America ReFramed | American Documentary

A Portrait of America

Through the lens of independent documentaries, America ReFramed brings to national audiences compelling stories that illuminate the changing contours of an ever-evolving America.

The documentary series presents an array of personal voices and experiences, as well as social issues through which we learn from our past, understand our present and are challenged to seek new frameworks for America’s future.

Any Given Day

Feature Film
2022

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Filmmaker Margaret Byrne follows Angela, Dimitar and Daniel, three Chicagoans participating in a specialized court probation program, as they manage their respective mental illnesses while searching for stability in their families, friendships, jobs and housing. Byrne’s intimate observations of ...

Geographies of Kinship

Feature Film
2022

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Geographies of Kinship weaves together the complex personal histories of four adult adoptees born in South Korea with the rise of the country’s global adoption program. Raised in foreign families, each adoptee sets out on a journey to return ...

Daughter of a Lost Bird

Feature Film
2022

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Kendra, a Native adoptee, is a thriving woman who grew up in a loving, upper middle-class white family, and feels no significant loss with the absence of Indigenous culture or family in her life. And yet, as a Blackfeet/Salish ...

Sapelo

Feature Film
2022

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On the barrier island of Sapelo off the coast of Georgia, two brothers, JerMarkest and Johnathan, are growing up in the last remaining enclave of the Saltwater Geechee people. Their greatest joy is exploring the island like their adoptive mother ...

For the Love of Rutland

Feature Film
2022

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In 2016 the mayor of Rutland, VT, a predominantly white town struggling with income inequality, the opioid epidemic and political polarization, devised a plan to bring one hundred Syrian refugees to invigorate his community. What followed was a deluge of ...

Fannie Lou Hamer's America

Feature Film
2022

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“Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave?” With those words at the 1964 Democratic Convention, Fannie Lou Hamer changed the course of Civil Rights forever. By working in the cotton fields of Mississippi ...

Perfectly Normal For Me

Feature Film
2019

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Alexandria, Jake, Caitlin and Veronica, ages 5 to 15, reveal what it’s like to live with physical disabilities. Their parents search out opportunities where they are accepted and feel valued, such as an after-school dance program in Queens, New ...

The Falconer

Feature Film
2021

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One of only a handful of African American falconers in the country, Rodney Stotts is on a mission to build a bird sanctuary and provide access to nature for his stressed community. This is a story of second chances: for ...

Where the Pavement Ends

Feature Film
2020

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Where The Pavement Ends transports viewers to Missouri towns Kinloch and Ferguson, examining the shared histories and deep racial divides affecting both. Through archival audio recordings, photographs and the recollections of residents from what was then all-Black Kinloch and the ...

Sapelo

Feature Film
2022

Trailer

On the barrier island of Sapelo off the coast of Georgia, two brothers, JerMarkest and Johnathan, are growing up in the last remaining enclave of the Saltwater Geechee people. Their greatest joy is exploring the island like their adoptive mother ...

For the Love of Rutland

Feature Film
2022

Trailer

In 2016 the mayor of Rutland, VT, a predominantly white town struggling with income inequality, the opioid epidemic and political polarization, devised a plan to bring one hundred Syrian refugees to invigorate his community. What followed was a deluge of ...

Brooklyn Inshallah

Feature Film
2021

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Father Khader El-Yateem, is a Palestinian American Pastor and long time resident of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. With the support of local organizers and activists, including Aber Kawas and Linda Sarsour, he launches a campaign for a seat on the city ...

Hayden & Her Family

Feature Film
2021

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Elizabeth and Jud Curry always knew they wanted a large family. Despite already raising multiple children, their ambitious altruism pushes them to do more. Over the course of several years they adopt five children, all with special needs, from Vietnam ...

Tutwiler

Feature Film
2020

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Tutwiler takes audiences into Alabama’s only maximum security women’s penitentiary, Julia Tutwiler Prison and explores the Alabama Prison Birth Project, helping expectant and new mothers learn childbirth and parenting skills while dealing with the pain of being separated ...

We Like It Like That

Feature Film
2016

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Created by largely Puerto Rican, Cuban and African American youths living alongside each other in the 1960s, Boogaloo served as an authentic and vibrant cultural expression. We Like It Like That explores a pivotal moment in '60s music history when ...

Five Years North

Feature Film
2021

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Five Years North is the story of Luis and Judy. Luis is an undocumented 16-year-old Guatemalan boy who arrives alone in New York City from an ICE detention center with little support and many responsibilites. Luis has journeyed to the ...

Where the Pavement Ends

Feature Film
2020

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Where The Pavement Ends transports viewers to Missouri towns Kinloch and Ferguson, examining the shared histories and deep racial divides affecting both. Through archival audio recordings, photographs and the recollections of residents from what was then all-Black Kinloch and the ...

The Falconer

Feature Film
2021

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One of only a handful of African American falconers in the country, Rodney Stotts is on a mission to build a bird sanctuary and provide access to nature for his stressed community. This is a story of second chances: for ...

