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Limelight out on DVD today
Buy from Amazon "Billy Corben’s 2011 documentary Limelight has just arrived on DVD and it proves to be as gripping as any fictional film. Limelight isn’t just Gatien’s story. The movie is about the...
View ArticleLimelight available via video-on-demand today
Check your cable or satellite listings. Also streaming via Amazon and iTunes.
View Articlerakontur on Netflix Streaming
All of our recent releases (with the exception of The U) are now available on Netflix Streaming: Cocaine Cowboys Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin with the Godmother Square Grouper Limelight
View ArticleBattle for Biscayne Bay
Borscht's Nick Ducassi teamed up with Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper to produce this short film to bring attention to the proposed Deep Dredge of the Port of Miami, which some fear is another taxpayer...
View ArticleMiami Herald: the Cocaine Cowboys are back
A Miami Herald editorial this morning warns of a "crisis coming as Caribbean drug-running heats up:" The fight against drug trafficking is heating up on South Florida’s doorstep. Drugs are coming in...
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Marlins reveal "Home Run Celebration Sculpture" in its full glory
For months, Miamians have breathlessly anticipated what the Miami Marlins "Home Run Celebration Sculpture" in center field will do when activated by the voluminous quantity of home runs the club will...
View ArticleSquare Grouper hits Showtime on 4/20
Square Grouper premieres on Showtime, appropriately enough, on Friday 4/20. What is a Square Grouper?
View Article"rakontur: The First Ten Years" retrospective at O Cinema March 26-30, 2012
Famed criminal defense attorney Roy Black said in 1986, “The amount of intrigue that goes on here is remarkable...Miami really is not an American city.”We’re grateful it isn’t.When our first pop-doc...
View ArticleBAFICI (Buenos Aires) rakontur retrospective
BAFICI, The Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, is screening a retrospective of our films at the festival April 11-22, 2012: TRANCES: Yes, this is a section devoted to drugs. Not...
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Get your tickets now for the rakontur retrospective at O Cinema next week
via The305.comSeveral nights are almost sold out. Get your tickets now. Miami New Times: If you haven't heard of Cocaine Cowboys by now, you haven't been paying attention. The infamous pop doc fired...
View ArticleRaw Deal screens on Monday at the O Cinema
A screening of our first documentary Raw Deal: A Question of Consent kicks off the rakontur retrospective week at the O Cinema on Monday, March 26th. Tickets on sale now. Film Threat - “One of the...
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Cocaine Cowboys 3
To answer one of the questions we get asked most often, yes, there will be a third Cocaine Cowboys documentary. It won't be CC3 -- the working title is Cocaine Cowboys: Los Muchachos. We've been...
View ArticleThe Summer of 1999: The Blair Witch Project and Napster
It all changed for us in 1999. That January, five filmmakers from Orlando, who formed a collective called Haxan, stormed the Sundance Film Festival with The Blair Witch Project, a crude "found footage"...
View ArticleCocaine Cowboys cast reunion
Thanks to everyone for coming out Tuesday night and especially to the cast who participated in a fascinating discussion of the good-ol-bad-old days of 1980s Miami: Mickey Munday, Sam Rabin, Nelson...
View ArticleThe final night of the rakontur retrospective at O Cinema
It's been a trip down memory lane for us this week at the O Cinema. After four nights of sold-out screenings, great panel discussions and catching up with old friends, CBS Miami's Jim DeFede turns the...
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Thanks Miami
For men of many words, all of us at rakontur are virtually speechless at the overwhelming love and support we got from Miami last week for our 10th Anniversary celebration at O Cinema. Thanks to...
View ArticleMiami History Repeating: From MAC-11s to AK-47s
According to CBS Miami investigative journalist Jim DeFede, last Friday's funeral home shooting in North Miami, with assault rifles and a handgun, that wounded twelve and killed two "was one of the...
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Rosie O'Donnell's Miami marijuana mansion property for sale (VIDEO)
Rosie O'Donnell's mansion at 43 Star Island in Miami Beach is for sale for $19.5 million -- up nearly 300% from the $6.75 million she paid in 1999. In 1975, the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church --...
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We're hosting the Miami premiere of MARLEY and giving away tickets
Growing up in Miami, the de facto capital of the Caribbean, you're exposed to Bob's music and legacy at an early age. Patty shops on Flagler Street play the deep cuts from Catch a Fire, while the...
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