THE HUMAN EXPERIMENT lifts the veil on the shocking reality that thousands of untested chemicals are in our everyday products, homes and bodies. Simultaneously, the prevalence of many diseases continues to rise. From Oscar® winner Sean Penn and Emmy® winning journalists Dana Nachman and Don Hardy, THE HUMAN EXPERIMENT tells the personal stories of people who believe their lives have been affected by chemicals and takes viewers to the front lines as activists go head-to-head with the powerful and well-funded chemical industry. These activists bring to light a corrupt system that’s been hidden from consumers… until now.

Mr. Penn will introduce the 7:30 PM screening at the Music Hall on Friday, April 17. Mr. Hardy and special guests will participate in a Q&A afterward.

MEDEAS is an intimate portrait of a rural family’s inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape. Ennis, a stern, hard-working dairy farmer struggles to maintain control of his family and surrounding environment, while his wife, Christina, retreats into herself, progressively disconnecting from him and their five children. As tensions increase, each character must confront their yearnings and anxieties, culminating in a dangerous conflict between control and freedom, intimacy and alienation. A journey into the unpredictable boundaries of human behavior, MEDEAS explores the desperate lengths people are driven to by love and self-preservation.

The winner of the New Voices/New Visions Grand Jury Prize at the Palm Springs International Film Festival for MEDEAS , filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro also won the award for Best Director at the Marrakech International Film Festival and the Parajanov Prize for Best Visuals and Aesthetics at the Tbilisi International Film Festival. Additionally, Pallaoro won the UK-Italy Creative Industries Award for Best Innovative Budget at the Venice Film Festival.  Mr. Pallaoro will participate in a Q&A after the 7:30 PM screening at the Music Hall this Friday, March 20.

In the 1990’s, singer-songwriter Milan Mumin, the lead singer of the hugely influential Serbian rock band Love Hunters, electrified and gave voice to a generation of Serbians fighting an oppressive regime. Now, after ten years, we find Milan in New York City, driving a taxi (long shifts and loopy fares), cobbling together funds for a recording session of his dream album—to be recorded and released in America. When his bass guitar player suddenly quits, he finds a talented but prickly replacement, and a romantic spark, in a free-spirited guitarist named Kim. Just as rehearsals start picking up steam, Milan’s longtime Serbian girlfriend Lela arrives with very different plans for their future—she wants him to come home to Serbia where his reputation will let him be anything he wants—but Milan is determined to make his recording in America, at any cost.

We are pleased to open LOVE HUNTER, which the New York Times recently called “one of the most refreshing New York independent features since Ramin Bahrani’s ‘Man Push Cart,” this Friday at the Music Hall Theater. Filmmakers Nemanja Bala and Brane Bala, along with actress Jelena Stupljanin, will participate in Q&A’s after the 7:30 PM screenings Friday through Sunday, March 13, 14 and 15.