The Occupy movement erupted in September 2011, propelling economic inequality into the spotlight. In an unprecedented collaboration, filmmakers across America tell its story, digging into big picture issues as organisers, analysts, participants and critics reveal how it happened and why.
This intimate documentary follows the 12-year journey of two African-American families pursuing the promise of opportunity through the education of their sons.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson)
Tilikum, whose last victim Dawn Brancheau died in 2010, is still performing at SeaWorld - after watching this documentary, you'll think long and hard about taking your family to see him.
Wisconsin – birthplace of the Republican Party, government unions, “cheeseheads” and Paul Ryan – becomes a test market in the campaign to buy Democracy, and ground zero in the battle for the future of the GOP.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin)
Gideon’s Army follows three young, committed Public Defenders, who are dedicated to working for the people society would rather forget. Long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads are so common that even the most committed often give up.
In this timely and entertaining documentary, noted economic policy expert Robert Reich distills the topic of widening income inequality, and addresses the question of what effects this increasing gap has on the US economy and US democracy.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Jacob Kornbluth)
World premiere
Manhunt
This espionage tale goes inside the CIA’s long conflict against al-Qaeda, as revealed by the remarkable women and men whose secret war against Osama bin Laden started nearly a decade before most of us even knew his name.
An examination of Mexican drug cartels’ influence in pop culture on both sides of the border as experienced by an LA narcocorrido singer dreaming of stardom and a Juarez crime scene investigator on the front line of Mexico’s Drug War.
Dr Leslie Gordon and Dr Scott Berns fight to save their only son from Progeria, a rare and fatal disease which causes rapid ageing in children and for which there is no treatment or cure. In less than a decade, their work has led to significant advances.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine)
World premiere
Valentine Road
In 2008, eighth-grader Brandon McInerney shot classmate Larry King at point blank range. Unraveling this tragedy from point of impact, the film reveals the heartbreaking circumstances that led to the shocking crime as well as its startling aftermath.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Marta Cunningham)
