Good Deed Entertainment (Firm)
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When Beth James’ son Evan was diagnosed with autism in the early 90s, treatment options were limited. Doctors offered no practical advice for daily living and advised Beth to limit his social interactions. Rejecting these notions, Beth sets out to provide her son with a life filled with purpose and friendship. This heartfelt film is a sweet testament to the power of love and community by profiling a determined mom advocating for her son.
2) Alaskan Nets
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Off the coast of Southeast Alaska lies an island - remote, largely hidden from the outside world and home to the Tsimshian Indians of Alaska's last native reserve: Metlakatla. For more than a century, two sacred traditions have defined Metlakatla: fishing and basketball. Witness the improbable journey of cousins Danny Marsden and DJ King, fishermen and stars of the high school basketball team, as they lead their team and town in search of their first...
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Over the past three decades, speedrunners have been collaboratively digging for secrets, working to uncover mind-blowing shortcuts and glitches which are used to streamline their runs. Running with Speed follows top runners, from the past and present, of gaming franchises that are pillars in speedrunning: Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid. World records in these retro classics are especially revered. The series culminates at the...
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In the town of Merced, CA, a commune of activist nuns run an illegal cannabis farm. They use it to make medicine for everything from epilepsy to cancer, fighting against the authorities, the sheriff and local cartels. This is the story of Sister Kate, the Weed-Growing Nun. Nominated for Best Documentary Film at the **Santa Barbara International Film Festival**. *"It's a stirring, unusually inspiring tale." - Gary Goldstein, **Los Angeles Times***
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Imagine a kingdom where an entire populace is being devastated by an invisible plague, leaving only children to reign. Here, hundreds of thousands of children are raising children and are left to fend for themselves in a cruel and frightening world. This is not a fairy tale. This kingdom is Swaziland, Africa's last remaining absolute monarchy.
6) To Dust
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Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert (Matthew Broderick), a local community college biology professor, the two embark on a darkly comic and increasingly literal undertaking into the underworld. Winner of an Audience Award at the **Tribeca Film Festival**....
7) Squeal
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Lost in a remote part of Eastern Europe, Sam is a foreigner searching for his biological father when a minor road accident leads to a chance meeting with a pig farmer's daughter, who captures him, making him a slave on the farm.
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A laugh out loud comedy about an ex-convict, Just released from prison and placed on probation, Tijuana Jackson (Romany Malco) sets out to fulfill his dream of becoming a world renowned motivational speaker, but fails to comply with strict orders from his no-nonsense probation officer (Regina Hall). And with his sister Sharea (Tami Roman) needing TJ to be a better role model for her son Lil' Eric (Alkoya Brunson), his mother (lyne Odums) needing him...
13) Guidance
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In the future, humanity slowly rebuilds itself after war. Believing that the ability to lie is the root cause of the conflict, a tech entrepreneur creates a pill containing a nanotech app known as GUIDANCE that allegedly will make everyone more enlightened. Once swallowed, an A.I. “installs” in the person’s nervous system and aids their ability to detect deception in other people.
14) Carmen
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Inspired by true events, Carmen is a charming story set in a village in the Mediterranean island Malta. Carmen (Natascha McElhone) has looked after her brother, the priest at the local church, since she was sixteen years old. Now almost fifty, she is suddenly left to start a new life. Facing her past, Carmen brings color to the lives of the villagers in this compelling story about a woman finding her voice.
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In 1952 Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) returns to her Scottish hometown to take over her late father's medical practice. She soon becomes ostracized by the community when she begins a passionate romance with a young mother named Lydia (Holliday Grainger). Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*Race, sexuality and masculinity are all touched on in a successful attempt to reflect the bigger picture of an era in which the...
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LOVING VINCENT: THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM recalls a 10 year journey that brought the world’s first fully painted feature film to the cinema screen. From humble beginnings in a bedroom in an industrial Polish town of Łódź, an idea for a 7 minute short film that would tell the story of Vincent van Gogh through his paintings was conceived. The potential for a truly groundbreaking yet completely unseen project seemed like a huge risk, but when in the...
17) Days of Daisy
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Daisy, a 39 year old good-natured librarian, desperately wants to have a baby. She meets Jack, the creative man of her dreams only to find out he does not want to have children.
18) Some Freaks
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A charming romance develops between a boy with one eye and an overweight girl, though when she loses her weight after going to college, their relationship is tested in devastating ways they never dreamed would happen. *"What seems like an ordinary teenage comedy about cliques and bullying on the surface is actually a modestly perceptive and touching glimpse into the ways in which we transition from adolescence into adulthood." - Todd Jorgenson, **Cinemalogue***...
19) Cosmic Dawn
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After witnessing the alien abduction of her mother as child (and subsequently being told she’s crazy for most of her life) Aurora, now a young woman, joins the UFO cult The COSMIC DAWN after discovering a book written by the group’s leader Elyse. When a fellow cult member starts to display increasingly bizarre behavior, Aurora begins to question Elyse’s sanity (and her own) and starts looking for a way out.
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A dark world much like our own. A fabulously wealthy family. A troubled daughter, social media icon. A dark underworld of criminals and estranged youth. Everything collides in a dramatic tale of wickedness and greed. Romance, love, violence. Who will get away with all the stolen gold? Power crazed, savageness, and an ending that should fry your eyeballs after a central story that stabs you between the ribs. This movie is not for the faint of heart...
