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Cubamerican

2012

Cubamerican

2012
CUBAMERICAN is the story of how the Cuban Revolution shattered the Cuban family. Spanning the past 60 years of Cuban history, the film explores tragedy, loss, freedom, assimilation, struggle and success through the stories of Cuban exiles who have achieved success in the U.S.A. in the diverse fields of art, science, medicine, design, music, dance, literature, academia and sports. The film culminates with rumination on the future of Cuba, leaving a mosaic of a bittersweet exile experience. Thematically, Cubamerican is a pro-immigrant story that highlights the absolute need for all of the world's people to be able to freely exercise their fundamental human rights.
Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution

2012

Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution

2012
In an era known for protests and sit-ins, the 1973 Grand Divertissement at Versailles, made a statement of its own - a fashion statement. The legendary event pitting the five lions of French couture Givenchy, Dior, Ungaro, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Cardin with five American designers Halston, Oscar de la Renta, Anne Klein, Stephen Burrows and Bill Blass created a cross-stitch of change across fashion, race, business and catwalks. When African American models Bethann Hardison, Pat Cleveland, Alva Chinn, Billie Blair, Norma Jean Darden, Barbara Jackson, Jennifer Brice, Romana Saunders and Amina Warsuma boarded the plane to Paris, they had no idea they would help change the course of fashion and pull off its biggest coup. Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution tells this story
Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League’s New York

2012

Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League’s New York

2012
Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League's New York, narrated by Campbell Scott, chronicles the life and times of the Photo League, a legendary organization of amateur and professional photographers that flourished in New York between 1936 and 1951.
Raising Resistance

2012

Raising Resistance

2012
Paraguay's lush soy farms are battlegrounds between huge agri-business and small farmers. The GMO beans fatten up cattle in rich countries so steaks remain cheap. But the pesticides used are destroying the crops of the campesinos and harming their kids.
You're Looking At Me Like I Live Here and I Don't

2012

You're Looking At Me Like I Live Here and I Don't

2012
In Danville, California, Lee Gorewitz wanders on a soul-searching odyssey through her Alzheimer’s & Dementia care unit. Confined by the limits of her physical boundaries, she scavenges for reminders of her life in the outside world. Yet her search is for more than a word, or a memory, or a familiar face. It is a quest for understanding.
Climate of Change

2010

Climate of Change

2010
"We are the renters of this world, not its masters," reminds Pooshkar, a precocious 13-year-old member of a youth environmental defense group in India. He and his fellow voraciously energetic students actively rally against the use of plastics. In Africa, a renaissance man teaches citizens to harness solar power to cook food. In Papua New Guinea, villagers practice sustainable logging to save their rainforests. A woman in London uses her PR savvy to start a successful environmental communications firm. Self-described "hillbillies" in Appalachia battle the big business behind strip mining. In this rich and inspiring documentary, director Brian Hill takes us around the world to find the ordinary people taking action in the fight to save our environment.
Advise & Dissent

2012

Advise & Dissent

2012
Behind the lines in the Supreme Court confirmation wars... where justice and politics collide.
The Real Andy Kaufman

2001

The Real Andy Kaufman

2001
The majority of the footage in The Real Andy Kaufman consists of a 1979 performance the actor/comedian/performance artist performed in the Catskills. In addition to some of his classic routines, the film offers interviews with friends and colleagues.
Burning the Future: Coal in America

2008

Burning the Future: Coal in America

2008
Burning the Future: Coal in America examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the Coal Industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by an emerging coal-based US energy policy, local activists watch the nation praise coal without regard to the devastation caused by its extraction.
Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran and the Revolt of Islam

2007

Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran and the Revolt of Islam

2007
Tracing the historical journey of Islam from its birth in A.D. 624 to its role in contemporary society, this comprehensive program sheds light on the struggles of adherents to the religion and its political implications in the modern world. Topics include the long-standing conflicts between Muslims and Jews, as well as how Bush's reaction to the World Trade Center attacks in 2001 inflamed tensions between Muslims and the West.
Mallamall

2012

Mallamall

2012
Retail is a 2500-year-old tradition in India with 95% of the trade being run by small entrepreneurs. But the retail scene in India is undergoing a rapid change. Malls are sprouting like mushrooms between huts and tenements. Everyone wants a piece of the pie. Mallamall is a visual and sensory portrayal of the burgeoning industry through the stories of people whose lives depend on retail.
The Price of Desire

2014

The Price of Desire

2014
In the hedonistic, rapidly shifting Barcelona of the 2000s, three foreign women turn the rules of power, sex, and money on their heads. Through their eyes, this documentary by Lise Reiner unravels the illusions of control, the price of autonomy, and the paradox of independence in a world of men that commodifies desire, challenging who truly holds power in the exchange.
To Breathe as One

2013

To Breathe as One

2013
In 2009 Maureen & James Tusty, filmmakers for The Singing Revolution, produced a second film out of Estonia. Seen nationally on U.S. Public Broadcasting, this one hour documentary tells the history of Estonia’s massive Song Festival, and the role music plays in Estonian culture, even today.
Submerged History: Stilt Houses in Europe

2013

Submerged History: Stilt Houses in Europe

2013
Take a journey 6000 years back in time to the late Neolithic and early Bronze ages, which is when the first over-water settlements on stilts, which are described here, were built.
Chaumière

2013

Chaumière

2013
Formule 1 Hotels are ultra cheap establishments commonly found in peri-urban zones: a low cost way to “inhabit” the world. Behind the doors to the rooms, the uniformity of the space, reduced to the strict functional minimum, reveals the tension inherent in each human life: sedentary versus nomadic, excess versus restraint, routine versus survival. While the main character of Rooms Without a View is a tightly formatted hotel, its residents are not so easy to package. They use, abuse and cause mayhem in this sleep machine dream.
Meteor Strike: Fireball from Space

2013

Meteor Strike: Fireball from Space

2013
In early 2013, meteorite bigger than a double decker bus, travelling at 40,000 miles an hour, crashed into planet Earth. This film shows previously unseen footage of what happened. Astrophysicists explain exactly what it was and reveal how likely it is to happen again.
Race Across America (2013)

2013

Race Across America (2013)

2013
A British amateur cycling team competes in the hardest bicycle race on the planet. To win they must battle extreme fatigue and injury and also the most punishing of American terrains.
The Mystery of San Nicandro

2012

The Mystery of San Nicandro

2012
Documentary on the Jews of San Nicandro, Italy; a community of Christians who converted to Judaism during Fascist Italy
bioArt - Art From the Laboratory

2011

bioArt - Art From the Laboratory

2011
The relationship between art and science has always been multifarious and today, in the age of technoscience, has become decidedly ambiguous. Between the mechanisation of living things in biological science and the 'bringing to life' of machines within the exploration of artificial life, the protagonists of transgenic art and artificial life art have dared to adopt the methods and procedures of life sciences, creating new art forms in the process.
Our Fires Still Burn: The Native American Experience

2013

Our Fires Still Burn: The Native American Experience

2013
This documentary contrasts the issues faced by today's Native American people and covers the injustices that their people had faced in the past.