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13 MILES FROM JERUSALEM (formerly Changing My Mind About Palestine)
A film by Nora Malone
An American woman takes a rollercoaster road trip through the West Bank that challenges her internalized stereotypes and perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Events through her camera lens are seen in juxtaposition to American media coverage, resulting in two stories that are chronologically parallel but completely different.
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ABSOLUTELY SAFE
A film by Carol Ciancutti-Leyva
At a time when more women than ever are getting breast implants, fewer voices than ever seem to be asking “Why?” And fewer still are asking “Are they safe?” ABSOLUTELY SAFE takes an open-minded, personal approach to the controversy over breast implant safety. Among the debate by plastic surgeons, toxicologists, attorneys, implant manufacturers, whistle blowers, government officials and activists, ABSOLUTELY SAFE introduces everyday women who find themselves and their breasts in the tangled and confusing intersection of health, money, science, and beauty.
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ACCEPTABLE LIMITS
A film by Michael Abbott, Jr and Cosmo Pfeil
Acceptable Limits is a documentary feature film about the devastating health, safety, and environmental effects that a dilapidated, 54 year old nuclear fuel processing plant has had on a small Appalachian Mountain community in East Tennessee.
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ADIOS AMOR
A film by Laurie Coyle
In Adios Amor, the discovery of forgotten photographs prompts a search for an unsung heroine—Maria Moreno, a tenacious woman who sacrificed everything but her twelve kids to organize California’s migrant farm workers fifty years ago. The one-hour documentary interweaves the filmmaker’s quest to find Maria with a journey through California’s agricultural belt and archives. Through a little known but remarkable migrant mother’s life, Adios Amor tells a story with national resonance about the migrant workers who put food on our tables, while exploring enduring questions about whose lives we remember, record and recognize.
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Adventure Divas: Science
A film by Holly Morris
Science Divas celebrates the work, spirit and accomplishments of contemporary women scientists, engineers and technology workers. This documentary series follows women who are pushing the intellectual envelope in today's science world to provide role models for young women interested in pursuing such professions. Adventure Divas: Science captures the grit, realities and passions of women engaged in dynamic field work all over the globe.
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AFTER TILLER
A film by Martha Shane and Lana Wilson
After the murder of Dr. George Tiller last June, there are only a few American doctors left who provide late abortions for women who need them. TRUST WOMEN will paint a vivid portrait of the lives of two of these physicians—Dr. LeRoy Carhart and Dr. Warren Hern—who have become the new number-one targets of the “pro-life” movement, yet continue to risk their lives every day to protect a woman’s right to choose.
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AIN'T I A WOMAN
A film by A film by Robin Honan
It is estimated that one in seven hundred and fifty infants are born with a Disorder of Sex Development (DSD), defined as a congenital condition in which development of chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomic sex is atypical. Filmmaker Robin Honan sheds light on this misunderstood intersection of sex, gender and sexuality and asks a divisive question: Should infants with ambiguous genitalia undergo cosmetic surgeries to normalize their genital appearance?
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ALL OF ME: A STORY OF LOVE, LOSS, AND LAST RESORTS
A film by Alexandra Lescaze
ALL OF ME follows a group of women who have been friends, and fat, for years. But now thanks to weight loss surgery they are on the fast track to being thin. A dream come true?
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American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
A film by Grace Lee
A documentary about Detroit philosopher/activist Grace Lee Boggs, 94, whose life and work has encompassed the major U.S. social movements of the past century: radical labor, civil rights, Black Power, feminism, Asian American, environmental justice, and beyond. More than just a biography, the film explores how this daughter of Chinese immigrants could evolve both as a revolutionary philosopher and a movement activist during a century rife with social and political upheaval, while firmly committing herself to the struggles her adopted hometown of Detroit.
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AMY IS MY SISTER (formerly SOMEONE YOU KNOW)
A film by Erika Cervantes, Producer
AMY IS MY SISTER is an intimate documentary that follows the courageous journey of a young woman named Amy as she seeks justice for a sexual assault that happened to her nearly 4 years ago. Through the lens of the filmmaker, her sister Katey, we get unprecedented access to Amy and her family and friends, as we follow her fight for justice in a criminal trial as well as her struggle to begin a new life as a survivor.
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AN ENCOUNTER WITH SIMONE WEIL
A film by Julia Haslett
What if you were convinced the world you lived in was headed for self-destruction? French thinker and political activist Simone Weil (1909-1943) was, and for good reason. Today her life stands as a testament to the idealistic compassion that ultimately killed her. An An Encounter with Simone Weil is an expressionistic documentary that tells Weil's story through evocative archival footage & photos, sequences, and animation, all culminating in the filmmaker's fantasy come true: an interview with Simone Weil. The result is a thought-provoking meditation on activism, faith, and documentary filmmaking.
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The Animated Adventures of Judo Girl
A film by Kimberlee Bassford
Teshya Alo is 13 years old and fewer than a hundred pounds. But on the judo and wrestling mats, she throws down women twice her age. And she beats boys. Now, she has her sights set on a judo world championship. But it won’t be easy. Part athletic journey and part coming of age tale, the documentary introduces the world to an elite athlete striving for gold and Judo Girl, an animated character representing Teshya’s inner thoughts and emotions.
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ANNA MAY WONG: IN HER OWN WORDS
A film by Yunah Hong
A 60-minute documentary made about the life and times of Anna May Wong (1905-1961), a Chinese American film star and stage actress who achieved worldwide fame. It will explore Wong's personal life and reveal how an all-American daughter of a Chinese laundryman became an international star, a member of high society, and an activist in spite of racism and sexism. The film has been funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Korea Society.
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ANOTHER LOST ANGEL
A film by Rachel Perkoff
A feature-length documentary about the poetic life and violent death of Kat Perkoff: writer, runaway, drug smuggler, bar owner, local icon… and the filmmaker's older sister. Comprised of archival footage, interviews, and "dreamlike recollections", this film began as a personal journey of sibling loss and quickly grew into a full-scale investigation of a life lived on the margins. Another Lost Angel explores notions of fate, identity, and memory as well as the seedy world of the New Orleans lesbian mafia subculture of the 1970’s.
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AS THE DESERTS COMES
A film by Yan Chun Su
As the Deserts Come is a feature-length documentary about a small village of Tibetan herders and their struggle for survival against time and forces beyond their control. Set in the stark landscape of eastern Tibetan plateau, we watch members of a disappearing culture adapt and fight against the decimation of the grasslands that sustained them for generations. What can they do to survive? How do they engage their resilience and indigenous ingenuity to win this battle?
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AWAKEN THE DRAGON
A film by Liz Oakley
AWAKEN THE DRAGON tells the story of how the ancient Chinese sport of dragon boating is transforming the lives of a group of individuals searching for life after cancer. It is a story beyond survival…a story of reclaiming life…a story of awakening the dragon within.
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BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM / JERUSALEM UNFILTERED
A film by Liz Nord
Battle for Jerusalem features young, fearless Jerusalem City Councilwoman Rachel Azaria in her fight to save both her city and her career from the tightening grip of religious extremists, some of whom wish to force women out of the public sphere entirely and impose a strict religious lifestyle over the entire population. The project also includes the transmedia initiative JERUSALEM UNFILTERED, with online, mobile, and live screening elements.
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BeBe
A film by Emily Branham
Nea Kudi Marshall is a goofy young Cameroonian man by day, and the staggeringly beautiful drag queen BeBe Zahara Benet by night.
BeBe was recently named “The Next Drag Superstar of the World” as the winner of a reality television show, RuPaul’s Drag Race. Nea now has an opportunity to move beyond lipsyncing to share his own voice with a huge new fanbase – but is his motherland ready to hear it?
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BEST KEPT SECRET
A film by Samantha Buck, Producer: Danielle DiGiacomo
In “Best Kept Secret,” a Newark, NJ teacher struggles to prepare her students with autism to survive in the brutal world that awaits them once they graduate.
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BETTING ON BLACK: THE STORY OF BLACK VEGAS
A film by Anita Womack
The History of Black Las Vegas is a documentary about African Americans in Las Vegas and their struggle to integrate the city. The city went from having no segregation laws to being called The Mississippi of the West to rescinding segregation in public establishments before most of the country. Segregation laws were the norm in most of the country, but what separated this community from the rest was the fact that this community held the key to the Las Vegas’ economic future. And, that gave them power.
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Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives
A film by Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore
From a 1970s hippie commune in rural Tennessee, world-famous midwife Ina May Gaskin and her colleagues sparked and sustained the revival of natural childbirth in America, inspiring a generation of women to understand birth as a safe and meaningful rite of passage. In today’s landscape of ever-increasing inductions and c-sections, Ina May continues to fight for a more intimate model of prenatal care--one that avoids unnecessary interventions, and respects the vital connection between a woman’s body and her emotional life.
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BLUE ALCHEMY: STORIES OF INDIGO
A film by Mary Lance
Indigo is a blue dye that has been used worldwide for millennia; a vibrant color laden with symbolic meaning; a commodity that was once central to international trade and colonial economies; and the reason that blue jeans are blue. BLUE ALCHEMY is an hour-long documentary videotape that will explore the history and importance of indigo, weaving stories about geography and culture, interviews with artists, artisans, and historians, and images of villagers using indigo into a video tapestry.
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BORDER GIRLS
A film by Brittany Huckabee
Asha and Nirmala are young Nepali women who operate a surveillance unit on their country’s southern border. Working alone out of makeshift wooden booths, they rescue up to 200 girls every month—literally snatching them from the hands of traffickers headed to India. Set against this dramatic backdrop, BORDER GIRLS (w.t.) delves into the lives of these two young women and into the heart of their culture, providing a unique look at how human trafficking happens and how it can be stopped
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Bordering on Treason
A film by Trish Dalton
Bordering On Treason tells the amazing story of Lorna Tychostup, a single mother and photojournalist who travels to Iraq eight times over eight years to put a human face on a horrific global tragedy. Visiting military units and Iraqi families beyond the green zone, she evolves from naïve civilian to established journalist. Through Lorna’s personal journey, Treason explores the complexities of this war and the possibility of hope.
