AS SEEN ON OPRAH AND THE DAILY SHOW:
AFGHAN STAR OPENS NEXT FRIDAY!

If you’ve been watching Oprah or Jon Stewart or Morning Joe, or listening to NPR recently, you might have heard a lot about our documentary Afghan Star. Winner of the Directing and Audience Awards in this year’s Sundance Film Festival World Documentary competition, Havana Marking’s fascinating and moving film follows the dramatic stories of four contestants in Afghanistan’s version of American Idol. There could not be a more timely film.

Watch the trailer and find out when Afghan Star is coming to your town.

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ANNOUNCING TWO NEW ACQUISITIONS: EARTH DAYS AND ACT OF GOD

Zeitgeist is proud to announce two enthralling new documentaries which will be rolling out this summer and fall. Both are about our relationship with Mother Nature, though in wildly different ways.

Visually stunning and vastly entertaining, Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement—from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action. Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone, Earth Days is both a poetic meditation on humanity’s complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements—and missed opportunities—of groundbreaking eco-activism.

Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin award-winning director Jennifer Baichwal’s (Manufactured Landscapes) captivating new work, Act of God, an elegant cinematic meditation on the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. To explore these profound questions, Baichwal sought out riveting personal stories from around the world. Visually dazzling and aurally seductive, Act of God singularly captures the harsh beauty of the skies and the lives of those who have been forever touched by their fury.

Earth Days opens at New York’s Quad Cinema on August 14 before playing around the country*.

Act of God will open at the Gene Siskel Center in Chicago on July 31 before playing around the country*.

(*Many more dates to be added)

OUR NEW POSTER FOR THE HORSE BOY

We are happy to unveil our brand-new poster design for The Horse Boy based on a lovely photograph of Rowan Isaacson by O. Rufus Lovett.

How far would you travel to heal someone you love? An intensely personal yet epic spiritual journey, The Horse Boy, which opens this September, follows a Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia in a desperate attempt to treat his condition with shamanic healing. The filmic companion to Rupert Isaacson’s New York Times bestseller of the same name, and a film festival favorite, this ravishing documentary odyssey gives insight into how, in life’s darkest moments, one can find the gateway to joy and wonder.

Find out more about our release of The Horse Boy here

OSCAR-NOMINEE TROUBLE THE WATER COMING TO DVD ON AUGUST 25
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2008 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature, this astonishingly powerful film takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The day before the storm makes landfall, 24-year-old aspiring rap artist Kimberly Roberts turns a Hi-8 video camera on herself, her husband Scott and their neighbors stranded in New Orleans. “It’s going to be a day to remember,” she says as the winds howl. Read on...

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