We’re thrilled to announce today the launch of FORA.tv Films, a new service that offers on-demand access to award-winning documentary films and helps filmmakers reach passionate, engaged audiences worldwide.
FORA.tv Films was designed to foster meaningful conversations and connect curious viewers to compelling critically-acclaimed documentary films. After all, at FORA.tv, we believe that there are brilliant ideas expressed everyday, everywhere, and we don’t want you to miss them.
“The addition of documentary films to our video library strengthens our position as a hub for discourse and debate around the biggest issues and news stories of the day” – Blaise Zerega, CEO of FORA.tv.
The new service features award-winning titles from some of the greatest names in documentary films including: California Newsreel, San Simeon Films, and Zala Films.
Here are a few of the films currently available on FORA.tv Films:
N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos
Director
George Paul Csicsery
Summary
A man with no home and no job, Paul Erdos (1913-1996) was the most prolific mathematician who ever lived. Erdős inspired generations of mathematicians throughout the world with his insightful approach and wry humor. N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdos follows him for four years through four countries, presenting his mathematical quest and its personal and philosophical dimensions.
Awards
Gold Apple Award – National Educational Film & Video Festival; Gold Plaque Award – Science/Nature, Documentary category, Chicago International Film Festival
Cast
Paul Erdos, and more
The Practice of the Wild
Director
John J. Healey
Summary
The Practice of the Wild: A Conversation with Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison is a film profile of the naturalist and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gary Snyder. Snyder has been a creative force in all the major cultural changes that have created the modern world. Along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, he was a central figure of the Beat generation. He helped bring Zen Buddhism into the America scene, was an active participant in the anti-war movement and an inspiration for the quest for human potential. All along he was a founding intellect, essayist and leader of the new environmental awareness that supports legislation and preservation without losing sight of direct wild experience — local people, animals, plants, watersheds and food sources.
Awards
Official Selection: San Francisco Int’l Film Festival; Nevada City Film Festival Special Screening
Cast
Jim Harrison, Gary Snyder, and more
Money Driven Medicine
Director
Andrew Fredericks
Summary
Money-Driven Medicine reveals why comprehensive healthcare reform remains the challenge of the years ahead and points to paths for the future. Doctors and health researchers show how the movement for patient-centered, accountable care can be carried into classrooms, hospitals, doctors’ offices and community forums across the country. Produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side; Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and inspired by Maggie Mahar’s acclaimed book, Money Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much, it offers the only systemic look on film at the economics underlying — and often undermining — our $2.6 trillion healthcare system.
Awards
Featured on Bill Moyer’s Journal, Nightline, and Fresh Air
Unnatural Causes (Seven Part Series)
Unnatural Causes Episode 1: In Sickness and In Wealth
Director
Llewellyn M. Smith
Summary
What are the connections between healthy bodies, healthy bank accounts and skin color? Our opening episode travels to Louisville, Kentucky, not to explore whether medical care cures us but to see why we get sick in the first place, and why patterns of health and illness reflect underlying patterns of class and racial inequities.
Cast
Corey Anderson, Sheldon Cohen, Tony Iton, Michael Marmot, Jim Taylor, Adewale Troutman, Mary Turner, David Williams, Tondra Young, and more.
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FORA.tv Films provides 30-days of viewing access to each film:
- Individual Home Use -$4.95
- Schools, Universities and Libraries – $49.95
- Corporations and Government Agencies – $99.95
Read the full press release here: http://f4a.tv/fXTNGv
FORA.tv Films comes on the heels of successfully launching Premium Events: pay-per-view programming from top universities, think tanks, and conferences like the Wired Business Conference, The New Yorker Festival, and the entire fall season of The New York Public Library.
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Happy Viewing!