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THE BOY GAME
A film by Deirdre Fishel
American culture, spearheaded by the media, projects an image of manhood defined by aggression and toughness. Boys then enforce this “code” and non-compliance can result in devastating harrassment. This atmosphere not only makes boys oppress girls and terrorize gay youth, it makes boys who want to fit in (but are ambivalent about aggression) live in a state of conflict. Boys desperately need a way to talk about this gender straitjacketing to develop the resilience to stand up and redefine masculinity. Using a hard hitting dramatic scenario from "off the record" interviews, "Boy Code" will engage boys in meaningful discussion about the often secretive, aggressive world they live in. The director's video on teen dating violence won a 2005 Cine Golden Eagle.
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BREAKING IN TWO
A film by Sabine Sighicelli
Feature documentary Breaking in Two follows Los Angeles curator and mother Bruria Finkel, and filmmaker-mother Sabine Sighicelli, as they build the first group exhibition to challenge societal perceptions and representations of motherhood through the visual, performing and written arts. The film highlights the remarkable stories of a cross-generational and multi-cultural group of artist-mothers whose art is the starting point for this exploration into the mother’s psyche and into our culture’s conditioning.
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BURNT ORANGES
A film by Silvia Malagrino
'Burnt Oranges' is an experimental documentary about the long-term effects and repercussions, personal and social, of Argentina's 1970's state terrorism. Juxtaposing an intimate first person witness narration with interviews, documentary, and re-created footage, issues of memory, historical time, identity, love, loss and accountability emerge. Vividly depicting contemporary life in the city of Buenos Aires, and recalling events surrounding the time of military repression in the '70s, 'Burnt Oranges' presents compelling accounts of resistance and transformation.
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THE CANTINERA
A film by Ruth Villatoro
Twenty to thirty beers a night, five nights a week; that is the job description of a cantinera. A cantinera is a woman who is hired to drink with the male clients of a Latin Bar or Cantina. Typically undocumented, they are forced or lured into the lifestyle of quick easy money that leads to a cycle of addiction and abuse. The Cantinera is a documentary about three cantineras who struggle for their dignity, love and sobriety.
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THE CAUSE OF PROGRESS
A film by A film by Chris Kelly
At present more than 250,000 people in Cambodia live under threat of forced evictions, land grabbing and land disputes. The Cause of Progress puts a human face on this widely ignored human rights issue, following several characters at various stages of the eviction process. The Cause of Progress touches upon, without underlining, the related issues that plague a country still dealing with the scars of genocide HIV/AIDS, child labor, drug addiction, tourism, big business, and government corruption.
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CHANGING FACE OF HARLEM
A film by Shawn Batey
A one-hour documentary focusing on the current revitalization of Harlem told from the perspective of residents and small business owners. This film looks at how residents confront the economic transformation of their community and how it directly affects them. “Changing Face of Harlem” explores the pride, love, and commitment these Harlem residents carry towards their community and their concerns for its future direction. Subject matters including employment, landmark preservation, Black economics, real estate, and early community development are examined in the film.
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CHANGING THE CONVERSATION (Formerly Guns, Grief and Grace: Emerging Conversations)
A film by Janet Fitch
The Guns, Grief and Grace in America three-part documentary series reframes the gun violence debate in our country from one of Second Amendment rights to that of public health prevention. The two completed films and their accompanying education pieces have made a significant community impact; generating non-polarized, solution-based discussions with diverse audiences. In doing this, we pave the way to reclaim the public sphere for discussion of a complex societal topic relevant to diverse communities across the country.
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CHEER
A film by Mary Olive Smith, Flying Pup Productions
CHEER follows the challenges and triumphs of a one-of-a-kind cheerleading squad called the Sparks. Based in the small, working-class town of Lyndhurst, NJ, the Sparks have a broad range of special challenges from autism to Down’s syndrome, and they perform in the fierce world of competitive cheer seeking a way to fit in and to feel normal. Their joy is infectious, their bravery—inspirational. But, the day-to-day challenges are daunting on the mats and behind the scenes. CHEER brings a pressing social issue to audiences opening hearts and minds to the last segregated community in America – the developmentally disabled.
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CLASS TRIP
A film by Sarah Gyllenstierna
Class Trip is a short fiction film based on a story by acclaimed author Victor LaValle. With humor and tenderness the film captures the fear and confusion experienced by 15-year old Anthony as he falls in love for the first time - with the much-older Trisha, 16. Class Trip has received funding from New York State Council on the Arts and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and will screen for youth audiences including teen members of Planned Parenthood and Lower Eastside Girls Club.
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CLOSE YOUR EYES
A film by A film by Sonia Malfa
At thirteen, Imani is a gifted photographer, burgeoning with talent and a desire to experience first love. She has a crush on a quiet, gentle giant named Junito (15), who visits her on the playground where she takes pictures. But Imani faces a great challenge, she is slowly loosing her vision to an eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Close Your Eyes is a short narrative film that follows Imani as she takes the transformative first steps from adolescence into young adulthood.
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THE COMMANDMENT KEEPERS
A film by Marlaine Glicksman
THE COMMANDMENT KEEPERS is a one-hour documentary on the Commandment Keepers Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation, a highly observant African American synagogue founded in 1919 in Harlem, where it continues today, several generations later. The film is the dramatic story of a people caught between two worlds, Black and Jewish, a minority’s minority, struggling to hold on to its faith and identity despite the obstacles.
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CRAWLING AT NIGHT
A film by Kimi Takesue
Inspired by the acclaimed novel by Nani Power, CRAWLING AT NIGHT is a feature film that explores an unexpected love affair between two lonely people, each of whom has experienced devastating loss. Koji, a Japanese master ice sculptor, and Mariane, a waitress and aspiring singer, meet in the shadows of New York City where they struggle to connect and move forward with their lives.
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THE CYCLE (Formerly Surrogate and Me)
A film by Irina Vodar
A love story in the age of reproductive technologies. The Cycle, a full-length vérité-styled documentary, generates the forward pull of surreal suspense as it follows the filmmaker and her husband on their journey into the maze of ART (Assisted Reproduction Technologies) in search of fertility. What transpires is a glimpse into the very fabric of reality.
Shot on locations in India, US, France, and Russia.
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DAISY BATES: FIRST LADY OF LITTLE ROCK ( IN THE SHADOW OF LITTLE ROCK: THE LIFE OF DAISY BATES)
A film by Sharon LaCruise
In The Shadow of Little Rock: The Life of Daisy Bates is a 90-minute documentary film about the cost of standing up to the status quo and what happens to a leader after the fight is finished, the victory won, and the people have moved on. This film will chronicle the life of civil rights activist and newspaper publisher Daisy Bates, a pioneer feminist in the school desegregation movement. In Little Rock in 1957, Bates challenged a governor, a president and a divided nation to live up to its promise. Unconventional, revolutionary and egotistical, Bates reaped the rewards of instant fame but paid dearly for it.
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DANCE AROUND THE POOL
A film by Stephanie Rauber
A first generation Latino American woman confronts her incestuous father. In an attempt to comprehend him, she exposes surprising accounts of an entire family abused.
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THE DEFECTOR: ESCAPE FROM NORTH KOREA
A film by Fathom Film Group
This filmmaker goes undercover to follow several North Koreans and aid workers on their journey to freedom across Asia into Europe and hopefully to North America. Up to 300,000 North Koreans have fled their country and are in hiding in Asia today. The film is an intimate portrait of real people caught in this human rights crisis, featuring a unique POV aesthetic that will be shown on several platforms: a Feature Film, an Interactive Website, and mobile applications.
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Diane Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel
A film by Lisa Immordino Vreeland
DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL captures the world of fashion icon and cult figure Diana Vreeland, who transformed life into an adventure and revolutionized fashion. She launched Twiggy, advised Jackie O, and coined some of fashion’s most eloquent proverbs such as, “the bikini is the biggest thing since the atom bomb.”
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DREAMTOWN
A film by Betty Bastidas
An impoverished Afro-Ecuadorian town is home to Ecuador’s top soccer talent—yet even after 2002’s World Cup, it remains marginalized by the same people that celebrate their athletes.
DreamTown follows three Afro-Ecuadorian players as they pursue their dream to play professional soccer. The dreams of a pro, a protégé, and a novice collide as these Afro-Ecuadorians perform for community, national, and international audiences in hopes of bringing home more than just a medal—their salvation.
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DRESSED LIKE KINGS
A film by Stacey L. Holman
Husbands, fathers and breadwinners four Zulu men: Bhekizenzo Buthelezi, 49; Simon Khoza, 43; Adolphus Mbuyisa, 52; and Thulani Mbatha, 43 give a rare glimpse into their lives outside of the oswenka (to swank) competition. Dressed Like Kings will: disclose the mystique of swanking, see how it impacts the family, and witness the growing opposition which may very well effect the fate of this fifty-year old tradition within the Zulu culture.
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A DROP OF LIFE
A film by K. Shalini
A DROP OF LIFE is the story of two women, one of rural India and the other from the urban United States, and the convergence of their shared struggle for access to clean drinking water. Filmed and stylized as a futuristic science-fiction film, A DROP OF LIFE points a dynamic global visual eye on the impact of water privatization.
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DRY MOON
A film by Andrea DeGette
A southern drama that follows Gracie Lee, a child of the woods, as she is forced to become part of her small town society when she unexpectedly has twins and tries to raise them by her unorthodox means. The film defines a line between nature and civilization, and shows the barriers in between. DRY MOON questions the ethical code in this small town as it exposes the hypocrisy and double standard of its inhabitants.
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DYSLEXIAVILLE
A film by Peggy Stern
DYSLEXIVILLE.COM is a visually engaging and exciting Internet destination made for dyslexics by dyslexics. Dyslexiaville combines the social networking strategies of Facebook with YouTube’s video sharing capabilities, the shopping versatility of Amazon and the shared gaming experience of Club Penguin. It will be a home, safe haven, and launching pad to success for the approximately 1 in 5 children who live with dyslexia. At D-Ville, children with dyslexia will finally be part of a community created just for them.
