Bad Boy Bubby: In Conversation with Nicholas Hope @ Popcorn Taxi, ACMI Melbourne

Kev, El and Andy are three men united by one struggle: they are trying to defy gravity. As part of the 700,000 prisoners released into society every year, they find themselves faced with a chilling outlook: 67% of ex-offenders re-offend within three years. What explains this invisible force that keeps former inmates in a seemingly unending cycle of incarceration? Pull of Gravity is an intimate portrait of these three men that confronts head on the gritty details of lives cut short by poverty and drugs, where dealing is seen as the only route to economic prosperity and where prison is too often the next stop. The film's unfiltered lens captures its subjects as they lay bare their stories, fears, and tentative dreams.

Creature is the ferocious former gang leader from one of Canada's most notoriously violent neighborhoods known as Jane and Finch. We are given intimate access to a world where Latoya's friends and brother are being murdered around her. This is a life of daily struggle to bring Creature under control played out in her ongoing inner conflict between good and evil. It started as a news piece but as more people wanted to have their observations recorded it became a documentary on the issue of gang violence that plagues a city. The film is recorded using just an SLR camera combined with homemade videos and photographs. This provides a very personalized perspective and brutally raw view of those living in perpetual violence and despair.

A feature length documentary chronicling the lives of multiple young men who have been exposed to the Baltimore juvenile justice system.

A top fashion designer teaches his trade to inmates at the largest maximum-security prison in the Philippines. They go on a roller coaster ride to stage the most spectacular runway show behind bars.

At 19, Deni Prieto Stock joined a guerrilla group and, four months later, on February 14, 1974, was murdered by the Mexican army in Nepantla, Mexico State together with four companions. A series of testimonials allow us to get to know the family and social circumstances that influenced Deni 's path; we also discover the ties of love and friendship she found in the safe house, her daily life in the underground and the discipline and aspirations she shared with her fellow guerrillas.