Meltdown in Dixie

Feature Film
2021

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In the wake of the 2015 Charleston Massacre, a battle erupts in Orangeburg, South Carolina between the Sons of Confederate Veterans and an ice cream shop owner forced to fly the Confederate flag in his parking lot. MELTDOWN IN DIXIE ...

Tutwiler

Feature Film
2020

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Tutwiler takes audiences into Alabama’s only maximum security women’s penitentiary, Julia Tutwiler Prison and explores the Alabama Prison Birth Project, helping expectant and new mothers learn childbirth and parenting skills while dealing with the pain of being separated ...

Blood Memory

Feature Film
2020

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For Sandy White Hawk, the story of America’s Indian Adoption Era is not one of saving children but of destroying families and tribes. As an adoption survivor, Sandy sets out to reclaim the missing pieces of her stolen past ...

Sisters Rising

Feature Film
2021

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Native American women are 2.5 times more likely to experience sexual assault than all other American women, and 86% of the offenses are committed by non-Native men. Sisters Rising follows six women who refuse to let this pattern of ...

Little Miss Westie

Feature Film
2020

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A loving and insightful portrait of two transgender siblings — Luca and Ren — and their parents, set in the changing social climate following the 2016 presidential election. Little Miss Westie takes audiences behind the scenes as the family navigates puberty, school ...

Jack & Yaya

Feature Film
2021

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From a young age, Yaya and Jack saw each other as they truly were, a girl and a boy, even though most of the world didn’t see them that way. As they grew older, they supported each other as ...

First Vote

Feature Film
2020

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First Vote is a character-driven verité documentary with unparalleled access to a diverse cross section of politically engaged Chinese Americans: a gun-toting Tea Party-favorite candidate courting GOP votes in the South; a podcaster in Ohio who became a citizen in ...

Hamtramck, USA

Feature Film
2021

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Once known as a Polish Catholic town, Hamtramck, MI is now home to America’s first Muslim-majority city. As election season approaches, candidates set out to win hearts, minds and votes in this rapidly changing city. Going behind the scenes ...

The Blessing

Feature Film
2020

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A Navajo coal miner, Lawrence, struggles with his part in the irreversible destruction of their sacred mountain at the hands of America's largest coal producer. This deep spiritual sacrifice has caused him decades of emotional turmoil while providing for his ...

Brooklyn Inshallah

Feature Film
2021

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Father Khader El-Yateem, is a Palestinian American Pastor and long time resident of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. With the support of local organizers and activists, including Aber Kawas and Linda Sarsour, he launches a campaign for a seat on the city ...

Far East Deep South

Feature Film
2021

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Charles Chiu and his family’s search for their roots takes them on an eye-opening journey through the Mississippi Delta, uncovering otherwise unknown stories and the racially complex history of Chinese immigrants in the segregated South. This Chinese American family ...

Curtain Up!

Feature Film
2021

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In New York City's Chinatown, the theater club of PS 124 is staging an adaptation of the film "Frozen”. As the 5th graders gear up and rehearse for the musical production, nervous excitement and flubbed lines brush up against cultural ...

Personal Statement

Feature Film
2018

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Personal Statement follows three Brooklyn high school seniors intent on defying the odds for themselves and their classmates: getting their peers into college. Becoming the very resource they don't have for themselves as peer college counselors, the students star in ...

Gentlemen of Vision

Feature Film
2018

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Gentlemen of Vision follows a year in the life of coach, counselor and founder Marlon Wharton, and his 2015-2016 class of young Black males as he strives to rewrite future prospects for his students. While striving for excellence in school ...

Pyne Poynt

Feature Film
2019

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Numbed by despair, the youth of Camden, NJ, one of America’s poorest cities, don’t know who to fear more-- the police or the violent drug dealers. Resident Bryan Morton leads a charge to reclaim Pyne Poynt Park as ...

Moroni For President

Feature Film
2018

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Every four years, the Navajo Nation elects its president, whom many consider the most powerful Native American in the country. Frustrated about the lack of progress in the reservation, Moroni Benally, a witty academic LGBTQ candidate with radical ideas, hopes ...

100 Years

Feature Film
2018

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100 Years: One Woman's Fight for Justice is the compelling story of Elouise Cobell, a petite Blackfeet warrior from Montana, the great granddaughter of the legendary, Mountain Chief. As an advocate for Native American financial self-determination and independence, she conducted ...

Class of '27

Feature Film
2016

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Class of ’27 presents distinct yet complementary personal stories from places too often ignored in America. Each of the three portraits demonstrates that children from distressed communities, despite their circumstances, are more likely to grow into productive and civically engaged ...

Vegas Baby

Feature Film
2017

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The Sher Institute in Las Vegas is holding a contest. First prize: a free round of in vitro fertilization – but even for the winners, there’s no guarantee of success. News & Documentary Emmy® nominated Vegas Baby follows the journeys ...