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THE EAST WINDOW
A film by Jenny Carchman
The artist Kiki Smith and the architect Deborah Gans design, fabricate and install a sixteen-foot circular stained glass window and the final piece of a twenty-year restoration in the Eldridge Street Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in New York City. This documentary short captures the once-in-a-lifetime transformation while exploring the emotional, physical and intellectual experiences of spirituality. It highlights the significance of the building and its function as a religious and spiritual refuge for Jewish immigrants since the early 1900s.
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EVERY DAY IS A HOLIDAY
A film by Theresa Loong
Chinese-American filmmaker Theresa Loong creates an intimate portrait of her father, a man fifty years her senior. In this documentary, we explore the bonds of the father-daughter relationship and place themes of growing older, immigration and racism in the context of "living history." Paul Loong talks of his experiences as a POW in Japan and his subsequent quest to become an American. We discover why, despite much suffering, "Every Day Is a Holiday."
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EVERY THREE SECONDS
A film by Director/Producer: Daniel Karslake, Producers: Helen Mendoza/Michael Huffington
Every Three Seconds is a documentary that explores an ordinary individual's capacity to change the world. The film profiles 5 ordinary people between the ages of 7 and 70 who are making a significant impact on solving some of the world’s seemingly insurmountable problems - hunger, poverty, violence against women, healthcare, natural disaster. Through these shared experiences, audiences will discover the blinding potential in each one of us to do great things to change the world.
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EX LIBRIS
A film by Melissa Hacker
EX LIBRIS is an animated documentary film tracing the vanished world of the ex libris collection my grandfather Marco Birnholz commissioned, created and lost in Vienna, Austria between the two world wars. EX LIBRIS will explore the intimate, intricate, universe, parallel to his everyday life as a neighborhood pharmacist, that he created in his ex libris collection, and the exploding world he recorded in his diaries.
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FARMING IN PERU (formerly Learning from Peru: Where Has All Our Biodiversity Gone?)
A film by Sharon Genasci
A 60 minute documentary that looks at Peruvian farming and biodiversity and at the small organic farming movement in the U.S., whose approaches follow practices from Peruvian culture over 10,000 year old. Filmed at 12,000 feet in the Altiplano and jungle areas, and working with Frederique Apffel-Marglin, a Smith College anthropologist, the film addresses food and how it is grown in today's world of undernourished and hungry people.
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FIGHT LIKE A GIRL
A film by Jill Morley
Girl In The Ring is a feature-length, first person documentary that goes inside the world of female boxers to meet the women who are passionate about fighting hard. In portraying these women and the world of boxing, Girl In The Ring sensitively captures the adversity the women face, and tells a larger story about abuse, trauma, sexism, and finally – healing.
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THE FIRE THIS TIME
A film by Blair Doroshwalther
On a summer evening in the West Village of New York City, seven young women from New Jersey were verbally threatened and physically attacked by a twenty-nine-year-old man. In a not uncommon travesty of justice, the NJ7 were sent to prison for defending themselves. The Fire This Time gives voice to the NJ7, while also revealing in devastating detail how the media, homophobia, and racism all work together in American culture to stigmatize and victimize gay people of color.
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FLAT DADDY
A film by Nara Garber, Betsy Nagler & Peggy Sutton
As military families across America endure the repeated deployment of loved ones to Iraq and Afghanistan, many have attempted to fill the void with "Flat Daddies," life-sized cardboard cutouts of their husbands, wives, sons, and daughters serving overseas. Using these two-dimensional surrogates as a connecting thread, the documentary film Flat Daddy follows five such families over the course of a year to reveal the lasting impact of the war on those left behind.
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FOUNDRY 47 FOUNDATION
Foundry 47 Foundation envisions an Africa free from the fear of assault rifles. Its mission is to reduce the number and impact of assault rifles in Africa. It achieves this mission by funding NGO programs to remove and destroy these weapons from conflict and post conflict societies in that continent. To date, it has funded the destruction of more than 10,000 assault rifles. Your assistance will help the foundation do more to make tangible progress.
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FOUR
On the Fourth of July in Hartford, June, a sixteen year old white boy, meets up with Joe, a closeted, married black man he's met over the Internet. On the same night, in the same city, Abigayle, this man's sixteen-year-old daughter agrees to go out with Dexter, a twenty-year old low-level drug dealer. In and around the city, on the American night of independence, these two couples get to know each other, moving from strangers to intimates. In lonely landscapes of movie theaters, fast food restaurants, darkened churches and public parks, they discover the limits of desire and the possibilities for transcendence.
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FREE ANGELA
A film by Shola Lynch
“Free Angela” traces the events and politics that catapulted Angela Davis, a 26-year-old UCLA philosophy lecturer, into becoming a global political icon. Labeled a terrorist, put on trial for her life, she also inspired a global movement for her freedom. Acquitted on all charges in 1972, Angela tells her story.
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FROM BAGHDAD TO BROOKLYN
A film by Jennifer Utz
At the height of the Iraq war, Shiite Leader Ayatollah ali al-Sistani issued a fatwa against homosexuals. Mohamed, a 24-year-old gay man from Baghdad, was forced to flee his home. American journalist Jennifer Utz crosses paths with the eccentric former model and gradually becomes drawn into the whimsical world he creates to escape his harsh reality. From his life in exile to his new start in New York City, Utz chronicles Mohamed’s journey and the unlikely friendship that emerges.
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Funny Business
A film by Lyda Ely
What compels a person to cartoon? And what does it take to publish in The New Yorker magazine? Celebrated artists open their studio doors in this poignant exploration of a rarely examined art -- fueled by the filmmaker’s personal relationship with cartooning legend Charles Addams, and her late mother’s life-long quest to follow in Addams’ footsteps.
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GENOME: THE FUTURE IS NOW
A film by Marilyn Ness
Genome: The Future is Now will be a six-hour cinema verite documentary series with exclusive access to the PGP (personal genome project) and its volunteers. The series will weave the compelling, unprecedented, and often unexpected personal experiences of the PGP volunteers and scientists and follow the emerging challenges arising almost daily for the leading scientists and doctors on the frontlines of genomics and ethics.
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GIDEON'S ARMY
A film by Dawn Porter
What it is truly like to work as a public defender? Long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads are so common that even the most committed often give up in their first year. Overworked and underpaid, even the criminal defense lawyers who want to provide competent defense struggle to keep up.
Jonathan Rapping, founder of the Southern Public Defender Training Center has dedicated his career to mentoring the lawyers who represent the people society would rather forget. Can he make a difference?
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A GIRL AND A GUN
A film by Cathryne Czubek
A riveting documentary investigating the realities of female gun ownership and the wide-ranging effects of guns on women's lives in a rapidly shifting gun climate in America. The film unravels the stories of four women who each share a unique relationship with guns; their motivations shedding light on rarely discussed contemporary women's issues. Penetrating well beyond the Hollywood image of the armed female, this documentary illuminates the clash between societal ideas of womanhood and gun ownership in the US.
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The Global Village Project
A film by Ella Jane New and David Rey
The Global Village Project follows the lives of 30 refugee girls who attend the Global Village School In Atlanta GA, as they tell their tragic but uplifting and often homorous stories of their journey from life in refugee camps all around the world to their new lives in the USA, and the struggles and hopes they face from adjusting to American culture, entering the public school system, and the opportuinty for an education at the Global Village School.
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GOOD PEOPLE GO TO HELL, SAVED PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN ( Formerly LEFT BEHIND IN LOUISIANA)
A film by Holly Hardman
Good People Go To Hell, Saved People Go To Heaven explores Rapture culture against the backdrop of America's hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast. The film focuses on Christians who believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible. To them the End Times are imminent -- when Jesus returns to "rapture them,” and the rest of humanity remains on earth to suffer the wrath of a vengeful God. With an objective eye, the film scrupulously questions the motives behind and consequences of fundamentalist/evangelical Christianity in today's world.
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GRACE PALEY: COLLECTED SHORTS
A film by Lilly Rivlin
Grace Paley—literary giant, national treasure, activist, teacher, mother and wife. Her short stories have been translated into 92 languages. This documentary will trace the life of this ordinary New York woman with extraordinary talent for poetry and prose through her own voice via her stories and the stories of her family, friends, colleagues and critics.
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THE GREAT INVISIBLE
A film by Margaret Brown
Peabody-Award winner Margaret Brown's new film THE GREAT INVISIBLE is a documentary thriller that goes undercover to reveal the hidden dramas behind the BP Oil Spill.
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THE GREATER GOOD (formerly THE VACCINE MOVIE)
A film by Leslie Manookian, Kendall Nelson and Chris Pilaro
The Greater Good looks behind the fear, hype and politics that polarize people into emotionally charged pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine camps with no room for middle ground. Exploring the cultural intersection where parenting meets modern medicine and individual rights collide with politics, this character driven documentary weaves together the stories of three families whose lives have been forever changed by vaccination. By reframing the vaccine debate and offering, for the first time, the opportunity to have a rational and scientific discussion on how to create a safer and more effective vaccine program in America today, The Greater Good challenges viewers to think again.
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GREEN BANANAS
A film by Purcell Carson
What happens when the meanest company in agribusiness decides to turn over a new leaf? Chiquita Banana lived most of the 20th century as a despised giant. But the last decade has brought new ideas to its fields and boardrooms. A compelling cast of labor activists, environmentalists and farm managers have formed a fragile alliance and together learned to grow better bananas. Their work-and the film that documents it-shows new potential for corporate social responsibility.
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Greetings from Asbury Park
A film by Christina Eliopoulos
Angie, 91, lived through three decades of rust, riot and ruin in Asbury Park, the one-time postcard paradise. Now the tiny bungalow that she has called home, for half her life, will be seized by eminent domain.
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GRINGO TRAILS
A film by Pegi Vail and Melvin Estrella. Directed by Pegi Vail.
This documentary explores the tourism industry's pioneers--backpackers, and their long term impact on the economies and cultures of the developing world through their most important souvenirs... their stories. It investigates the relationships that arise when different cultures collide yet need one another: host countries looking for economic opportunities and travelers seeking authentic experiences. Filmed in Mali, Burkina Faso, Bolivia, and Thailand.
