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Prepare for an exciting, enlightening ride around the world and across the Universe!

Acclaimed filmmaker Paul Devlin's brother, Mark Devlin, PhD, leads an international team of astrophysicists from the Arctic to the Antarctic to launch a revolutionary telescope on a NASA high-altitude balloon. No less than the origins of the Universe are at stake on this risky scientific adventure that seeks to answer humankind's most basic question, How did we get here?

Mark and his tenacious team get personal, philosophical, even religious as BLAST! reveals the human side of scientific pursuit – enormous sacrifices, maddening incongruities, catastrophic failures and transcendent triumphs.

The film is the first, definitive documentary on the life of the legendary jazz vocalist. In Anita's own words, we hear the tale of a musical genius who broke race barriers and lived her life boldly, unconventionally without ever looking back. She overcame great adversities including a 15 year long heroin addiction, rape, and alcoholism. Anita's life epitomized the story of survival by a female American master.

The film showcases rare and never before seen vintage performances and archival interview footage where Anita speaks candidly with television icons who include Dick Cavett, Bryant Gumble, David Frost and Harry Reasoner. The film also includes interviews from vocalists Annie Ross and Margaret Whiting, Jazz Impresario George Wein, award winning arrangers, including Johnny Mandel, Bill Holman, Russell Garcia and many others. Other interviews include actor/producer John Cameron Mitchell, acclaimed writers Jim Gavin and Will Friedwald and other friends from different times in Anita's life. It is a tribute to the singer, considered by many one of our Country's rare, national treasures.

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Ask Not is a rare and compelling exploration of the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. The film exposes the tangled political battles that led to the discriminatory law, and profiles charismatic young activists determined to abolish it. As wars in the Middle East rage on, Ask Not reveals personal stories of gay Americans who serve in combat under a veil of secrecy.

How did a rebel public defender from Boulder, Colorado, throw a monkey wrench into America’s "death machine"? Slip into a juror’s seat as David Wymore and other nationally recognized criminal defense attorneys bring their fight against the death penalty to the front line: the courtroom.

Casting a revelatory and often uncomfortable light on our justice system, The Life Penalty shakes the ethical and moral foundations of capital punishment in the contemporary United States. Featuring two Bob Dylan songs including the never before released "Ballad of Donald White".