Farewell Ferris Wheel

Feature Film
2017

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Carnivals have a delightful place in the American imagination. But rising expenses and changes in U.S. labor patterns means this national pastime is nearly extinct. Farewell Ferris Wheel is an inside look at the struggles of an industry trying ...

Deej

Feature Film
2017

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Deej is the story of DJ Savarese (“Deej”), a gifted, young writer and advocate for non-speaking autistics. Once a “profoundly disabled” foster kid on a fast track to nowhere, DJ is now a first-year college student who insists on standing ...

BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez

Feature Film
2016

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BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez is a portrait of the artist, revealing Sanchez’s uncompromising life. Deemed "a lion in literature's forest" by poet Maya Angelou, Sanchez is a winner of major literary honors, including the American Book Award in 1985 and ...

The Hand That Feeds

Feature Film
2016

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At a popular bakery cafe in Manhattan, patrons get served with a smile 24 hours a day. Behind the scenes, some of the undocumented immigrant workers earn far below the minimum wage. Filmed at the onset of the service economy ...

America ReFramed Season 9

Feature Film
2021

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America ReFramed, the award-winning documentary series, returns for its ninth season with a curation of a rich selection of films highlighting innovative and artistic approaches to storytelling from a diverse group of emerging and veteran filmmakers.

Brooklyn Inshallah

Feature Film
2021

Trailer

Father Khader El-Yateem, is a Palestinian American Pastor and long time resident of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. With the support of local organizers and activists, including Aber Kawas and Linda Sarsour, he launches a campaign for a seat on the city ...

Hayden & Her Family

Feature Film
2021

Trailer

Elizabeth and Jud Curry always knew they wanted a large family. Despite already raising multiple children, their ambitious altruism pushes them to do more. Over the course of several years they adopt five children, all with special needs, from Vietnam ...

Five Years North

Feature Film
2021

Trailer

Five Years North is the story of Luis and Judy. Luis is an undocumented 16-year-old Guatemalan boy who arrives alone in New York City from an ICE detention center with little support and many responsibilites. Luis has journeyed to the ...

Jack & Yaya

Feature Film
2021

Trailer

From a young age, Yaya and Jack saw each other as they truly were, a girl and a boy, even though most of the world didn’t see them that way. As they grew older, they supported each other as ...

Meltdown in Dixie

Feature Film
2021

Trailer

In the wake of the 2015 Charleston Massacre, a battle erupts in Orangeburg, South Carolina between the Sons of Confederate Veterans and an ice cream shop owner forced to fly the Confederate flag in his parking lot. MELTDOWN IN DIXIE ...

The Falconer

Feature Film
2021

Trailer

One of only a handful of African American falconers in the country, Rodney Stotts is on a mission to build a bird sanctuary and provide access to nature for his stressed community. This is a story of second chances: for ...

Hamtramck, USA

Feature Film
2021

Trailer

Once known as a Polish Catholic town, Hamtramck, MI is now home to America’s first Muslim-majority city. As election season approaches, candidates set out to win hearts, minds and votes in this rapidly changing city. Going behind the scenes ...

Curtain Up!

Feature Film
2021

Trailer

In New York City's Chinatown, the theater club of PS 124 is staging an adaptation of the film "Frozen”. As the 5th graders gear up and rehearse for the musical production, nervous excitement and flubbed lines brush up against cultural ...

Far East Deep South

Feature Film
2021

Trailer

Charles Chiu and his family’s search for their roots takes them on an eye-opening journey through the Mississippi Delta, uncovering otherwise unknown stories and the racially complex history of Chinese immigrants in the segregated South. This Chinese American family ...

Sisters Rising

Feature Film
2021

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Native American women are 2.5 times more likely to experience sexual assault than all other American women, and 86% of the offenses are committed by non-Native men. Sisters Rising follows six women who refuse to let this pattern of ...

The Place That Makes Us

Feature Film
2021

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A quintessential post-industrial American city is seen through the efforts of a new generation. This film is an inspiring portrait of Youngstown, Ohio, activists and leaders who have chosen not to abandon their hometown, but to stay, rebuild and make ...

Bring It Home

Feature Film
2021

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Bring It Home tells the story of five families at a crossroads after the closing of the GM Lordstown auto plant. GM's decision forced thousands to decide between transferring out-of-state or staying put. If they stay, they risk loss of ...

Busy Inside

Feature Film
2021

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Through personal stories, Busy Inside delves deeply into Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) – formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. A respected therapist specializing in the condition's treatment, and her patients, confront past trauma and embrace their different personalities.

Pahokee

Feature Film
2021

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In the rural town of Pahokee, four teenagers experience the joys and heartbreaks of their last year in high school. This tightly knit community in the Florida everglades struggles with financial insecurity and pin their hopes for the future on ...

The Area

Feature Film
2021

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The Area is the odyssey of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, where hundreds of Black American families are being expelled from their homes by a multi-billion-dollar freight company. The documentary film follows homeowner-turned-activist Deborah Payne, who vows to be "the ...

