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A documentary feature film about the rise and fall of Napster and the birth of the digital revolution. Winter first met Shawn Fanning in 2001 and spent many years with him and the other major players in this story before being able to bring it to the screen. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**

Type "The Angriest Man in the World" into any search engine, and one name appears -- Jack Rebney, a.k.a. "The Winnebago Man" -- an '80s RV salesman, whose hilarious, profanity-strewn, on-the-job meltdown was captured on video and passed around on VHS tapes, before exploding into an Internet phenomenon seen by millions. When a young filmmaker sets out on the seemingly impossible task of tracking down Rebney, who disappeared 20 years before, he finds Rebney living alone on a mountain top, as sharp-tongued as ever, but more intelligent and loveable than anyone could have imagined. WINNEBAGO MAN is an outrageously funny look at viral culture and an unexpectedly moving tale of one man's response to unintended celebrity. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**, and the **Mill Valley Film Festival**

In this groundbreaking cult documentary from 1985, director Kirby Dick (*This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Derrida*) weaves a fascinating study of the curious role of a sex surrogate in the (then) recently established discipline of sexual therapy. Maureen Sullivan and two of her clients agreed to have the entire progression of their therapy taped, and what emerges is a disarming and compassionate look at the struggles people face in connecting with one another. Winner of the Jury Award for Best Documentary at the **Atlanta Film Festival.** Winner of the First Place Award for Documentary at the **USA Film Festival.** **Editor's Note:** This documentary from Academy Award nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick features its subjects partaking in intimate sexual acts as part of a controversial form of Surrogate Partner Therapy called "Sex Surrogacy." In addition to teaching patients important social skills, relaxation techniques, sex education, and how to establish healthy body image, Sex Surrogacy often involves sensual or sexual touching. Though the topic of Sex Surrogacy may raise moral and ethical issues for some viewers, we present this film here to be used for Educational purposes. Due to the sensitive nature of this film, viewer discretion is advised.

The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is a site of festivity unlike any other in the world. In celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers, revelry engulfs the town for ten days. Artisans show off their technical virtuosity, up-and-comers create their own rowdy, lo-fi combustibles, and dozens of teams build larger-than- life papier-mâché bulls to parade into the town square, adorned with fireworks that blow up in all directions. It is a celebration that anchors a way of life built around a generations-old, homegrown business of making fireworks by hand. For the people of Tultepec, the National Pyrotechnic Festival is explosive celebration, unrestrained delight and real peril. Winner of Best Documentary at **Austin Fantastic Fest** and the **San Francisco International Film Festival**. *"Brimstone & Glory deftly captures the skill, passion and peril behind the fireworks, as well as the love of a family whose livelihood is rooted in this booming trade." - Lorraine Ali, **Los Angeles Times***

Guatanamo has something else to show the world, not only the sordid reference to a territory illegally occupied by the United States where, on behalf of "democracy", the most flagrant abuses have been committed. However, Guantanamo, being the easternmost Cuban province, also is home to Baracoa, with its singular scenery, an ancestral culture which includes renowned poets and dance groups, as well as the popular music style known as Changui.

Peter Raymont's documentary humanizes the legend of pianist Glenn Gould, weaving together an unprecedented array of unseen footage, private home recordings and diaries, as well as compelling interviews with Gould's most intimate friends and lovers.

This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (Offside, The circle) during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his sentence - six years in prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking - Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, discussing his plight with Mirtahmasb and reflecting on the meaning of the art of filmmaking.

When he was cutting Phantom India, Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking, a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil, edging ever closer to oblivion.

Louis Malle presents his meditative investigation of the inner workings of a French automotive plant. This, Vive le Tour, and Place de la Republique, Malle's three French-set documentaries, reveal, in an eclectic array of ways, the director's eternal fascination with, and respect for, the everyday lives of everyday people.

Documentary that examines the filmmaking methods of director Michael Moore.

