A video game designer bases his latest project on his son’s battle with cancer in Thank You for Playing. Four years ago, indie video game developer Ryan Green learned that his then one year old son Joel had terminal cancer. To help deal with his feelings surrounding this situation, Ryan begins developing a game called…
A group of scientists simulate an encounter with extraterrestrials in The Visit: An Alien Encounter. The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs has prepared a scenario of what would be done in the event of an alien life form landing on Earth. The audience is given the point of view of “the visitor,” as…
The history of Saturday Night Live is told in Live from New York!. In 1975, novice producer Lorne Michaels created a late-night sketch comedy series on NBC described as a mix between 60 Minutes and Monty Python. Over the course of the next four decades, Saturday Night Live would evolve to become a cultural institution,…
The lives and careers of LGBT athletes are examined in Out to Win. In 2014, Michael Sam made headlines by becoming the first openly gay player to be drafted into the NFL. Using this as a stepping stone, the history of LGBT athletes are told, from NFL player David Kopay in the 1970s to to…
The history of the the infamous national humour magazine is told in Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon. National Lampoon was founded in 1969 by Doug Kenney, Henry Beard and Robert Hoffman, as a national spin-off of the Harvard Lampoon. The magazine was known for its boundary-pushing satirical content, which often…
The stories of public service workers in the Congo are told in Elephant’s Dream. Kinshasa, the capital city of the the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is in a state of rebuilding, following a lengthy civil war. Elephant’s Dream follows post office worker Henriette, train station guard Simon, and the city’s only fire brigade as…
Rodney Ascher (Room 237) explores the terrors of sleep paralysis in The Nightmare. There are people who suffer from a mysterious sleeping condition, where they feel like they are awake, yet they find that they cannot move. Many of those suffering from sleep paralysis have visions of shadowy figures coming at them in the darkness. …
The famed comedy troupe reunites on stage for the final time in Monty Python: The Meaning of Live. For the first time in 34 years, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin reunite on stage for a series of performances at the O2 theatre in London. The group is followed through…
Crimes in the darkest corners of the internet are explored in Deep Web. The deep web is a term used for all unindexed data online. The deep web has become a hub for underground black markets, which sell everything from drugs to forged documents. The biggest of these markets is The Silk Road, the alleged…
The story of the greatest fan film ever made is told in Raiders!. In 1982, eleven year old Mississippi friends Eric Zala, Chris Strompolos, and Jayson Lamb set out to shoot a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The boys kept shooting this remake over the course of seven years and finished every…
