Kastner goes on a personal journey to find out what it means to be Jewish in the modern world. Along the way he meets anti-semitic politician Pat Buchanan, Israeli novelist AB Yehoshua, British anti-Israeli curmudgeon Richard Ingrams and Hasids in Brooklyn; he causes a near-riot in a Parisian suburb simply by asking what people think about Jews; and he meets the 'dominatrix' behind Berlin's largest memorial to dead Jews. (Storyville)
Unflinching and deeply personal, D-Day In 14 Stories interviews many of the last surviving veterans who were on the beaches of Normandy that fateful day 75 years ago (a rare spectrum of Allies and Axis); seldom-heard voices, including a female Resistance fighter, an African American, a Native American, Jewish Americans and a 5-year old French boy.
Why won’t Disco die? Might it contain hidden depths? Politically correct revisionists are trying to recast disco as a misunderstood culture of protest. Through interviews with Gloria Gaynor, The Village People, Kool and the Gang and others, along with a goldmine of stock footage and speculative reenactments, The Secret Disco Revolution presents a comic-ironic investigation into disco and its mysterious longevity.
Squeezed by skyrocketing real estate, a cast of unlikely activists wages war to hang on to their homes in Toronto's historic Spadina Gardens, a remarkable upscale rental building that's been purchased by Dutch developers. Charlotte Mickie, an internationally renowned doyenne of arthouse cinema and long-time tenant, rallies an eclectic mix of tenants that includes celebrated artists, playwrights, socialites and fashion models, to fight against their renovictions.
Documentary follows Jacob Applebaum's online privacy advocacy, allegations of sexual misconduct against him, his role exposing government surveillance programs, and the impact on his career as a former WikiLeaks associate.
Canadian documentarian Jamie Kastner (The Secret Disco Revolution) looks back at a notorious 1970s murder trial in the Virgin Islands — where five politicized young islanders were convicted of a massacre at a ritzy country club — and its dramatic aftermath a decade later, when the culprits’ ostensible leader staged a skyjacking and found refuge in Cuba.