Bedford Virtual Playhouse: Now Streaming

Bedford’s Virtual Playhouse: Now Streaming: You can now stream the New York International Children’s Film Festival shorts and the Bedford Playhouse will receive 50% of your streaming fees. In fact, there’s a host of independent film distributor Magnolia Pictures’ narrative movies and documentaries that you can stream from BPH’s virtual library. BPH gets a take on all of them. Here’s what’s streaming…

Kids Flicks

New York International Children’s Film Festival:Kids Flicks 1 features 56 minutes of short films recommended for children ages 3 to 7. These 12 shorts from 9 countries include: Belly Flop from South Africa, Mi Abuelita from Guatemala and Flipped, a UK film where the little ones are in charge while the grownups stay home to play. NYICFF’s Kids Flicks 2 presents 8 shorts (72 minutes running time) from around the world for ages 8+. Including Slow Dance from Sweden that explores male bravery on a middle-school dance floor and A Field Guide to Being a 12-Year Old Girl from Australia – which needs no explanation. These NYICFF highlights are screened each year at the Jacob Burns Film Center.

Narrative Films

Crescendo: Academy-Award nominated director Dror Zahavi (Alexander Penn, Everything for my Father) directs this gripping drama about a world famous conductor who tries to create an Israels/Palestinian youth orchestra. Only to be quickly drawn into a tempest of unsolvable problems. Saint Francis, about a 34 year-old nanny who in quick succession finally meets a nice guy, gets a dream job offer and discovers her own unwanted pregnancy. Two out of three ain’t bad, as they say.

Documentaries

The Bedford Playhouse in collaboration with Magnolia Pictures recently added three new documentaries to their streaming library. Spaceship Earth chronicles the controversial adventures of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. Foodie will like Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy a full length documentary of cookbook author and environmental activist Diana Kennedy as she reflects on an unconventional life spent mastering Mexican cuisine. Another recent add to BPH’s streaming documentary library is Up From The Streets, a multi-award-winning documentary that profiles New Orleans culture through the lens of music – from the drumming in Congo Square to the city’s contemporary music scene.

Still available in BPH’s streaming library: The Woman Who Loved Giraffes, a documentary about Ann Ennis Dagg who founded the science of giraffe biology. The film goes from a grainy black and white video of her appearance on the tv show To Tell The Truth to National Geographicquality footage of giraffes in the wild. More Magnolia Pictures documentaries include Slay The Dragon about gerrymandering, The Booksellers that takes viewers inside the fascinating world of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers and their role in preserving history. And Fantastic Funghi, that explores this underground world and the prospects fungi present to solving pressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges.

Check out the lineup here.

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