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A shy Vietnamese immigrant removes more than nail polish. Toxic chemicals and life-threatening health hazards are the last things on a woman's mind when she goes to get her nails done. The same could be said for mild-mannered Van Hoang who immigrated to America and resurrected her life through a nail salon. Surprise events in her personal life started Van wondering about the effects of the salon's products. Eventually, Van sheds her shy exterior to champion health rights.
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It's up to them to find a way to save themselvesand one another. Director Chris Brown creates a bold hybrid of fiction and non-fiction in which he collaborates with real high school seniors to tell their personal stories. The result is a phenomenal portrait of six teens on the threshold of adulthood and how each is dealing with his or her impending future. Each struggles with the harsh realities of being different in the all-too-real world of lifewhere "fair play" is only fair if you are one of the privileged few.
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Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter, Hairspray) and Amber Heard (The Danish Girl, Hidden Palms) make a dynamic father-daughter pair in this spunky comedy. Ladies' man Paul (Walken) and his wannabe-rock-star daughter Jude (Heard) couldn't be more different from each otheror perhaps they have more in common than they think. After all, they both want the same thing: fame. Paul had his shot in the spotlight, but once is never enough. He longs for the days of stardom...and the string of women that came with it.
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Is his message paranoid delusion or dark truth? Conspiracy theorist Willem knows the government is hiding alienshe's seen them himself, or so he claims. But how best to raise awareness and convince people of the truth? He decides to make a movie about his life, reenacting the strange events he faced while working as a geologist and portraying how they affected his crumbling marriage. An unusual man in a familiar world, Willem recruits his affable friend Todd and local waitress Flossie to produce his low-budget film. But as Willem confronts his past, something much darker emerges.
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"How would YOU live if you couldn't love?" In many eyes, homosexuality is still viewed as a mortal sin. But, what if heterosexual couples were the ones fighting for their right to love? What if the tables were turned? Writer-director K. Rocco Shields does just that, asserting that love, no matter how expressed, remains the ultimate answer to healing and truth.
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The love of a father can change the worldor at least the health industry. He just wants to know what happened to his son, even if that means going up against a multi-billion dollar company. His grief drives him to seek justice. His love drives him to defend lives. He'll stop at nothing to exploit the malicious underbelly of the company responsible for his loss. Peek behind the curtain shrouding the politics of the health industry in this noir-style film set in modern America.
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"We're all mad." Claire tells the police officer, "It was all Jo's idea." But who's Jo? Jo is the bright spark in Claires recently darkened reality; a new friend in an otherwise isolated world. The two young women hit the town to let off some steam-and find themselves in trouble with local law enforcement. In the blink of an eye, Claire discovers that Jo is not what she seems-not at all-and her easy friendship with the lighthearted, young woman splits open to reveal the truth.
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"Love knows no borders." What crime is there in searching for a better life? What's wrong with being a dreamer? The answer: nothing. But, the government sees it differently. Director Hilary Linder introduces Renata, Evelyn, and Antoniothree undocumented children who want nothing more than to be reunited with the families who were ripped from them and deported when they were young. At a pivotal moment in each of their liveswhile fighting for their chance to be citizensthey are allowed to visit their families.
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Krystal and her twin brother confront 28 years of codependency when they start dating the same guy. Twins, Krystal and Donny, have been codependent their entire lives, still living together in their late twenties in a converted one bedroom house. When they both meet and start dating the same guy, they remain in denial about the fact that theyre both dating him until he picks only one of them, forcing them to confront that they can no longer live the same life.
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A time capsule of nostalgia on film. Before YouTube, camera phones, and GoPro, the Videofreex were on the streets documenting life as it happened. Sweet, funny, or shocking, but always candid, their footage tells the truth. These radical guerilla filmmakers went to the source to tape and disseminate real news for the people, by the people. Formed by a diverse group of young adults, the Freex were the early adopters of home video-making equipment and went on to produce hundreds of video reels, many of them close-ups of the most memorable social movements of the '60s and '70s.