Atlanta Film Festival 2009

This documentary explores the case of Jen Harris, a gifted college basketball player who was drummed out of Penn State's basketball program by Coach Rene Portland when she admitted to being a lesbian. Harris's court case against Portland's decision spurred other players to speak out about Portland's… Read review »

Women in Boxes is the first film to uncover the story of the unsung hero behind the magician - the devoted, if not masochistic Magic Assistant who distorts her body into impossible positions while the magician cuts her in pieces, stabs her incessantly, sets her on fire, crushes her, dismembers her, … Read review »

Convinced he's in communication with his "invisible girlfriend" Joan of Arc, middle-aged Charles Fihoil decides to ride his bicycle 400 miles through the Louisiana countryside to connect with her in New Orleans in this engaging indie documentary. Filmmakers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin follow the s… Read review »

During the turbulent reign of Giuliani in the 90’s when Times Square was being sold to Disney and sex clubs were shuttered in favor of fast food chains, there was a brief shining moment when drag queens rocked New York nightlife. The epicenter of that moment was Squeezebox, a weekly pansexual rock … Read review »

Kidnapped by rebels and transformed into a soldier at age 6, then forced to take up arms for the government when the rebels took control of Uganda, Kassim Ouma has been fighting all his life -- only now, he's using his fists. Recounting Kassim's journey from boy soldier to army boxer to Junior Middl… Read review »

In 1948, Pip Moyer and Zastrow Simms were the top high school athletes in their segregated schools in Annapolis, Maryland. A competitive nature drove each boy to scope out the other, and the two became fast friends. By 1968, Pip, who had become the town's young mayor, and Zastrow, who was in jail, c… Read review »

Explore the fascinating and sometimes mysterious world of advertising with this compelling documentary from filmmaker Doug Pray that features a host of interviews with some of the biggest names in the business. Meet the talented minds who created taglines forever embedded in the American psyche, inc… Read review »

In January of 2006, just outside of Las Vegas, Billy Gaines and Duncan Carroll held the inaugural World Series of Beer Pong (WSOBP). In 2007, Billy and Duncan doubled the prize money to $20,000, and in doing so, more than tripled the number of teams. Last Cup follows four of these competitors for w… Read review »

From the ghettos of Philadelphia to the boardrooms of Los Angeles, Number One with a Bullet is a feature-length documentary that pulls back the curtain on gun violence in Hip Hop. The film follows five rappers with experience on both ends of the barrel (Young Buck, B Real, Obie Trice, The Last Mr. B… Read review »

Deer trail becomes Indian trail becomes county road. General Orders No. 9 provides a history of the state of Georgia, but not in any normal textbook fashion. Instead it takes an impressionistic and poetic approach to span the time when Europeans first discovered the land that was then inhabited by … Read review »