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March 10, 2009
Announcements:
- Check Out the New Film on IndieFlix, This is the Life
The award-winning documentary chronicles the legendary Good Life emcees, the alternative music movement they developed and their worldwide influence on the artform.
This Week’s New Releases:
 The Harvest Project: Personal anguish forces a surgeon into the underground organ trade. Professor Morteyz, a brilliant physician devises ‘The Harvest Project’ a sophisticated underground network of organ transplants to save children. The morals and ethics of The Harvest Project‚ are soon challenged when Morteyz’s young protégé falters and becomes involved in the lucrative, but treacherous black market. The university campus emerges as the perfect harvest ground for living ‘marks’. However, the project is compromised when the death of a mark attracts the attention of Detective Tzume. When his undercover operation reveals those responsible, Detective Tzume is faced with a heart wrenching dilemma – should he bring the vigilantes to justice, or use the project to save the life of his only daughter who is in desperate need of an organ transplant?
OWN DVD FOR ONLY $9.95
WATCH STREAMING FOR ONLY $4.95
Documentary:
 This is the Life: Winner of Best Documentary Audience Awards at the 2008 Pan-African International Film Festival, Toronto’s ReelWorld Film Festival and Seattle’s Langston Hughes Film Festival, THIS IS THE LIFE tells the little known story of 50+ teenagers from South Central LA who collectively rejected gang rap to explore the possibilities of estoeric hip hop. In the film, we chronicle “The Good Life” emcees, the alternative music movement they developed, and their worldwide influence on the artform. The film explores how their creative choice was made and the dramatic effect it had on their careers. The film features new interviews and rare performance footage by these teens, who went on to become some of the biggest names in alternative rap today: Jurassic 5, Cut Chemist, Chali 2na, Aceyalone, Pigeon John, Abstract Rude, 2Mex, Freestyle Fellowship, Medusa and many more.
Film Festival Screenings:
Pan-African International Film Festival – Best Documentary
ReelWorld Film Festival (Toronto) – Best Documentary
Langston Hughes Film Festival (Seattle) – Best Documentary
OWN DVD FOR ONLY $19.95
WATCH STREAMING FOR ONLY $5.95
 Consume This: In Australian society it appears that we are so tantalised with the Œme culture‚ of consumerism that we care little about the Œwe culture‚ that is an imperative element within any healthy democracy. Consume This aims to draw attention to the effects of epidemic consumerism, demonstrating how this ideology is influencing democracy and engage the electorate to analyse their role within the democratic system. Most Australians are aware of the adverse effects of consumerism and agree that our consumption practices are not compatible with sustainable living. Sooner or later, a generation will need to take charge and address our mode of living or it may well be that we become the culture that eats the future.
OWN DVD FOR ONLY $9.95
WATCH STREAMING FOR ONLY $4.95
 Oil and Water: Filmed before and after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Oil and Water – reflections on nature, madness and psyche – is a portrait of Prince William Sound. It is a love song to nature, a mourning cry for the wounded natural world, and an exploration of our relationship to the earth..
Film Festival Screenings:
Slamdance Film Festival
Big Sky Film Festival
American Conservation Film Festival
Hazel Wolf Film Festival
WorldFest Houston
Port Townsend Film Festival
Dubrovnik International Film Festival
OWN DVD FOR ONLY $5.95
WATCH STREAMING FOR ONLY $1.95
 Heart and Soil: The award wining, short documentary HEART & SOIL captures the essence of the growing local food consciousness. as it moves along to the pace of barefoot children, frolicking livestock and a cast of authentic characters in the field. A lively family film that inspires audiences into awareness and action as it provides thought-provoking insight into a wide variety of interconnected, ecological, social and economic themes. Covering topics such as seed saving, animal husbandry, organic growing practices, food security, carbon foot prints, food safety and more…. According to esteemed Random House author, Deborah Madison, this film, seen in turns as hopeful and devastating should be required viewing in schools across the globe.
Film Festival Screenings:
Nashville Independent Film Festival – Opening Film
OWN DVD FOR ONLY $19.95
WATCH STREAMING FOR ONLY $4.95
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