America ReFramed Season 8

Feature Film
2020

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America ReFramed, the award-winning documentary series dedicated to showcasing independent documentary films highlighting the mosaic of life and cultures in contemporary America, returns for its eighth season at 8 p.m. EST on Tuesday, May 5, 2020 on WORLD Channel.

The Blessing

Feature Film
2020

Trailer

A Navajo coal miner, Lawrence, struggles with his part in the irreversible destruction of their sacred mountain at the hands of America's largest coal producer. This deep spiritual sacrifice has caused him decades of emotional turmoil while providing for his ...

Blood Memory

Feature Film
2020

Feature Film

For Sandy White Hawk, the story of America’s Indian Adoption Era is not one of saving children but of destroying families and tribes. As an adoption survivor, Sandy sets out to reclaim the missing pieces of her stolen past ...

First Vote

Feature Film
2020

Trailer

First Vote is a character-driven verité documentary with unparalleled access to a diverse cross section of politically engaged Chinese Americans: a gun-toting Tea Party-favorite candidate courting GOP votes in the South; a podcaster in Ohio who became a citizen in ...

Where the Pavement Ends

Feature Film
2020

Trailer

Where The Pavement Ends transports viewers to Missouri towns Kinloch and Ferguson, examining the shared histories and deep racial divides affecting both. Through archival audio recordings, photographs and the recollections of residents from what was then all-Black Kinloch and the ...

Jaddoland

Feature Film
2020

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Nadia Shihab’s Jaddoland is an intimate portrait of the work and process of the director’s visual artist mother Lahib Jaddo. Jaddoland offers viewers a fresh look at the immigrant story in America. Through an exploration of her mother ...

Tutwiler

Feature Film
2020

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Tutwiler takes audiences into Alabama’s only maximum security women’s penitentiary, Julia Tutwiler Prison and explores the Alabama Prison Birth Project, helping expectant and new mothers learn childbirth and parenting skills while dealing with the pain of being separated ...

Little Miss Westie

Feature Film
2020

Trailer

A loving and insightful portrait of two transgender siblings — Luca and Ren — and their parents, set in the changing social climate following the 2016 presidential election. Little Miss Westie takes audiences behind the scenes as the family navigates puberty, school ...

Vision Portraits

Feature Film
2020

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Acclaimed director Rodney Evans (Brother to Brother and The Happy Sad) takes viewers on a personal journey as he ponders how the deterioration of his vision will impact his life and work as a filmmaker. Interviewing blind and low vision ...

Surviving Home

Feature Film
2019

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Over 20 million U.S. military veterans have put their lives on the line in service to their country. But for many, surviving war is just the beginning. Surviving Home uncovers a detrimental gap between military veterans and the civilian ...

Perfectly Normal For Me

Feature Film
2019

Trailer

Alexandria, Jake, Caitlin and Veronica, ages 5 to 15, reveal what it’s like to live with physical disabilities. Their parents search out opportunities where they are accepted and feel valued, such as an after-school dance program in Queens, New ...

Intelligent Lives

Feature Film
2019

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Intelligent Lives follows three young adults with intellectual disabilities: Micah, Naieer, and Naomie, who, with the support of family, educators, and colleagues, work toward a future marked with increased inclusion and independence. Their pioneering lives challenge staid notions of intelligence ...

The Unafraid

Feature Film
2019

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Banned from attending Georgia’s top five public universities and from paying in-state tuition at other public colleges in the state, DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students like Alejandro, Silvia, and Aldo unite through their activist work with an ...

Councilwoman

Feature Film
2019

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Carmen Castillo is a first-term city councilwoman who maintains her full-time job as a hotel housekeeper. She advocates for the working families in her community, many of whom work multiple jobs to stay afloat.Castillo, who came to the U ...

Circle Up

Feature Film
2019

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After the brutal slaying of her teenage son, Janet Connors reaches out to her son's killers to offer forgiveness. She establishes a connection with one of them, AJ, in the hopes that their bond will help him turn his life ...

Nailed It

Feature Film
2019

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In virtually every city, state and strip mall across the U.S., women get their nails done in salons likely owned by Vietnamese entrepreneurs. How did this community come to dominate an $8 billion dollar nail economy? Nailed It takes ...

Death of a Child

Feature Film
2019

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In Death of a Child, Doug, Lyn, Norman and Antonio recount in disbelief the unimaginable trauma of forgetting their very own children in the car and being responsible for their deaths. Through their honest and deeply personal stories, we get ...

Exit Music

Feature Film
2019

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Exit Music travels the intimate and complex path of terminal illness. Ethan Rice was born with Cystic Fibrosis, an incurable genetic illness that eventually leads to respiratory failure. At their home in a small upstate New York community, Ethan and ...

Late Blossom Blues

Feature Film
2019

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Born in Mississippi, Leo “Bud” Welch’s recording and touring career begins at the age of 81. With the support of his dedicated manager, Gulf War veteran, Vencie Varnado, Leo’s Blues career takes him to festivals across the South ...

