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How can you develop a successful career in the high-pressure, competitive world of motor racing? Drew Gibson: In Focus features exclusive coverage of what it takes to establish a career in motor sport and build a world-class reputation.

What is democracy? Freedom, equality, participation? Everyone has his or her own definition. Across the world, 120 countries now have at least the minimum trappings of democracy - the freedom to vote for all citizens. But for many, this is just the beginning not the end. Following decades of US-backed dictatorships, civil wars and devastating structural adjustment policies in the South, and corporate control, electoral corruption, and fraud in the North, representative politics in the Americas is in crisis. Citizens are now choosing to redefine democracy under their own terms: local, direct, and participatory. In 1989, the Brazilian Worker's Party altered the concept of local government when they installed participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, allowing residents to participate directly in the allocation of city funds. Ten years later, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was swept into power with the promise of granting direct participation to the Venezuelan people; who have now formed tens of thousands of self-organized communal councils. In the Southern Cone, cooperative and recuperated factory numbers have grown, and across the Americas social movements and constitutional assemblies are taking authority away from the ruling elites and putting power into the hands of their members and citizens. Beyond Elections is a journey that takes us across the Americas to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is Democracy?

Joseph Howe, a Nova Scotian political activist and newspaper editor in 1840, is challenged to a pistol duel on a charge of libel from the son of the chief justice, John Halliburton.

Two aspiring filmmakers, with completely different views of what a film should be, are forced to work together on account of their film society's budget restraints resulting in an outrageous NO-budget production that parallels and parodies their own experience.