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SHANGHAI TRIAD Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee, SHANGHAI TRIAD is a thrilling and sumptuously stylized potboiler about the Chinese criminal underworld of the 1930’s from legendary director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, House of Flying Daggers). Hired to be […]
DENISE HO – BECOMING THE SONG Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Denise Ho – Becoming the Song profiles the openly gay Hong Kong singer and human rights activist Denise Ho. Drawing on unprecedented, years-long access, the film explores her remarkable journey from commercial Cantopop superstar to […]
THE KILLING FLOOR Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Praised by The Village Voice as the most “clear-eyed account of union organizing on film,” The Killing Floor tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay […]
AI WEIWEI: YOURS TRULY Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Human rights become profoundly personal when Ai Weiwei, China’s most famous artist, transforms Alcatraz Island prison into an astonishing expression of socially-engaged art focused on the plight of the unjustly incarcerated. At the core of the installation, […]
SUZI Q Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Before Suzi Quatro burst on the music world in 1973, there were almost no women in rock, and absolutely none who played bass and sang lead vocals and led the band and rocked out and reached millions of people […]
CLEMENTINE Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! A heartbroken woman becomes entangled with a younger girl after breaking into her ex’s lake house in the Pacific Northwest. Equal parts psychological drama and sexual coming-of-age story, Clementine is a tense rumination on who to love and how to […]
JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Using interviews and rare archival footage, JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now […]
ALL I CAN SAY Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Shannon Hoon, lead singer of the rock band Blind Melon, filmed himself from 1990-95 with a Hi8 video camera, recording up until a few hours before his sudden death at the age of 28. His camera was […]
QUARANTINE CAT FILM FEST Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Amateur filmmakers from around the world filmed their beloved cats during COVID-19 lockdowns to create Quarantine Cat Film Fest — a compilation reel of the cutest, funniest, bravest, and most loving feline friends. Watch the best selections […]
ONE SMALL STEP: FAMILY FRIENDLY ANIMATED SHORTS Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Embark on a roller coaster of imagination and possibility in this ShortsTV presented compilation of new and acclaimed, family- friendly animated short films. Featuring the OSCAR winning Bear Story and OSCAR nominees One Small […]