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Louverture Films develops, produces and executive produces independently financed feature and documentary films. These include:
In Release
THE HOUSE I LIVE IN
Directed by Eugene Jarecki
Now Available on Demand!
Shortlisted, 2013 Academy Award® - Best Documentary Feature
Official Selection, 2012 Sheffield Doc/Fest
Official Selection, 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival
Official Selection, Sundance London 2012 Film Festival
Official Selection, 2012 SilverDocs|AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival
Official Selection, 2012 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize, 2012 Sundance Film Festival - Best Documentary
Official Selection, 2012 Sundance Film Festival - US Documentary Competition
http://www.thehouseilivein.org/
For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet, drugs are cheaper, purer and more available today than ever. Where did we go wrong and what is the path toward healing?
HIGHWAY
Directed by Deepak Rauniyar
Official Selection 2013 MoMA ContemporAsian Series
Official Selection 2013 Cleveland Film Festival
Official Selection 2013 DC Film Fest
Official Selection 2012 Montreal World Film Festival
Official Selection 2012 Mill Valley Film Festival
Official Selection 2012 Osian's Cinefan Festival of Indian, Asian & Arab Cinema
Official Selection 2012 Berlinale International Film Festival - Panorama
HIGHWAY on Twitter
Aadi Production
http://www.facebook.com/highwayfilm
Set against the backdrop of the new culture of bandhs (general strikes) that frequently immobilize post-conflict Nepal, HIGHWAY explores four different stories that become intertwined during an ill-fated bus journey from Eastern Nepal to the capital Kathmandu. While the passengers - each of whom urgently needs to be somewhere else - work out a resolution to the combustible strike that is blocking the only passable road, the film explores the emotional and spiritual bandhs that many Nepalis are contending with.
THE WELCOME TABLE PROJECT
Directed by Nicole Mackinlay Hahn
Directed by Tala Hadid
Sharpening awareness of our interdependence, these short film portraits of workers involved in different areas of the food service industry ask us to imagine an alternative economy that values the natural world; that gives priority to the full development of the human person; that promotes a wide sense of human community; and that addresses the dynamics of what constitutes human happiness. With a focus on restaurant workers, many of whom are profiled in Saru Jayaraman's book "Behind the Kitchen Door" published by Cornell University Press (February 2013), these riveting stories of workers who live under the radar of mainstream American life can be viewed on www.thewelcometable.net.
Coming Soon
SHENANDOAH
Directed by David Turnley
Best Director, Documentary Feature, 2012 Docufest Atlanta
Official Selection 2012 Docufest Atlanta
Feature documentary about a coal mining town with a proud immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America's industrial revolution and today in decline and struggling to survive and retain its identity, soul and values - all of which were dramatically challenged when four of the town's white, star football players were charged in the beating death of an undocumented Mexican immigrant named Luis Ramirez. Pulitzer Prize winner Turnley creates a deeply felt portrait of a working class community on trial.
In Production
SHADOW WORLD
Directed by Johan Grimonprez
Written by Andrew Feinstein
Feature documentary that explores the international arms trade, the only business that counts its wins and losses in human lives.
THE NARROW FRAME OF MIDNIGHT
Directed by Tala Hadid
A young girl, Aïcha, wanders alone across the snow covered plains of central Morocco. She has no papers, no identity, no family. We eventually learn that she has a past and personal history that reveal a courageous attempt at self-determination. Taken and sold from her home in the High Atlas Mountains, Aïcha finds herself at the mercy of Abbas, a petty criminal, and his girlfriend, Nadia. They cross paths with Zacaria, a Moroccan/Iraqi writer, who has left everything behind- his life in Europe, a troubled relationship- to search for his missing brother. The group embarks on a journey that will lead them across Morocco, from Casablanca to the plains and forests of the Middle Atlas and beyond.
