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.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Evidence supports that the CIA manipulated musicians and activists to promote drugs for social control, particularly targeting those involved in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements. Resistance was often met with deadly targeting.
11) 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.
13) Wind riders
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The untold stories of three American balloon pilots who have dedicated their lives to their sport, as they defend their world title.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a deadly crash, Mission Controller Mackenzie Wilson assists an artificial intelligence system, A.R.T.I., to uncover a mysterious object under the surface of Mars that could change the future of the planet.
15) Door mouse
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comic-book creator enlists the help of a colleague to investigate the disappearances of women in this oddball neo-noir.
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.
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.
18) Murder bury win
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When three game designers have to dispose of a body, they turn to their game for help. The premise? How to murder someone, and get rid of the body.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dad's loving gesture to make his daughter a princess becomes an out-of-control obsession when he starts his own country; forcing him into the murky waters of global diplomacy, U.S. military dark sites, and the Chinese criminal underbelly.
20) 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.