Category: Film & Video

Will any of the modern Christmas movies have the staying power of "It's A Wonderful Life," or "Miracle on 34nth Street?"

As the public flips its calendars from October to November, December remains only one thin calendar page away, which means movie studios begin rolling out their holiday releases within the next several weeks. The question of whether or not these new Yuletide pictures will ever match up to the classics of old remains to be seen, but some films have a better chance than others, based on a number of factors.

Documentary DVD "Secrets Of The Stone Tablets-In Search Of Montezuma's Treasure" has been released, with historically accurate information, newly discovered artifacts and new theories about the Aztecs, early Spanish Explorers, and the Dillman Family's closely held secret about their 1982 archaeological discovery at a remote site filled with artifacts, human remains, a sacrificial altar, with proof of human sacrifices, cannibalism, and more.

After more than forty years of research and archaeological fieldwork a team of explorers and treasure hunters from California are ready to present to the world evidence that the Peralta Stone Tablets discovered in 1949 are authentic, and lead to several archaeological sites in the American Southwest, and may soon reveal the location of "Montezuma's Treasure," the lost Aztec treasure that early Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes was unable to fully capture and take back to Spain, as he and his Conquistadors were ejected out of Mexico on the historical Night of Tears.

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DVD's aim is to teach yoga to children using the art of storytelling.

Kids learn and play with Storytime Yoga: The Peddler's Dream, a unique DVD for children ages 3-8 that blends storytelling and yoga.

After watching "Severe Visibility," audiences will no doubt be divisive in regard to what the film is more than implying. But it can arguably be said that you will be thinking about this implication for some time to come.

After several delays, the 9/11 feature film Severe Visibility will have its American premiere at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival in Los Angeles on September 30th, 2007. The film has been on a roller-coaster ride since the beginning of production in 2006.

Filmmaker Victor Demko has turned his own decade-long passion for the wisdom of the great teachers and healers into a new online community designed to bring that ancient wisdom of holistic health and alternative medicine to a modern audience living in a hectic world.

In 2005, filmmaker Victor Demko was working on a film about Swami Sundaranand, a Himalayan yogi, ascetic and naturalist when he began to think seriously about the need to help others experience the wisdom of the great living teachers and healers. A former student of Robert Wise and Ron Howard at the American Film Institute, Demko said, "My vision was to pass on the gift of knowledge and attunement that allowed these healers to do their work - to pass it on to those who couldn't make a pilgrimage to a foreign country or who simply didn't have the financial resources to pursue this kind of learning." The new website, www.TheCenterForHealingArts.com, was born out of that vision.

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FIlmmaker VIctor Demko with Swami Sundaranand at his home in the Indian Himalayas.

Two years after Hurricane Katrina, as the struggle to collect promised aid, return home, rebuild and recover looms perilously close to failure, a story being told by some 600 New Orleans evacuees may not have had a voice without Taproot Productions' documentary "Desert Bayou."

On the second anniversary of the hurricane that resulted in the worst U.S. natural disaster ever ..."slow, insufficient and misguided federal policy is keeping tens of thousands of displaced American families from realizing their human right to return and rebuild their lives and communities." (Jeffrey Buchanan, Blueprint for Gulf Renewal, August/September 2007). Two years later, as the struggle to collect promised aid, return home, rebuild and recover looms perilously close to failure, a story being told by some 600 New Orleans evacuees may not have had a voice without Taproot Productions' documentary Desert Bayou.

Fastlane Entertainment will produce a motion picture based on the life story of Rock 'n Roll's Carl Perkins. The legendary singer and songwriter of Blue Suede Shoes, Matchbox, Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby and Honey Don't, is considered one of the founding fathers of Rock 'n Roll along with his fellow Sun Records musicians Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis. Paul McCartney is on board to support project.

Fastlane Entertainment, LLC announces that it has acquired the exclusive rights and will produce a motion picture based on the life story of Rock 'n Roll's very own Carl Perkins. Legendary singer and songwriter of Blue Suede Shoes, Matchbox, Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby and Honey Don't, Carl is considered one of the founding fathers of rock 'n roll, along with his fellow Sun Records musicians Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.

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Carl Perkins with Paul McCartney

Few have seen the movie but nearly half of the public is familiar with it. "Sicko" gets many talking about health care issues, reinforcing views of some and encouraging others (even some conservatives) to re-think the need for reform.

If the potential impact of Michael Moore's documentary Sicko were dependent solely on those who have actually seen the film, the result might be a passionate but narrow conversation among the 4% of adults who said they watched it in a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll.

EarthLab and the makers of "The 11th Hour" urge consumers to take "The 11th Hour Challenge" and reduce carbon output by ten percent.

EarthLab.com, the leading climate crisis community, has partnered with Warner Independent Pictures, Tree Media and the filmmakers to create The 11th Hour Challenge, timed to the release of The 11th Hour documentary, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. The challenge provides an opportunity for individuals to educate themselves and make small, practical, lifestyle changes by the end of this year to decrease their energy usage and carbon output with a goal of reducing their emissions by ten percent in 2008.

In 1989, Nobel Prize winning chemist and world-famous scientist Linus Pauling, began his recommendations for large amounts of the amino acid lysine along with vitamin C for cardiovascular disease. He stated that these nontoxic substances are chemicals which inhibit the binding of lipoprotein(a) to the walls of arteries. A one-hour lecture containing this information is now available on DVD. Previously, the Linus Pauling lecture on the Unified Theory of Cardiovascular Disease was available on VHS video only. The new DVD "chapter" format makes this information easy to navigate and review.

Shortly after medical scientists discovered that Lp(a) causes plaques that narrow or even block arteries, Linus Pauling and Matthias Rath developed and published their Unified Theory of Cardiovascular Disease. Pauling lectured on the Unified Theory at college campuses and gatherings across the United States in the early 1990s. One of these lectures was video taped and is now available on DVD.