The 2024 documentary A Life in Blues celebrates one of Mississippi’s most beloved musical sons and examines how Delta culture has shaped his journey. With interviews featuring Bobby Rush, Cedric Burnside, Charlie Musselwhite and more, the film explores Chikan’s story, but also examines how the culture and setting of the Delta have ultimately influenced his musical journey and his quest to preserve the roots of the Blues.

“A joy from start to finish.” – Eric Steiner (Editor, Washington Blues Society, Washington Blues Society Newsletter

“An intriguing outsider (Canadian) look at the career of Delta blues giant James ‘Super Chikan’ Johnson and the Clarksdale, Mississippi blues culture of which his work is an integral part.” – Robert Mugge (legendary documentarian).

• WINNER in the ‘Films about Music’ category at the Round the Globe Film Festival (2024, USA),
• 2025 Featured Friday night film at the world-renowned, Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, Mississippi.
• Super Chikan was featured in an episode of 60 Minutes which was aired in November, 2023. The piece was on the state of blues in the town of Clarksdale, Chikan’s hometown.
• Musical legends, Paul Simon and Ozzy Osbourne count themselves among the many celebrities who have purchased one of Super Chikan’s hand-crafted guitars.
• Hollywood actor and musician, Steven Seagal hired Super Chikan in 2007 as his opening act for his European tour.
• Super Chikan has entertained at Morgan Freeman’s famed club, Ground Zero, for private parties for such celebrities as Clint Eastwood and Mark Zuckerberg.
• Comparable to the Robert Mugge film, Deep Blues.

2024 / 81 minutes / A film by Mark Rankin and Brian Wilson.

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Winner Un Certain Regard Special Distinction Prize – Cannes Film Festival.

Winner Best Film Prix Louis Delluc (Top French Critics Prize).

“Striking…contemporary without breaking the particular period spell the movie creates.” – Glenn Kenny, New York Times.

In the 15th century, both France and England stake a blood claim for the French throne. Believing that God had chosen her, the young Joan leads the army of the King of France. When she is captured, the Church sends her for trial on charges of heresy. Refusing to accept the accusations, the graceful Joan of Arc will stay true to her mission.

Bruno Dumont’s decision to work with a ten-year-old actress re-injects this heroine’s timeless cause and ideology with a modernity that highlights both the tragic female condition and the incredible fervor, strength and freedom women show when shackled by societies and archaic virile orders that belittle and alienate them.

“Dumont transforms the tale into a dialectical spectacle.” – Richard Brody, New Yorker.

Stars Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Annick Lavieville, Justine Herbez, Benoît Robail.

2019 / 138 Minutes / French with English Subtitles. A film by Bruno Dumont.

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Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha & Eryk Rocha’s 2024 documentary about Indigenous peoples’ profound connection to nature and the struggle against deforestation, a grave threat to their way of life and the ecosystem they call home.

In collaboration with Brazil’s Indigenous Yanomami people, THE FALLING SKY follows the Yanomami leader and shaman Davi Kopenawa as he fights to return the world to balance in closely observed rituals and trenchant comments on the ruthless logic of a materialistic outside culture. Illegal logging, gold mining, and the deadly mix of epidemics these intrusions spread threaten the existence of the Yanomami.

Based on an acute understanding of geopolitical forces, Davi Kopenawa holds up a mirror to capitalist societies of “the merchandise people” and the unsustainable lifestyle of the so-called “developed countries” that threaten the survival of humanity.

Fresh from theatrical release sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art.

Received a standing ovation at its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

Winner: DOC NYC 2024 Grand Jury Prize.

“One of the most necessary and scorching pieces of nonfiction storytelling in recent memory.”  — Carlos Aguilar , Variety

“10 out of 10. The Falling Sky fits perfectly in the high ranks of cult documentaries like Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka.” — Michael Talbot-Haynes, Film Threat

Documentary / 2024 / 110 Minutes / Portuguese with English Subtitles / A film by Eryk Rocha & Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha

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“[A] fascinating and somewhat frightening documentary set in the fast-forward arena of synthetic biology.” – Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times

Genesis 2.0 is a documentary film made by Oscar-Nominated Swiss director and producer Christian Frei and Russian filmmaker Maxim Abugaev

On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters search for tusks of extinct mammoths. One day, they discover a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. Resurrecting the woolly mammoth is a first manifestation of the next great technological revolution – genetics. It may well turn our world upside down.

Werner Herzog meets Jurassic Park in this real-life thriller that explores humanity’s reckless courage and the dawning of a new and unprecedented age of scientific change. Chronicles the discovery and cloning of Woolly Mammoths, extinct for 11,000 years.

“The woolly mammoth tusk is just the tip of the iceberg in this haunting excavation.” – Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter.

Winner: Special Jury at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for four international awards including Best Documentary (Swiss Film Prize), and Best Documentary Feature (Sarasota Film Festival).

Documentary / 2018 / English Plus Others w/English subtitles / 112 minutes / Color / A film by Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev.

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“Set your controls for the heart of the South – a splendid effort. Highly Recommended.” – Mark Hudson, The Sound View.

The visionary new film The River: A Songwriter’s Stories of the South is unlike anything you’ve seen before.

Starring Nashville-based cosmic roots band Coyote Motel, it’s a music and performance movie, but it’s also a cultural history, a memoir, and a psychedelic experience. In 10 songs and stories, The River explores the lives, lore, and locales along three great rivers of the American South—the Mississippi, the Cumberland, and the Tallahatchie.

The film has already been selected for multiple festivals, and has won awards for Best Experimental Film and Best Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack recording was released on March 19, 2024 when the movie has its hometown premiere at Nashville, Tennessee’s historic Belcourt Theatre.

The crowdfunded, 68-minute feature was conceived and written by Coyote Motel bandleader Ted Drozdowski and directed by Richie Owens of Parlor Films, and is also a collaboration of more than 15 Nashville independent artists, including light art creators Darling Lucifer Productions and the aerialists of Suspended Gravity Circus.

Starting at Nashville’s Cumberland and weaving south along the Mississippi and Tallahatchie, The River introduces viewers and listeners to muleskinners, coal miners, riverboat gamblers, freedom fighters, and the late musical giants of North Mississippi blues. It also essays the omnipotent, timeless magic of the rivers themselves, and the cities and rural outposts along their endlessly flowing waters, with grace, beauty, and surprise.

THE SONGS INCLUDED IN THE PERFORMANCE ARE:

• Tupelo – 6:01
• Black Lung Fever – 4:46
• Keep Me In Your Mind – 3:17
• The River Runs Forever – 3:27
• Long Distance Runner – 7:11
• Trouble – 3:02
• Homegoing – 4:09
• Still Among the Living – 4:30
• Down in Chulahoma – 3:55
• The River – 6:16

2024 / 68 Minutes / Documentary / A film by Richie Owens

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