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Habibi Rasak Kharban
A film by Susan Youssef
Habibi Rasak Kharban (My Darling, Something's Wrong With Your Head) is a feature film project that is a modern retelling of the classical Arabo-Islamic tragic romance Majnun Layla. The Habibi Project serves as a bridge for understanding contemporary conflict, and as an illumination of the multi-textured character of Islamic civilization.
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THE HAND OF FATIMA
A film by Augusta Palmer
In 1971, NY Times music critic Robert Palmer was adopted by a Moroccan Sufi brotherhood, the Master Musicians of Jajouka. 35 years later, his daughter visits the Master Musicians in their remote village to find out who her father really was and how the music of Jajouka changed his life. Filmmaker Augusta Palmer examines her father's musical, mystical and personal legacy in this extended road trip from the American South to Morrocco's Rif Mountains.
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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
A film by Katherine Brann Fredricks
Harriet Beecher Stowe was the best paid author of her day, male or female, American or European. Abraham Lincoln credited her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, with starting the Civil War. "Uncle Tom" then entered the vernacular as a racial slur. 2011 was the 200th anniversary of Stowe's birth, yet no documentary on her exists. An Emmy winning cinematographer & editor, & two Pulitzer Prize winning authors are on the team videotaping Stowe's life story. Image courtesy of Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive.
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Hecate And Trinlay
A film by Melissa Hacker
Award winning filmmaker Melissa Hacker explores Tibetan Buddhism in her new film. This is a film about choice, destiny and rise of Tibetan Buddhism in the west as lived by one American woman and her son, who, when he was thirteen months old, was recognized as the reincarnation of a Tibetan Buddhist lama.
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HENRY, GRETA
A film by Jenny Lim
When their father goes missing, eleven-year-old Greta and her little brother Henry go looking for him -- only to fall into greater danger. At heart, Henry and Greta is a coming-of-age story about a young girl who is forced, too young, to protect her brother from the dangers of the adult world.
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HERE ONE DAY
A film by Kathy Leichter
HERE ONE DAY tells the story of the filmmaker's mother, Nina, a charismatic teacher, poet, mother of two, and the wife of a New York State Senator. After twenty years of rapid mood swings between mania and depression and a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, Nina committed suicide at age sixty-three. The film re-traces the circumstances that brought Nina to take her own life and intimately portrays the members of her family in the aftermath of her death. Shot by Kirsten Johnson, winner of the 2010 Excellence in Cinematography Award at The Sundance Film Festival, this unsensationalized, beautiful film paints a captivating portrait of how people cope with mental illness, loss, and the possessions the dead leave behind, both real and emotional.
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THE HERETICS
A film by Joan Braderman
"The Heretics" is a feature-length experimental documentary film about the Women's Art Movement of the 70's in the USA, specifically, at the center of the art world at that time, New York City. Joan Braderman tells the story of the Heresies Collective which published HERESIES: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics from 1977-1992.
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HERMANAS DE FE (formerly FATE OF THE UNLEARNED)
A film by Cristina Kotz Cornejo
In this social thriller, a violent encounter on the streets of Mexico City destabilizes 19-year-old, prostitute, Luz Molina’s life, triggering an obsession with the American missionary who makes the ultimate sacrifice in her defense. In Spanish and English.
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HIDDEN BATTLES
A film by Victoria Mills
HIDDEN BATTLES is an intimate and powerful look at what it means to kill another human being during war, as told by men and women
who have pulled the trigger.
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HOMEGOINGS
A film by Christine Turner
A feature documentary that explores the African American funeral home - a 150 year-old institution that is now vanishing - through the eyes of a Harlem undertaker.
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HOONAH'S HEROES
A film by Samantha Farinella
During the Vietnam War, thirty-nine Tlingit men from the tiny village of Hoonah, Alaska saw combat. Thirty-eight came back alive, making Hoonah the American town with the highest per capita enlistment rate as well as the highest survival rate. While the soldiers were away, a new law prohibited village fishermen from acquiring greater catches than the year before – robbing retuning veterans of their livelihoods. This feature-length documentary traces the tension between the soldiers' prideful service and the racism they encountered at home.
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THE HOOPING LIFE
A film by Amy Goldstein
For perhaps the first time in recorded history, a kid’s toy, the hula-hoop, is spearheading an explosive subculture. Crossing cultural borders from South Central to South Africa, THE HOOPING LIFE chronicles the lives of a dozen “hoopers”, who overcome difficult circumstances to invigorate their communities. Hooping emerges as a vibrant affirmation of art, stirring hope for the disenfranchised.
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HOW TO LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY
A film by Therese Shechter
When a bridal consultant effusively tells filmmaker Therese Shechter, a 40-something sex-savvy feminist planning her first wedding, that she looks ‘virginal’ in a white wedding dress, it sets her on a journey to uncover why virginity still holds such importance in our otherwise hypersexualized American society. She engage a cast of abstinence ideologues, hymen repair specialists, sex educators, porn producers and teenage girls to help uncover the unexplored—and damaging—impact idealized, fetishized virginity has on young women.
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ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV DOCUMENTARY
A film by Amei Wallach
ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV: HOW TO MAKE A PARADISE probes art’s capacity to transcend oppression. Soviet-born luminaries, US immigrants Ilya and Emilia Kabakov prepare installations throughout Moscow, where his art was once forbidden, coming face to face with their catastrophic past in the dizzying present. Like the Kabakov’s evocative art, the feature-length documentary has the sweep of Russian novel and the intimacy of a family drama. It climaxes in 2012 with their “Ship of Tolerance” installation in Havana. The artists come full circle, bringing their message of hope and reconciliation to a Cuba still enmeshed in their Soviet past.
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IN EXILE
A film by Heather Tenzer
What’s causing some of the most observant Orthodox Jews of Jerusalem and New York to speak out on the streets around the globe against fellow Jews? IN EXILE tells the compelling story of Neturei Karta, a unique movement of Jews who support the Palestinian struggle for justice and oppose Jewish nationalism.
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IN THE NAME OF YESHUA
A film by Emma Mankey Hidem
In the Name of Yeshua explores the question, "Is it really possible to believe in Yeshua (Jesus) and remain Jewish?" Messianic Jews have endured persecution including physical assault, deportation from Israel, and being defined as a cult by the Jewish community. Yet some Messianic Jews invite the controversy, particularly the tendentiously named “Jews for Jesus,” who consistently anger the Jewish community with their confrontational proselytizing. Through the stories of individuals on both sides of this spiritual battle, the history, beliefs, controversy and future of Messianic Judaism will be revealed.
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INGRATAS (INGRATES)
A film by Florencia Davidzon
"Ingrates" examines the life and struggle of Marcelina Bautista, a young Oaxacan Mexican who, at the age of 12, was forced by her parents to work as a live-in maid in a home in Mexico City. Unable to speak Spanish initially and after overcoming many abuses at work, she became the President of household workers first in Mexico, and recently Latin American and the Caribbean. Today, she organizes maids, trains them in understanding their human rights in order to build their awareness, strengthen their voices, energize a movement that advocates for their justice and dignity and change labor laws.
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THE IRAQUI SEED PROJECT
Agriculture began in Iraq nearly 10,000 years ago with the cultivation of crops such wheat, barley and lentils; yet today the country must import the majority of its food and agricultural supplies. In a short film, interactive website and series of real life exchanges, The Iraqi Seed Project explores the agricultural heritage of Iraq from ancient times to the present.
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irena Sendler: In the name of their mothers (Formerly: IN THE NAME OF THEIR MOTHERS, THE STORY OF IRENA SENDLER)
A film by Mary Skinner
Through the memories of 94-year-old Irena Sendler, 'In the Name of Their Mothers' tells the unknown story of a secret network of Poles who fought to aid the Jews during World War II. Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, led an underground operation to rescue 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. The film recounts her youth as a Polish socialist, wartime conspiracy work, Gestapo arrest and imprisonment, and her ongoing efforts to heal the childhood wounds of war.
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ISABEL ROSADO: NATIONALIST (formerly OUR WOMEN, OUR STRUGGLE)
A film by Melissa Montero
At 102 years old, Isabel Rosado has become a revered symbol of colonial resistance in Puerto Rico and her life is a testament to the island’s unresolved struggle with political status, economic development, and century long struggle for independence. Isabel Rosado: Nationalist is an hour long documentary that chronicles the life of a humble woman who was ready to risk it all by dedicating her life to the Puerto Rican independence movement and as a result spent many years in prison.
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JESSICA GONZALES VS. THE U.S.A.
A film by April Hayes and Katia Maguire
In 1999, Jessica Gonzales' estranged husband abducted their three daughters in violation of a domestic violence restraining order. Jessica's repeated calls and visits to the police that night went unheeded. Nearly twelve hours after she first called the police, Jessica's estranged husband arrived at the police station and opened fire, and he was immediately shot and killed by the police. The bodies of the three girls were found in his bullet-ridden truck. Jessica's quest for answers and justice led her on a 10 year journey through the American legal system and beyond, and have turned her into an outspoken and charismatic advocate for victimized women and children everywhere. Jessica Gonzales vs. The United States of America is a feature-length documentary that follows the story of one woman, who in the wake of unspeakable tragedy and hardship embarks upon a journey to reclaim her voice and discover her own power to heal herself and others.
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JUST THE TIP OF FEMINISM (Formerly THE SOLIDARITY PROJECT)
A film by Golzar Naghshineh Selbe
This feature-length documentary highlights male feminists’ contribution to making this world a better place for women. It follows five men in their journey to develop a feminist identity and apply it to their lives. From the frat-boy athlete who discourages sexual bullying, to a musician who incorporates pro-feminist themes into his music, through the eyes of these men we see how feminism hasn’t castrated them, but challenges them to embrace a more positive masculinity.
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JUSTICE FOR MY SISTER
A film by Kimberly Bautista
Adela left home for work one day and never returned. She was beaten to death by an ex-boyfriend. Her story is hauntingly familiar in Guatemala, where over 4000 women have been brutally murdered since 2001. Her sister Rebeca is determined to see that the killer is held accountable. Rebeca braves Guatemala’s corrupt, victim-blaming justice system for two years. Transformed by her struggle, Rebeca emerges as a feminist leader in her rural community with a message for others: justice is possible.
