An anthology film featuring Sam McAuley's 22 original Reptile shorts compiled with new wrap around segments that delve into the history of a pre-teen filmmaker.
Scenes from the Big Chair is a documentary film about the British pop band Tears For Fears. Released on home video in 1985, the 75 minute documentary was made at the height of the band's global success following the release of their multi-platinum selling album Songs from the Big Chair. It also contains the 90 minute "Going To California" concert which was recorded in Santa Barbara during the band's "Seeds Of Love" world tour in 1990.
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige, a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.
Through economic necessity, an Aran Islander is forced to travel to England to work on building sites so that he can earn money to support his family back on the Islands.
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.
A friendly wager on a family fishing trip to Emerald Isle years ago resulted in one boy’s dream come true. That boy, all grown up, turned his dream come true into a career.
In 1988, Keener's grandfather Charles took his video camcorder to Collinsville Trade Day to document the popular outdoor market for posterity. Twenty-six years later, Keener found the tape buried in a box in his living room closet. He took the liberty to edit this footage and the resulting film is a very personal collaboration with his grandfather about a small town’s culture.
Every year at springtime a man goes on a fishing trip. He leaves behind his wife who worries that he will never come back. On his way he stops in a dark neighborhood and kidnaps a young girl. This year, his fishing trophy will be quite different.
A Scottish boat builder and fisherman perseveres in turning a vessel into an innovative solar-powered boat.
When a small Utah-based edited movie company is caught sanitizing Hollywood's copyrighted material, the film industry strikes back with a devastating blow.
Lewis is an outwardly ordinary guy, but in reality he is hiding an obsession – revenge – against Cathy. Lewis kidnaps Cathy in broad daylight and takes her to his home, where he locks her in a soundproof cell and attempts to extract a dark secret from her past.
In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditional fishers—catch cod live by hand, one at a time, by hook and line. After a 20-year moratorium on North Atlantic cod, the stocks are returning. These fishers are leading a revolution in sustainability, taking their premium product directly to the commercial market for the first time. Travel with them from the early morning hours, spend time on the ocean, and witness the intricacies of a 500-year-old tradition that's making a comeback.
Crab fishers Fred and Malte have never talked about their feelings. After a stroke of fate Fred experiences a mental breakdown.
As a son deals with his own struggles, he must calm his father's obsession with fishing before his outlandish behavior ruins the entire family.
A collection of home videos depicting the activities of a freshman in college and his friends
A man who's been stuck in a dead-end job finally gets an opportunity to be happy.
In this documentary short, summer trippers line up for the famous local fried clams and whole families dig for the white mollusc in the tangy air of the sandbars. But as the clams dwindle, so do these tableaux from Maritime culture. For commercial fishermen it's the end of a livelihood; for others, it's the death of a tradition. Can this really be the end of a resource that used to be as plentiful as the air we breathe?
Filmmaker Jan Oxenberg narrates her own home videos, commenting on how her views towards lesbianism and femininity have evolved over time.
Vengeance motivates a young man to go to war with the corrupt fishing barons that rule his town, sending him on an epic journey that transforms him from a small-time abalone poacher into a criminal gang boss.