Grindhouse Horrors

A short documentary of the environmental impacts of shopping with disposable bags.

Lilly Rivlin documents her parents' marriage of more than 50 years, in the process revealing some troubling family secrets. Ben Rivlin was a philanderer. His wife Bella knew it but loved him anyway. She wanted a divorce, but had three children, no careers, and no confidence. Against the background of her parents' final days -lying next to each other in adjoining hospital beds, Bella incapacitated by a massive stroke, Ben a double amputee- Lilly, the family's eldest daughter, attempts to come to terms with conflicting stories about her emotionally distant father. Through interviews filmed over a period of years with her parents, brother, sister, and aunts, Ben's mistress, she examines such universal themes as unfaithfulness, aging, sickness, and death and the connections between love, caring, and guilt.

Still Waters is a documentary film closely looking at how families from Ansan, South Korea came together in the aftermath of the largest maritime disaster involving students in Korean history.

Soul Tenders shares the lives of nine women. They grow medicinal plants in rural and urban gardens. They sit in a circle under the moon, helping nature turn the wheel of the year. They sing together and dance and drum to restore sacredness to the land, which has been depleted. They embrace the sacred in the simple beauties of each day. Living in paradise, you live rich. Love becomes the easy choice. You create no hatred. There are no enemies. The Earth depends on these women and their work to sustain Her life force. They live from a deep understanding that we are not separate from the planet which is our Home. As they dance with the elemental forces, they tend the soul of the world.

Experts agree that the chances of a major earthquake ripping through Southern California in the coming 30 years may be as high as 90%. If you and your family are to survive, you'll need to know what to do to prepare you home for an earthquake, how to drop, cover, and hold on during an earthquake, and how to live without electricity, running water, or emergency first responders for up to three days afterward.