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Garbage Warrior is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick US architect Michael Reynolds and his fight to introduce radically sustainable housing. An extraordinary tale of triumph over bureaucracy, Garbage Warrior is above all an intimate portrait of an extraordinary individual and his dream of changing the world. It will be released in Australia on August 21st.

Imagine a home that heats itself, provides its own water and grows its own food. Imagine that it needs no expensive technology, that it recycles its own waste, that it has its own power source. And now imagine that it can be built anywhere, by anyone, out of the things society throws away. Thirty years ago, architect Michael Reynolds imagined just such a home - then set out to build it. A visionary in the classic American mode, Reynolds has been fighting ever since to bring his concept to the public. He believes that in an age of ecological instability and impending natural disaster, his buildings can - and will - change the way we live. Shot over three years in the USA, India and Mexico, Garbage Warrior is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick architect Michael Reynolds, his crew of renegade house builders from New Mexico, and their fight to introduce radically different ways of living. A snapshot of contemporary geo-politics and an inspirational tale of triumph over bureaucracy, Garbage Warrior is above all an intimate portrait of an extraordinary individual and his dream of changing the world.

The trailer for Garbage Warrior is below:

Genre: Documentary
Directed by: Oliver Hodge
Starring: Michael Reynolds
Release date: USA - April 5th, 2008; Australia - August 21st, 2008; UK - May 23rd, 2008
Runtime: 86 mins
Rating: AUS - M

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Not Quite Hollywood

June 27th 2008 10:24

NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD is the wild, untold story of "OZPLOITATION" movies - a time when Australian cinema got its gear off and showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and foot-to-the-floor, full bore action! Jam packed full of outrageous anecdotes, lessons in maverick filmmaking and a genuine, infectious love of Australian movies, NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD is a fast moving journey through Aussie genre cinema of the 70s and early 80s. It will be released in Australia on August 28th.

You can see the trailer for Not Quite Hollywood below:

Genre: Documentary
Directed by: Mark Hartley
Starring: Quentin Tarantino, Dennis Hopper, Sigrid Thornton, Jack Thompson, Henry Thomas, Stacy Keach, George Lazenby, George Miller, Barry Humphries
Release date: Australia - August 28th, 2008;

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Earth

April 25th 2008 07:48

Five years in the making, EARTH follows the influence of the sun on life on the planet. The critical and international success of Deep Blue proved that audiences were eager to be immersed in the natural history of our world. Now EARTH takes audiences on an unforgettable journey around the planet, using the sun as our guide, and three engrossing characters to tell its story. Narrated by Patrick Stewart and with music composed and conducted by George Fenton, EARTH offers us a chance to recognise and celebrate the beauty of our planet; whilst at the same time it serves as a timely reminder of the ecological fragility of our planet and the creatures that live on it. The Australian release date for Earth is May 29th, 2008.

The trailer/making of for Earth is below:

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Sharkwater

April 23rd 2008 02:29

For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth. Driven by passion fed from a life-long fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas.

Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, Sharkwater takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world's shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. In an effort to protect sharks, Stewart teams up with renegade conservationist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Their unbelievable adventure together starts with a battle between the Sea Shepherd and shark poachers in Guatemala, resulting in pirate boat rammings, gunboat chases, mafia espionage, corrupt court systems and attempted murder charges, forcing them to flee for their lives.

Through it all, Stewart discovers these magnificent creatures have gone from predator to prey, and how despite surviving the earth's history of mass extinctions, they could easily be wiped out within a few years due to human greed. Stewart's remarkable journey of courage and determination changes from a mission to save the world's sharks, into a fight for his life, and that of humankind.

Sharkwater will be released in Australia on May 15th 2007. You can view the trailer below:

Genre: Documentary
Directed by: Rob Stewart
Produced by: Brian Stewart, Sandra Campbell
Written by: Rob Stewart
Starring: Patrick Moore, Erich Ritter, Rob Stewart, Paul Watson, Boris Worm
Release date: USA - November 2nd, 2007; Australia - May 15th, 2008; UK - July 14th, 2007
Runtime: 89 minutes

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Shine a Light

April 14th 2008 10:51

In 2008, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker and the world's greatest rock n' roll band will unite to bring audiences the year's most extraordinary musical film event, "Shine A Light," to cinemas.

