In response to the numerous heartwarming messages that we have received asking how people can help The Senator while we are temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic we have teamed up with our distribution partners in a new effort to bring great screenings directly into your home. Each title listed below will direct you to the distributor’s virtual platform where you will be able to rent the movie for a specified time.
How does this help The Senator? All revenue from these screenings will be split between the distributor and the theatre.
A film about the butterfly effect on geopolitics, the paradox of time, the (almost) end of the world, the cinematograph, sex, and sugar.
CLICK HERE TO RENT THIS FEATURE! A portion of the revenue will help support The Senator while we are temporarily closed.
Joe Pantoliano, Paula Brancati, Marco Leonardi
A downtrodden man experiences an ethical crisis and travels back to his hometown in rural Italy to re-calibrate his moral compass. There he finds new purpose in reviving his grandfather’s old vineyard, offering the small town of Acerenza a sustainable future, and reconnecting with his estranged family in the process.
Sarm Heng, Thanawut Ketsaro, Mony Ros
14-year-old Chakra is sold as a slave laborer to the captain of a Thai fishing vessel. The captain’s rule on board is cruel and arbitrary.
CLICK HERE TO RENT THIS FEATURE! A portion of the revenue will help support The Senator.
Ma Duo, Tianyi Huang, Ma Ke
When influential Chinese artist Ma Liang (a.k.a. Maleonn) realizes that his father Ma Ke, an accomplished Peking Opera director, is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, he invites his father to collaborate on his most ambitious project to date – a haunting, magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets called “Papa’s Time Machine”. Through the creation of this play, the two men confront their mortality before time runs out and memories are lost forever.
Following Chef David Kinch and his team’s journey from their 3 Michelin Star in California on a one of a kind “four hands” collaboration with three legendary chefs at their iconic restaurants in Paris, Provence and Marseille.
LINK TO RENT THIS FEATURE WILL APPEAR HERE ON 9/18. STAY TUNED.
Naama Preis, Andy Levi, Ze'ev Shimshoni
For Anat, music is everything. Having never been able to reach her father’s musical standards, she rests her hopes on the child she’s about to have. When the baby is born deaf, Anat succumbs to extreme measures to keep the dream alive.
Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. A legend says that she returned to Earth as a ghost and still roams the streets of Moscow alongside her free-drifting descendants.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ann Kittner, Harryette Helsel
The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A DIGITAL COPY OF THIS FEATURE FOR $7. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, which was co-founded by Justice Ginsburg in 1972.
This documentary explores Herb Alpert’s abstract paintings and his more figurative bronze sculptures, focusing on the first major retrospective of his work given at the Tennessee State Museum. It shows how music has infused his paintings and sculptures through color, concept, and form.
Kenadi DelaCerna, John Ashton, Tatanka Means
Margo Crane’s odyssey on the Stark River introduces her to a world filled with wonders and dangers.
Burk Uzzle
Burk Uzzle’s dedication to the medium of photography led him from a small darkroom on his father’s porch into the company and guidance of the 20th century’s most important photographers.
Made in response to the times we are living in, THE ANTIDOTE is a feature documentary that weaves together stories of kindness, decency, and the power of community in America. It’s about everyday people who make the intentional choice to lift others up and make their communities better, despite the fundamentally unkind ways of our society – which are at once facts of life in America, and yet deeply antithetical to our founding ideals.
Red Saunders, Dennis Bovell, Mykaell Riley
Rock Against Racism was formed in 1976, prompted by Eric Clapton. It blends fresh interviews with archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches.
Xisko Maximo Monroe, Khadim Diop, Ben Becher
A teen hacker seeking revenge for his father’s murder becomes a pawn in a plot to derail the 2016 presidential elections.
CLICK HERE TO RENT THIS FEATURE! A portion of the revenue will help support The Senator.
Amiri Baraka, Charles C. Diggs Jr., Richard Hatche
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered voices from across the political spectrum.
CLICK HERE TO RENT THIS FEATURE! A portion of the revenue will help support The Senator.
In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme north-west of the United States. It was a journey of almost three hundred kilometers through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges – a journey brimming with challenges. The aging shepherds do their very best to keep the hundreds of sheep together; the panoramic high mountains are teeming with hungry wolves and grizzly bears.
Ike White, Daniel Vernon, Lana Gutman
Released in 1974, “Changin’ Times” was a stunning album of songs recorded in extraordinary circumstances – the first ever commercial album recorded inside an American prison by an inmate. It’s creator was a musical prodigy, Ike White, who was jailed for life at the age of 19 for murder. With never-before-seen archive, the film charts Ike’s journey out from prison into industry adulation and life as a free man, eventually leading to his reinvention as a performer for hire called David Maestro.
CLICK HERE TO RENT THIS FEAUTRE! A portion of the revenue will help support The Senator while we are temporarily closed.
Accompany PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy on a journey through the creative process behind PJ Harvey’s new album, conceived by their travels around the globe.
CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER THIS FEAUTRE! A portion of the revenue will help support The Senator while we are temporarily closed.
Sadaf Asgari, Behnaz Jafari, Babak Karimi
Maryam is a young woman who is accused of murdering her husband and is sentenced to death. In the Yalda night they bring her to a live TV show so that Mona, who is the only daughter of the victim, can see her and may forgive her crime.
Behind the gates of a palm tree-lined fantasyland, four residents of America’s largest retirement community, The Villages, FL, strive to find solace and meaning.
CLICK HERE TO RENT THIS FEATURE! A portion of the revenue will help support The Senator!
Documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher tackles this question “are we living in a simulation?” with testimony, philosophical evidence and scientific explanation in his quest for the answer.
LINK TO RENT THIS FEATURE WILL BE AVAILABE HERE ON 2/5. A portion of the revenue will help support The Senator!
Barbara Sukowa, Martine Chevallier, Léa Drucker
Pensioners Nina and Madeleine have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades, but their bond is put to the test when they are suddenly unable to move freely between each other’s apartments.
LINK TO RENT THIS FEATURE WILL BE AVAILABLE HERE ON 2/5! A portion of the revenue will help support The Senator.
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