One Man is a short film about a man, a one-man band that is lonely and down on his luck who can’t seem to get a break. However, on this day everything changes. I won’t spoil it for you, but it’s a happy ending. The film which won an award at Cannes was directed by Matt Rhodes, was written by Tony Pipes and stars Rob Jarvis.

A year ago we reported that a short film was in the works covering the early life of Shepard Fairey. Directed by Julian Marshall, the film narrates the story of the Buddy Cianci billboard incident that occurred while Shepard was a Junior at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990.

Following a successful KIckstarter campaign, the movie was finally completed, and it has now made its way online. You can view the full 20-minute film above.

Remember Vivian Maier? We featured her amazingly candid black-and-white photos of 1950’s New York nearly two years ago and around that same time a Kickstarter campaign was successfully funded to produce a full-length documentary about the life of the mysterious and recluse amateur photographer. Well, since then they’ve wrapped up production and it looks like it will be a documentary not to miss. Check out the trailer above. Can’t wait to see this one.

From the creators of the award-winning film, All.I.Can comes their next breathtaking project, Into the Mind. Check out the official teaser video above.

Filmmaker, Patrick Wallner has been journeying throughout Asia with a varying crew of skateboarders for some years now and documenting all of the experiences in his ongoing series, Visualtraveling. Here we get a look at his latest, and arguably his most impressive and most beautifully filmed project to date, a half hour video titled Meet the Stans.

“Not much is known to the world about the bizarre countries within Central Asia all ending with ’stan. ‘Meet the Stans’ documents the journey of a group of various skateboarders traveling along the ancient Silk Road traversing China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. Featuring Dave Bachinsky, Jimmy McDonald, Laurence Keefe, Dan Zvereff, Stas Provotorov, Gosha Konyshev, Walker Ryan, Kenny Reed and Michael Mackrodt.”

The good people from UK creative collective, Dorothy have designed a breathtakingly intricate map dedicated to cinema. Based on the style of a vintage LA street map, the new Film Map is made up entirely from film titles, featuring over 900 in total. Measuring 60 x 80 cm, the print is available either as a signed and stamped limited edition or an open edition print. Available now through Dorothy’s website.

More after the jump.

Alan Spearman is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and photojournalist. His recent project, As I Am tells the story of Chris Dean, someone whose heart stopped when he was two. He died but he came back. When Chris was five, his father was murdered, riddled by more than 20 bullets in a gang shootout. For eight weeks, Spearman walked the streets of South Memphis with Dean observing and recording what became the script of As I Am, a fourteen-minute film that floats through this remarkable young man’s landscape, revealing the lives that have shaped his world. Poetic and powerful imagery, captured by Spearman and cinematographer Mark Adams, combines with the young philosopher’s trenchant observations about life.

Take a look at several stills along with the full film after the jump.

OUR VINYL WEIGHS A TON (THIS IS STONES THROW RECORDS), a feature-length documentary about the famed record label, is currently in the works and slated for completion in early 2013.

Weaving together rare concert footage, never-before-seen archival material, inner-circle home video and photos, as well as in-depth interviews with the folks who put Stones Throw on the map, the documentary will explore the label’s history, sound, artists, and global following.

The production requires funding and is currently up on Kickstarter. Click over for more info, and check out the trailer after the jump.

Vimeo user, kogonada’s latest video focuses on famed director, Stanley Kubrick, but more specifically his use of one-point perspective shots in his films.

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Steve Caballero, Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen and Lance Mountain. Just a few legendary members of the original Bones Brigade team. Thanks to Stacey Peralta, and his new documentary full of archive footage and commentary from the original members, we’ll soon get a comprehensive look at the team that dominated skateboarding in the ’80s. Here’s the first official trailer.

“Unmotivated by fame or popularity, they completely dedicated their lives to a disrespected art form. For most of the 1980s, this misfit crew headed by a 1970s ex-skateboard champion blasted the industry with a mixture of art and raw talent becoming the most popular skateboarding team in history. The core unit of the Bones Brigade built an empire that covered the world. They dominated contests, made hundreds of thousands of dollars, created the modern skateboard video, reinvented endemic advertising, pushed skate progression into a new era, and set the stage for a totally new form of skating called street style. There’s nothing comparable in today’s skateboarding.”