Hollywood's Stories

Come Ride Wit Me is a Musical Documentary and Tour of The City of Baltimore's African American Communities and Ghettos

Shawntinice Polk single-handedly took the University of Arizona women's basketball team to a Pac-10 championship and national ranking. When she collapsed and died suddenly, school officials kept medical information from the family and spun the story out of the limelight. Risking his own job as a television reporter, Len Johnson investigated the death and came up with a simple conclusion: The University of Arizona lied. The warning signs of Polkey's huge blood clot were not only evident, but obvious. U of A Against Polkey chronicles five years of one man's persistence to bring the school to justice. It also sheds light on the power brokers behind the money machine of college athletics and their manipulation of trusting, talented young people.

For the last trial in his career Francois Roux, a lawyer specialized in the defense of non-violent activists and a supporter of civil rights himself, chose to explore the boundaries of the law and the morals. Kaing Guek Eav, aka Douch, is considered one of the bloodiest tortures of our times. From the preparation of the defense strategy to the final pleading, this film follows the backstage of one of the major international trials in the last few years and without any hesitation confronts the banality of evil, challenging the absolute notion of 'good'.