Struggle & Hope

Feature Film
2019

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Following the Civil War, All-Black towns emerged in what is now modern-day Oklahoma. Initially founded in an effort to convince the United States to create an All-Black state, most of these towns have since been swallowed up by nearby counties ...

Detroit 48202

Feature Film
2019

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Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route explores the rise, demise and contested resurgence of America's "motor city" through a multi-generational choir of voices who reside in mail carrier Wendell Watkins’ work route. Oral histories convey the impetus behind the ...

Pyne Poynt

Feature Film
2019

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Numbed by despair, the youth of Camden, NJ, one of America’s poorest cities, don’t know who to fear more-- the police or the violent drug dealers. Resident Bryan Morton leads a charge to reclaim Pyne Poynt Park as ...

Saving Brinton

Feature Film
2019

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History teacher and collector Mike Zahs uncovers a trove of nineteenth-century showreels from one of America's first motion picture impresarios, William Franklin Brinton, who popularized movies in the Midwest. As Zahs sets out to restore Brinton's reels, he creates a ...

Winter at Westbeth

Feature Film
2018

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The elderly residents of Westbeth Artists Housing in New York City are immersed in their creative practice as though there is no tomorrow. Video artist Edith Stephen hopes to complete an experimental film for her birthday; contemporary dancer Dudley Williams ...

There Are Jews Here

Feature Film
2018

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There Are Jews Here follows the untold stories of four once-thriving American Jewish communities that are now barely holding on. Struggling with aging congregants and dwindling interest, families are moving to larger cities with more robust congregations. An affecting portrait ...

Moroni For President

Feature Film
2018

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Every four years, the Navajo Nation elects its president, whom many consider the most powerful Native American in the country. Frustrated about the lack of progress in the reservation, Moroni Benally, a witty academic LGBTQ candidate with radical ideas, hopes ...

Island Soldier

Feature Film
2018

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Filmed in Kosrae, Micronesia, Island Soldier follows the Nena family as they grieve the loss of their son, Sapuro “Sapp” Nena. His death in Afghanistan makes waves through the community where nearly everyone is connected to the U.S. Military ...

Charlie vs Goliath

Feature Film
2018

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Former Catholic priest Charlie Hardy is 75 years old and has no money or political experience. But none of that dissuades him from running for the U.S. Senate in his home state of Wyoming. Charlie’s principled and courageous ...

Personal Statement

Feature Film
2018

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Personal Statement follows three Brooklyn high school seniors intent on defying the odds for themselves and their classmates: getting their peers into college. Becoming the very resource they don't have for themselves as peer college counselors, the students star in ...

Bidder 70

Feature Film
2018

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Fueled by a desire to safeguard thousands of acres of pristine land near national parks, Tim DeChristopher outbid industry giants and disrupted a controversial oil and gas lease auction as bidder #70. Redefining patriotism for a new generation, Tim sparked ...

Who is Arthur Chu?

Feature Film
2018

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Who is Arthur Chu? follows 11-time Jeopardy! winner Arthur Chu, who won almost $300,000. By using an unconventional game strategy, the former insurance analyst amassed tens of thousands of fans and haters on Twitter. In an effort to put ...

Random Acts of Legacy

Feature Film
2018

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Filmmaker Ali Kazimi finds a rare cache of deteriorating 16mm home movies spanning from 1936 to 1951, and deftly crafts a story of history and memory in Random Acts of Legacy. The family archive that Kazimi discovers was the work ...

Finding Kukan

Feature Film
2018

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Filmmaker Robin Lung documents her 7-year journey to uncover the efforts of Li Ling-Ai, the visionary but uncredited producer of Kukan. Lung discovers a damaged film print of Kukan, and pieces together the untold tale of the two renegades behind ...

Through the Repellent Fence

Feature Film
2018

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Through the Repellent Fence follows the creation of a two-mile long ephemeral art installation by three Native American artists: Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist. Collectively known as "Postcommodity," these artists explore Indigenous connections to place and ...

The Corridor

Feature Film
2018

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The Corridor shows the inner-workings and challenges of San Francisco’s Five Keys Charter School − the first high school of its kind in the United States designed to provide incarcerated adults the opportunity to earn a high school diploma to ...

Beyond the Wall

Feature Film
2018

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Beyond the Wall revolves around one central figure, a former prisoner named Louie Diaz, as he works to guide five formerly incarcerated men safely through the minefield of life outside of jail. Too often, prisoner reentry becomes a setup for ...

MILWAUKEE 53206

Feature Film
2018

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MILWAUKEE 53206 introduces viewers to a community with the highest rate of incarcerated African American men in the U.S. The unvarnished film unfolds through the stories of postal code 53206 residents directly impacted by imprisonment: Beverly Walker and her ...

The Invisible Patients

Feature Film
2018

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Through the story of Jessica Macleod, Ph.D., a dedicated nurse practitioner in Evansville, Indiana, and her four homebound and marginalized patients, The Invisible Patients sheds light on some of the most urgent healthcare issues facing our nation today: from ...

