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  • Life Below Zero: First Alaskans

    Follows Alaskan Natives who are focusing on their right to preserve their threatened ways of life, to ensure its survival for the next thousand years.

  • Life Below Zero: Next Generation

    Individuals who have recently left their traditional lifestyle behind face a challenging new world off the grid in the wilds of Alaska.

  • Life Below Zero: Northern Territories

    Stories of people, including First Nations people, who live off the grid in remote regions of Northern Canada, and how they spend their day-to-day lives.

  • Port Protection Alaska

    Port Protection is home to the few who have left behind normal society and chosen a different life in a remote Alaskan community, where survival of the individuals and community cannot sustain without the other. The stakes are high. The land is rugged and unforgiving and the seas which surround Port Protection are cold and merciless. With risk comes a reward more profound than mere survival: a world of beauty and freedom with the security of community and without the constraints of bureaucracy. In Port Protection there are no clear roads to survival, inhabitants must carve one themselves.

  • Life Below Zero

    Viewers go deep into an Alaskan winter to meet six tough and resilient residents as they try to stay one step ahead of storms and man-eating beasts to make it through to spring. The closest neighbor to Sue Aikens is more than 300 miles away. Eric Salitan subsists solely on what he hunts and forages. Chip and Agnes Hailstone catch fish for currency in bartering for supplies, and Andy and Kate Bassich use their pack of sled dogs for transportation.

  • Urban Legend: Unwrapping Candyman

    A critical analysis of Candyman (1992) by writers Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes.

  • Sweets to the Sweet: The ‘Candyman’ Mythos

    Retrospective documentary featuring director Bernard Rose, writer Clive Barker, producer Alan Poul and stars Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen and Kasi Lemmons.

  • Candyman: The David Klein Story

    Candyman tells the amazing true story of David Klein, an eccentric candy inventor from LA, who came up with the concept of Jelly Belly jellybeans. These colorful beans became a pop culture phenomenon, revolutionized the candy industry and were personally endorsed by Ronald Reagen. However, David’s eccentric personality and peculiar sense of business led him to leave Jelly Belly just as it was about to explode and grow into a billion dollar enterprise. Is there room for eccentric genius in the modern corporate world? The film tells how Klein may have lost his beans, but kept his soul.

  • I’ve Got the House

    The documentary narrates the story of three families of different sociocultural conditions that try to acquire a home in the city of Bogotá (Colombia). Through their stories, the spaces they inhabit and their daily problems, the film accounts for the dreams, worries and failures that thousands of Colombian families face in their desire to get their own home, under unstable working conditions and in the context of an ambitious real estate market.