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Our Fire Blooms

Logline: In a little-known Mexican festival where men transform into women, a colorful group of queer dancers races to prepare for the big night despite facing violent resistance.

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In a little-known Mexican festival where men transform into women, a colorful group of queer dancers races to prepare for the big night, despite facing violent resistance. “Our Fire Blooms” is the story of a group of gay men and trans women who won’t let anything stop them from being a part of their town’s tradition. Featuring an all-female film crew, this is the first character-driven...

Gun control has become a fevered topic since the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub in mid-June. To help parse the debate, and discuss what it means inside outside of Hollywood, TheWrap’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Sharon Waxman invited two experts to sit for a GrillChat — an offshoot of TheWrap’s annual thought leadership conference TheGrill. Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald (“Koch Brothers Exposed” and “Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price”) will speak about his latest film “Making A Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA,” which aims to expose the powerful gun lobby’s hold on politicians.

Brave New Films’ Robert Greenwald, the documentarian behind such films as the Koch Brothers Exposed and Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price, is now exposing the money behind the National Rifle Association in a new film that lays bare the growing amount of power the lobbying group has been able to wield via politicians over the years. “What we do in the film is make clear that the gun companies and manufacturers are profiting, and the 2nd Amendment is serving the greed,&#8221…...

Greenwald's latest doc exposes war against those who bring to light the U.S. government's dirty deeds If you want a good example of how the lofty intensions of a new president inevitably give way to the bitter realities of an intractably crooked and selfish world, here’s an old quote in regard to whistleblowing from the web site of the U.S.'s current commander-in-chief: Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process. Pictured above: a stifled Lady Justice. Some of that statement is true. Mostly the prepositions. The rest, as director Robert Greenwald tells us in his latest documentary, War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State, has been forgotten as...

Five new films open in Austin this week, but all have tepid reviews. But not to worry, film fans: For the rest of the year, terrific special screenings are piling up like presents stacked under a Christmas tree. (Or grievances aired around a Festivus pole, or whatever symbols are part of your holiday tradition, if indeed you have one, and it's fine if you don't. Whatever your holiday tradition -- or lack thereof -- the always-inclusive folks at Slackerwood wish you happiness. Or not, if you prefer unhappiness.)

There is, of course, the expected onslaught of holiday film screenings this week. The Alamo Drafthouse offers its usual eclectic mix of holiday movies, from the traditionally warm and fuzzy (It's a Wonderful Life) to the anti-sentimental (the slasher flick Black Christmas, with a live appearance by Margot Kidder) to Jette and Chip's favorite holiday tradition, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

The social justice media organization, Brave New Films, has launched a new Hulu channel featuring the investigative films of director Robert Greenwald. With groundbreaking works such as “Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price,” “Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers,” and “Koch Brothers Exposed,” Brave New Films delivers politically-themed content to Hulu just in time for the election year debates. “Our documentaries explore issues related to our country’s democracy, foreign policy, and the economy,” said Greenwald, who is the founder and president of Brave New Films. “We are thrilled to offer these films on Hulu, and to bring this information to such a broad audience at such a crucial time.” Additionally, Brave New Films plans to adapt content from their Latino-themed project “Cuéntame” (Spanish for “count me”, or “tell me your story”) for Hulu Latino (hululatino.com). Cuéntame started two years as an on-line community for Latinos on Facebook,...