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KASHMIR
A film by Vaishali Sinha and Madhuri Mohindar
‘Kashmir’ follows the lives of three young students as they strive to achieve their dreams in one of the most contentious and militarized regions in the world, Kashmir, India. The film presents notions of identity and self for a young generation that has lost its childhood to conflict but ultimately holds the key to determining Kashmir's future.
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KATHLEEN & EDDIE
Kathleen and Eddie is a documentary film that tells the story of three strangers connected by a single act of terrorism. It charts one woman's journey to transform the violence of her brother's murder at the hands of terrorists into a compassionate encounter with the women who killed him.
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KINGS PARK: STORIES FROM AN AMERICAN MENTAL INSTITUTION
A film by Lucy Winer, Co-produced by Lucy Winer & Karen Eaton
On June 21, 1967, at the age of 17, Lucy Winer was committed to the female violent ward of Kings Park State Hospital following a series of failed suicide attempts. Over 30 years later, now a veteran documentary filmmaker, Lucy returns to Kings Park for the first time since her discharge. Her journey back sparks a decade-long effort to face her past and learn the story of the now abandoned institution that once held her captive. Her meetings with other former patients, their families, and the hospital staff reveal the painful legacy of our state hospital system and the crisis left by its demise.
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THE KIVALINA PROJECT
A film by Gina Abatemarco
The Kivalina Project is a character driven documentary film that takes us to the island of Kivalina, Alaska where climate change isn’t about going ‘’green’’ but about survival, The film intimately follows the struggles of our characters for whom climate change is a matter of survival, as they desperately look for ways to preserve their home and their culture.
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Ladies' Rooms Around the World
A film by Maxi Cohen
Since 1980, I have been photographing and videotaping ladies rooms. From the Aboriginal Outback to Tel Aviv, Bombay to Rio, the lens captures vulnerable moments where a plethora of the Secrets of Women is disclosed. This year I filmed shorts at Burning Man and a Sexuality Conference. Each short film is very different, ranging from social outcry to celebration. The project includes photography, film, a book, museum exhibitions, and an interactive website designed for exchange and change.
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THE LIST
A film by Beth Murphy
THE LIST is a modern-day Oskar Schindler story that focuses on Kirk Johnson, a young American fighting to save thousands of Iraqis whose lives are in danger because they worked for the U.S. to help rebuild Iraq. After leading reconstruction teams in Baghdad and Fallujah, Kirk returns home only to discover that many of his former Iraqi colleagues are being killed, kidnapped or forced into exile by radical militias. Frustrated by government bureaucracy in the U.S., Kirk begins compiling a list of their names and helps them find refuge and a new life in America.
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LOOK AT US NOW, MOTHER! (Formerly MY NOSE THE BIGGER VERSION)
A film by Gayle Kirschenbaum
In MY NOSE, Gayle Kirschenbaum focuses on her mom’s quest to get her to have a nose job. Barely touching the surface of their highly complex and charged relationship, Kirschenbaum knew it needed deeper exploration. The poignant journey is told in her new film, MY NOSE: THE BIGGER VERSION. What emerges is a uniquely cinematic family study with humor and pathos in the midst of conflicts and affections that bind mother and daughter. It is an enlightening and inspirational film.
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LOVE AND MONSTER TRUCKS
A film by Cristina Ibarra
A feature-length narrative film that follows the return home of a Chicana art student. Sexual tension blossoms between Impala and Letty, old high school friends, as they cruise in a lifted 4x4 truck, the streets of the US-Mexico borderlands, in a story blending animation, drama and fantasy.
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LUCKY (Formerly A Lucky Year)
A film by Laura Checkoway; Produced by Neyda Martinez
Despite having grown up in a foster and welfare system that makes her feel like a nobody, Lucky Torres has big dreams of becoming somebody. Masking herself in tattoos, the defiant Bronx lesbian has forged an identity all her own and now she wants the world to know about her will to survive.
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THE MAD COW INVESTIGATOR
A film by Nancye Good & Charlotte Buchen
The film's story follows Janet Skarbek, a wife, mother and accountant from New Jersey in her new role as a self-proclaimed "Mad Cow Investigator". Janet is independently investigating the deaths in her area that she believes form a disease cluster and uncovering alarming information about meat production and government policy nationwide.
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MAESTRA (TEACHER)
A film by Catherine Murphy
Maestra tells the story of eight women, who as teenage girls taught on the 1961 Literacy Campaign in Cuba, where 250,000 volunteer teachers taught more than 700,000 illiterate adults learned to read and write in one year. Over half of the teachers - and students - were women. This film looks at a controversial and transformative time through the eyes of the women teachers, and explores how this experience changed their sense of themselves and what they saw as possible.
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MAINE-LAND
A film by Miao Wang
MAINE-LAND is a story about three adolescents from China’s emerging upper-middle class coming of age in an American prep school. Set against the backdrop of capitalist China as a rising superpower, their fresh and humorous adventures span from Chinese metropolises to rural Maine, from a collectivist upbringing to individualist angst. While their stories begin with a search for competitive advantage and a “superior” education, their perceptions distort and evolve into dreams of their own as they adjust to their new life. But will they be able to reconcile these dreams with the life they came from and may return to?
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THE MARINA EXPERIMENT- Chapter II
A film by Marina Lutz
THE MARINA EXPERIMENT is a short documentary about parental voyeurism and psychological abuse, culled from
an astonishing one-of-a-kind archive of over 10,000 photographs, super 8 films and audiotapes made of the
director by her father in 1960’s and 1970’s Manhattan and left behind after his death. Chapter II will nestle the short
into more of the existing material, combined with viewer attacks, confessions, reviews and new narration, to continue
the dialogue that the short film brought to the surface.
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Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
A film by Carol Bash
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band is a story of tragedy and triumph seen through the eyes of a prodigy. From World War I through the Vietnam War, from the birth of jazz to the height of rock and roll, we journey the 20th century through the lens of one of its leading musical innovators who is determined to create in a world that could not see past her race or gender.
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MATCH+: A Story About Love in the Time of HIV
A film by Priya Giri Desai and Ann S. Kim
How do you find love and marriage when you are HIV-positive? And how do you do that in India, where marriage is a must but HIV/AIDS is unspeakable? MATCH+ is a character-driven documentary film chronicling the personal stories of men and women looking for mates (often while keeping their HIV status a secret), and the matchmakers who help them.
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MEAT HOOKED!
A film by Suzanne Wasserman
Meat Hooked! is a documentary about meat and the rise and fall and rise again of butchers and butchering. As cities become more alike, there is a yearning to go back to a seemingly more authentic time, to a time when a sense of place was concrete, not virtual. Butchers and butcher shops fit into that yearning. It allows the consumer to have more control over what we eat and a face to face experience in an increasingly virtual world.
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MEET BESS
A film by Nicole Franklin
When twenty-one year old Anne Brown walked into George Gerswhin's apartment to audition for his opera about a black man named Porgy, she sang her way into history as the woman known as Bess. Finalist for the IFP Gordon Parks Award for Emerging Directors.
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MINOR DIFFERENCES
A film by Heather Dew Oaksen and Caroline Cumming
Simple differences may separate the adolescent boy who does crazy, immature things from the adolescent boy in prison. For instance, the neighborhood he lives in. Or one influential adult who pays attention. Or having a better sense of which lines not to cross. MINOR DIFFERENCES chronicles the fifteen-year post-prison journey of 5 former juvenile offenders. Their first-person commentaries shed light on why and how jail exacts a long-term, often lifetime, toll on youth who grow up behind bars.
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MOTHERS OF A NATION
Documentary about a group of empowered Ugandan women living with HIV and their fight for survival through sustainable farming methods. Narrated by Florence, a 55-year-old woman who has been living with the virus for over 13 years, the story follows the lives and histories of four Ugandan women of different ages who have all been diagnosed with HIV and have decided to seek treatment. These women see their only opportunity for survival is through agriculture and unity. Their stories of betrayal and suffering unfold, ultimately leading to voices of strength and hope thanks to the gardens and womenÍs support group. Mothers of a Nation leads you into their world, through their eyes and with their voices.
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MR. ANGEL
Mr. Angel chronicles the extraordinary life of transgender activist, educator and porn pioneer, Buck Angel. His in-your-face style of activism has audiences outraged by his insistence that he is simply "a man who has a vagina." Buck has spent a lifetime facing relentless opposition and yet, lives his truth with no apology. The feature-length documentary explores the source of his unwavering message of self acceptance and his drive to publically confront the male/female binary head on. This is a story of amazing perseverance and an unlikely hero. In post-production.
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Mr. SOUL! Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV
A film by Melissa Haizlip
Before Oprah – before Arsenio – there was Mr. SOUL! From 1968-73, America got “SOUL!” – television’s first “black Tonight Show.” The film celebrates the groundbreaking PBS series from its genesis to its eventual loss of funding against the backdrop of a swiftly changing political and social landscape, while profiling Ellis Haizlip, the charismatic man behind one of the most culturally significant and successful television shows in U.S. history.
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THE MYSTERY OF MARIE JOCELYNE AND THE QUEENS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
A film by Martha Shane and Dan Nuxoll
The Mystery of Marie Jocelyne and the Queens International Film Festival tells the astonishing story of Marie Castaldo, a French woman who has been accused of being a con artist and of running fraudulent film festivals and film companies in the United States for nearly thirty years. Through in-depth interviews with Marie herself, as well as short vignettes telling the unbelievable stories of the people who claim to have fallen victim to her schemes (including co-director Dan Nuxoll), The Mystery of Marie Jocelyne uses the filmmakers’ voyage of discovery to structure the film as a suspense-filled mystery.
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NEW AMERICAN GIRLS
A film by Mitch Teplisky
A collaborative New Media project about smart young women on their way to careers in medicine, science, journalism and more -- if they don't get deported first. These are the "Dreamers" -- students who grew up in the USA but born elsewhere, and lack documentation to qualify for college loans or legally work. They are part of a national movement fighting for the Dream Act, legislation that would give them a pathway to citizenship and hope for the future.