100 Years

Feature Film
2018

Trailer

100 Years: One Woman's Fight for Justice is the compelling story of Elouise Cobell, a petite Blackfeet warrior from Montana, the great granddaughter of the legendary, Mountain Chief. As an advocate for Native American financial self-determination and independence, she conducted ...

Agents of Change

Feature Film
2018

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Agents of Change examines the racial conditions on college campuses across the U.S. in the late 1960’s, focusing on student demands at two seminal protests: San Francisco State in 1968 and Cornell University in 1969. Many of the ...

For Ahkeem

Feature Film
2018

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Expelled from high school, Daje Shelton is only 17 years old when she is sentenced by a judge – not to prison, but to an alternative school, the Innovative Concept Academy. It offers Daje one last chance to earn a high ...

Gentlemen of Vision

Feature Film
2018

Trailer

Gentlemen of Vision follows a year in the life of coach, counselor and founder Marlon Wharton, and his 2015-2016 class of young Black males as he strives to rewrite future prospects for his students. While striving for excellence in school ...

On a Knife Edge

Feature Film
2019

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On a Knife Edge is the coming-of-age story of George Dull Knife, a Lakota teen growing up on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation. The film traces George’s path to activism, inspired by his family’s history of fighting ...

Deej

Feature Film
2017

Trailer

Deej is the story of DJ Savarese (“Deej”), a gifted, young writer and advocate for non-speaking autistics. Once a “profoundly disabled” foster kid on a fast track to nowhere, DJ is now a first-year college student who insists on standing ...

Farewell Ferris Wheel

Feature Film
2017

Trailer

Carnivals have a delightful place in the American imagination. But rising expenses and changes in U.S. labor patterns means this national pastime is nearly extinct. Farewell Ferris Wheel is an inside look at the struggles of an industry trying ...

We Breathe Again

Feature Film
2017

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Suicide - one of the leading causes of death for Alaska Natives. Almost every family has lost brothers, sisters, parents, and children to it. We Breathe Again introduces four Alaska Natives who are trying to break free from histories of trauma ...

Night School

Feature Film
2017

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Every year, over a million students drop out of high school. They may complete their graduate equivalency degrees, but then they discover they’re still struggling to get good jobs. For some in Indianapolis, there’s another option: a night ...

Care

Feature Film
2017

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90% of Americans want to age at home, but many of them have to rely on paid care workers because their families can’t provide the support they need. Told through the stories of both care workers and their clients ...

Oxyana

Feature Film
2017

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Set among the beautiful hills and hollers of Appalachia, Oceana, West Virginia looks like a rural paradise. But this community is under siege: a raging epidemic of prescription drug abuse is so deadly that residents have nicknamed the town “OXYANA ...

Vegas Baby

Feature Film
2017

Trailer

The Sher Institute in Las Vegas is holding a contest. First prize: a free round of in vitro fertilization – but even for the winners, there’s no guarantee of success. News & Documentary Emmy® nominated Vegas Baby follows the journeys ...

Breathin'

Feature Film
2017

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Eddy Zheng came to America with his family when he was 12 years old. Then at the age of 16, he committed a horrible crime: home invasion and kidnapping. He was sent to San Quentin Maximum Security Prison, the youngest ...

Unbroken Glass

Feature Film
2017

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Things happen to you when you're a kid, says filmmaker Dinesh Sabu, "and you make sense of it after." Sabu is ruminating on his parents' deaths, which came when he was 6 years old. Two decades later, worried that ...

Good Luck Soup

Feature Film
2017

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For filmmaker Matthew Hashiguchi, growing up half Japanese/half Italian in a white Irish-Catholic neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, was a difficult experience. In Good Luck Soup, Hashiguchi sets out on a journey to discover how the rest of his multi-racial ...

Enter the Faun

Feature Film
2017

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Enter the Faun is the culmination of an intensive two-year collaboration between veteran choreographer Tamar Rogoff and Gregg Mozgala, an actor with cerebral palsy. Their creative exploration, at the intersection of science and art, led them to discover that his ...

Radical Grace

Feature Film
2017

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In 2012, The Vatican censured American nuns, putting them under the supervision of conservative bishops. Radical Grace follows sisters Simone Campbell, Chris Schenk, and Jean Hughes, who refused to back down and continued to challenge the patriarchal system. The nuns ...

70 Acres in Chicago

Feature Film
2017

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70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green explores the effects of the Plan for Transformation, an order requiring the demolition of Chicago's public housing high rises, and the building of mixed-income condominiums. Filmed over two decades, 70 Acres in Chicago illuminates ...

A New Color

Feature Film
2017

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A New Color- The Art of Being Edythe Boone focuses on the life and work of muralist, activist and educator, Edyth (Edy) Boone, a self-taught artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Filmed over five years, filmmaker Marlene "Mo" Morris ...

By Blood

Feature Film
2016

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Chronicling the ongoing conflict over the issue of tribal rights between the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and the Cherokee Freedmen, descendants of African American slaves. By Blood explores a largely untold history and the impact of a battle over race ...

