Video: “Accordions Rising”

“Accordions Rising”, the music documentary, is now more available than ever before. “Accordions Rising” rises again with a beautiful vengeance! “Accordions Rising takes you to the land of joy.” (Viewer comment). This film is entertaining, informative, interesting and surprising. It is a great gift idea and a good way to gather people together: accordion music lovers and naysayers alike. See list below, including some free options:

DVD and Blu Ray Purchase Options:
Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Baarnes and Noble.
(If all else fails, contact the filmmaker: Roberta Cantow -rccantow@gmail.com).

New Streaming Options(Consumer Market):
Tubi TV – (FREE) on Indie Rights Channel
and Ovid TV.COM
You Tube (FREE) on Indie Rights Channel

Streaming Options (Academic Market)
Docuseek (New)
ProQuest /Alexander Street Press

ALL OTHER Consumer Streaming Options:
Amazon
Apple TV
Google Play
iTunes
Vudu
Rotten Tomatoes
Roku at Indie Rights (Free Download)

“Accordions Rising” has won awards internationally and nationally including  two different Awards of Merit in the Documentary Category and one other: Global Accolade Competition – Award of Merit, November, 2015; Indie Film Fest, August, 2016 – Award of Merit;  Bare Bones International Music and Film Festival – Best Movie Poster, April, 2016. The film has been a winner at several accordion festivals across the country and in Wales, the UK and Germany.

Roberta Cantow was recognized with her first film grant from The American Film Institute while still a graduate film student at NYU. Through the years, The New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and others provided grants for the completion and distribution of 4 film works.  She received a NY Area Emmy for her film, “Clotheslines” about the symbolic and artistic role of laundry in women’s lives, as well as many others.

Roberta’s work has been exhibited in many of the venues for independents, including a presentation in the Cineprobe Series of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Her four 16mm films were selected for archival preservation by the Donnell Media Center, New York City, in 2001. Recently, her film, “If This Ain’t Heaven” was awarded a film preservation and restoration grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.All of her film and video work has been  archived in the  Special Collections of Smith College. 

For further information: rccantow@gmail.com