AWARDS:

• Cannes Film Festival – Palme d'Or – nominated
• Golden Globes – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – nominated
• Golden Globes – Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – nominated
• Academy Awards – Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role – nominated

SYNOPSIS
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.

Nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including for Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, and Best Achievement in Directing, Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Drama Motion Picture, BAFTA Awards for Best Leading Actor and Best Original Screenplay

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An uncle is obliged to return home to care for his nephew after his brother dies. Unknowing he is to be the guardian and struggles with the decision. Throughout the movie he recounts past memories that caused him to leave Manchester and distance himself from his past.

Golden Globe for the Best Motion Picture
Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including for Best Picture and Best Achievement in Directing

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A timeless story of human self-discovery and connection, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Mia

Grand Jury Prize at the Venice IFF
Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Academy Awards nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

SYNOPSIS
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Venice International Film Festival. From writer and director Tom Ford comes a haunting romantic thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension that explores the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption. Academy Award nominees Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a divorced couple discovering dark truths about each other and themselves in NOCTURNAL ANIMALS.

SYNOPSIS
With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori, a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful generosity to change the lives of others - as well as her own - and find a new purpose in life.

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival – Audience Award

SYNOPSIS
Four young Cowboys hatch an outrageous plot to adopt, train, and ride a string of wild mustangs 3,000 miles from Mexico to Canada through the wildest terrain of the American West. The trip became an epic journey of self discovery, tested friendships, and iconic landscapes that included runaway horses, a sassy donkey, perilous mountain passes, rodeos, sickness, injury, and death. The Audience Award winner at Telluride Mountainfilm and Hot Docs Film Festival, UNBRANDED is a soaring tale of danger and resilience, an emotionally charged odyssey that shines a bright light on the complex plight of our country's wild horses

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How can international disputes be resolved in the courtroom rather than on the battlefield? ALL RISE brings this complex question into sharp and personalized focus through the journeys of seven passionate students of law from India, Israel, Jamaica, Palestine, Russia, Singapore, and Uganda to compete in the world championships in Washington, DC, of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (the "Jessup"), the world's largest simulated court competition. The "court" is the International Court of Justice ("ICJ"), the judicial arm of the United Nations. Against this backdrop, this moving film lays bare the struggles, triumphs and transformations they experience alone and together.

Academy Awards – Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song – nominated
Sundance Film Festival – Best Documentary – nominated
Primetime Emmy Awards – Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking – nominated

SYNOPSIS
Oscar-winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction, RACING EXTINCTION reveals stunning, never-before seen images that truly change the way we see the world.

Sundance Film Festival – Special Jury Prize

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THE BAD KIDS is an observational documentary that chronicles one extraordinary principal's mission to realize the potential of these students whom the system has deemed lost causes. Employing a verité approach during a year at the school, the film follows Principal Vonda Viland as she coaches three at-risk teens – a new father who can't support his family, a young woman grappling with sexual abuse, and an angry young man from an unstable home – through the traumas and obstacles that rob them of their spirit and threaten their goal of a high school diploma.

Chicago International Film Festival – Best Film Award

SYNOPSIS
February 2012: The Vatican officially censures American nuns, putting them under the supervision of conservative bishops. The Vatican's message is clear: Feminism is simply incompatible with Catholicism, and if you want to remain a part of the Church, you must abandon your "radical" ideology. The women refuse to back down. Follow Sisters Simone Campbell, Chris Schenk, and Jean Hughes as they challenge the patriarchal system, engaging everyday people in their struggle for equality and ultimately winning the heart of Pope Francis. From their cross- country Nuns on the Bus tour, to serving those on the margins, to a continued struggle for women's religious equality, these sisters are transforming American politics – and the Church itself. Collaborating with feminist and faith based social justice organizations, we will leverage the film to support reform within religious institutions to end gender discrimination of women and girls in the U.S. and around the world and bridge divides to build a stronger progressive and feminist movement.

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Across the Jordanian border from Syria lies the world's second largest refugee camp. In an effort to understand the growing crisis, an American film team spends one month living in Za'atari. The Syrian families they meet are not just displaced, they have no promise of a future with sufficient food, security, education or peace. SALAM NEIGHBOR offers personal insights into the complexities of refugee life and challenges audiences to express neighborly love for people in crisis.

Mr. Shapiro has been working in the film industry for a decade after having studied documentary and film production at Clark University where he was awarded a fellowship by the Anton Group to produce a documentary in Ghana entitled Like Me, I Am Here. He has specialized in international documentaries and recently released Opposite Field, a film which chronicles a Ugandan Little League baseball team. ALL RISE marks a natural progression in Shapiro's career which allows him to explore his intellectual interests in the future of international law while employing his expertise in multi-country production.

Kate Amend is an American documentary film editor whose career spans more than thirty years. She is known for being a dedicated editor who finds the emotional center of each scene she works with.

Mr. Saunders is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker. He founded CinemaCapital in 1998, a production company based in New York City focused on realizing visual content from feature films to interactive programming. After a short-lived career as a professional soccer player, he got his start in film in 1993.

Since then, Mr. Saunders has directed and produced fiction films, non-fiction films, series, commercials and Industrials as well as working with Fortune 500 companies on their brand strategies. His films have been selected at international festivals including the Berlin Film Festival, SWSX, IDFA and Thessaloniki Film Festival to name a few and acquired by distributors and broadcasters including Sundance, ARTE, PBS, Film Movement, etc. His feature film Goal Dreams was selected as one of the top 10 'Movies That Matter' by Amnesty International in 2006. In 2010, Mr. Saunders produced the feature fiction film A NY Thing starring Greta Gerwig and Jonathan Zaccaї. ALL RISE is his latest film.