Kivalina

Feature Film
2016

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Today, the Inupiaq Eskimo must navigate an uncertain future 80 miles above the Arctic Circle on a fragile barrier island disappearing due to climate change. Kivalina is a quiet but stirring portrait immersing viewers into the rarely seen lives of ...

We Like It Like That

Feature Film
2016

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Created by largely Puerto Rican, Cuban and African American youths living alongside each other in the 1960s, Boogaloo served as an authentic and vibrant cultural expression. We Like It Like That explores a pivotal moment in '60s music history when ...

In The Game

Feature Film
2016

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Through the stories of a Hispanic girls soccer team at Kelly High School in Chicago, In The Game illustrates the enormous challenges facing inner-city girls in their quest for higher education and life success.

Buried Above Ground

Feature Film
2016

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Meet three Americans who are fighting ongoing battles with PTSD -- Luis, a combat veteran; Erundina, a lifelong survivor of domestic violence who fights addiction issues; and Ashley, a New Orleanian who lived through Hurricane Katrina and returns to confront the ...

The Hand That Feeds

Feature Film
2016

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At a popular bakery cafe in Manhattan, patrons get served with a smile 24 hours a day. Behind the scenes, some of the undocumented immigrant workers earn far below the minimum wage. Filmed at the onset of the service economy ...

College Week

Feature Film
2016

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College Week is an inspiring documentary about a tenacious group of teachers who battle stereotypes and statistics to instill the love of higher education in students (Pre-K through 8th grade) in one of the toughest neighborhoods in the city of ...

The Last Season

Feature Film
2016

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Each September, the town of Chemult, Oregon is flooded with mushroom hunters. Many are immigrants from Laos, Cambodia and Thailand who entered the U.S. as refugees in the 1980s. Here, veterans Kouy Loch and Roger Higgins find more than ...

My Life in China

Feature Film
2016

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An unvarnished portrait of the life and memories of a stoic and reticent man committed to his family, My Life in China retraces the perilous steps filmmaker Kenneth Eng's father chanced in search of a better life. Exploring themes of ...

Operation Popcorn

Feature Film
2016

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A thrilling tale, Operation Popcorn explores the fate of ten Hmong American leaders and a retired U.S. Army officer who are accused of conspiring together to overthrow the communist government of Laos. Seven years in the making, the film ...

The Grace Lee Project

Feature Film
2016

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Growing up, Grace Lee was the only "Grace Lee" she knew. Upon moving to New York and California, she discovered quite the opposite. In her quest to uncover how the name "Grace" became ubiquitous among Asian Americans, the filmmaker speaks ...

In An Ideal World

Feature Film
2016

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At an infamous California prison, a warden, a white Mafioso murderer, and a black ex-gang member struggle to move beyond the stark reality of America's locked down racial order. Their stories reveal the hope and the hidden risks of transformative ...

City of Trees

Feature Film
2016

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During the recession, City of Trees follows three trainees and the director of a stimulus-funded green job-training program designed to put unemployed people back to work by planting trees in DC. The documentary provides an authentic look at one community's ...

Reversing the Mississippi

Feature Film
2016

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In Missouri, social innovator Marcin Jakubowski’s Global Village Construction Set provides free blueprints to fabricate everything needed for a self-sustaining village. In New Orleans, Nat Turner teaches kids how to work the land, but has limited resources and broken ...

Children of the Arctic

Feature Film
2016

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At the Arctic edge of America, Native Alaskan teenagers strive to be both modern American kids, and the inheritors of an ancient whaling culture, language and tradition. Children of the Arctic is a year-in-the-life portrait of Native youth coming of ...

Dog Days

Feature Film
2016

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Hot dogs and apple pie are not merely symbols of the American Dream. In Dog Days, they are the things those dreams are made of - literally. This story unfolds through the working relationship between Coite, who risks his capital to ...

Romeo Romeo

Feature Film
2016

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How strong is a woman's desire to be a mother? After marrying the woman of her dreams, Lexy and wife Jessica set out to start a family. The couple spend their life savings on getting pregnant but it turns out ...

Divide in Concord

Feature Film
2016

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Divide in Concord is an engaging tale about a contemporary debate: individual freedom vs. collective responsibility, and how this relates to American democracy. Driving the debate is a fiery 84-year-old grandmother, who presents a bylaw to ban the sale of ...

BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez

Feature Film
2016

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BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez is a portrait of the artist, revealing Sanchez’s uncompromising life. Deemed "a lion in literature's forest" by poet Maya Angelou, Sanchez is a winner of major literary honors, including the American Book Award in 1985 and ...

America ReFramed: Revolution '67

Feature Film
2016

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Focusing on what is known as "The Newark Riots," Revolution '67 reveals how a spontaneous revolt against poverty and police brutality ended as a fateful milestone in urban America's struggles over race and economic justice. The film also reveals ...

Adama

Feature Film
2016

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In March 2005, an FBI document leaked to the press mysteriously identified Adama Bah, a 16-year-old teenager from Harlem, NY, as an “imminent threat to the security of the United States.” Adama provides a timely perspective on the experience of ...

