FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA” DOCUMENTARY EXPOSES PLIGHT OF 400,000 CHILDREN WHO WORK AS MIGRANT LABORERS ON AMERICA’S FARMS
Executive Produced by Eva Longoria and Shine Global, the Producers of the Academy-Award® Nominated film, WAR/DANCE
Premieres in NY on July 29th and in LA on August 5th

July13, 2011 (New York, NY) – THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA, an award-winning new film by Shine Global, U Roberto Romano and Executive Producer Eva Longoria that examines the lives of child migrant laborers, will be released theatrically by Cinema Libre Studio starting on July 29 in New …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HEMPSTERS: PLANT THE SEED

A compelling documentary that will move us one step closer towards a more sustainable planet
Available on DVD June 28, 2011
LOS ANGELES, CA–As our society continues to consume 30% more than the planet can regenerate, Industrial Hemp is proven to be a viable and cost-effective crop that can reduce our reliance on some of the earth’s most precious resources.  HEMPSTERS: PLANT THE SEED, featuring Woody Harrelson, will be released on DVD June 28th by Cinema Libre Studio.
This lively documentary, directed by Michael Henning and …

‘What’s wrong with the human body, and sex? Why can’t we talk about it?’- Shari Solanis

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“★★★★”- Kam Williams, Newsblaze.com
“A sort of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ for global economics…a powerful description of how Western policies since colonialism have subjugated Third World countries.”
-Charles Masters, The Hollywood Reporter
 
  CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY
‘THE END OF POVERTY?’
Available on BLU-RAY May 24, 2011
LOS ANGELES (March 16, 2011) – This provocative documentary, which garnered national and international attention from educators, activists and humanitarians. THE END OF POVERTY?, narrated by Martin Sheen, has been screened by colleges, universities, and non-profit organizations across the nation and now, by popular be demand, it will be available on …

Friday, February 18, 2011

Reverend’s Reviews: Sex on Screen, Now & Then

The depiction of sex on screen has been a source of controversy, titillation and even academic study since the early years of the film industry. While some moviegoers complain about increasingly graphic sex scenes, others defend them as important expressions of artistic freedom, albeit for adults only.
A great retrospective of films made in the last 30 years that are renown for their frank take on human sexuality — heterosexual, homosexual, and everything in between — will take place at the …

Film Reviews

Posted: Thu., Feb. 17, 2011, 5:12pm PT

Now and Later
By Ronnie Scheib

A Cinema Libre release of a Cinema Libre Studio presentation of an Imago-Creata production. Produced by Beth Portello, Philippe Diaz. Directed, written, edited by Philippe Diaz.

With: Shari Solanis, James Wortham, Marcellina Walker, Luis Fernandez-Gil, Adrian Quinonez.
An international banker on the lam receives shelter, uninhibited sex and lectures about American imperialism from a curvaceous Nicaraguan nurse in “Now and Later,” an oddball hybrid of porn film and message movie.
 
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Movie Review

Now & Later (2007)

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James Wortham in “Now & Later.”
‘Now & Later’ Explores Sex and Politics
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: February 17, 2011

Essentially a two-person play liberally sprinkled with gleaming, groovy, graphic sex, “Now & Later” exudes an amiably accessible vibe that softens the edges of its freewheeling explicitness.

Lest we enjoy all this flesh without an ennobling context, the movie kicks off with Wilhelm Reich’s assertion of the link between sexual repression and violence. Thus cautioned, we can now guiltlessly appreciate the many and varied couplings of Angela (Shari …

Thursday, February 17, 2011
Now & Later
Film Review by Kam Williams
Headline: Politics Make Strange Bedfellows in Sexplicit Agitprop Adventure
Bill (James Wortham) was making a decent enough salary crippling Third World economies as an international banker to be able to afford a great house in L.A. But when greed got the better of him, he ended up accused of embezzlement.
He subsequently became so despondent and suicidal about the prospect of spending eight years behind bars that, rather than face the music, he decided to jump bail without even telling his wife (Marcellina …

UNRATED: A WEEK OF SEX IN CINEMA (NY)

 Posted by Gerald Wright on February 16, 2011 at 1:48 PM
 

Opening February 18 -24, 2011 at NY’s Quad Cinema
In retrospective “Unrated: A Week Of Sex in the Cinema, Philippe Diaz and distributor Cinema Libre Studio have curated a retrospective of six notable films that explore the edgier side of relationships.  Designed to foster a broader dialogue with filmgoers, the showcase allows New York audiences the chance to revisit six popular and controversial films that push buttons and boundaries for their frank and explicit …

~ CELEBRATING SEX IN CINEMA ~

COMING TO LA
(Click here for details on NYC)

In conjunction with the Los Angeles premiere of award-winning filmmaker Philippe Diaz’s NOW & LATER, we’ve organized a week of films and special guest appearances to help spark a conversation about sex – or the lack thereof – in cinema.
Screenings start Friday, 2/25 at LAEMMLE’S SUNSET 5 (8000 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046)
- Cinema Libre Studio

“Uninhibited sexuality taken …