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NO JOB FOR A WOMAN: THE WOMEN WHO FOUGHT TO REPORT WORLD WAR II
A film by Michele Midori Fillion
Dickey Chapelle wanted to be so close to the action that she could feel the bullets whizzing by her head. Ruth Cowan wanted to report the first draft of history. Martha Gellhorn wanted to change the course of history. All three women were accredited to report WWII. But there was a catch. The military and journalism establishments prohibited women war reporters from the frontlines – the place where careers and front-page stories are made. The women had to find the war story elsewhere. And they did -- forever changing the story of war.
Produced by Maria Agui Carter. Writers Maia Harris and Michele Midori Fillion. Executive Producers Jeanne Houck and Michele Midori Fillion.
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NOGUCHI
A narrative dramatic feature film on the life of renowned sculptor and artist, Isamu Noguchi.
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OLD SOUTH
A film by Danielle Beverly
"Old South" witnesses a 150 year old African-American community battle racism and gentrification, when a Confederate flag-flying college fraternity moves in and stages their yearly antebellum parade.
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THE OLD WORLD AND THE OLD WEST (Formerly COWBOYS, INDIANS, EUROPEANS (WILD WEST EUROPE)
A film by Riva Freifeld
This documentary tells the true story of the forgotten event that set off the worldwide fascination with the American West. In the 1890s, “Buffalo Bill” Cody and his “Wild West” toured Europe with real cowboys, Native-Americans, lady sharpshooters, live buffalo, stagecoach holdups, electricity, and more. Europeans were enthralled by visions of wide-open spaces, empowered women and endless possibilities. The West became a metaphor for freedom and a projection screen for European fantasies. And the European Western was born.
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OSCAR'S COMEBACK: FESTIVAL OF THE UNCONQUERED
A film by Lisa Collins and Mark Schwartzburt
The small, 99% white, rural town of Gregory, South Dakota recognizes its most famous citizen--a black man from the early 1900s--through the annual Oscar Micheaux Book & Film Festival. It celebrates the works of Micheaux: homesteader-turned-novelist-turned-filmmaker. Although far from a household name, he is arguably ‘the most prolific indie filmmaker to date’. Micheaux’ visionary idealism, race conscious-raising agenda and his endless struggle to leave his mark are all paralleled by this eclectic, ambitious, fledgling festival on the prairie. A candid, edgy and humorous look at the current state of race and “achieving the American Dream” is told through the eyes, minds and hearts of the Festival scholars, attendees and the very colorful locals of Gregory.
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PARIAH
A film by Dee Rees
Afraid of losing her best friend and destroying her family, a Bronx teenager juggles conflicting identities in a desperate search for sexual expression.
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PARTICLE FEVER
For nearly twenty years, physicists have been building the largest experiment in history, an experiment of such ambition and complexity that it has required the collaboration of 10,000 scientists from over 100 different countries. The Large Hadron Collider is a 17-mile ring buried beneath the countryside of Switzerland and France. Designed to smash trillions of protons together at nearly the speed of light, the LHC will recreate the extreme conditions that existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. What the LHC reveals could change our understanding of everything. Failure could leave us in the dark for generations to come. The documentary feature Particle Fever captures this unfolding drama by focusing on the personal stories of several of its key figures passionate, funny, brilliant spirits standing at the threshold of discovery. These modern adventurers have faced impossible technical challenges, risked careers, sacrificed personal relationships and continually struggled with government support in their single-minded quest to understand the nature of the universe.
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THE PASSAGE CHRONICLES
A film by Satoko Sugiyama
THE PASSAGE CHRONICLES is an interactive web documentary that tells intimate stories of female migrants from around the world. What made her seek a new world? What became of her old world? Who is she now? What is the meaning of home to her? Where is her home? The project explores women’s personal identity, understanding of gender roles and sense of belonging.
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THE PASSIONATE PURSUITS OF ANGELA BOWEN
A film by Jennifer Abod
The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen is a feature length documentary of “One Woman’s Passionate Pursuits”-Angela Bowen’s life legacy. Stories exploring the complexity of black women’s lives are rarely told; black feminists are seldom heard or seen; and black lesbians are practically invisible. We seldom see how the intersections of race, class, gender, age and sexuality manifests in one women’s life. How did Bowen keep her passions alive, even in the face of poverty and bigotry, and how have her decisions affected the lives of those closest to her?
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A PERSISTENT DESIRE
A film by Lenn Keller
A Persistent Desire is a 90 minute documentary film celebrating and affirming butch and femme identities and dynamics from a feminist perspective.
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PHILIP PEARLSTEIN: NAKED VISION (Formerly NOT MADE IN HEAVEN)
A film by Sarah Bauer and Jen Dietrich
Ironic, imperturbable, mischievous and fascinating, Philip Pearlstein's controversial creative vision continues to drive him forward, upstream against time and art history. In depth interviews with famous art world figures, Chuck Close, Richard Armstrong, Robert Storr, Pearlstein and others, help to reveal what is behind the man and his paintings.
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THE PIGEON GAME
A film by Annie Heringer
“The Pigeon Game” is a documentary on the disappearing culture of homing pigeon racing in New York City. Unknown to most people, there are still men and women who raise birds on their rooftops and race them from distances up to 600 miles. The scenes of Marlon Brando at his pigeon loft in “On the Waterfront” may have secured the sport in the history of the city, but “The Pigeon Game” proves that the tradition still exists today among a small but dedicated group of fliers.
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The Population Bomb
A film by Valentina Canavesio
The Population Bomb (working title) is a feature-length documentary film investigating the biggest unspoken issue of the 21st century.
Asking how the Earth can sustain 9 billion inhabitants by 2050, the film seeks to examine the various challenges to population growth and focus on solutions.
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Race to Zero City
A film by Helen Lowe, Cassy Soden and Cameron Hall
Race to Zero City is a new breed of activist filmmaking that aims to incite, document and accelerate a North American competition to create the first carbon neutral city by 2030. Seattle may be a front-runner, with an historic opportunity to develop new models of urban living and win the race, but can it overcome the major roadblocks to change? And will a critical mass of cities find solutions to the carbon problem in time for all of us to benefit?
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REJECT
A film by Ruth Thomas-Suh
Reject is the first documentary to examine the connection of social rejection to physical pain and to violence. From neuroscientists to broken-hearted moms, our lead characters are rejection experts, by choice or by fate, and will lead us on a journey from rejection to acceptance. The film is ultimately about human potential, and the price we pay as long as the impact of rejection is not understood and addressed.
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RESILIENCE
A film by Tammy Chu Tolle
A one-hour documentary film critically examines the issue of South Korea's international adoption system through the perspective of birth mothers. Lack of social welfare, women's rights and exploitation by adoption agencies have forced these women to give up their children, as well as the thousands of other children relinquished for adoption every year. For the first time, despite strong discrimination from their own society, birth mothers bravely come forward to tell their stories of loss, struggle, and ultimately, of courage and strength.
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Revisiting La Operacion (Formerly History of Puerto Rican Women's Reproductive Rights)
A film by Sabrina Aviles
In the early 20th century, propelled by a popular belief in a policy of eugenics, the U.S. proposed sterilization as a means of controlling the overpopulation in Puerto Rico. Over the years, it became a Puerto Rican woman’s preferred choice of “contraception.” It was so routine, it was called simply, la operación (the operation). “Revisiting La Operación” takes a nuanced look at sterilization’s impact on 20th century Puerto Rico by exploring the factors that led women to choose it as a means of birth control.
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THE ROAD TO FAME
A feature documentary about students at China's Top Drama Academy staging the American musical 'Fame.'
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Rocks in my Pocket (formerly A Guide to Survival)
A film by Signe Baumane
Rocks In My Pockets, an animated feature film, is a personal story about mental illness afflicting women in Signe’s family and her own encounters with suicide and depression. Despite the seriousness of the subject, the film is entertaining, funny and life affirming.
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SACRE
In celebration of the 2013 centennial of Vaslav Nijinsky's riot raising Sacre du Printemps, the film Sacre will focus on a mounting of the famous and historical ballet. Sacre will show behind-the scenes preparations and rehearsals of the Hamburg Ballet School up to an opening night performance of Sacre du Printemps. There will be a re-costuming of the dancers, which will provide a vital take on the choreography. Sacre du Printemps has commonly represented the fin de sicle by being the harbinger of modernity situated in the middle of what is referred to as a classical ballet. Revisiting this ballet with a contemporary eye and slightly different interpretation will allow a re-examination of the freshness and ingenuity that is Sacre du Printemps.
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SARAH JOSEPHA HALE AND THE GODEY GIRLS
A film by Dr. MJ Lewis
The documentary features Sarah Josepha Hale as editor of America's most popular 19th-century magazine for women, Godey's Lady's Book, known as the "Victorian Bible of the Parlor," and famous for its colorful hand-painted fashion plates. Hale's fifty-year editorial campaign for women's improvement promoted higher education, professionalism and social reform. The film will feature landmarks significant to Hale, listed in the United States Department of the Interior, National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
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SEA GYPSIES
A film by Olivia Wyatt
In SEA GYPSIES, ethnographic filmmaker Olivia Wyatt (Staring into the Sun) explores the culture of one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in Asia, the Moken of Thailand and Burma. Moken life revolves entirely around water, but a variety of sociopolitical groups are stripping the Moken of their indigenous beliefs. Shot in color and lyrically structured to feature Moken folklore as a central narrative device, SEA GYPSIES is an intimate verite portrait of the Moken, preserving their unique aquatic existence.
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THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO
A film by Ian Cheney
The Search for General Tso is a feature documentary tracing the origins of Chinese-American food through what is arguably America’s most popular takeout meal––General Tso’s chicken. An upbeat investigation of America’s love affair with Chinese food, grounded in scholarship on cultural and culinary history, The Search for General Tso leads viewers on a journey to answer a simple question: who was General Tso, and why do nearly 50,000 American restaurants serve a dish that bears his name?
