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  • Punk: The Robert R. Young Story

    Movie

    A stockbroker from Texas battles eastern bankers, railroads and government.

  • Pro Wrestler

    Movie

    "Pro Wrestler" is a documentary about the unique subculture surrounding Independent Professional Wrestling. The piece follows 5 Wrestlers at different points in their careers. Filmmaker Kenny Johnson embedded himself in the 'fake' world of wrestling and filmed over 50 hours of footage. Yes, wrest...

  • Private Revolutions: Young, Female, Egyptian

    Movie

    Four young Egyptian women with different social background smartly fight for their ideals and rights. For almost two years we follow their everyday lives and their struggle in post-revolutionary Egypt.

  • Princess Jack

    Movie

    Jack is not your typical 10-year-old boy. His closet is jam-packed with dresses, his room stacked with hats and wigs, and every surface is covered with makeup. Princess Jack is a short documentary that gives a glimpse into Jack’s world, an autistic boy whose life is filled with fairytales. The st...

  • Pretty Faces

    Movie

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    Created conceptually by Lynsey Dyer.

    Released in 2014 complete with an all-female cast, this award-winning ski documentary film celebrates women who thrive in the snow.

    In Lynsey’s words: “I want to give young girls something positive to look up to. I want to give them thei...

  • Portraits from Varangerfjord

    Movie

    Living centrally in the middle of nowhere.

  • Portrait of a Sound Design Artist

    Movie

    Bathtubs, earplugs and a pickaxe.

  • Pixels and Polygons: An Indie Game Developer Story

    Movie

    True life story of a "starving artist" trying to make a career for himself.

  • Pink Palace

    Movie

    People with disabilities, enjoying sex like anyone else.

  • Picking for Picasso

    Movie

    Picking for Picasso is based on one man's fascinating true story of life as a "picker", the treasure hunters of the art world. We follow his adventurous life of ups and downs on the road, and find spirit and unwavering faith in times of despair, in his endless search for the 'big find'.

  • Phone Sex Grandma

    Movie

    Nothing is as it seems.

  • Pattern or Practice

    Movie

    Pattern or Practice peels the veneer off that shoddy pretense and provides a stark view of what institutionalized racism looks like. A small Midwestern town, once a manufacturing powerhouse, is a backsliding, post-industrial community with a race problem so pervasive that disbelief is nearly alwa...

  • Path to Glory: Spirit of the Arabian Horse

    Movie

    It can be said that the history of man is the history of the horse. Nowhere is that more true than in Poland with their beloved Arabian horse. This is the strange, unexpected story of far-flung lands as disparate as Egypt and the long-suffering Slavic kingdom of Poland coming together in war and ...

  • Path of Freedom

    Movie

    In the harsh environment of a Rhode Island men’s prison, a group of fifty inmates are transforming their lives through the practice of meditation. Path of Freedom follows former inmate Fleet Maull as he visits prison to share his strategies for surviving on the inside. The film offers a rare glim...

  • Palestine, Beer and Oktoberfest Under Occupation

    Movie

    What does beer do to people? It creates an atmosphere of acceptance.

  • Out of the Rubble

    Movie

    An 8-year old boy's struggle to survive the Haitian earthquake of 2010.

  • Our Town. Unfiltered. - Jean Muenchrath

    Movie

    Her wilderness adventure turned into a nightmare. After skiing 200 miles along California's John Muir Trail, Jean faces death from a mountaineering accident on Mount Whitney. Broken and bleeding on the highest peak in the continental United States, she vows to realize her greatest dreams if she l...

  • Our Daughter's For Sale

    Movie

    High in the hills of Thailand are villages where selling children for profit - not for survival - is commonplace. While the government would prefer to say that no such problem exists - one organization stands in their way.
    The Children's Organization of Southeast Asia (COSA) is working on a new m...

  • Orquesta Tipica

    Movie

    Orquesta Tipica is a feature-length documentary chronicling the rise of Argentina’s newest and most popular tango orchestra: Orquesta Tipica Fernandez Fierro. The movie follows the band’s 12 members as they tour Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, Austria, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy. It has screen ...

  • One Wall, Kings of Coney Island

    Movie

    Handball is the ultimate city game. Played at the highest level, it can be both beautiful and brutal -- one player describes it as 'like boxing, except with a ball.' For more than 50 years, the National One Wall Handball Championship has been played at the Seaside Courts in Coney Island. One Wall...

  • One Man, One Cow, One Planet

    Movie

    How to save the world.

  • One Family in Gaza

    Movie

    Just months after the 2008/9 Israeli assault that killed 1,390 Palestinians, filmmaker Jen Marlowe visited Gaza. Among dozens of painful stories, one family stood out. She spent several days with Kamal and Wafaa Awajah, playing with their children, sleeping in the tent they were living in, and fi...

  • One Day Tafo

    Movie

    One Day Tafo is a film which, from the unique personal perspective of the Ghanaian born mulatto filmmaker Erik Knudsen, explores the changes that have taken place in Ghana since independence in 1957.

  • One Bad Cat

    Movie

    ONE BAD CAT is about the transformative role art plays in the tumultuous life of 82 year-old, African-American, renowned "outsider" artist Reverend Albert Wagner. He has been a lightening rod for controversy his entire life. Racism, ego and lust led him to the brink of ruin. Miraculously turned o...