The Virus Hunters

Trailing the beast that stopped the world

From the bat to the pangolin, an investigation into the list of suspects which acted as a biological bridge, allowing COVID-19 to infect humans and bring the world's economies grinding to a halt. A comprehensive analysis of the working theories to date, experts from across the world are consulted in an effort to find the elusive patient zero in the Coronavirus outbreak, in the hope that its discovery could bring us one step closer to a vaccine.

Money Machine

Exposing Sin City’s darkest secrets

On October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of more than 20,000 concertgoers from his hotel room at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. In a matter of minutes, Paddock killed 58 people and wounded more than 400. It was the largest mass shooting in the history of the United States. Yet, just a couple of years later, Vegas seems to have forgotten it completely. In the aftermath of remarketing Las Vegas as a safe destination for tourists, many questionable practices were put into place—one of the most shocking being a lawsuit against the victims of this devastating tragedy. On top of that, despite the popular #VegasStrong movement and nationwide fundraising, there’s still a huge question of where all that money went. An enthralling documentary about the dark side of the Las Vegas economy, Money Machine exposes Sin City’s culpability in this country’s deadliest shooting. Festivals American Documentary and Animation Film Festival | Official Selection Cleveland International Film Festival | Official Selection Anthem Libertarian Film Festival | Excellence in Filmmaking | Winner Catalina Film Festival | Award of Excellence | Winner Dances With Films LA | Official Selection Docutah | Official Selection Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival | Official Selection Julien Dubuque International Film Festival | Official Selection NH Docs | Official Selection Orlando Film Festival | Official Selection Red Rock Film Festival | Official Selection Sidewalk Film Festival | Official Selection Vegas Cinefest | Official Selection Woods Hole Film Festival | Official Selection

Red, White & Wasted

Follow a family of mudding enthusiasts at the last mudhole in Orlando. This is not a film about mudding...

Mudding: it’s just something people do in Florida. You get your friends, your beer, and your truck, and you drive through the mud until you can’t see the paint. If you know where to look, you can find people mudding everywhere in Florida. Swamp Ghost is the last real mudhole in Orlando, and that’s where we meet “Video Pat.” Pat has devoted his life to filming trucks at the mudhole and practically raised his daughters out there. But when Swamp Ghost goes up in flames, Pat loses everything. The only alternative is Redneck Yacht Club, another mudding hub, which eventually reveals itself as a drunken dystopia of white male “freedom”, far from his old country community at Swamp Ghost. Broadcast cut available.

Current Sea

An environmental thriller that probes the murky depths of the Southeast Asian fishing industry

A compelling testimony to the possibilities of local activism, Current Sea follows investigative journalist, Matt Blomberg, and ocean activist, Paul Ferber, in their dangerous efforts to create a marine conservation area and combat the relentless tide of illegal fishing. Along the way a new generation of Cambodian environmentalists are inspired to create a better life for their people.

Stalking Chernobyl: exploration after apocalypse

Inside a land frozen in time by disaster

Three decades after the world's most infamous nuclear disaster, wildlife has returned in the absence of human settlements. Meanwhile, illegal hiking adventurers known as "stalkers," extreme sports aficionados, artists, and tour companies have begun to explore anew the ghostly, post-apocalyptic landscape.

Healing from Hate

Ex-Nazis help others save themselves from the hateful underbelly of American society

For decades, clandestine Neo-Nazi cells across the United States have recruited vulnerable youths trapped in a cycle of violence and isolation. They offer them a sense of belonging and self-worth, bolstered by political indoctrination. But when individuals become disillusioned, their only way out is to sever ties with everything and everyone they've ever known; a barrier demanding the strongest of wills to overcome. Enter Frank Meeink, Tony McAleer, Sammy Rangel and their team of reformed far-right extremists, who use empathy and understanding to make the transition to life after hate manageable, and put those escaping violence and coercion on the path to recovery and re-integration.

Silent Fish

Uncover the threats overfishing poses to the Mediterranean’s environmental and cultural richness

Although the EU promised to end overfishing by 2020, the Mediterranean remains the most overfished sea on the planet. Fishermen are doomed to catch dwindling numbers of fish in the era of climate change. Travelling through the Mediterranean and capturing the fishermen’s lives on the shores where human civilization made its first steps thousands of years ago, Silent Fish shows how fishermen are in danger of ending up another 'extinct species' because of failed EU and national policies.

Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

A monumental exhibition on Alcatraz inspires thousands to connect with prisoners of conscience worldwide

While under house arrest in Beijing, Ai Weiwei remotely transformed Alcatraz, a former island penitentiary and current national park, into a remarkable expression of socially engaged art. The final artwork at Alcatraz, Yours Truly, consisted of postcards beautifully illustrated with the national birds and flowers of the prisoners’ countries. Visitors were invited to write messages of hope to the imprisoned activists featured in the Lego portraits. By the time the exhibition ended, over 90,000 postcards had been sent. Then something even more astonishing happened: prisoners and their families began writing back.

Yasuni Man

A journey into the heart of Ecuador's battle between preservation and exploitation

A desperate struggle between conservationists and oil interests plays out in Yasuni Man, as the indigenous peoples living in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon struggle to preserve their way of life against encroaching modernity. Filmmaker and biologist Ryan Patrick Killackey documents both the staggering biodiversity of the Yasuni region at risk of destruction alongside the Waorani people who call it home.