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- A London teen discovers the world of rock music when he visits his cousin in California.
- This is the story of Os Mutantes, perhaps one of the strangest in the entire history of rock music, which has served as heady inspiration for artists as varied as Beck, Devendra Banhart, Sean Lennon, Nirvana, and the Flaming Lips. Imagine a 1960s Brazilian rock group comprised of three teenagers who liked to dress up in strange costumes and play psychedelic music with their own handmade guitars. Now imagine this band playing music so strange and so beautiful that the right-wing military government of Brazil declared them a national threat, arresting many of their friends and band mates. They had the courage to perform a fusion of traditional Brazilian rhythms with psychedelia at a time when the "MPB" (the Brazilian music establishment) were openly hostile to the wild sounds of American rock 'n roll, provoking even further outrage by fashioning their own handmade musical instruments, constructed out of such common household objects as rubber hoses, cans of hot chocolate, or bottles of bug spray. Os Mutantes was regularly censored by the government while performing alongside such musical revolutionaries as Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso (who, like many artists in Brazil at the time, were imprisoned and exiled for their political stance). Amidst such oppression, it's a miracle their records survived the decades and are considered such a great inspiration to many of today's best artists.
- The story of Os Mutantes is perhaps one of the strangest in the entire history of rock music and has served as heady inspiration for artists as varied as Beck, Devendra Banhart, Sean Lennon, Nirvana, and the Flaming Lips. Imagine a 1960s Brazilian rock group comprised of three teenagers who liked to dress up in strange costumes and play psychedelic music with their own handmade guitars. Now imagine this band playing music so strange and so beautiful that the right-wing military government of Brazil declared them a national threat, arresting many of their friends and band mates. Amidst such oppression, it's a miracle their records survived the decades and are considered such a great inspiration to many of today's best artists. Os Mutantes and the Garden of Notes blends original animation, colorful fantasy, old performance clips, archival photographs, and impressionistic vignettes to tell the story of the band, the military oppression, and their impact on future generations worldwide. Narrated by Devendra Banhart.
- "Joey" is an intimate and vivid portrayal of the lives of children growing up amid gangs and violence in South Los Angeles. Children who live in neighborhoods which do not allow them to enjoy the simple liberties of life which we all take for granted. Children, of all ages, who are shot not because they are in gangs but just because they are living their lives, standing in front of their house, taking out the trash or coming home from church like thirteen-year-old Joseph Swift. Joseph Swift lived in a neighborhood in South Los Angeles where violent gang bangers bully and murder freely and sometimes without consequences in part because police are overwhelmed and witnesses intimidated. "Joey" revolves around the shooting of Joseph Swift and his family and friends who are in a constant struggle with gangs. "Joey" puts a human face on a growing problem.
- Two girls - one Israeli and one Palestinian, share a special friendship despite their cultural differences and the war raging around them