Recordings of press conferences at the Reagan White House reveal the shocking indifference, and sometimes outright derision, which the administration dealt with the growing AIDS epidemic.

When AIDS Was Funny

Built in 1962 as an answer to local overcrowding and slum conditions in tenements, Leith's Cables Wynd housing estate, known locally as the Banana Flats, became notorious as the crime-ridden center of Europe's heroin epidemic in the 1980s. In 2015, it sits down the street from two Michelin starred restaurants. The film follows a local photographer and former resident who is embarking on a quest to document the triumphs and tragedies that exist inside each of the estate's 204 flats.

The Banana Republic

Scott Calonico’nun yazıp yönettiği kısa belgesel Everything You Wanted to Know About Sudden Birth* (*but were afraid to ask), 1966 yılında çekilen ve bugüne kadar çekilmiş en çarpıcı polis eğitim videolarından biri olan Sudden Birth’e odaklanıyor. Her türden video kayıtlarını toplayan Skip Elsheimer’ın arşivindeki görüntüler kullanılarak, tamamı arşiv görüntülerinden oluşacak şekilde çekilen 11 dakikalık belgesel, dünya prömiyerini 2019 yılında Sundance Film Festivali’nde yapmış ve festivalin kısa belgesel bölümünde En İyi Kısa Film Jüri Özel Ödülü’ne aday olan filmler arasında yer almıştı.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Sudden Birth (but were afraid to ask)

Newly discovered audio and video tells the full story between Eartha Kitt's run in with the President and the First Lady in 1968.