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This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland masterfully collages a wealth of archival material, including dishy talk show appearances with Dick Cavett and David Frost, with clips from some of the duo’s most memorable movie adaptations: A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and In Cold Blood.

Featuring vibrant voiceover work by award-winning actors Jim Parsons (Capote) and Zachary Quinto (Williams), the film is dripping with wit and wisdom. It is a celebration of both men’s fearless candor and often tumultuous friendship that honors how their identity as gay Southerners informed their timeless artistic achievements and relationships with family, colleagues, confidants, and – most significantly – each other.

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV. You can also download the Kino Now app for Roku or Apple TV (requires tvOS 9.0 or later) and watch the film there.

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81 MIN

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent CITY OF ALI you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

City of Ali is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of how the death of Muhammad Ali brought the people of his Kentucky hometown – and the world – together for one unforgettable week. Ali’s passing on June 3, 2016, came in the context of a bitter U.S. presidential election, a proposed Muslim ban and the global expansion of the Black Lives Matter movement. Yet on the day of Ali’s funeral procession, more than 100,000 people lined the streets of Louisville to celebrate his life, and an estimated one billion people worldwide watched events like Ali’s memorial, held in the packed KFC YUM! Center as stories of the Louisville Lip’s wit, generosity, swagger and commitment to justice were retold by President Bill Clinton, Billy Crystal, Lonnie Ali, and many others.

City of Ali explores Ali’s lifelong relationship with his hometown through candid interviews with friends and relatives whose history with The Champ dates back to his childhood at 3302 Grand Avenue, and who share stories even devoted Ali fans have never heard. We also get behind-the scenes accounts of this unprecedented celebration of one man’s life from those who planned the events. We also hear thoughtful reflections from visitors such as NBC’s Craig Melvin, TV legend Dick Cavett, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, 4-time Heavyweight Champion Evander Holyfield, ESPN’s Hannah Storm and many others who gathered in Louisville to answer the question, “How do you say good-bye to The Greatest?”

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV.

You will have to register for a free Eventive account if you don’t already have one.

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for 72 hours.

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81 MIN

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent ROCKFIELD: THE STUDIO ON THE FARM you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

This is the unlikely tale of how two Welsh farming brothers turned their dairy farm into one of the most successful recording studios of all time, producing four decades of legendary rock music.

Fifty years ago, deep in the Welsh countryside, brothers Kingsley and Charles Ward were starting out in the family dairy farming business. But they yearned to do something different – they wanted to make music. So they built a studio in the attic of their farmhouse and started recording with their friends. Kingsley’s new wife, Ann, left her job in the local bank to do the books, and they continued farming all the while. Animals were kicked out of barns and musicians were moved into Nan’s spare bedroom. Inadvertently, they’d launched the world’s first independent residential recording studio: Rockfield.

Rockfield’s reputation spread like wildfire, quickly garnering international acclaim as the place that bands wanted to record. From Black Sabbath, Hawkwind and Queen, to Simple Minds, Iggy Pop and Robert Plant, and later Oasis, The Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Manic Street Preachers and Coldplay – an unbelievable roll call of artists have recorded there over the decades.

‘Rockfield’ is an extraordinary story of rock and roll dreams intertwined with a family business’s struggle for survival in the face of an ever-changing music landscape. Amazingly Kingsley and his wife Ann, now in their 80’s are still at the helm today with daughter Lisa ‘front of house’. What is it about this small Welsh farm that made it a major competitor, holding its own against studios such as Abbey Road and Electric Lady. In this film the bands share with us tales of how they ended up at Rockfield, what it was like, and revisit some of the magical moments of musical genius that resulted in some of the best-known songs of our time.

How to stream

For $10, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV.

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After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for 72 hours.

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90 MIN

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent STRIKE A POSE you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

In 1990, seven young male dancers – 6 gay,1 straight – joined Madonna on her most controversial tour. On stage and in the iconic film Truth or Dare, they showed the world how to express yourself. Now, 25 years later, they reveal the truth about life during and after the tour, when they were ambassadors to the world on behalf of the LGBT community during the height of the AIDS epidemic. STRIKE A POSE is a dramatic tale about overcoming shame and finding the courage to be who you are.

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For $4.99, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV.

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83 MIN

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent LOS HERMANOS/THE BROTHERS you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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Virtuoso Afro-Cuban-born brothers—violinist Ilmar and pianist Aldo—live on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half-century wide. Tracking their parallel lives in New York and Havana, their poignant reunion, and their momentous first performances together, Los Hermanos/The Brothers offers a nuanced, often startling view of estranged nations through the lens of music and family.