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SERVICE: WHEN WOMEN COME MARCHING HOME
A film by Marcia Rock and Patricia Lee Stotter
SERVICE: When Women Come Marching Home, takes the audience on a journey from the deserts of Afghanistan to rural Tennessee and from Iraq to urban New York City. We move from Sue’s heart-rending story of losing her legs in combat, to Brigette’s description of her rape at the hands of a fellow service member, her depression and eventual homelessness. SERVICE shows women functioning as fully accepted and contributing members of the military contrasted against the devastating isolation and persecution of
military service personnel who report rape. These intimate portraits also focus on the unique challenges women face returning to their roles as mothers and wives while coping with PTSD and military sexual trauma. The film showcases the daunting challenges of navigating the VA benefits and health care system, as well as the rewards of service dogs and education to
help these veterans cope and heal.
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SHADOW GIRL
A film by Maria Teresa Larrain
In Shadow Girl, the director bravely opens up her journey into darkness as she goes blind, and shares it with the world. Shot from the director's point of view, the audience follows her as she enters into the unknown, fighting to keep her dignity and her voice as an artist, and searching for a new way to see the world. We bear witness as she struggles with her demons and meets her saviours. Shadow Girl is profound, nuanced and celebratory story of overcoming loss and rising from the ashes.
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A SILENT STORY: AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN BATTLE THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC
A film by Richelle F. Rogers
"A Silent Story" is a comprehensive look at the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African-American women -- an already disenfranchised segment of the U.S. population. The disease is the No. 1 killer of African-American women between the ages of 25-34, and many of these women are mothers. We talk about the HIV/AIDS numbers in Africa and China, but we have a silent epidemic in our own backyard -- especially in Washington, D.C., and the Deep South where one AIDS expert says the numbers "rival areas of Africa." And yet, no one is talking about it. "A Silent Story" finally gives these women a voice. The film examines the issue with an in-depth look into the lives of women who are carrying this burden in a society where the disease is still highly stigmatized and explores the socio-economic, medical and inter-personal implications associated with the disease.
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SMALL SMALL THING
A film by Jessica Vale
Caught between tribalism and democracy, a Liberian mother is at odds with her country after the brutal rape of her six-year-old daughter.
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SOME KIND OF SPARK
A film by Ben Niles
“Some Kind of Spark” is a feature-length documentary that follows underserved inner-city kids over a 2-year period in the Music Advancement Program at The Juilliard School. Independently produced and directed by Plow Productions, the film is an intimate look behind the scenes, from auditions to recitals, at home and in the classroom—as the students are exposed to, and inspired by, the profound impact of music.
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SOSW Ballet
A film by Anna Gaskell
UNTITLED BALLET is an experimental film that revolves around a performance by the children of the Special School in Podgorki (SOSW) in Poland. The film is choreographed by the SOSW children with instruction from Jessica Sand and directed by Anna Gaskell, using music from ballets such as Le Sacre Du Printemps, La Sylphide, Swan Lake, and La Bayedere, as well as others. SOSW is a 40-year-old academy and boarding school for children ages eight to 18.
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SPEED SISTERS
A film by Amber Fares
SPEED SISTERS traces the extraordinary story of the Middle East's first-ever all-women motor racing team. Set over the course of a year in the West Bank, Palestine, this feature length documentary will follow these women in their quest to be who they want to be. With the Speed Sisters' humour, warmth and determination leading the way, they will navigate the pressures of a year set to be a turning point for the region, for the team and in each of their lives.
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STAGESTRUCK: Confessions of a Theater Family
A film by Liz Argo
Ever wonder what it would be like to live with 30 temperamental young actors and actresses with only 2 bathrooms? Add to that the daunting task of raising three children while going through a grueling divorce onstage and offstage. Now add the glamorous grind of creating and delivering a different professional theatrical production every week and you’ve got “Stagestruck: Confessions of a Theater Family”. Liz Argo recreates the world she grew up in as the oldest child of a dramatically determined entrepreneurial mother.
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THE STARLITE PROJECT AKA WE CAME TO SWEAT (Formerly WE CAME TO SWEAT)
A film by Kate Kunath and Sasha Wortzel
We Came to Sweat is a feature length documentary about the oldest black-owned gay bar in Crown Heights Brooklyn. The Starlite Lounge, established in 1959, prior to desegregation and the Stonewall era, is fighting eviction and permanent historical erasure. This film follows the family and the community through their current struggle to save the Starlite and witnesses relationships amongst patrons, built across generational, racial, class, and lifestyle divides.
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STILL WE RISE
After 14 years of a brutal civil war the West African nation of Liberia is still rebuilding, but struggling against a silent and devastating adversary: trauma. For a population of more than 4 million there is only one practicing psychiatrist and one psychiatric hospital until now. Against extraordinary odds, a group of 21 newly certified mental health workers are setting out to heal widespread psychological trauma. Still We Rise follows these young men and women on a remarkable journey of healing, hope and promise for a broken nation.
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STRIKE DICE! BETTING ON MY FATHER (AKA Poker Daddy)
A film by Natalie Picoe
Strike Dice! Betting on my Father is the moving story of a daughter’s search to find her father -- an addicted gambler -- when he is reported missing in Las Vegas. With little information to go on, she eventually finds him, but he bears little resemblance to the father she once knew. Homeless, gaunt, and unwashed, he lives day-to-day on the streets of Las Vegas, and despite her best efforts, he is unwilling to acknowledge his addiction and accept the help he needs. Strike Dice!... chronicles director Natalie Picoe’s struggle to get her father off the streets and back into society, and to find acceptance with a less than perfect father, who still, nonetheless, is her one and only Dad.
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SUN COME UP
A film by Jennifer Redfearn
Sun Come Up is a lyrical documentary that follows the relocation of the first indigenous culture to lose their ancestral land to climate change – the Carteret Islanders, a community of 3,000 people living on a chain of low-lying islands in the South Pacific Ocean. For centuries, the islanders have lived simply by the sea without roads, electricity or running water. Now, however, a modern crisis has intruded upon them, and their idyllic community is faced with extinction. Climate change is destroying this far-flung island chain, and the islanders face three urgent problems: the islands are shrinking, the population is increasing, and access to food and water is decreasing. This is a story about the human face of climate change and a people faced with the loss of a land in which their identity rests. It’s a portrait of a community and a critical moment in history.
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SUPPLY AND DEMAND
A film by Beth Poague
SUPPLY AND DEMAND: UNCOVERING BREASTFEEDING IN AMERICA is a feature length documentary film that explores the medical, political, economic and cultural issues of breastfeeding in society today. Interwoven throughout the film, we will reveal the intimate stories of breastfeeding women and the people who support them
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THE SUPREME PRICE
A film by Joanna Lipper
Fifteen years after her mother’s assassination and the mysterious death of her father, M.K.O Abiola (Nigeria’s incarcerated President-elect), Hafsat Abiola returns to Lagos to assume a leadership role in the pro-democracy movement during Nigeria's pivotal 2011 elections. The logistics involved in holding a free and fair election in a diverse country of 150 million people are staggering and the conditions Nigerian women face are so dire that both Muslim and Christian female activists continue to be willing to sacrifice their lives risking incarceration and death to bring true democracy and gender equality to Nigeria.
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SWAMP CABBAGE
Swamp Cabbage is a dark and sweaty documentary about Hayley Downs, a half Cracker stuck in Brooklyn who survives love and loss by reclaiming her bizarre backwoods-meets-suburbia Florida past. In Florida, Cracker is a term of pride referring to the descendants of Florida pioneers known for their ability to survive in the treacherous Florida wilderness. It is often confused with but unrelated to the slur meaning ignorant bigot.
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SWEET DREAMS
A film by Lisa Fruchtman, Rob Fruchtman
In 1994, Rwandans suffered one of the worst genocides in history. Ten years later, theatre director Kiki Katese founded Ingoma Nshya, offering healing for women from both sides of the conflict. When Kiki met the owners of Brooklyn’s Blue Marble Ice Cream , she invited them to help Ingoma Nshya open the country’s first local ice cream shop. Ice cream, she stated, could be a symbol of joy in a country emerging from tragedy. Sweet Dreams follows this remarkable group of women as they create their own unique path to a future of peace and possibility.
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SWEET FEET
A film by Jackie Pare
Make way, hip-hop. America’s hottest new cultural export is tap dance. With this new generation of artists, tap has tossed aside the top hat and tails and taken a gritty and glorious turn. Its appeal transcends dance: tap is music and math and history. Witness the innermost rhythms and struggles - and the electrifying performances - of three of the world’s most gifted hoofers on a mission to restore tap to the limelight.
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TALES OF THE WARIA
A film by Kathy Huang
In the largest Muslim country in the world, Indonesia, lives a transgender population known as the waria. These biological men live openly as women, date “straight” men, and are a surprisingly visible presence in a culture normally associated with strict gender divides. TALES OF THE WARIA follows three waria over the course of a year as they reconcile issues of love, family, and faith. The final result is a moving, unexpected portrait of a community that dares to live differently from the norm, despite what tragic consequences may await them.
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TALLER THAN THE FUTURE / GROWING UP IN THE TENDER AGE OF PAKISTAN
A film by Susan Ricketts
TALLER THAN THE FUTURE INSTEAD/ GROWING UP IN THE TENDER AGE OF PAKISTAN is a 90-minute documentary that paints a realistic portrait of Pakistan though the lives of college-aged students from different economic classes and educational institutions in Lahore. as they strive to bring their dreams to adulthood. They struggle mainly with an unchanging culture, steeped in ancient beliefs and traditions. The stories of the individual students reveal the human struggle of a country at a dangerous crossroad. Will our students’ hopes and dreams for themselves, and for Pakistan, survive?
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TAPESTRY…TRANSJOURNEYS
A film by A film by Cindi Creager and Ranie Cole
A 90 minute documentary about people who are breaking gender norms. The film exposes the deep-rooted bias against the transgender community and attempts to dispel the most common misconceptions about gender variant people.
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TERRA BLIGHT
A film by Isaac Brown
Terra Blight is a feature-length documentary about America's consumption of computers and the hazardous waste we create in pursuit of the latest technology.
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THEY ARE ALL MY BROTHERS (Formerly THE IPO PROJECT)
A film by Nicole Opper
The Ipo Boys will follow a year in the life of several resilient, funny, and tough former street kids growing up in an innovative group home in Mexico. Abandoned to the streets for various reasons, they have all found their way to Ipo, a self-sufficient and environmentally sustainable home to 72 boys that is challenging the very idea of what a family can be.
