Verity

Film Skool

| Lowen Ashleigh gets hired by Jeremy Crawford to ghostwrite novels for his bestselling author wife Verity, who's unable to finish after an accident. Lowen uncovers Verity's disturbing truths while residing at the Crawfords' home to work.

Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles

Qué Rico!

April X

Film Skool

| A high octane, near future thriller about twins Bax and April. When April goes missing, Bax searches every dark corner of the post Soviet cityscape trying to find her, ultimately descending into madness.

Rubby

Beats,

Rhymes

& Life

| Silo, new music + visual from Rubby.

Klara and the Sun

Film Skool

| A robot girl designed to prevent loneliness tries to save a heartbroken family of humans.

Primetime

Film Skool

| In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one

Unreal

The Deputy

Film Skool

| A young sheriff's deputy finds himself in the crosshairs of dangerous criminals when the dead body he is assigned to keep an eye on disappears from a crime scene.

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple

Mass in Motion

Macho Dancer

Film Skool

| One of Lino Brocka’s lasting successes, 1988’s Macho Dancer admirably blends the maestro’s flair for socially conscious melodrama and pulp provocation — setting the template for what would become Viva Films’ erotic niche to this day. Upon losing a reliable American client, 18-year-old gigolo Pol (Allan Paule) leaves his native province to try his luck in the soapy gay clubs of Manila. As Pol learns to ropes alongside fellow stripper Noel (Daniel Fernando) and savvy prostitute Bambi (Jaclyn Jose), he discovers more than his young mind bargained for: an underbelly of protection rackets, human trafficking and political corruption. Underlying the film’s astutely cynical outlook on systemic, class-based exploitation in the Filipino context is a neon-lit tale of sexual self-discovery gyrating between queer desire and heteronormative strictures, sensuality and grit, tenderness and violence. Heavily censored upon release and hugely successful overseas, Macho Dancer follows the recent re-discovery of Lino Brocka’s Bona and is presented here in a new 4K restoration from Viva Film’s original film elements.