Martin Scorsese's concert documentary "Shine A Light" shows the world the Rolling Stones as they've never been seen before. Filmed at the famed Beacon Theatre in New York City in the northern hemisphere's Autumn 2006, Scorsese assembled a legendary team of cinematographers to capture the raw energy of the legendary band.

The "Shine a Light" team used swooping cameras to capture the Stones in the intimate confines of the 2800-seat Broadway theatre. The band goes through a 22-song set list with the usual hits ("Brown Sugar," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Start Me Up").

It was released on April 4th in the USA. The Australian release date is May 29th.
The trailer for Shine A Light is below:

Set List:
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Shattered
She Was Hot
All Down the Line
Loving Cup - with Jack White
As Tears Go By (Jagger/Richards/Oldham)
Some Girls
Just My Imagination (Norman Whitfield/Barrett Strong)
Far Away Eyes
Champagne & Reefer (Muddy Waters) - with Buddy Guy
Tumbling Dice
Band introductions
You Got the Silver - lead vocal by Keith Richards
Connection (incomplete) - lead vocal by Keith Richards
Sympathy for the Devil
Live with Me - with Christina Aguilera
Start Me Up
Brown Sugar
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Shine a Light (incomplete; audio only)

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Genre: Documentary / Music
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Produced by: Steve Bing, Michael Cohl
Distributed by: Paramount Vantage, 20th Century Fox
Runtime: 122 minutes
Release date: USA - April 4th, 2008; Australia - May 29th, 2008; UK - April 2nd, 2008

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Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

February 27th 2008 11:01

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? is the latest documentary by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock of "Super Size Me" fame.

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? Morgan Spurlock

Spurlock puts a somewhat humorous spin on the search for the world's most wanted man and in the process discovers a different side of the Middle East. It will be released in Australia on April 10th. The wide release date in the USA is April 18th, 2008

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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

January 2nd 2008 07:55

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a documentary that follows Steve Wiebe as he tries to take the world high score for the arcade game Donkey Kong from reigning champion Billy Mitchell. The film is already released in the USA. The Australian release date is February 21st, 2008.

A middle-school science teacher and a hot sauce mogul vie for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic, Donkey Kong

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End Game: Blueprint for Global Enslavement

September 19th 2007 15:19

Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American radio host and filmmaker who is best known for his work in promotion of conspiracy theories.

Jones has produced a series of videos about what he believes is the emergence of a totalitarian world government, the erosion of the United States' national sovereignty and its civil liberties, the misuse of government power, corporate deception, and cohesion between disparate power structures. Jones has been working on a new movie which will explain what he terms the New World Order (conspiracy in which a powerful and secretive group is claimed to be conspiring to eventually rule the world via an autonomous world government). The Movie is titled "End Game: Blueprint for Global Enslavement

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The 11th Hour

September 3rd 2007 13:07

The 11th Hour is a 2007 feature film documentary created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio on the state of the natural environment. It was directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners and financed by Adam Lewis, Pierre André Senizergues and Doyle Brunson. Distributed by Warner Independent Pictures. Its world premiere was at the 2007 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival and was released on August 17th, 2007. The movie came about one year after Al Gore's environmental movie-documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

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Arctic Tale

July 25th 2007 14:34

Arctic Tale is a 2007 documentary film about the life cycle of a walrus and her calf, and a polar bear and her cubs, in a similar vein to the 2005 hit production March of the Penguins. It was directed by Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson and is narrated by Queen Latifah. The animal characters named in the movie, "Nanu" the female polar bear and "Seela" the female walrus, are based on composites of animals in their species, as noted at the end of the film. It will be released on July 25th In the USA and January 1st, 2008 in Australia.

The footage used in Arctic Tale was filmed over the span of 15 years by married filmmakers Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson, along with the National Geographic Natural History Unit and others who record wildlife. They compiled 800 hours worth of clips of animals that are typically hard to catch on camera, such as the polar bear and walrus. Even though polar bears and walruses are seen in many scenes together in this film, they usually do not cross paths. According to Ravetch, they were "told by scientists that it was very rare for a polar bear to attack a walrus." But his experience made him "realize that polar bears and walruses have quite a lot in common," which is narrated as such in the film

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Michael Moore's Sicko

June 25th 2007 06:11

Sicko is a documentary film by Michael Moore, scheduled for release on June 29, 2007 in the US and August 16th in Australia. It investigates the American health care system with a focus on the behaviour of large health insurance companies and contrasts the U.S. system with those of other countries with universal health care coverage

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