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THINGS WE DON’T TALK ABOUT
A film by Isadora Gabrielle Leidenfrost
“Things We Don’t Talk About” is a groundbreaking 1-hr documentary that shows how the Red Tent, a red fabric space is empowering women and girls. The film documents the things women hide, the things that bring them pain and joy, and for many it is a place to be honest for the first time in their life. “Things We Don’t Talk About” seeks to humanize the stories in the red tent—to put a face on the space.
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THREE WOMEN
A film by Lisa F. Jackson
"Three Women: The Hidden Face of Colombia’s War" follows for almost 3 years the intertwined lives of Rosa, Sandra and Marcela, three unforgettable women living through one of this century’s most forgotten conflicts. They are all survivors of this war, displaced and starting over in a new city, helping each other fight for dignity and empowerment in the face of violence and fear and testing the limits of a system that holds out the promise of justice.
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THROUGH THE EYES OF A MOTHER
A film by Alexa Oona Schulz
Character-driven documentary that centers on two Los Angeles Latina mother’s intimate journey to overcome overpowering feelings of guilt and shame after learning that their teenage sons are murderers incarcerated for life. On a second level the film investigates how the once innocent and sweet kids could transform into gang-banging criminals. The story explores the hidden face of incarceration, and presents an unprecedented maternal perspective on the world of gang violence.
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TRANSFEMINISM
A film by Sam Feder, Jules Rosskam, Taylor Casey
Transfeminism follows the activism of four transgender women working for progressive change. Radical, fierce, and in command of their own lives, the subjects of this documentary are not the usual “victims” of stigma and exclusion. They work tirelessly and are succeeding in improving the lives of trans and gender variant people across the country. Transwomen have invaluable insights contributing to the continuation and growth of feminism and social and economic justice
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The Transhumanist Project
A film by Dina Guttmann and Toby Shimin
Our most universal fears are losing loved ones, aging badly, and dying painfully. The Transhumanist Project is a 90-minute documentary about the ability to accelerate human evolution through technology. The film focuses on The Transhumanists, a group of people who believe that current and future technologies should be used to augment the existing human condition and push humans into their next phase of evolution: greater mental ability, greater physical ability, and longer, perhaps eternal life-spans.
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TULSI, QUEEN OF HERBS (formerly Dhanwantri And Earth Democracy)
A film by Tish Streeten
'Dhanwantri' is a one hour documentary portrait of three women healers in India who are struggling against pharmaceutical companies and industrial development to regain control over their herbal medicines and the lands in which they grow. Almost every one of India's 7,000 species of medicinal plants is now either endangered, contaminated or has been patented. Without rights to their natural resources, traditional healers can not fulfill their obligations to their communities or to the spirit and natural worlds.
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TWIGA STARS: Tanzania's Soccer Sisters (Formerly MPIRA)
A film by Nisha Ligon
TWIGA STARS: Tanzania's Soccer Sisters follows the Twiga Stars, Tanzania’s national women’s football (i.e. soccer) team as they go through team selections and intensive training camps, and finally travel across the continent to Nigeria to meet the toughest competition they’ve ever faced. An energetic and intimate portrait of talented young women trying to make it as footballers in one of the world’s poorest countries.
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UNFINISHED SPACES (Formerly: Unfinished Spaces: Cuba's Architecture of Revolution)
A film by Alysa Nahmias
Unfinished Spaces (Espacios Inacabados) explores the Cuban Revolution through its most significant architectural achievement, the National Art Schools. It follows the lives of the architects of the schools, who have responded differently to 40 years of transformations in Cuba. The documentary traces the trajectory of the Revolution with this captivating symbol as guide. It asks whether the National Art Schools - endangered monuments - will receive the support they need.
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UNSPEAKABLE
A film by Sally Heckel
How do you live your life after your father kills himself? In "Unspeakable" (90 min, 16mm), filmmaker/daughter Sally Heckel excavates family memories, piecing them together with voiceover and images of subtle beauty in a profound meditation on death and survival.
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VERY SEMI-SERIOUS
A film by Leah Wolchok
Very Semi-Serious is an offbeat meditation on humor, art and the genius of the New Yorker cartoon. The film takes an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the 88-year old New Yorker and introduces the cartooning legends and hopefuls who create the iconic cartoons that have inspired, baffled—and occasionally pissed off— all of us for decades.
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VESSEL
A film by Diana Whitten
There is a ship that sails through loopholes in international law, providing abortions at sea for women with no other option. The captain, Rebecca Gomperts, and her organization Women on Waves, sail around the world to countries where abortion is illegal. They work with a global network of locally based activists to transport women 12 miles offshore, just outside of domestic jurisdiction, where onboard doctors provide safe, legal medical abortions. Their actions shock the church, infuriate the government, exhilarate the media, and provoke mass debate among the voting population, but break no laws. They hope, instead, to change law. Vessel tells the story.
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WAIT FOR ME
A film by Ross Kauffman
Wait For Me is the story of a mother's spiritual and emotional search for her sonäóîa ceaseless trek, propelled by an unconditional love and an unwavering belief that he may still be alive.
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WATCHERS OF THE SKY
A film by Edet Belzberg
WATCHERS OF THE SKY interweaves four modern stories of remarkable courage while setting out to uncover the forgotten life of Raphael Lemkin, the man who invented the word ‘genocide’. Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "A Problem From Hell," WATCHERS OF THE SKY traverses time and continents to explore genocide and the cycle of violence.
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WE WOMEN WARRIORS (Formerly WEAVING WISDOM)
A film by Nicole Karsin
WE WOMEN WARRIORS follows three brave and remarkable native women in Colombia as they nonviolently lead their people and defend their autonomy amid ongoing warfare.
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WEDNESDAYS IN MISSISSIPPI
A film by Marlene McCurtis
In 1964, at the center of one of the most turbulent times in America-the Civil Rights Movement, two women, one white, one black, found a way to make a difference. These two women, Dorothy Height and Polly Cowan created Wednesdays in Mississippi, an innovative program that brought interracial teams of Northern women into Mississippi to support Southern women in their battle for racial equality. Working together hundreds of “Wednesdays” women broke through racial and gender barriers and helped change American. The 90 minute documentary film, Wednesdays in Mississippi, is the story of their achievements and the continuing fight for racial and gender equality.
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WHEN HARLEM CAME TO PARIS (FORMERLY PARIS NOIR)
A film by Joanne Burke
A one-hour historical and cultural documentary about the crucial role Paris has played in the lives of African American artists, writers, musicians and entertainers. The film will examine what drew African Americans to Paris (many of whom became important artists and writers during the Harlem Renaissance and later), what kept some there, and why others went home.
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WHEN THE CONDOR MEETS THE EAGLE
A film by A film by Marta Bautis
A feature-length documentary film that journeys to forests, mountains and large cities in South and North America as it searches for solutions to the ecological destruction that is affecting our planet Earth.
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WHERE HEAVEN MEETS HELL
A film by Sasha Friedlander
Where Heaven Meets Hell follows four of the nearly 500 sulfur miners working at Kawah Ijen, an active volcano in Indonesia. This intimate portrait chronicles their attempts to escape the endemic poverty and lack of education that haunts their community. Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, the miners search for meaning in their daily struggles and triumphs.
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WHERE I NEED TO GO
A film by Alexandra Brodsky
WHERE I NEED TO GO is a portrait of my father, the artist Stan Brodsky. At 83 he’s a formidable example of an artist committed to his work regardless of accolades or disappointments. The film explores his life as it intersects with key events the 20th century, as well as personal joys and tragedies transformed and made into art.
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WHERE TWO RIVERS MEET
A film by Diana Powell Ward and Allen Moore
A one-hour documentary of a road trip that I, of Celtic ancestry, will take with my African American husband, Douglas Turner Ward, our children, and grandchildren to explore the contentious role of race in U.S. history. Our journey will trace our complex ancestral origins, including an enslaved woman named Elnora and her owner, Nathan Bedford Forrest, general and founder of the Klan. During our travels a portrait of a strong and very American family emerges.
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WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL?
A film by Marc Silver
An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for identity leads us back across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo.
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THE WHOLE GRITTY CITY
A film by Richard Barber
The Whole Gritty City is a documentary feature film that plunges viewers into the world of New Orleans marching bands. The directors of three bands help kids get past the lures and dangers of the streets and make it to adulthood, as they pass on a powerful musical legacy. The film focuses on four band members: With small video cameras these kids take us into their homes and into the streets, and reveal the city through their eyes.
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WITH WINGS AND ROOTS
With Wings And Roots is a feature-length documentary and multi-platform project set in Berlin and New York that explores what gets termed "assimilation" in the USA and "integration" in Germany. Set in two countries currently struggling with immigration and national identity, the film tells the stories of six children of immigrants from diverse backgrounds who are striving to expand their definitions of belonging. A wedding, a new career, applying for citizenship through footage and in-depth conversations, the protagonists go through personal rites of passage, each facing questions identity and belonging and finding different ways to root themselves. With Wings And Roots takes a transnational approach to explore how young people in one old and one new immigration society are redefining culture, citizenship, race, and belonging in this era of unprecedented global migration.
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WOMEN IN FLIGHT: THE DREAM IS THE TRUTH
A film by Melinda Maerker
Before WWII, the 'dream of flight' was about freedom, exploration, playfulness, and there were more women pilots, percentage-wise, than at any point in American history. After WWII, the dream of flight became a full-fledged industry. America was on its way to becoming a dominant world powe -and the number of 'commercial' women pilots dramatically dropped from over 1,300 to zero. This 90-minute documentary explores the relationship of women to flight and uses it as a metaphor to examine American culture at large.
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THE ZO (formerly THE ZO AND THE INVISIBLE FRIEND)
A film by Glenda Wharton
The Zo tells the tale of a child kept in a nightmare house by a monster. A lyrical journey into the dark night of abuse, wonderful drawings explores the depths and flights of the subconscious. “ Zo…” propels animation from children’s entertainment into adult psychological drama.
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