I have often felt that there are many rituals and traditions embedded in our various cultures that have lost their meaning and now merely serve as scripts for people to follow and act out without thinking of their true meanings or origins. Many children's rhymes and songs, polite dinner customs, or party games derive from darker moments in history such as plague, famine, and war. Growing up the son of Cuban parents, my brothers and I always had piñatas at our birthdays. Usually they took the shape of some sort of crude but cute animal effigy that ended up beaten to smithereens as rioting children stumbled over each other in a mad dash for the sugary spoils of war that spilled out like guts before them. In my film for films4peace I wanted to dissect this sacrificial custom, the mechanics behind group dynamics, as well as the destruction that comes from greed. A life-sized, anatomically correct, sculpted horse in the guise of a piñata is beaten and destroyed until the multiple, identically clad, kids who flog it like monks banging church bells or a gong, surrender to the regret of the destruction they have wrought. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHz2eHq4Tck

MANCATTAN - Free online release. Mancattan is free to watch at http://bit.ly/95ksrk - What's more, once we get enough hits, the film-makers get a share of the advertising revenue, which we are in turn donating ENTIRELY to charity. Read more? JULY 30th - THIS IS THE DATE YOU NEED TO PUT IN YOUR CALENDARS! Finally, 3 years and four months after stepping off the plane in New York, we are able to bring our film to you, for free! Mancattan will be available for free viewing via; http://bit.ly/95ksrk Many thanks to Mark and everyone at Renderyard for taking us on. They really liked the film and offered to distribute it online, for free. Big on the small screen, Mancattan is coming at you, for free, and all proceeds from advertising revenue go directly to charity. Spread the word, tell your friends, get ready to watch the globe-spanning independent film that put Manchester, The North West and England on the map of Indie Film-making. OUR CHOSEN CHARITIES ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEaJ22AaC_Y

A thriller that tells the story of four astronauts aboard the Chinese spacecraft Tiangong during the first colonization of the red planet. After waking up from the hibernation system, the astronauts find themselves trapped in the capsules and desperately try to get out of the compartment before the spacecraft lands, within 72 hours. Visit the Renderyard WEBSITE: http://www.renderyard.com Follow Renderyard on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/renderyard Like Renderyard on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/renderyard Follow Renderyard on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/renderyard Follow Renderyard on PINTEREST: https://www.pinterest.com/renderyard Renderyard provides indie movies, documentaries and short films for digital film distribution to over 70+ of the best online video on demand platforms in the world. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYtUYRUnCFo

How far will a father go to save his son? Visit the Renderyard WEBSITE: http://www.renderyard.com Follow Renderyard on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/renderyard Like Renderyard on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/renderyard Follow Renderyard on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/renderyard Follow Renderyard on PINTEREST: https://www.pinterest.com/renderyard Renderyard provides indie movies, documentaries and short films for digital film distribution to over 70+ of the best online video on demand platforms in the world. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1MGFhS2-CE