THE MESSAGE
Directed by Avi Lewis
Written by Naomi Klein
Feature documentary challenging the dominant fear-based narrative that tells us that acting on climate change is a threat to all that we cherish. The film argues that making the changes we need to avert climate chaos is our best chance to build the more equitable, livable and healthier societies that we want and need.
CONCERNING VIOLENCE
Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson
Feature documentary based on newly discovered archival material connected with the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in Africa. Framed by Frantz Fanon’s landmark book The Wretched of the Earth, the film offers a startlingly relevant and troubling perspective on forms of colonization happening today.
In Prep
THE COSMIC FOREST
Directed by Meena Nanji
Feature narrative based on the true story of Indian adivasi artist Jangarh Singh Shyam, who rose to prominence as an internationally renowned painter.
Now in DVD
THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975
Directed by Göran Olsson
Winner, 2011 Guldbagge Awards (Swedish Film Awards) - Best Editing and Best Music
2011 Best Documentary of the Year - African American Film Critics Association
Nominated, 2012 Cinema Eye Honors - Audience Award & Outstanding Achievement in Editing
Shortlisted, Grierson 2011: The British Documentary Awards
Official Selection 2011 SilverDocs
Official Selection 2011 Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival
Official Selection 2011 Miami International Film Festival
Official Selection 2011 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Official Selection 2011 MoMA/Film Society of Lincoln Center New Directors/New Films
Official Selection 2011 True/False Fest
Official Selection 2011 Berlinale International Film Festival - Panorama
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award, 2011 Sundance Film Festival
Official Selection 2011 Sundance Film Festival - World Documentary Competition
https://www.facebook.com/BlackPowerMixtape
Modeled on the 1970s ‘mixtape’ format, this feature documentary examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement from 1967-76. Combining amazing 16mm footage that had been lying undiscovered in Swedish archives for the past 30 years, with music and contemporary commentary from artists, intellectuals, musicians and activists, Mixtape presents an insightful and startlingly fresh portrait of the people, society, culture and styles that fueled a change.
DUM MAARO DUM
Directed by Rohan Sippy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMkJkGrBxTg
Bollywood thriller set in the drug underworld and rave scene of Goa, one of India's most popular tourist destinations.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF McKINLEY NOLAN
Directed by Henry Corra
Official Selection 2010 Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival
Official Selection 2010 DOC NYC Festival
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Private McKinley Nolan vanished forty years ago in Vietnam on the Cambodian frontier. Some say he was captured, some say he was a traitor, some even say he was an American operative. The US Army officially claims he was radicalized and “went native”, joining the Viet Cong and later encountering the Khmer Rouge. In 2006, retired US Army Lt. Dan Smith, revisiting the battlefields of his youth, may have encountered the elusive McKinley, alive. So began a journey into the heart of darkness.
THE TIME THAT REMAINS
Directed by Elia Suleiman
Official Selection 2009 Cannes Film Festival - in Competition
2009 MEIFF Black Pearl Award for Best Middle Eastern Narrative Film
Variety's Middle East Filmmaker of the Year Award 2009
A semi-autobiographical film, in four episodes, about the filmmaker's family, from 1948 until recent times. Inspired by the private diaries of his father and by his mother's letters to family members who were forced to leave Palestine, the filmmaker brilliantly combines intimate memories with a portrayal of daily life among those Palestinians who remained and were labelled Israeli-Arabs.
LOONG BOONMEE RALEUK CHAT (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives)
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Film Comment's Best Released Films of 2011 - #2
Best Film, 2011 Asian Film Awards
Palme d'Or, 2010 Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
Official Selection 2010 New York Film Festival
Official Selection 2010 Cannes Film Festival - in Competition
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/uncleboonmeewhocanrecallhislives/
Uncle Boonmee is dying from kidney failure. His deceased wife and a long-lost son who is half human, half animal come to visit him at home. Over two nights, and journeying into the jungle, Boonmee recounts his past lives to his visitors. They span hundreds of years.
SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION
Directed by Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman
Shortlisted, Grierson 2010: The British Documentary Awards
Nominated, 2010 Humanitas Prize
Best Documentary, 2010 Rwanda Film Festival
Shortlisted, 2010 Academy Award® - Best Documentary Feature
Nominated, 2010 Producers Guild of America Award
Nominated, 2010 Writers Guild of America Award
Audience Award, 2009 Vancouver International Film Festival
Best Director, 2009 Chicago International Film Festival
Audience Award, 2009 Morelia Film Festival
Official Selection 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
Official Selection 2009 Cannes Film Festival
http://www.soundtrackforarevolutionfilm.com/Home.html
Feature documentary showcasing some of America’s top contemporary musicians as they perform new and vibrant renditions of the Civil Rights Movement’s freedom songs – songs originally sung by civil rights protesters in mass meetings, on picket lines, in police wagons, and in jail cells throughout the American South. These songs literally provided the soundtrack for a revolution that forever impacted American society.
MILH HADHA AL-BAHR (Salt of this Sea)
Directed by Annemarie Jacir
Official Selection 2008 Cannes Film Festival - Un Certain Regard
Official Selection 2008 Times BFI London Film Festival
Official Selection 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
Randa Chahal Prize, Carthage Film Festival
Special Jury Prize & FIPRESCI Award, Osian Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema
First Prize-Best Film, Sguardi Altrove Film Festival, Italy
Suheir Hammad, Best Actress, 2009 Euro-Arab Film Festival, Amal, Galicia, Spain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3edC2vFLzNA
Born in Brooklyn, a young working-class Palestinian-American woman fulfills her life-long dream of returning to Palestine. Slowly taken apart by the reality around her, she is forced to confront her own anger. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of the constraints that dictate their lives, they take things into their own hands. Palestine's first feature by a Palestinian female director.
TROUBLE THE WATER
Directed by Tia Lessin & Carl Deal
2010 Emmy Award® Nominee - Outstanding Informational Programming: Long Form
2010 Emmy Award® Nominee - Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research
2009 Academy Award® Nominee - Best Documentary Feature
2009 Producers Guild of America Nominee
2009 NAACP Image Awards Nominee - Outstanding Documentary
Best Documentary, 2009 Gotham Independent Film Awards
Grand Jury Prize, 2008 Sundance Film Festival
Grand Jury Award, 2008 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Special Jury Prize, 2008 SilverDocs
Official Selection, 2008 MoMA/Film Society of Lincoln Center New Directors/New Films
http://www.troublethewaterfilm.com/
Feature documentary that takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The film features Kimberly and Scott Roberts, a young couple living on the margins who survive the flooding of their city, recording their experience in a chilling video diary. Weaving fly on the wall and in-your-face filmmaking with home video footage and archival news, this is a redemptive tale of two unforgettable people who are surviving not only failed levees, bungling bureaucrats and armed soldiers, but also a system that has failed them.
BAMAKO
Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
Nominated, 2007 César Award
2007 Lumière Award
Official Selection 2006 Cannes Film Festival - Un Certain Regard
Official Selection 2006 Toronto International Film Festival
Official Selection 2006 New York Film Festival
Now available in DVD from New Yorker Films
BAMAKO in Philip French's Top 50 Films of Last Five Decades
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onRjI8yLsy0
Feature film set in the traditional courtyard of an African home, in which a very non-traditional tribunal is taking place - offering an opportunity for ordinary Africans to face the representatives of the international financial institutions that supposedly exist to eradicate poverty. The court-within-the-courtyard tries the case of Globalization.
AFRICA UNITE
Directed by Stephanie Black
Now available in DVD from Palm Pictures
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Africa-Unite/136786576397120
Feature documentary that celebrates the life of Bob Marley and highlights the vision for African unity that he was devoted to throughout his music career. Focusing on youth empowerment and important issues confronting Africans at home and across the Diaspora, the film presents an inspiring tribute - both musically and substantively - to a man who defined his own aim as "spreading the message of unity and equality to end the needless suffering of mankind."