Posted onDecember 9, 2013|Comments Off on Inside a Suicide Hotline
Every 10 minutes, someone in Australia attempts to take their own life. In SUICIDE AND ME, three young suicide survivors confront the stigma by revealing why they attempted and ultimately, how they found hope.
Posted onSeptember 4, 2013|Comments Off on Inside look at a funeral directors’ convention
What does it take to make a living in the death business? Explore the rituals, personalities, and products that animate this thriving industry in in this amusing and emotional tour of the National Funeral Director Association’s annual convention. Here is a trailer for a documentary about the industry.
Posted onFebruary 27, 2013|Comments Off on The Jeffrey Dahmer Files film
What drives a seemingly mundane man to commit a series of acts so heinous that it captured the attention of a horrified nation? In the summer of 1991Jeffrey Dahmerwas arrested in Milwaukee and sentenced to 957 years in prison for killing 17 people and dismembering their bodies.THE JEFFREY DAHMER FILESis a film that explores this Midwestern city by meeting those surrounding Dahmer during and after his hidden spree. Recollections from Milwaukee Medical Examiner Jeffrey Jentzen, Police Detective Patrick Kennedy, and neighbor Pamela Bass are interwoven with archival footage and everyday scenes from Dahmer’s life, working collectively to disassemble the facade of an ordinary man leading an ordinary existence.
Kidnapped for Christ follows the stories of several American teenagers who were sent to Escuela Caribe, an American-run Evangelical Christian “reform school” in The Dominican Republic. Many of them are taken from their homes against their will and shipped off there to live and correct bad behavior.
After a sighting of alien life forms in the 90s, Jody Pendarvis built a giant 30-foot UFO in his front yard as a place to welcome aliens when they return. His story is a combination of childlike curiosity, crazy, and sad all rolled into one. If there is alien life out there that plans to visit Earth, I hope they drop in on Mr. Pendarvis first. Watch it here.
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