Coal River Valley, West Virginia is a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. Filmed over a period of five years, ON COAL RIVER follows a former miner and his neighbors in a David-and-Goliath struggle for the future of their valley, their children, and life as they know it. Ed Wiley once worked at the same coal plant that threatens his granddaughter's elementary school. When his local government refuses to act, Ed embarks on a quest to have the school relocated to safer ground.  With a sharp sense of right and wrong, Ed confronts his local school board, the state government, and a notorious coal company for putting his granddaughter and his community at risk.

A working vacation takes two former lovers into an increasingly surreal world in this offbeat environmental thriller. A freelance photographer gets her first big assignment to document toxic waste sites along the U.S.-Canada border, and her unemployed ex-boyfriend is along for the ride. But failed romance soon becomes the least of their problems as their ill-fated road trip begins to circle in on itself. A prize winner at the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Brooklyn International Film Festival, ROAD is the first feature by writer/director Leslie McCleave, whose short films include award-winning BLIXA BARGELD STOLE MY COWBOY BOOTS (starring Michael Imperioli), AVENUE X and MEETING MARTY.

Narrated by Peter Gallagher, this documentary brings the history of oil prices and future of alternative fuels into focus in this documentary. Concerned with American dependence on foreign oil and curious as to how America could go from the largest exporter of oil to the largest importer, filmmakers Jeremy Wagener and Scott Roberts seek out the opinions of such experts as U.S. Department of Energy officials, alternative fuel producers, alternative fuel consumers, economic professors, and congressional leaders from both the Democratic and Republican parties. In addition to asking some truly challenging questions, GASHOLE also examines a variety of potential solutions to America's oil dependence. Could it be that greedy oil companies have buried existing technology designed to dramatically improve gas mileage, and why is the typical American consumer so reluctant to embrace alternative energy forms? For anyone who fills up their tank and scoffs at the rolling numbers on the gas pump display, this film may just have the answers to your most pressing questions.

Following a painful breakup, artist and government hydrologist Sarah Smith (Lily Rabe, American Horror Story) sets out on a stream survey for the Forest Service in southwestern Oregon - a journey down a scenic river that leads her to remote wilderness surrounded by scorched landscapes. Sarah also suspects she is being followed by an unseen presence, and visits from this "Big Man" (Isaac C. Singleton, Jr.) continue at the remote cabin where she writes up her fieldwork. As a mutual curiosity develops between them, her budding romance with a wilderness advocate leads to surprising revelations about the government, and Sasquatch. Directed by renowned independent filmmaker Christopher Munch (The Hours and the Times) and featuring gorgeous cinematography showcasing the natural beauty of the Oregon wilderness, LETTERS FROM THE BIG MAN has been noted as the first realistic filmic depiction of Sasquatch.

Many people who live surrounded by ocean - just a few feet above sea level - never learn to swim. In May 2014, National Geographic "ocean hero" Jon Bowermaster organized a learn-to-swim camp on the island-nation of the Maldives for fifty third graders and twenty of their burka-clad mothers. In a place more threatened by global climate change and rising sea levels than almost anywhere on the planet, it is particularly important that its residents understand what?s at risk. Diving into the ocean is a big first step toward protecting what we know.

In 1962, a trash fire ignites a seam of anthracite coal beneath the once-thriving mining town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. The fire continued to rage unchecked into the mid-1980s: giant plumes of smoke and deadly carbon monoxide gases billowed from fissures in the ground, the local highway cracked and collapsed, trees were bleached white and petrified. It wasn't until a young boy nearly died after falling into a smoldering mine that the government was pressed into action. After estimating the cost of extinguishing the fire at over a half a billion dollars, the government opted to raze the town and relocate its residents. Today, eleven die-hards remain. Filmed over a period of five years with interviews ranging from former citizens to Congressmen, THE TOWN THAT WAS is an intimate portrait of one Centralian's quixotic fight for a town that has literally disintegrated under his feet. His unbowed determination and steadfast refusal to acknowledge defeat reveal a region and a way of life that has been almost forgotten.

Coal River Valley, West Virginia is a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. Filmed over a period of five years, ON COAL RIVER follows a former miner and his neighbors in a David-and-Goliath struggle for the future of their valley, their children, and life as they know it. Ed Wiley once worked at the same coal plant that threatens his granddaughter's elementary school. When his local government refuses to act, Ed embarks on a quest to have the school relocated to safer ground.  With a sharp sense of right and wrong, Ed confronts his local school board, the state government, and a notorious coal company for putting his granddaughter and his community at risk.

A working vacation takes two former lovers into an increasingly surreal world in this offbeat environmental thriller. A freelance photographer gets her first big assignment to document toxic waste sites along the U.S.-Canada border, and her unemployed ex-boyfriend is along for the ride. But failed romance soon becomes the least of their problems as their ill-fated road trip begins to circle in on itself. A prize winner at the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Brooklyn International Film Festival, ROAD is the first feature by writer/director Leslie McCleave, whose short films include award-winning BLIXA BARGELD STOLE MY COWBOY BOOTS (starring Michael Imperioli), AVENUE X and MEETING MARTY.

