Since debuting at last year's New York Film Festival, "Vito," Jeffrey Schwarz's portrait of Lgbt activist and film historian Vito Russo ("The Celluloid Closet") has screened at a number of festivals, including opening both San Francisco's Frameline last month and Los Angeles' Outfest last week. On July 23, the doc receives huge visibility in its broadcast premiere on HBO. Inspired by the example of this multifaceted advocate, Indiewire's latest curated Documentaries page for Hulu presents five films exploring activists championing a wide range of causes. Watch all these docs for free now! Arturo Perez Torres' "Super Amigos" tells the story of individuals trying to make a difference by becoming real-life super-heroes - with a dash of lucha libre Mexican wrestling theatrics. Super Gay, Super Barrio, Super Animal, Fray Tormenta, and Ecologista Universal patrol the streets of Mexico City united in the fight...
- 7/17/2012
- by Basil Tsiokos
- Indiewire
NEW YORK -- The Ironweed Film Club, a new DVD distribution program set to launch Dec. 1, is aiming to advance progressive causes. Funded by Act Now Prods. president Adam Werbach "as a more effective way to create social change than elections," Ironweed will offer monthly special-edition DVDs featuring full-length features and related shorts, screening party guidelines and organizing tools to connect subscribers with local grass-roots organizations. Ironweed's first DVD will be Wetback, Arturo Perez Torres' feature docu following two Nicaraguan immigrants to the U.S., accompanied by the shorts "Where is Iraq?" -- about Iraqis now exiled in Jordan -- and Terminal Bar, focusing on various minority groups over the years at a rough New York bar.
- 11/23/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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