Chilean filmmaker Lorean Manríquez embarks on a journey to search for the truth behind a 30-year rift between her father and her uncle Ulises. The two brothes were on opposite sides in the 1973 military coup, that brought General Pinochet to power in Chile and Ulises to exile in Switzerland. Through the revelation of family secrets, Manríquez exposes the recent history of Chile, her country's painful memory, and the desire to reconcile it.

This film features the modern and contemporary characteristics of Seoul; as depicted in the novels of such writers as Kim Seung-ok, Park Kyung-ri, Lee Dong-ha, Yi Mun-yol, and Park Tae-won. Based on the novelists works, it covers various aspects of Seoul, including the youth generation, food, industrialization, residents, and drinking culture, along with discussing what modern and contemporary novels mean to contemporary Koreans.

Exciting footage never seen before. Scenes from Jaffa (1897), Tel Aviv's first lottery of plots, amusing scenes of water cart sprinkling the dusty streets enabling breathing in the heat, Dizengoff clearing the streets on horseback and even the real voice of the national poet Bialik; film footage found after tireless research - the dream of every documentary maker and viewer.

Long knives night (1999, 56 min.): Chronicles the 1996 anticonstitutional coup in Belarus. Lukashenko's actions are both symbolic and explicitly political: he reverts to Soviet-style state symbolism, blocks voting, and sics riot police on protesters to beat them bloody. With breathtaking access, Dashuk also reveals footage of the actual elected legislators locked out of their offices by the President's own guards.
Reporting from a rabbit hutch (2001, 40 min.): Explores the realities of life in Belarus and the fates of those who dare oppose the president. Driven by the voices of Belarussian citizens, the film heaves with disturbing scenes of violence against innocent Belarussians.

Just four years before his death, legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman sat down with Swedish documentarian Marie Nyrer at his home on Bergman Island to discuss his work, his fears, his regrets, and his ongoing artistic passion. This resulted in the most breathtakingly candid series of interviews that the famously reclusive director ever took part in, later edited into the feature-length film Bergman Island. In-depth, revealing, and packed with choice anecdotes about Bergman's oeuvre, as well as his personal life, Nyrer's film is an unforgettable final glimpse of a man who transformed cinema.

"A genre as unique asthe people who bring it to life, documentary challenges perceptions and inspires critical reflection on our world. But do documentaries represent the "truth'? Over 30 renowned directors--including Errol Morris, Nick Broomfield and Werner Herzog--reflect on the power of their craft, and their ethical and social responsibility as filmmakers in Capturing reality: The art of Documentary. With emotionally charged insight and clips from essential works of the genre, this is a livelyand panoramic view of contemporary cinema unlike any other."--Container.

Jeffrey Catherine Jones is one of the most revered comic book and fantasy artists of all time and a complex character with an unusual life, an ideal subject for an insightful and captivating documentary. Tracing the early history as part of The Studio with fellow artists Bernie Wrightson, Barry Windsor-Smith and Michael William Kaluta through to gender transition in later life, Maria Paz Cabardo assembles a collage of artwork and archive alongside interviews with collaborators and some touchingly intimate conversations with the artist herself shortly before she died.

Lars von Trier now enters the world of documentary filmmaking alongside his idol, Danish filmmaker Jørgen Leth. In 1967, Leth made a 12 minute feature film called The perfect human. In the year 2000, von Trier challenged Jørgen Leth to remake his film five times, each time with a new obstruction to force Leth to rethink the story and characters of the original film. Lars von Trier sets a game in motion that is full of traps and vicious turns hoping each time Leth will fail but it turns out to have a surprising outcome.

A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world. The Oscar-winning The times of Harvey Milk, directed by Robert Epstein and produced by Richard Schmiechen, was as groundbreaking as its subject. One of the first feature documentaries to address gay life in America, it's a work of advocacy itself, bringing Milk's message of hope and equality to a wider audience. This exhilarating trove of original documentary material and archival footage is as much a vivid portrait of a time and place (San Francisco's historic Castro District in the seventies) as a testament to the legacy of a political visionary.