High Shine: 15 Years of International Ms Bootblack Trailer (2015)
"Sometimes activism comes in a tin of boot polish"01 January 2015Factual87 mins
In the dark corners of America’s leather bars, amid the cruising and tricking leather daddies, boys and S/M play pigs, you can often find a bootblack hunched over, lovingly cleaning a patron’s boots for not much more than tips that pay for their shining supplies. Increasingly, that boot black in the backroom is woman.
A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.
The octogenarian Angono Mba recalls the expedition in which he worked as porter for the Spanish filmmaker Manuel Hernández Sanjuán who, between 1944 and 1946, traveled through Spanish Guinea documenting life in the colony as he obsessively searched for a mysterious lake.
Itso, about 35, drives a special ambulance called a 'corpse-van'. His job is to pick up the bodies of the recently deceased and transport them to the morgue.
A people's struggle to save the animal at the heart of their culture. For centuries the Bunong indigenous people on the Cambodian-Vietnamese border lived with elephants, believing they shared the same destiny.
