Author: Roger Dodger
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AHEAD OF THE CURVE
AHEAD OF THE CURVE
2021 | Dir Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow | 98 mins | 
USA
With a fist full of credit cards, a lucky run at the horse track and chutzpah for days, Franco Stevens launched Curve, the best-selling lesbian lifestyle magazine ever published. AHEAD OF THE CURVE traces the power of lesbian visibility and community from the early ‘90s to the present day through the story of Franco’s founding of Curve magazine. Decades later, as her legacy faces extinction and she reassesses her life after a disabling injury, she sets out to understand work being led by queer Women of Color today. The film features Andrea Pino-Silva, Kim Katrin, Denice Frohman, Amber Hikes, Jewlle Gomeez, Melissa Etheridge, and Lea DeLaria, and the score is composed by the legendary Meshell Ndegeocello.
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Distributor: Together Films – No account required.
BANK JOB
BANK JOB
2021 | Dir Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell | 87 mins | 
UK
An indebted filmmaker, his artist wife and their local community take on the world of debt by setting up a bank, printing their own money and blowing up a million pounds. A roller coaster ride towards a future in which money works for us all.
Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell’s latest feature is an insightful and humorous investigation into the dark world of debt, exploring how a community in Walthamstow, London comes together to create their own currency, examine how money and debt is created in our economy, and to ask important questions about how the system of money creation might be altered in their favour.
Distributor: Dartmouth Films – Create account or login
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END OF SENTENCE
END OF SENTENCE
2019 | Dir Elfar Adalsteins | 94 mins | 
Iceland | 
Ireland | USA
After being widowed, Frank Fogle (John Hawkes) reluctantly embarks on a journey to honour his wife’s last wish of spreading her ashes in a remote lake in her native Ireland and a promise of taking his estranged son Sean (Logan Lerman) along for the trip. As Sean steps out of prison the last thing on his mind is a foreign road trip with his alienated father when what he needs is a fresh start in California.
Unfolding across the stunning landscape of Ireland, End of Sentence is a hilarious and touching father and son road-trip from director Elfar Adalsteins that premiered to acclaim at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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Available to watch for 48 hours after purchase.
Distributor: Blue Finch Films – no account required.
“A masterclass in understated acting” Phuong Le in The Guardian
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THE HUMAN FACTOR
THE HUMAN FACTOR
2019 | Dir Dror Moreh | 108 mins | UK | 
Israel
The behind-the-scenes story of the Israeli-Arab peace process told from a unique perspective: that of the American mediators – the peacemakers who shuttled between Middle East capitals, spending hours with the region’s political heavyweights – prime ministers, generals, ex-terrorists, diplomats, dictators and presidents, the people that gained intimate knowledge of the individuals and stories which dominated daily news around the world. The negotiators speak candidly about their experiences. Rich and exposing portraits of world leaders are portrayed as we learn what went on behind closed doors in meetings between U.S. presidents, Israeli, Palestinian, and Syrian leaders. What we observe, for the first time, are first-hand impressions of events that shook the world – not from the perspectives of the conflicting parties involved, or that of politicians who care about their legacy, but from senior civil servants, the negotiators. It is their function to observe, relate, maintain neutrality, and convince both sides of the pressing necessity to resolve decades of brutal violence and turmoil.
Today, the need to learn from past mistakes couldn’t be more urgent.
Available to watch for 28 days after purchase and 48 hours after pressing play.
Distributor: Dogwoof – Create account or login
“This rigorous and nailbiting documentary examines the US president’s failure to facilitate an agreement between Palestinians and Israelis in the 1990s. Bearhugs and murder: Bill Clinton’s Middle East peace deal in gripping detail” – Cath Clarke in The Guardian.