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While Hurricane Katrina crippled most industries in New Orleans during the first months after the storm, insurance claim adjusters thrived in the ravaged region. With nothing better to do with his life, young Turner Stull arrives in New Orleans ready to work for his Uncle Stully, a seasoned pro in the claims business. But the shy, reticent Turner is unprepared to deal with people who have lost everything and feels overwhelmed by the utter devastation and personal loss everywhere around him. In a moment of crisis, Turner agrees to help a boisterous, freespirited local man, Nixon, search for his lost dog. In exchange, Nixon lends his comedic charms and people skills to helping the bewildered young adjuster complete his insurance claims. Their informal partnership grows into an unlikely friendship as they navigate their way through the storm-damaged city on a journey that will change Turner's life.
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Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro's most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Anderson's grassroots Afro Reggae movement is at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever.
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An intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audiotaped interviews conducted with Cobain by noted music journalist Michael Azerrad for his book "Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana." In the film, Kurt Cobain recounts his own life - from his childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later dealings with explosive fame - and offers often piercing insights into his life, music, and times. The conversations heard in the film have never before been made public and they reveal a highly personal portrait of an artist much discussed but not particularly well understood.
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Beautiful Losers is a feature documentary film celebrating the independent and D.I.Y. spirit that unified a loose-knit group of American artists who emerged from the underground youth subcultures of skateboarding, graffiti, punk rock and hip-hop. This documentary tells the story of how a group of outsiders with little or no formal training and almost no conception or interest of the inner workings of the art world ended up having an incredible impact on the worlds of art, fashion, music, film and pop culture.
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