This Is The Life

A nerd is taken under the wing of a rebel who teaches him to loosen up and embrace his inner self, leading to disastrous consequences

This Is It! Southern Kitchen & Bar-B-Q has been an integral part of the fabric of the Atlanta community for four decades. The unique establishment of faith, family, favor and flavor is the home of the joyous chant, “it’s the rib tips!” which has become a staple for the restaurant. Shelley “Butch” Anthony III, Tampa native and the founder and owner of This Is It! Southern Kitchen & Bar-B-Q, tells his 40-year history with this documentary, produced and directed by Tammy Williams. The Miracle of BBQ fuses the current-day success and expansion of the restaurant to over ten stores with the four-decade history of the family-owned enterprise, and explores the obstacles and struggles of entrepreneurship, revealing how Anthony, through his faith in God, defied the odds — overcoming the struggles of addiction and having a limited education, ultimately creating a rich legacy.

Evgeny Granilshchikov's debut full-length film pursues the exploration of the social and political landscape of contemporary Russia started in his short video works and drawings about a decade ago. Like in many of his previous works, Granilshchikov's characters are young creatives, whose lives and careers develop to a backdrop of current political affairs.

Om Pius is a native Papuan from the Keerom mountains who has been living and residing with communities of various ethnicities in the coastal area of Sentani, Jayapura, since the post-Act of Free Choice in the 70s. For more than 30 years, he has been a ‘mountain man’ living with a coastal culture. The history of population displacement, violence in Papua, natural wealth, longing for the homeland, romantic past, war, hopes, and dreams, are the life stories of Om Pius which he manifests through the lottery.

Songs that live in the American heart can now be enjoyed by a new generation in "This Land Is Your Land: The Animated Kids' Songs of Woody Guthrie", a wonderful and imaginative music video program consisting of Guthrie's irresistible songs for kids of all ages. With superb animation that makes each song's story come alive, and featuring the voices of Woody Guthrie and his son Arlo, it's a songbook to see and share again and again. We think you'll agree it's good ― downright great ― to know songs like these.

A three part documentary detailing the making of the Will Ferrell Land of the Lost remake.

A man brings objects to life in a struggle to recreate the lost memory of his mother’s last day.

Fred Mills discovers the incredible infrastructure of the Faroe Islands.

1973, b/w, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

This Is What the Future Looked Like is a documentary about the work of architect and futurist Buckminster Fuller, using his geodesic domes as the visual environment.

In the hole after a breakup: The forays through the city become communicative challenges for a woman.

Hugh Mann was already not having a good day, so another encounter with Justice McBain was the last thing he needed. This chance encounter with his nemesis raises the stakes in their relationship. Would anything less than a matter of life and death be fitting for a meeting between these two titans?

A view of the common looking north

This is a film about a daughter’s feelings about losing her father. Like the scenery from a running train, memories are beautiful, blurry, and keep changing. In this experimental animated documentary, the author mixed video footage and analog film with animation techniques and brought through a diary-like atmosphere to immerse the audience in unspeakable feelings of losing a loved one.

A personal account of the COVID-19 pandemic in America and its effects on an immigrant family as seen through the eyes of a student quarantined at his barren university.