In New Jersey, the Good Grief community focuses on a holistic way of dealing with grief, where children can give in to rage in the volcano room, and say goodbye to a dying teddy bear patient in the hospital room.
Ben Pasternak created a viral game app while in middle school in Australia. By 15 he had secured funding from VC’s to build a new tech startup. So he dropped out of school and convinced his parents to let him live alone in NYC to lead his new company. But after running out of money, and confronting controversies that pushed him to the edge of sanity, Ben rebooted his career at 19, finding a new and unexpected purpose.
(Country: Australia, US; Year: 2020; Director: Adam Barton; Stars: Ben Pasternak, John Maloney, Chris Smith, Anna Pasternak, Mark Pasternak, Mike Landsberger, Isaiah Turner)
The rags to riches story of a refugee escaping Cambodia, arriving in America in 1975 and building an unlikely multi-million dollar empire baking America’s favourite pastry, the donut. Ted sponsored hundreds of visas for incoming refugees and taught them the ways of the donut business.
(Country: Cambodia, US; Director: Alice Gu; Stars: Ted Ngoy, Christy Ngoy, Mayly Tao, Ning Yen, Chhay Bun Ngoy, Kom Chris Ngoy, Susan Wahid, Chet Ngoy, William Mimiaga, Savy Ngoy)
Finding Yingying
The story of the search for a young Chinese student who disappeared whilst study sciences at a university in the US.
Comedy guru Del Close, mentor to everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, sets out to write his autobiography for DC Comics. He leads us through sewers, mental wards, and his peculiar talent for making everyone famous but himself.
(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Heather Ross; Writer: Heather Ross, Adam Samuel Goldman; Stars: James Urbaniak, Patton Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk, Matt Walsh, Lennon Parham, Lauren Lapkus, Jason Mantzoukas, Adam McKay, Jason Sudeikis, George Wendt)
Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide
A documentary about the art of fun, about living life out loud, despite setbacks, and about Kenny Scharf’s particular do-it- yourself, high-tone, technicolor artistic vision.
(Country: Brazil, US; Year: 2020; Director: Malia Scharf, Max Basch; Writer: Malia Scharf, Max Basch; Stars: Kenny Scharf, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ed Ruscha, Yoko Ono, Kaws, Marilyn Minter, Jeffery Deitch, Robert Williams, Irving Blum)
A film which will remind its viewers why they fell in love with cinema in the first place.
The story of Wakaliwood, the grassroots film industry born in the slums of Kampala which is all about action and entertainment and the conviction that in the movies, nothing is impossible.
(Country: Uganda; Year: 2020; Director: Cathryne Czubek, Hugo Perez; Stars: Isaac Nabwana, Alan Hofmanis, Harriet Nabwana, Bisaso Dauda)
A contemplative odyssey across our planet, looking at the simple and extraordinary ways that dogs influence our daily lives. Former child soldiers in Uganda. The local pub in a Scottish town. A dog walker on the streets of Istanbul.
(Country: Chile, Finland, Italy, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Romania, Turkey, Uganda, UK, Vietnam; Year: 2020; Director: Matthew Salleh)
