This documentary enters the unexplored realm of professional eSports, as told through the eyes of two of the world’s best StarCraft II players. Together with striking visuals and a mesmerizing original score, go behind the scenes and experience the high-pressure, high-stakes lifestyles of professional gamers.

Comic book characters are box office gold, but why do comic book stores struggle to survive? In MY COMIC SHOP COUNTRY, filmmaker Anthony Desiato sets out on a quest to explore the culture, business, and fandom of comic shops across America. Venturing behind the scenes in stores from coast to coast, he reveals an industry in transition as shops strive to remain relevant to the growing hordes of fans of movies, online gaming and mega-conventions. The...

Dreamworlds 3, the highly anticipated update of Dreamworlds 2 (1995), examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and by extension boys and men, providing a meticulous analysis of how these narratives reflect and shape individual and cultural attitudes toward femininity, masculinity, sexuality, and race. Systematically dismantling music video's most persistent and disturbing stock representations, and setting them against...

Does the Internet dream with our electric memories? What happens to all those countless photos and videos we upload? Featuring interviews with leading scientists and digital pioneers, IN LIMBO is a marvelous, poetic exploration of this new virtual reality – a meditation on time, memory and technology. Official Selection at **CPH:DOX**.

This documentary explores how reality television is constructed and consumed, and the psychological impact it has on participants. It examines how the characters of people on reality television are simplified to serve the show's needs and narratives. Further, it questions whether our consumption of reality television negatively affects the lives of the reality television participants. On the surface CREATING A MONSTER is about reality television....

WAR ON WHISTLEBLOWERS: FREE PRESS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse.

Produced and directed by Kidlat Tahimik, this brilliant semi-autobiographical fable tells the story of a young Filipino born in 1942 (during the Occupation), his awakening to, and reaction against, American cultural colonialism. In his small village, Kidlat dreams of Cape Canaveral and listens to the Voice of America; he's even the president of his village's Werner Von Braun fan club. Winner of the Berlin Film Festival International Critics Award...

While the social construction of femininity has been widely examined, the dominant role of masculinity has until recently remained largely invisible. Tough Guise is the first educational video to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century. In this innovative and wide-ranging analysis, Jackson Katz argues that widespread violence...

An acclaimed experimental documentary tracing the history of airplane hijacking as portrayed by mainstream television media. Official Selection at the **International Film Festival Rotterdam** and **Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival**.

This is a profile of the legendary activist and journalist Robert Scheer, who reminds us that journalism, at its best, is about pursuing the truth at all costs. The film traces Scheer’s career trajectory across dramatic shifts in journalistic practice and platforms, offering a glimpse into the myriad pressures that confront journalists who refuse to compromise their principles and instead commit themselves to speaking truth to power. At a time when...