BayView Entertainment (Firm)
1) Gitel
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Russian
Description
It is September 5, 1969, and Gitel Bargman is about to attend a party to celebrate her 33rd birthday, although for her it is hardly cause for celebration. She is racked with guilt for simply being alive. Attractive, intelligent, and witty, Gitel is a successful violinist who lives in a Kuybyshev (USSR) apartment. To the outsider, she has everything. But Gitel hides a secret. She is a haunted woman: haunted not only by painful memories of the past,...
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Feel motivated, engaged, balanced, centered, and renewed. With a different focus each day of the week, the 21 day challenge will keep even the most restless Yogi engaged. From challenging strength-building flow classes, to calming evening restorative yoga sequences, the program will safely deepen practices, making the viewer a stronger and more balanced practitioner. In just three weeks, the program will transform yoga practice, body, and spirit.
3) The Syndrome
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The explosive documentary THE SYNDROME follows the crusade of a group of doctors, scientists, and legal scholars who have uncovered that "Shaken Baby Syndrome," a child abuse theory used in hundreds of U.S. prosecutions each year, is not scientifically valid. In fact, they say it doesn't exist. Filmmaker Meryl Goldsmith and national award-winning investigative reporter Susan Goldsmith document the unimaginable nightmare for those accused and focus...
4) Holy Man
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Douglas White, an 89 year old Lakota Sioux medicine man from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, who spent 17 years in federal prison for a crime he did not commit. During the making of this film, filmmakers uncovered new evidence of White's "actual innocence" and brought the case back to federal court.
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows the stories of Harrison, Noel, and Chris as they return home from San Quentin State Prison. After spending most of their lives incarcerated, they are forced to reconcile their perception of themselves with a reality they are unprepared for. Each struggles to overcome personal demons and reconstruct their fractured lives. Grappling with day-to-day challenges and striving for success, they work to reconnect with family and provide...
6) 44 Pages
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Highlights magazine following the creation of the cultural phenomenon's 70th anniversary issue, from the first editorial meeting to its arrival in homes, and introducing the people who passionately produce the monthly publication for "the world's most important people,"...children. Along the way, a rich and tragic history is revealed, the state of childhood, technology, and education is explored, and the future of print media is questioned....
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
LAST MAN FISHING is a cinematic look at the vastly changing seafood system through the lens of small-scale fishermen across the United States. Narrated by best-selling author Mark Bittman, the film explores the dichotomy between the industrial model and sustainable fishing methods that focus on conservation and quality.
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This film follows four people working a job few would desire: tending to the needs of the dying. They are nurses, but they are also therapists, entertainers, disciplinarians, and family to these patients. Filmed at one of the only full-time residential hospices in the country, this film creates an authentic portrait of a day-in-the-life of the hospice. Off-the-cuff interviews with staff are at the heart of the film as they talk about burnout, budget...
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Born into a homophobic society, what are you willing to sacrifice to survive? THE ABOMINABLE CRIME explores the religious-based culture of homophobia in Jamaica through the eyes of gay Jamaicans forced to choose between their homeland and their lives. Maurice, Jamaica's leading human-rights activist, is outed after filing a lawsuit against Jamaica's anti-sodomy law. After receiving death threats, he escapes to Canada, and then risks everything to...
11) Generation A
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This fim is a powerful depiction of the daily challenges faced by young people on the autism spectrum, and what creative therapies and art programs are available to stimulate the brain and help young people on the autism spectrum reach their highest potential. Through eight compelling portraits, GENERATION A celebrates the talents of youths with autism, and provides them with a platform to speak openly about their struggles, as well as their hopes...
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
June 29, 1966. During a routine patrol in the jungles of Vietnam, a platoon of US soldiers stumbles upon a much larger enemy force. Outnumbered nearly 10-to-1, the platoon is savagely attacked. The triple-canopy jungle is dense and muddy, impeding the possibility for rescue.
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In July 2012 three intruders broke into the Y-12 National Nuclear Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, known as America's "Fort Knox of Uranium". Y-12 stores enough highly enriched uranium to make some 10,000 nuclear bombs. The break-in, described by The New York Times, as the most serious security breach in the history of the U.S. atomic complex, sent shock waves throughout the federal government and the world, when it turned out the intruders...
14) Tattoo Nation
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For years people saw tattoos as a sign of rebellion. A middle finger salute to the rest of the world. Outlaw bikers got tattoos. Sailors on leave in Singapore got tattoos. Lifers in the joint got tattoos. But now in the United States one out of every three adults under forty has a tattoo! So what happened? How did tattoo go from something that was put on you to an expression that comes from within you? TATTOO NATION tells the story of a few people...
15) The Workers Cup
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
THE WORKERS CUP is set inside the labor camps of Qatar, where the World Cup is being built on the backs of 1.6 million migrant workers. The film follows a team of laborers living a real-life version of fantasy football. By day they sweat to build the World Cup; by night they compete in a "workers welfare" football tournament, playing in the same stadiums that will one day host the world's greatest players. We join one team of men from Nepal, India,...
16) The Hooping Life
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hula-hooping is back. From South Central to South Africa,The Hooping Life documents the rise of an infectious new subculture, at the intersection of fitness, art, spirituality, and entrepreneurship. Introduced by hooper Shaquille O'Neal with a score by Basement Jaxx, The Hooping Life follows eight pioneers of the movement who sometimes left an established career to make a living as hoop-makers, performers, and teachers. The film alternates between...
17) Bronx Obama
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Louis Ortiz shaved off his goatee one day in 2008, his life changed forever. He looked in the mirror and he didn't see himself - a middle-aged, unemployed Puerto Rican father from the Bronx. He saw the face of change, of hope... of money. BRONX OBAMA tells the strange and improbable tale of a Barack Obama impersonator who tries to cash in on the "look of a lifetime" and chases a fevered American dream from opportunity to oblivion. "An intricate...
18) Finding Tatanka
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Kit Bricca was a leader of the Bay Area protest movements of the 1960s and 70s with a fierce passion for social justice, but found the transition from activist to breadwinner a challenging one. In this moving, psychologically complex documentary, filmmaker Jacob Bricca follows the extraordinary journey of his father Kit, a man whose uncompromising idealism changed the world but tore his family apart. Kit organizes with Joan Baez and Cesar Chavez in...
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This documentary tells the story of Latin American coffee farmers and how our daily brew is deeply connected to the region's troubled past and hopeful future. Following a 1000-mile journey from Mexico to Nicaragua, the film shows how equitable trading relationships are helping empower communities and take a step towards social justice. On every step of the film's journey we see the indomitable spirit of people who are determined to live joyfully in...
20) A Courtship
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Amy Kohn's fascinating documentary offers a peek into the practice of Christian courtship, wherein a woman hands over the responsibility of finding a husband to her parents and the will of God. Such is the path for Kelly, who after growing up happily in a secular family is prompted to alter the course of her own life after her parents' divorce. Enter Ron and Dawn Wright, a Christian couple who offer to serve as Kelly's adopted spiritual-family through...