Narrated by Peter Gallagher, this documentary brings the history of oil prices and future of alternative fuels into focus in this documentary. Concerned with American dependence on foreign oil and curious as to how America could go from the largest exporter of oil to the largest importer, filmmakers Jeremy Wagener and Scott Roberts seek out the opinions of such experts as U.S. Department of Energy officials, alternative fuel producers, alternative fuel consumers, economic professors, and congressional leaders from both the Democratic and Republican parties. In addition to asking some truly challenging questions, GASHOLE also examines a variety of potential solutions to America's oil dependence. Could it be that greedy oil companies have buried existing technology designed to dramatically improve gas mileage, and why is the typical American consumer so reluctant to embrace alternative energy forms? For anyone who fills up their tank and scoffs at the rolling numbers on the gas pump display, this film may just have the answers to your most pressing questions.

Following a painful breakup, artist and government hydrologist Sarah Smith (Lily Rabe, American Horror Story) sets out on a stream survey for the Forest Service in southwestern Oregon - a journey down a scenic river that leads her to remote wilderness surrounded by scorched landscapes. Sarah also suspects she is being followed by an unseen presence, and visits from this "Big Man" (Isaac C. Singleton, Jr.) continue at the remote cabin where she writes up her fieldwork. As a mutual curiosity develops between them, her budding romance with a wilderness advocate leads to surprising revelations about the government, and Sasquatch. Directed by renowned independent filmmaker Christopher Munch (The Hours and the Times) and featuring gorgeous cinematography showcasing the natural beauty of the Oregon wilderness, LETTERS FROM THE BIG MAN has been noted as the first realistic filmic depiction of Sasquatch.

Many people who live surrounded by ocean - just a few feet above sea level - never learn to swim. In May 2014, National Geographic "ocean hero" Jon Bowermaster organized a learn-to-swim camp on the island-nation of the Maldives for fifty third graders and twenty of their burka-clad mothers. In a place more threatened by global climate change and rising sea levels than almost anywhere on the planet, it is particularly important that its residents understand what?s at risk. Diving into the ocean is a big first step toward protecting what we know.

In 1962, a trash fire ignites a seam of anthracite coal beneath the once-thriving mining town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. The fire continued to rage unchecked into the mid-1980s: giant plumes of smoke and deadly carbon monoxide gases billowed from fissures in the ground, the local highway cracked and collapsed, trees were bleached white and petrified. It wasn't until a young boy nearly died after falling into a smoldering mine that the government was pressed into action. After estimating the cost of extinguishing the fire at over a half a billion dollars, the government opted to raze the town and relocate its residents. Today, eleven die-hards remain. Filmed over a period of five years with interviews ranging from former citizens to Congressmen, THE TOWN THAT WAS is an intimate portrait of one Centralian's quixotic fight for a town that has literally disintegrated under his feet. His unbowed determination and steadfast refusal to acknowledge defeat reveal a region and a way of life that has been almost forgotten.

Coal River Valley, West Virginia is a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. Filmed over a period of five years, ON COAL RIVER follows a former miner and his neighbors in a David-and-Goliath struggle for the future of their valley, their children, and life as they know it. Ed Wiley once worked at the same coal plant that threatens his granddaughter's elementary school. When his local government refuses to act, Ed embarks on a quest to have the school relocated to safer ground.  With a sharp sense of right and wrong, Ed confronts his local school board, the state government, and a notorious coal company for putting his granddaughter and his community at risk.

A working vacation takes two former lovers into an increasingly surreal world in this offbeat environmental thriller. A freelance photographer gets her first big assignment to document toxic waste sites along the U.S.-Canada border, and her unemployed ex-boyfriend is along for the ride. But failed romance soon becomes the least of their problems as their ill-fated road trip begins to circle in on itself. A prize winner at the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Brooklyn International Film Festival, ROAD is the first feature by writer/director Leslie McCleave, whose short films include award-winning BLIXA BARGELD STOLE MY COWBOY BOOTS (starring Michael Imperioli), AVENUE X and MEETING MARTY.

Narrated by Peter Gallagher, this documentary brings the history of oil prices and future of alternative fuels into focus in this documentary. Concerned with American dependence on foreign oil and curious as to how America could go from the largest exporter of oil to the largest importer, filmmakers Jeremy Wagener and Scott Roberts seek out the opinions of such experts as U.S. Department of Energy officials, alternative fuel producers, alternative fuel consumers, economic professors, and congressional leaders from both the Democratic and Republican parties. In addition to asking some truly challenging questions, GASHOLE also examines a variety of potential solutions to America's oil dependence. Could it be that greedy oil companies have buried existing technology designed to dramatically improve gas mileage, and why is the typical American consumer so reluctant to embrace alternative energy forms? For anyone who fills up their tank and scoffs at the rolling numbers on the gas pump display, this film may just have the answers to your most pressing questions.