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- Following the launch of her new novel, 35-year-old writer Kate's former professor invites her to speak at her alma mater. After accepting the invitation, Kate finds herself deeply enmeshed in the lives of a group of college students.
- A white-trash family must resort to crime to send their teenage son to college.
- The Arkansas school integration crisis and the changes wrought in subsequent years. This film profiles the lives of the nine African-American students who integrated Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the fall of 1957. The film documents the perspective of Jefferson Thomas and his fellow students seven years after their historic achievement. Central to this story is their quiet but brave entrance into Little Rock High, escorted by armed troops under the intense pressure of the on looking crowd. We learn first hand their impressions of the past and present and their hopes for the future. Their selfless heroism broke the integration crisis and pioneered a new era. This film went on to win an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short in 1964. "...we honor them today but let us not forget to heed their lesson..."---President Bill Clinton
- After finding a series of paper cranes, Jeremy becomes obsessed with tracking down the creator in the hopes of finding his purpose.
- A female driven post-society drama-thriller about love, madness and humankind's everlasting quest for companionship.
- "Movie Theater" was a hosted classic and horror movie show, hosted by Ervin Coppi.
- The lives of a disparate but interconnected group of millennials are turned upside down when a shady social media page appears, revealing their deepest secrets.
- Adam and Mary, father and daughter, must pick up the pieces of their new life together after they uncover that their recently deceased mother lived for years with a dual-life of sex, hard drugs, and underground clubbing.
- "WSIU-TV Festival" was a hosted annual pledge drive for WSIU-TV Carbondale, Illinois, USA.
- Two small town sickos blinded by a misunderstanding from their poor, local struggling church set out to punish five sinners.
- Upon its completion in October 1958, the Union Tank Car Dome, located north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was the largest clear-span structure in the world. It was based on the engineering principles of the visionary design scientist and philosopher Buckminster Fuller. This geodesic dome was, at 384 feet in diameter, the first large scale example of this building type. A Necessary Ruin relates the powerful, compelling narrative of the dome's history via interviews with architects, engineers, preservationists, media, and artists. Animated sequences demonstrating the operation of the facility and hundreds of rare photographs and video segments taken during the dome's construction, decline, and demolition.
- Equal parts poetic essay film and family folklore, Atmospheric Marginalia is an enchanting probe into a pair of star-crossed lovers and misfits, the continuing bonds theory of grief, and the existence of an afterlife.
- Dracula XXI is newcomer Paul Raila's hilarious version of a "straight" young vampire who learns from a newly "out" God that he's been hanging around the wrong coffins. With the help of a few friends a long they way, he struggles through coping with the idea of being gay.
- Architect, engineer, geometer, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and the dymaxion car, Buckminster Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive perspective on the world's problems.
- Years after his death, Miguel is still haunted by the memory of his eternal love, Nika. He spends his afterlife attempting to connect with her, but every time he nears her he awakens in a new land. Filled with a passion to understand his existence, he must return to his love again and again to understand where the world is taking him and what he will have to leave behind.
- A college student discovers his roommate has a problematic sleep disorder in this dark comedy.
- When a woman stumbles upon an exact copy of her grandmother's diary, a family heirloom that she's treasured for some time, things take a turn for the weird as she finds that, when she marks one book, the other changes on its own.
- A voice actor for a Saturday morning cartoon show discovers he has multiple personalities in this dark comedy.
- Commissioned to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Illinois Arts Council, this poignant and inspiring film interweaves the stories of four Illinois artists as they meet self-imposed artistic challenges and struggle with life challenges. From leading a teen theater ensemble to writing and conducting a symphonic jazz score to finding the perfect studio space to writing a poem, the artistic process is shown to be at one with the process of living in the larger community.
- Three men are brought together after being humiliated by a local hazing group. They delve into dark mental states as they seek revenge on their hazers.
- The citizens of a dying town attempt to escape their depression by abandoning their lives and living out the fantasy of 60s era superheroes and villains. The film focus on eleven year old Johnny, who tries to pull his father Glen, a.k.a Captain Courageous back into reality.
- A man waits in a bar nursing his drink possibly to meet someone . A woman, in her hotel room also prepares her self for what seems to be a date, but a mysterious folder is slide under her door. Are the two related and are the people just out for drinks?
- When a training exercise for D-Day goes awry, hundreds of US servicemen are plunged into the icy waters of the English channel. Desperate to survive they paddle to the first land in sight. For three inexperienced servicemen, this happens to be Nazi-occupied France.
- A famous composer creates the Moonlight Sonata in a poor cobbler's dwelling.
- A lowly soulmaker labors at his daily routine until he finds something that awakens his desire for a new life. Upon a threshold of change he sets out to discover his potential, but first he must plan his quiet escape from this life to the next.
- Two sisters realize there is more going on than they think when strange happenings keep occurring. They must work together to try and solve the underlying problem.
- The Devil makes a wager with God that he can change a young man's faith by taking away everything good in his life. Based on the biblical story.
- Door-to-door Pencil salesman Herb Steltzman encounters a world of immense success and international espionage when he's introduced to the automatic pencil.
- Retired Navy SEAL and CIA operative Chuck Brandau is on his way home from burying his teammate after a particularly bad op when he runs into Linn, the local pusher. Chuck must decide to whether to let Linn live or die.
- All over, kids are leaving sports behind due to the intense pressure of performance. By understanding the evolution of youth sports, parents can change this troubling trend before it's too late.
- George Feign comes across a photo of a recently deceased friend that triggers him to dive into a moment of time that ultimately contributes to his insanity and his retreat back into his memories brought about by the photographic image.
- A disturbing look into the daily routine of a seemingly normal man living in the dystopian near-future.
- The Gillen brothers always had a fascination with wood, but one day Greg Gillen began to paint trees and hang them up in his room. What he didn't know is that his obsession with trees would grow, further isolating him within his room.
- A hand puppet performs his daily tasks.
- Glass is a metaphor for Life...both begin one way and through the influence of outside forces change shape and become something other than what they began.
- The Little Egypt Ghost Society, a Southern Illinois ghost hunting group, takes us through the experience of what it's really like to hunt for ghosts, and it's not quite like anything you see on TV.
- An astronaut, drifting hopelessly into outer space, living entirely in his own memories of life on Earth. But it is also possible that the space ship is only a recurring series of bad dreams, and he is really only living the life of a failed novelist whose mind is beginning to disintegrate. This film explores the idea that perhaps both can be true.
- Inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and the art and writing of feminist painter Saribenne Evesong (1931-2009), Declarations uses art, and the art of movement, to examine empathy as a facilitator of sustainable love, peace, and justice.