DIRECTOR: Jay Silverman

STARRING: Jessica Parker Kennedy, Beau Bridges, Bruce Davison and introducing Miguel Gabriel

CAMERA (2024)

Camera is the heartwarming story of loss, hope, and healing, following OSCAR, a 9-year-old boy who cannot speak — who has just moved with his widowed mom to a struggling fishing town.  Picked on and bullied, nobody realizes that Oscar sees great beauty where others only see despair. Nobody, that is, until a broken film camera brings him together with ERIC (Beau Bridges), an eccentric old repairman, and an unlikely friendship develops. Under Eric’s mentorship, Oscar finds his voice through photography, and in doing so, heals a wounded community.

About VMI Worldwide:

VMI Worldwide is one of the leading, intercontinental sales, film finance and production companies based in the heart of the movie-making capital of the world, Hollywood, California. Founded in 2010 by Andre Relis, VMI has an impeccable reputation in the industry by building a strong collaborative and transparent relationship with filmmakers, financiers, and distributors. VMI’s mandate is to support high-quality independent filmmaking from all sides of the spectrum. By bringing together visionary talented filmmakers and collaborating with financiers and distributors, VMI empowers its filmmakers by providing the support needed to facilitate production. VMI's goal is to establish long-term partnerships by building strong and honest relationships, while acquiring and producing cast-driven, commercial and marketable feature films, documentaries and TV content.

A Dancer’s World (1957)

Martha Graham offers insight into her theories about dance while the members of her world-famous troupe display a number of their dance techniques in performance.

One of the great artistic forces of the twentieth century, performer, choreographer, and teacher Martha Graham influenced dance worldwide. Criterion presents a sampling of her stunning craft, all collaborations with television arts-programming pioneer Nathan Kroll.

Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed (1994)

MARTHA GRAHAM: DANCE ON FILM (Criterion Collections)

This documentary, produced for PBS’s “American Masters” series, traces Martha Graham’s career from her early days with the Denishawn Company through the formation of her own troupe and her emergence as one of the most important figures in twentieth-century dance.

Produced by the Criterion Collection.

What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann (2006)

Zeitgeist Films

As one of the world’s preeminent photographers, Sally Mann creates artwork that challenges viewers’ values and moral attitudes. Described by Time magazine as “America's greatest photographer,” she first came to international prominence in 1992 with “Immediate Family,” a series of complex and enigmatic pictures of her own children. This work, and the controversy that followed it, was chronicled in Steven Cantor’s award-winning short film, Blood Ties.

WHAT REMAINS returns to follow the creation of Mann’s new seminal work: a photo series revolving around various aspects of death and decay. Never one to compromise, Sally Mann reflects on her own personal feelings toward death as she continues to examine the boundaries of contemporary photography. Shown at home on her family farm in Virginia, she is surrounded by her husband and now-grown children, and her willingness to reveal her artistic process as it unfolds allows the viewer to gain exclusive entrance to her world.

Ruth Bernhard: Illuminations (1989)

Directed and produced by Robert Burrill and Ruth Bernhard 

Robert Burrill worked in partnership with Ruth Bernhard to complete her feature-length autobiographic film, "Illuminations: Ruth Bernhard, Photographer." The film premiered in 1989 at the Kabuki Theater in San Francisco and on local PBS station KQED in 1990. Her work, distinguished by its exquisite use of light and subtle exploration of form and texture, earned her critical acclaim and a place among the leading figures in 20th-century photography. In Illuminations, Ruth Bernhard reveals her deeply personal vision, which reaches beyond ordinary perceptions. 

Andy Warhol: A Documentary (2006)

Produced by Steeplechase Films, directed by Ric Burns, and featuring an Emmy Award-winning script by James Sanders and Ric Burns, Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film is a two-part, four-hour film that will be presented over two nights. 

Ric Burns’s portrait of the most resoundingly influential American artist of the second half of the twentieth century. Combining on-camera interviews and never-before-seen still and archival motion picture footage, the film was the first to exploit the immense archives at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. It was also the first to explore the complete spectrum of Andy Warhol’s astonishing artistic output, stretching across five decades from the late 1940’s, to his untimely death in the 1980’s.

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Ric Burns’s comprehensive documentary delves into five decades of the iconic pop artist’s life, from his early years to his breakthrough soup can paintings to the Factory years, tracing the arc of his rise to household-name fame. Narrated by artist Laurie Anderson, this portrait combines insider and critical interviews with rarely seen, extensive archival material.