Maw: Sophie's Choice
In 2002, Nicholas Maw's opera Sophie's Choice, based on the novel by William Styron, was given its premiere at the Royal Opera House. The subject had struck Maw when he had first watched the film several years previously, and he immediately felt it would be ‘the most extraordinary basis for an opera’. Commissioned by the Royal Opera House and BBC Radio 3, Maw embarked on an adaptation of Styron's book, which took six years to complete.
MD: The Art of the Dynamic Handgun
The Art of the Dynamic Handgun is a 4-disc DVD set featuring over seven hours of actual live fire class instruction and additional instructional material.Using a diverse group of beginner, intermediate, and advanced students, instructors Travis Haley and Chris Costa guide the class from the fundamentals of handgun operation, to problem solving, and through complex real-life scenarios. This progression from basic to advanced weapon manipulation pushes students of all skill levels to their failure points, illustrating how even the best shooters can advance and excel.
Messages from the Sea
After the death of his mother, Yehia decides to return to Alexandria, the place where he first grew up and fell in love with the girl next door. He gives up his job as a physician, and takes up fishing. He learns a lot from the stories of other people and discovers the meaning of life while meditating out at sea.
Louis Who? What You Should Know About Louis Agassiz
In the Louis Who? What you should know about Louis Agassiz, the viewer is confronted by the history of colonialism and oppression as created by Louis Agassiz. Like a messenger from times past, Sasha Huber enters the picture on a gleaming black horse, telling the passers-by of Praça Agassiz, in the suburbs of Rio, about the person who gave the square its name: “Scientist, naturalist, glaciologist, influential racist, pioneering thinker of apartheid…”
O Espelho Lento
The story of Carla and Marta, the daughter who is seriously ill. In Barcelona, Carla discovers a special mirror, which is an open door to the past: it keeps the reflection for several years instead of returning it immediately. Carla offers her daughter the mirror and it will change their lives forever.
Paris monopole
Sabrinette, vitim of the crisis, looks for a flat. Not easy to find when we are a temporary worker, young, with untidy hair, or too much this, or not enough that. An injustice made for one is a threat made for all. When we look with the plan of Monopoly, we necessarily hope to fall on the lucky square.
Pathos
Huge plains of waste cover every corner of the Planet. Toxic gases make the air unbreathable. Acid rain poisons the water. Global warming make the surface uninhabitable and hostile. The Earth is dead. And the process is not reversible. But Mankind, thanks to its intelligence, gave life to its greatest invention, and is now free again to choose a "perfect" life inside the infinite world of Pathos.
Paula-Paula
A vicious maniac has claimed the life of gorgeous exotic dancer Paula and it isn't likely before police single out her lover Paula as the likely killer. As the investigations get underway, detectives find themselves thrust into a treacherous world of lust and perversion
Pax
PAX is a grand-scale drama. An intimate and powerful romantic film about seven people's encounter with themselves as life forces them into the raging storm. They all have someone waiting. PAX, the Latin word for peace, is also flight terminology for flight passengers. When flying in an airplane we are all "pax".