The year is 1996, and documentary filmmaker Doug Block, fascinated by this new thing called the internet, trains his wry, analytical lens on the burgeoning home page (i.e. blogging) phenomenon. He soon falls under the spell of 21-year old cyber superstar Justin Hall, whose (literally) bare-all online diary spares no details about friends, family, lovers, and, inevitably, Block himself. When Hall goads the filmmaker into keeping his own online diary,...

In fifteen linked chapters shot in locations ranging from Moscow to New York to Istanbul, COUNTING merges city symphony, diary film, and personal/political essay to create a vivid portrait of contemporary life. COUNTING measures street life, light and time, noting not only surveillance and overdevelopment but resistance and its phantoms as manifested in music, animals and everyday magic Winner of Best Cinematographer at **DOC LA**. Official Selection...

Cecil Beaton was a dazzling chronicler of his time. A photographer, writer, painter, and Oscar-winning set and costume designer who captured both the front lines of war and the Queen’s official portrait, Beaton embodied the cultural and political changes of the twentieth century. In LOVE, CECIL director Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict) blends archival footage and photographs with voice-over...

ELENA, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sister. Two decades later, Petra also becomes an actress and goes to New York in search of ELENA. She only has a few clues about her: home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary and letters. At any moment...

One record producer, the creators of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” and top indie rock artists come together to create a tribute album benefiting the Hetrick-Martin Institute, home of the Harvey Milk High School—the first accredited high school in the country for LGBTQ youth. Produced in association with Sundance Channel, “FOLLOW MY VOICE: WITH THE MUSIC OF HEDWIG” weaves the compelling, courageous stories of four students at this controversial...