FILMS

Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring, is universally acknowledged as one of the most influential books of the 20th Century.  Upon publication in 1962, the book was met with reactions ranging from denial, shock, hostility and outright vengeance.

Battling fierce opposition and a life-threatening illness, Carson remained undeterred in her efforts to expose the dangers and shocking abuse of household and environmental chemicals.  With a single mindedness of purpose and an unequivocal belief that her research and subsequent novel would be a clarion call to everyone about the devastating effects of chemical exposure to man and nature, she forged ahead.

Because of her fervent and relentless pursuit of the truth and the belief that writing this book was her destiny, Carson is unanimously recognized as the founder of the environmental movement, and her mission remains as relevant and important today as it did more than 50 years ago.

Sins of Silence, is the remarkable true and inspiring story of a reluctant hero — Rachel Carson. A woman, who in the face of the constricting social and cultural norms of her time, dared to pursue a life she believed she was called to live.

Windswept, dark and crumbling, the forlorn Irish fishing village of Dolphin Bay is the place 

that time and tourist guides forgot. Yet it’s about to find a new hope with the arrival of an 

American kid.
     Michael McLaughlin, age 16, a spoiled, sullen and selfish loner from Hollywood is unable to cope with family pressures of home or at the helm of his only passion; sport sailing. His future is lost to his own brooding anger which pushes all others away.
     Reluctantly, his grandmother and fading Broadway star, Holland McLaughlin, takes him back to visit her old home in Ireland to see her dying “first love”, a local fisherman Joseph Rose, whom she left heartbroken in her youth.
     Once there,  Holland will re-kindle past romance and Michael will set upon an adventure of personal discovery and danger on the high seas while exploring the deepening sadness that cloaks Dolphin Bay in despair.

The land belongs to no one. 

Set against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods in Scottish history, The World Is Not Empty without Reason is the story of one resident of a Highland glen in the mid-nineteenth century during the Highland Clearances. The glen where Christina Macdonald lives is the only place she has ever known. Her people have lived there since time immemorial. But now change is coming to the Highlands of Scotland. The indigenous Gaelic-speaking population is being forcibly removed to make way for more profitable sheep farms. As she faces an uncertain future, Christina must confront what it means to belong to a place that she no longer recognises and that no longer wants her. It is a story about loyalty and betrayal, love and kinship, faith and identity, and the choice one woman must make between following her conscience or surrendering to an established order that places rule of law over justice. How can one survive in a world turned upside down?

Paul Dirac's scientific discoveries were like exquisitely carved marble statues falling out of the sky, one after another. Largely considered one of the greatest scientific minds (some say more brilliant than Einstein) of all time, his personality was equally legendary.  While solving, through his exquisite scientific discoveries of quantum physics, some of the most complex questions of mankind , Dirac, an extreme introvert, had an equally deep and abiding passion in Mickey Mouse, mountain climbing, Cher, Mozart as he did with science.