We Cause Scenes is the story of Charlie Todd, an actor who moved to New York with big dreams. Frustrated by the lack of available opportunities, Charlie began using the city as his stage, causing scenes in parks, bars, and subways, documenting these unauthorized performances online under the name Improv Everywhere. A prank collective ten years in the making, Improv Everywhere has grown from a few close-knit 22-year-olds staging guerrilla pranks on the streets to a global phenomenon incorporating hundreds of thousands of strangers.
Too happy-go-lucky for the earnest fans of roots music, too plaid and pragmatic for the hippies, too old and hairy for the mainstream, too young to be called legends. Sound like friends of yours? For nearly two decades, the Gourds have been the musical distillation of Austin itself: A label-defying, unpretentious, gregarious gang of friends whose primary motive is to have fun create great music together.
A child taxidermist, an outsider in his small town, is entranced by a girl who finds his work beautiful. But just as their relationship begins to progress, he does something that drastically changes everything.
What could be easier than robbing a small bookie place on the outskirts of town? It’s during the year’s biggest horse race event and the betting center Washington’s Tobacco looks like the ultimate hit for some fast cash. "MOUSSE" is a man of pride and principles and is fed up with living as a second-class citizen. But what happens when he faces principles different to his own?
"Mobile Homes" follows Ali, a young mother trapped in human trafficking. Constantly moving from city to city, she is transported with her 7-year-old son Alex. As she survives day to day, Alex explores mobile home sales-lots in the hopes of establishing a permanent home.
"In Hanford" is artist Chris Mars's fantastic exploration of real incidents in Hanford, Washington, where the local environment was poisoned as a result of cold war era nuclear arms manufacture.
"Fall and Winter" is the result of a 16,000-mile journey across the U.S. in search of answers to our unfolding global crises. Hurricanes, droughts, soil depletion and rapidly diminishing resources threaten civilization itself. How did we get here? And what do we do about it? Epic and stunningly photographed, the film draws on past wisdom and uncovers new, ingenious strategies for the future. "Fall and Winter" is a psycho-spiritual survival guide for the 21st century.
