THE AMERICAN MEME follows the journeys of four shocking social media disruptors, Paris Hilton (@parishilton), Josh Ostrovsky (@thefatjewish), Brittany Furlan (@brittanyfurlan) and Kirill Bichutsky (@slutwhisperer), as they hustle to create empires out of their online footprints. Although their paths to influencer status are distinct, their respective followings are akin to small armies.
Hedy Lamarr was a Hollywood movie star who was hailed as the most beautiful and glamorous in the world. However, that was only the surface that tragically obscured her astounding true talents. Foremost of them was her inventive genius that a world blinded by her beauty could not recognize as far back as her youth in Austria with her homemade gadgets. This film explores Lamarr’s life which included escaping a loveless marriage on the eve of Nazi Germany’s conquest of her nation to a new career in Hollywood. However, her intellectual contributions were denied their due even when she offered them in the service of her new home during World War II. Only after years of career and personal decline in her troubled life would Lamarr learn that her staggering aptitude created brilliant engineering concepts that revolutionized telecommunications, which forced the world to realize the hidden abilities of a woman it had so unfairly underestimated.
A look at the life, career and music of singer Katy Perry as we follow her on the California Dreams World Tour.
Katia Schwartz is a Deaf and Queer professional Aerial performer, and the owner/founder of Sky Sirens dance studio in Sydney, Australia. After an unexpected diagnosis with a profound hearing loss not once but twice, she is compelled to reflect on her identity, life and career. Katia’s story is a unique journey through passion, loss and love from a perspective rarely represented on-screen.
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world piece together the clues to a murder and expose a global cover up.
Femme fatale with a reputation of a heavy drinker and heavy smoker, the avantgardist poet, composer and illustrator Nina Cassian she was simultaneously an accomplice and a problem for the Stalinist regime in Romania. Afterwards she was a direct opposer of Ceausescu’s regime.
Chris, a thirty-something gas station employee, lives in North Carolina with his girlfriend Mimi, a live-sized ‘love doll’, who he communicates with through an AI app. A clear-eyed, open-hearted and fascinating take on machine learning and AI, the rising levels of loneliness, and the social implications for people who may seek safety and control over their circumstances in ways they cannot find elsewhere in life.
Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman’s brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name.
After 20 years seeking Cleopatra’s tomb, archaeologist K. Martinez’s search shifts to an underwater Mediterranean site. She’s joined by Titanic finder Bob Ballard, Egyptian Navy and dive teams to explore the location.
1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror’s books, in more than 80 films and series, making him now, the most adapted author still alive in the world.
Against the backdrop of deserted spaces, a filmmaker explores his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary, delving into the true crime genre’s inner workings at a saturation point.
There are some people who have walked this planet that leave behind a legacy so profound that their name is remembered for generations. They affect society and draw followers from far and wide. Sometimes these people become messiahs, sometimes they become serial killers. Nostradamus will be remembered in the annals of history firstly as a prophet and seer. Others will remember him as a con-artist, thief and liar. As is ever the case, it is often a matter of what you believe. But the truth is that there are even now in the 21st century predictions made by that As is ever the case, it is often a matter of what you believe. But the truth is that there are even now in the 21st century predictions made by that infamous character that cannot be explained with rationality. From predicting the death of kings and the emergence of evil upon the world, to the very end of civilization as we know it – welcome to the world of the most famous and infamous prophet, Michel de Nostredame aka …
