A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company's relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits. The contributions of John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs are profiled. The decline of two-dimensional animation is chronicled as three-dimensional animation rises. Hard work and creativity seem to share the screen in equal proportions.
When it comes to animation, few do it better than Pixar and Disney. They are the dreamers and doers with multi-billion dollar imaginations. Bloomberg television takes you behind closed doors to see how this powerhouse makes movie magic.
An examination of the career and influence of the American business leader and technology innovator.
Through interviews with colleagues and others who knew the creative genius whose innovations transformed the lives of millions, ONE LAST THING provides an inside look at the man and the major influences that helped shape his life and career.
Love Notes to Newton is a film about what a beloved (but short-lived) pen-based Personal Digital Assistant created by Apple Computer has meant for the people who used it, and the community who adore it.
The story about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corporation.
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they travel the world during California’s winter (which, back in 1965 was off-season for surfing) in search of the perfect wave and ultimately, an endless summer.
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.)
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
This film tries to interlace Mahatma Gandhiji's thoughts with the developments in India as seen by the two Gandhi Darshan Trains which traversed the whole country during the Gandhi Centenary Year.
It's been described as "brave, daring, and courageous" by our friends and "stupid, dangerous, and foolish" by our parents, but we'd like to believe that ‘The Slow Ride Home' is much more than just a crazy idea; it's a microcosm of what we all need a little more time with - slowing things down and challenging yourself to accomplish something that once seemed impossible... like riding scooters across the country in 11 days. This adventurous and often hilarious film documents the story of eight Soldiers of Destiny Scooter Club members as they traverse from the white sand beaches of FL through some of the most beautiful - and sometimes most desolate - pockets of the United States.
A documentary on the life and work of Swedish/Argentinean photojournalist Leonardo Henrichsen (1940-1973), a known international news cameraman whose final image shot was his own death on the hands of a soldier, while capturing images from an attempted military coup in Chile on June, 1973.
Thirteen elderly people with cognitive illnesses attend the Psychogeriatric Day Clinic at the CHPL Hospital. The treatment is based on psychotherapeutic practices, wich allow for intervention on the Person, improving the preserved abilities, implementing autonomy and rehabilitating identity.
Director Matteo Barzini travels back from Italy to America, where he moved to at the age of 12 and lived until he was 18. These crucial years of his life spent in Los Angeles have forever shaped his persona and created a strong identity crisis within him. He decides to deal with his past by embarking in a journey across the United States during the 40 days prior to America's most crucial and heartfelt elections: Obama vs McCain. Change is an inside look at the political rallies, the concerts, the events, the controversies, the hopes and fears of a struggling country through the lens of a man looking to find himself and the country that raised him.
A short documentary on the first term of President Barack Obama's administration.
Starting from the life of the filmmaker Julio García Espinosa, the documentary is projected towards a reflection on the emergence and development of Cuban revolutionary cinematography, its struggles, contradictions and confrontations with dogmatic thinking that at times seems to dominate the Cuban political-cultural spectrum, the always difficult, risky and necessary relationship between officials and artists, and the close and united defense of filmmakers around their film policy.
Documentary on death with participation of philosophers, scientists and artists. Guest star, alexis karpouzos.