To start things off here is a Behind-the-Scenes of STUDIO SEE, a magazine-style children’s TV show that aired from February 5, 1977 to February 24, 1979 on PBS, with reruns continuing through the early 1980s.

Created by Jayne Adair, Studio See was produced by South Carolina ETV. The behind the scenes episode was it’s final episode in the series.

A collaborative, animated, documentary film that critiques mainstream media and the prison industrial complex? Yes, please!

Watch here!

This intimate portrait of a group of young Filipino boys is so full of joy and heartache at the same time. Filmmaker Khavn De La Cruz shows various ways the boys escape from their harsh, bleak surroundings by playing rugby, singing karaoke, swimming, and sniffing glue.

http://dafilms.com/download/key/wyjA27zr9U

My own discovery of Jane Campion’s 16mm short films came at an important time for me. They were one of the first examples I ever saw – along with Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise – of a non-Hollywood, non-traditional narrative film. It really showed me that a different path could be taken as a filmmaker and it hinted at the existence of a different film universe.

What struck me about A GIRL’S OWN STORY is Campion’s frank depiction of teenage sexual curiosity, her mixing of straight narrative with musical numbers, and the striking, expressionist dream sequence ending. In a just world, this is the kind of stuff that would be on MTV.