New Filmmakers Showcase

Building a White Tiger Legend 


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White Tiger Legend tells the story of the origin of martial arts through action and insight. As visual effects artist, director and producer Kori Martin Juul says, “The film is ultimately about the heart of martial arts and the many different lessons that martial arts teach us.” The story of how he is making the film is equally compelling.



Inside Al-Qaeda: The Oath

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Zeitgeist Films has announced the U.S. theatrical premiere of Laura Poitras’ The Oath, a documentary about the divergent paths of Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, Abu Jandal, and driver, Salim Hamdan – the first prisoner detained at Guantanamo Bay to face trial by military commission.

4000 Years of Africa

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The remains of an ancient temple are discovered in Southern Africa, the contents of which are so profound that it calls for a dramatic shakeup in the midst of a secret scientific society.

Reimagining Solomon Grundy

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By Mattson Tomlin  

I'm a 19 year old film major attending the State University of New York in Purchase.  Solomon Grundy is a poem by James Orchard Halliwell from 1840. I've always been rather drawn to it so, working with a few actors, I shot a proof-of-concept film based on the poem’s opening lines: Solomon Grundy/Born on a Monday. That was well received so I began to adapt the rest of the poem’s lines: Solomon Grundy/Born on a Monday/ Christened on a Tuesday/ Married on a Wednesday/ Took ill on a Thursday/ Worse on a Friday/ Died on a Saturday/ Buried on a Sunday/That was the end of Solomon Grundy

Beware the Blobfest!

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By Bill Creed

Sitting in the century-old Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, waiting for my documentary Beware the Blobfest! to screen I realized that a fifty year old film – The Blob – had taken me on a journey across the country and then all the way to the Cannes Film Festival.  And here I was, back where it had started, showing the film to the group of people who had fascinated me two years earlier.