Tom Ropelewski

Searching for Mr. Rugoff

Ira Deutchman

Donald S. Rugoff, Costa-Gavras

The feature documentary Searching for Mr. Rugoff is the story of Donald Rugoff, who was the crazy genius behind Cinema 5, the mid-century theater chain and film distribution company. Rugoff was a difficult (some would say impossible) person but was also the man who kicked art films into the mainstream with outrageous marketing schemes and pure bluster. Rugoff's impact on cinema culture in the United States is inestimable, and his influence on the art film business-from the studio classics divisions to the independent film movement to the rise of the Weinsteins-is undeniable. Yet, mysteriously, Rugoff has become a virtually forgotten figure. The story is told through the eyes of former employee Ira Deutchman, who sets out to find the truth about the man who had such a major impact on his life, and to understand how such an important figure could have disappeared so completely.

Child of Giants

Tom Ropelewski

CHILD OF GIANTS: My Journey with Maynard Dixon and Dorothea Lange is the story of a child who learns that his birthright comes with gifts and curses… the story of every child who must find his own path from under the shadow of formidable parents.

2e2: Teaching the Twice Exceptional

Tom Ropelewski

Matthew Carroll, Tyler Peck

How does your brain work? '2e: Teaching the Twice Exceptional' focuses on the teachers of Bridges Academy, a school in Los Angeles dedicated exclusively to engaging and educating the unique minds of highly gifted students with learning disabilities or differences.

MadHouse

Tom Ropelewski

John Larroquette, Kirstie Alley

The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.

Look Who's Talking Now!

Tom Ropelewski

John Travolta, Kirstie Alley

When Samantha LeBon hatches a scheme to spend a romantic Christmas with her new employee -- the unsuspecting, blithesome James -- his wife, their kids and their two dogs, Rocks and Daphne, must rescue him before he makes a terrible mistake.

2e: Twice Exceptional

Tom Ropelewski

'2E: Twice Exceptional' follows the personal journeys of a handful of middle school and high school students in Los Angeles who have been identified as 'twice exceptional' -- gifted or highly gifted individuals with learning disabilities or differences. They are geniuses, mavericks and dreamers -- Malcolm Gladwell's budding 'outliers.' Among them may be the next Einstein, Mozart or Steve Jobs... if they can survive the American school system and their own eccentricities.