Featuring an electrifying, genre-bending score, composed by Cuban Aldo López-Gavilán, performed with his American brother, Ilmar, and with guest appearances by maestro Joshua Bell and the Harlem Quartet.

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For $10, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV.

You will have to register for a free First Run Features account if you don’t already have one.

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84 MIN

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent US KIDS you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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From Kim A. Snyder, director of the Peabody Award-winning documentary Newtown, comes an insightful, rousing coming-of-age story of a generation of youth leaders determined to take the reigns and fight for justice at a most critical time in our nation’s history. Sparked by the plague of gun violence ravaging their schools, Us Kids chronicles the March For Our Lives movement over the course of several years, following X Gonzalez, its co-founders, survivors and a group of teenage activists as they pull off the largest youth protest in American history and set out across the country and globally to build an inclusive and unprecedented youth movement that addresses racial justice, a growing public health crisis and shocking a political system into change.

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For $9.99, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV.

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99 MIN

These film compilations are part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent any of the Oscar Shorts packages you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Oscar nominees are available to watch in the following packages:

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Click here to rent THE LIVE ACTION SHORTS PACKAGE

Click here to rent THE SHORT DOCUMENTARY PACKAGE

Click here to bundle all three packages at a discount!

About the shorts

For over a decade, ShortsTV has proudly brought the Oscar Nominated Short Films to audiences across the globe. This exclusive release features the year’s most spectacular short films and for a limited time is available to watch on the Athena’s virtual cinema.

Each nominee is released in one of three distinct feature-length compilations according to their category of nominations: Live Action, Animation or Documentary. Learn more with the program listings below:

Animated Shorts Program

BURROW – USA, 6 min

GENIUS LOCI – France, 16 min

*Winner!* IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I LOVE YOU – USA, 13 min

OPERA – South Korea/USA, 9 min

YES-PEOPLE – Iceland, 9 min

Featuring Bonus Shorts:

KAPAEMAHU – USA, 8 min

THE SNAIL AND THE WHALE – UK, 27 min

TO GERARD – USA, 7 min

Live Action Shorts Program

FEELING THROUGH – USA, 19 min

THE LETTER ROOM – USA, 33 min

THE PRESENT – Palestine, 25 min

*Winner!* TWO DISTANT STRANGERS – USA, 25 min

WHITE EYE – Israel, 21 min

Short Documentary Program

A CONCERTO IS A CONVERSATION – USA, 13 min

A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA – USA, 19 min

*Winner!* COLETTE – France/Germany/USA, 25 min

DO NOT SPLIT – USA/Norway, 20 min

HUNGER WARD – USA, 40 min

How to stream

For $12 each or $30 bundled, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV.

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This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent ABOUT ENDLESSNESS you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

ABOUT ENDLESSNESS is a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality. We wander, dreamlike, gently guided by our Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments take on the same significance as historical events: a couple floats over a war-torn Cologne; on the way to a birthday party, a father stops to tie his daughter’s shoelaces in the pouring rain; teenage girls dance outside a cafe; a defeated army marches to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Simultaneously an ode and a lament, ABOUT ENDLESSNESS presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

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For $12, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV.

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76 MIN

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent WE BROKE UP you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

Lori and Doug, a longtime couple break up just days before Lori’s little sister Bea’s wedding. In order to not disrupt the fun, the couple decides to pretend they’re still together until the weekend is over.

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For $7, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more.

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for three days.

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80 MIN

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent BILL TRAYLOR: CHASING GHOSTS you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

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About the film

This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, both memories from plantation days and scenes of a radically changing urban culture.

Having witnessed profound social and political change during a life spanning slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, and the Great Migration, Traylor devised his own visual language to translate an oral culture into something original, powerful, and culturally rooted. He made well over a thousand drawings and paintings between 1939-1942. This colorful, strikingly modernist work eventually led him to be recognized as one of America’s greatest self-taught artists and the subject of a Smithsonian retrospective.

Using historical and cultural context, Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts brings the spirit and mystery of Traylor’s incomparable art to life. Making dramatic and surprising use of tap dance and evocative period music, the film balances archival photographs and footage, insightful perspectives from his descendents, and Traylor’s striking drawings and paintings to reveal one of America’s most prominent artists to a wide audience.

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For $12, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV. You can also download the Kino Now app for Roku or Apple TV (requires tvOS 9.0 or later) and watch the film there.

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75 MIN