Calls to Okies: The Park Grubbs Story
In the early 1980’s, a group of disenfranchised Oklahoma teenagers mastered the art of prank phone calls and became legends.
In the early 1980’s, a group of disenfranchised Oklahoma teenagers mastered the art of prank phone calls and became legends.
An intimate documentary portrait of artist Michael Paul Smith and the story behind his hand-built miniature imaginary town Elgin Park.
Two friends locked in a love-hate relationship bury a dead frog as rain beings to fall. They make a fateful decision to wait out the storm under a tree and wake up in a world quite unlike the one they left behind.
A young hustler runs throughout the city of Chicago making sales out of his “mobile gift shop”.
A woman entertains a macabre marriage offer that would let her pursue her dreams, for better or for much much worse.
A woman secretly starts taking skateboarding lessons from a handsome teenager to avoid dealing with the problems in her marriage.
The life of a grizzly in a Canadian national park from the perspective of data points and surveillance cameras presents a fascinating look at what it means to be wild in this interactive film from the NFB.
Steven Fuller is a winter caretaker who has lived at Yellowstone national park for the past 50 years. As the cold weather approaches and the seasonal transformation begins, he hunkers down in his remote mountain cabin. But Fuller and Yellowstone face an uncertain future, with the climate crisis threatening to forever change one of North America’s last great wildernesses
Last year, MEL Films visited a theme park celebrating America’s mythic Wild West in wintery Sweden that became a welcoming home for refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. But, the Wild West response to a refugee crisis only lasts so long.