Gravitas Ventures (Firm)
1) Diet fiction
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking feature length documentary from the award-winning filmmaker and producer of the popular documentary 'Food Choices.' It follows the audacious filmmaker in his exciting journey into the controversial world of weight loss and dieting, as he uncovers several shocking facts and confronts common misconceptions, and misleading information propagated by the industry over the last several decades.
2) Bee nation
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Saskatchewan in 2016, students are competing in the first ever province-wide First Nations Spelling Bee. The winners will travel with their families to Toronto, Ontario for the 29th Annual national championships of the Spelling Bee of Canada.
3) Fat
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Weight loss expert Vinnie Tortorich and award-winning filmmaker Peter Pardini want people to join their team to make a hard-hitting documentary film that exposes the widespread myths and lies around healthy eating, fat, and weight loss and shows how, in spite of all good intentions, they go on getting fatter and fatter.
4) Fail State
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Executive produced by news legend Dan Rather, FAIL STATE investigates the dark side of American higher education, chronicling the decades of policy decisions in Washington, D.C. that have given rise to a powerful and highly-predatory for-profit college industry. With echoes of the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the film lays bare how for-profit colleges exploit millions of low-income and minority students, leaving them with worthless degrees and drowning...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Longevity Film investigates the complex topic of ageing and living well by documenting the longest lived, healthiest & happiest cultures from around the world.
Kale Brock visits communities with improved life expectancies, and extremely high quality of life to see what it takes to get well and stay well.
7) Lost & found
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Features seven interconnecting stories set in and around a lost and found office of an Irish train station.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, and set in late 1990 against the backdrop of the first Gulf War, this is the story of lifelong friends as they reach the cusp of adulthood and must decide between the hollow values of corporate careerism, or the narrow way of individualism and freedom.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A failed football star tries to recapture glory at his high school reunion and ends up on house arrest. Fueled by booze and boredom, he agrees to coach the awkward neighbor kid. Their unlikely friendship teaches them both about growing up.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One man's journey to find meaning in Bill Murray's many unexpected adventures with everyday people. Enjoy an inside look at rare and never-before-seen footage of the comedic icon participating in stories previously presumed to be urban legend.
11) Delinquent
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The principal is itching to kick Joey out of high school, and Joey cannot wait to get out. All he wants is to work for his father, a tree cutter by day and the leader of a gang of minor thieves by night in rural Connecticut. So when Joey's father asks him to fill in as lookout, Joey is thrilled, until a routine robbery goes very wrong.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adrian, an irrepressibly chirpy tech nerd, suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Grace, a beautiful street artist, suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder (aka Multiple Personality Disorder). As new neighbors in an edgy, graffitied suburb of Melbourne, they find themselves in therapy with the same psychiatrist and crash into each other one afternoon.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the first year of Donald J. Trump's presidency, Daryle Lamont Jenkins, an Antifa activist, combats the rise of the alt-right movement, while Richard Spencer, an alt-right leader, fights to gain ground, culminating in a tragic showdown in Charlottesville.
14) Sanitatum
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four survivors of childhood abuse, now high-functioning and successful adults, find themselves suspects in an investigation into a series of vigilante murders.
15) I like me
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tensions develop between the egocentric free-spirited Maggie, and her serious business-minded sister, Hannah, after Maggie's unexpected success as a self-empowerment guru tests the fragile bond with her sister as Hannah's life stalls.
16) Snapshots
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a grandmother's secret past collides with her granddaughter's secret future and her daughter's angry present, can the love of three generations be enough to accept decades of deceit. With a simple roll of film it begins.
17) Bluefin
Language
English
Formats
Description
In North Lake, Canada, Local fishermen swear the spectacular Atlantic bluefin tuna are so plentiful they eat out of people's hands. Meanwhile, scientific evidence shows the species is on the brink of collapse. Can both claims be true?
18) Alex & the list
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alex, a loveable, unassuming dog trainer, is dating Katherine, a gorgeous personal shopper from a wealthy family. Katherine adores Alex's honesty and capacity to listen. Alex is awed by Katherine's intelligence and beauty. Alex gathers the courage to pop the question, but Katherine upends his world by giving him a list of improvements he must make to bring their relationship to the "next level" and win the approval of her protective father. Dumbfounded,...
19) Benched
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Don, a win-at-all-costs kind of man, coaches a Little League team on which his son plays. The veteran butts heads with his new assistant coach as the pair have very different personal circumstances and philosophies about the game and how to motivate their team.
20) Burying Yasmeen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reeling from the recent death of his Ex-wife Yasmeen, Jason has a premonition that he must travel across the desert to re-deliver her wedding ring and uphold the bond of their marriage through death.