Archipelago Films

Lives in Hazard is a tough, uncompromising look at kids in gangs and the men they become in prison. Filmed in the barrios of east LA and in the prisons of California, this real-life drama follows the making of the Hollywood feature film American Me, in which director Edward James Olmos used real gang members and prison inmates as actors. The fictional scenes these homeboys portray pale in juxtaposition to the stark reality of their daily lives, a world where opportunities are scarce and guns plentiful. The brutal honesty of these gang members as they struggle to change makes Lives in Hazard a powerful story of kids caught up in a growing national crisis.

Documentary film about life in the slums of Palermo, Sicily. Revisiting the family featured in a 1961 documentary from Michael Roemer, and Robert Young (the father/ father in law of this film's directors).

A young co-ed falls in love with her first-degree cousin, who stays with her family while studying in Manila. Their forbidden affair, which they keep secret from their family, is revealed when she becomes pregnant. For the scandalized family, abortion is the only solution left, which the two lovers resist.

Marlina, a paralyzed girl found in a garbage truck by Jaya, a street vendor. Then Jaya decide.d to rescued her and take care her in his simple house. One day, someone said that the girl was from a rich family and for someone who found her and gave it back to her family gonna get a big reward. Will Jaya give Marlina back to her family after developing a great love when taking care of her?

A woman who was running away from the pain of a broken love affair. A young man who was looking forward to a fun filled summer and his first sex experience.

During a Chinese wedding hosted by a powerful business man, unsettling incidents occur which disrupt the celebration. Lucy will soon marry Edy, and prepare for her dream wedding. Just before the wedding party, an uninvited Siska appeared. Edy introduces Siska as a cousin from out of town. Nobody knows that she is Edy's ex-lover and Edy is beware of Siska so as not to spoil her marriage, even more so realizing that she is the daughter of a powerful businessman. Their wedding day which Lucy had beautifully prepared had to end tragically.

In the midst of a studio fire in 1921, Joaquin attempts to save the film reel of the first movie he's ever seen.