Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Releases of PAULINA and MARGARET MEE AND THE MOONFLOWER Available on VOD Now

"As stinging as a slap in the face, 'Paulina' feels as if it's waking you from a stupor, then shaking you, demanding that you ask yourself some impossible questions about idealism and justice."
– The New York Times

“Played with stoic implacability by Dolores Fonzi. Against the patriarchy, Paulina persists."
– Slant Magazine

“Dolores Fonzi creates a character of such relatable compassion and political concern that her behavior feels believable. It won’t easily be forgotten.“
– High Def Digest

Celebrate Women's History Month with the Releases of PAULINA and MARGARET MEE AND THE MOONFLOWER on VOD Now.

PAULINA
A film by Santiago Mitre (The Student)
Argentina, Brazil, and France
Drama / 2015 / 103 min
Spanish w/ English subtitles

Paulina (Dolores Fonzi), the daughter of an eminent left-wing judge, suspends her legal education and the prospects of a promising career to travel to an indigenous community on Argentina’s border with Paraguay and Brazil.

She is determined to nurture ‘from the inside’ a project of civil rights education, but her Guarani-speaking high-school students resist her civics lessons––and she quickly learns that gaining their trust won’t be easy.

These subtly illuminating encounters reverberate in the aftermath of the central event of the film––a harrowing sexual assault by a group of young men. Paulina‘s unfathomable actions, and the limits of social justice, are examined unflinchingly in this ‘social thriller’ of will and sacrifice.

Now Available on iTunes / Amazon / Google Play / YouTube

Margaret Mee and the Moonflower
A film by Malu de Martino
Brazil / Documentary / 2014
78 Minutes

Elegant, intrepid, and headstrong––Margaret Mee was one of the world’s greatest botanical illustrators and conservationists.

Living in Brazil for over three decades and with 15 expeditions into the Amazon Rainforest, Mee has cultivated an important body of work by documenting some of the world’s rarest species of plant. Her illustrations are, up to this date, a valuable resource for botanical science research and her technique gave her recognition as one of the most important illustrators in Europe.

Director Malu De Martino takes audiences through the life and work of one of the last truly regal British explorers, following in her tracks to find the elusive strophocactus wittii––commonly known as the Moonflower. This extremely rare species grows at the highest part of the trees and is only visible between the May and June during the Amazon River floods.

Filmed in London, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and the Amazon Forest between 2010 and 2011, Margaret Mee and the Moon Flower includes interviews with important researches such Carmem Fidalgo, botanist artist, Sir Ghillean Prance and Simon Mayo, both English botanists; Tony Morrison, a personal friend and writer; and Sylvia Brautigam, Margaret Mee’s art curator.

Now Available on iTunes / Amazon / Google Play / YouTube