In an industry like the American healthcare industry, sub-markets like drug rehabilitation become specialties with high price tags and high revenue. When each person becomes a dollar sign and not a patient, some will stop at almost nothing to keep bodies in their facilities beds. Body Brokers explores how this can happen and how much some can make while filling these beds with some desperate, and some not so desperate, souls.
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Jumbo (2020)
A young woman working at a carnival develops an unusual interest in one of the rids as she has a passion for these types of structures, giving them a personality of their own and getting more into them than the next person. As she gets very involved in caring for this right, her mother and her boss come in the way of her work and her dreams.
Skin Collector (aka Shiver) (2012)
Finally releasing this week in the UK, Skin Collector follows Wendy as she is tracked and taken by a serial killer who has set his eyes on her. As she attempts to survive, his motive becomes clearer.
Workhorse Queen (2020) [Slamdance Film Festival 2021]
It’s been a long, rough journey for drag queens to become accepted among modern society. After decades of being pushed in to the underground to celebrate their art form, now we’re at a rare moment in time where the drag profession is now being celebrated. After RuPaul’s efforts to inject the drag queen lifestyle in to the world with her hit series “Drag Race,” drag queens went from being pushed in to darkness, to now taking pictures with awe struck children, and hosting concerts with families and children.
And yet, after all of it, there’s still so much more to be done.
Tapei Suicide Story (2020) [Slamdance Film Festival 2021]
Director KEFF’s ‘Tapei Suicide Story” is one of the most somber dramas I’ve ever seen. It’s a film about life affirmation but also about the inevitability of death. Do we have control over our lives if we can control our own deaths? Are we merely embracing fate and are oblivious to it? “Tapei Suicide Story” is a very quiet and quaint drama that works on a very dark and inherently morbid premise.
Teenage Emotions (2020) [Slamdance Film Festival 2021]
Director Frederic Da has a knack for adding some appeal to the mumblecore sub-genre. While I normally don’t like the narrative format, “Teenage Emotions” is a great platform for it. A mix of John Hughes and Greta Gerwig, “Teenage Emotions” works hard not to be pigeonholed. It’s a teen drama, but also a candid look at the monotony of high school. It’s a romance but also lacks a clear cut resolution of the various sub-plots. It also wants to be taken as both a narrative and a semi-documentary all at the same time.
Sator (2021)
As a dark being attempts to claim them, a family tries to reconnect and live their lives deep in the forest.