The Mosque in Morgantown

Feature Film
2016

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The Mosque in Morgantown is an observational documentary that follows Asra Normani's early activism and backlash within her W. Virginia mosque, telling a story about competing paths to social change, American identity, and the nature of religion itself. Though not ...

American Arab

Feature Film
2016

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"Why is being an Arab suddenly the opposite of being a decent man?" Iraqi-American Usama Alshaibi explores what it's like to explore the 'space in between' as a hyphenated American, specifically of Arab origin, during the surge of anti-Muslim ...

Old South

Feature Film
2016

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In a classic tale of two cities, Old South delivers a quiet yet emotionally charged portrait of two communities living on one block. Steeped in history – one black, one white – each strives to keep their respective legacies relevant in a ...

Before You Know It

Feature Film
2015

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With humor and candor, Before You Know It celebrates the bold and brave lives of active gay senior citizens who have witnessed unbelievable change in their lifetimes: from the Stonewall Riots and gay liberation to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and ...

A Self-Made Man

Feature Film
2015

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Gender identity issues often appear in early childhood. Some kids, like Tony, feel they were born in the wrong body and this belief conflicts with how they view and define themselves. Once such a young person makes up his or ...

By the River of Babylon

Feature Film
2015

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BY THE RIVER OF BABYLON: An Elegy for South Louisiana looks at the disappearing culture and environment in Southwest Louisiana: its marshlands and man’s calamitous engineering mistakes, and the unique habitat that gave rise to the Cajun and Creole ...

Where God Likes to Be

Feature Film
2015

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Where God Likes to Be focuses on three young protagonists full of hope and promise — Andi Running Wolf, Edward Tailfeathers, and Douglas Fitzgerald — following them over the course of a summer that marks a turning point in all of their ...

If You Build It

Feature Film
2015

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If You Build It follows designers/educators/activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to Bertie County, the poorest in North Carolina. Their goal is to offer a compelling and hopeful vision for a new kind of classroom in which students ...

Endless Abilities

Feature Film
2015

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In Narragansett, Rhode Island, Zachary was having the time of his life—surfing on the beach, enjoying bonfires with friends until the night he and best friend, Timmy, got into an accident. Zachary was rushed off to the hospital. Timmy ...

Cambodian Son

Feature Film
2015

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Born in a refugee camp in Cambodia, poet Kosal Khiev was lucky to escape the war-torn country before he was two years old. Granted asylum, Khiev grew up in the U.S. with his mother and siblings. By the age ...

Winning Girl

Feature Film
2015

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Teshya Alo is 16 years old and weighs 125 pounds. But on the judo and wrestling mats, she throws women twice her age and many pounds heavier. And she beats boys. Now she has her sights set on taking gold ...

9-Man

Feature Film
2015

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Much more than an urban pastime, 9-Man is a competitive Chinese-American sport with roots that trace back to the Toisan region of Guangdong province. In North America, the game was a way for Chinese workers to escape the drudgery of ...

Perfect Strangers

Feature Film
2015

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What lies beyond the art of giving and receiving? In Perfect Strangers, we meet Ellie, a kind-hearted masseuse, who decides she wants to share the gift of life with a stranger who has posted online that she needs a kidney ...

Hanna Ranch

Feature Film
2015

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A feature documentary about a visionary and charismatic cattleman, Kirk Hanna. Through memories and intimate anecdotes, we learn about Hanna and his life from family members, colleagues and friends. Hanna Ranch was built in the 1940s by Kirk Hanna’s ...

The Perfect Victim

Feature Film
2015

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Three incarcerated women Shirley, Carlene, and Ruby were beaten, raped, sold, abused, and nearly killed by their husbands. Collectively, they’ve spent over eighty-five years in Missouri State prison each serving life sentences, convicted for having killed their husband’s ...

Family Affair

Feature Film
2015

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A father’s duty is to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families. In the Colvard family, however, this sacred trust was violated and the crime was particularly heinous. Chico Colvard’s three sisters survived severe emotional ...

Yellow Fever

Feature Film
2015

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Tina Garnanez, a Navajo veteran returning from duty with the U.S. Army, realizes that her home on the Navajo Reservation has become a battleground in a protracted war over nuclear proliferation. As she seeks to learn about her own ...

Learning to Swallow

Feature Film
2015

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Learning to Swallow chronicles the story of Patsy, an artist who destroys her digestive system during an unmedicated bipolar episode. Despite her struggles to accept her condition, her inability to eat, and her emotional state, she reinvigorates her artistic voice ...

Stable Life

Feature Film
2015

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Dionicia Martinez and her teenage son, José Luis, have gambled their futures on the hardscrabble sport of horse racing. While gamblers make long-shot bets in the hopes of winning big, Dionicia, much like 11 million undocumented immigrants in America, stakes ...

Looks Like Laury, Sounds Like Laury

Feature Film
2015

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On the first day of shooting the documentary, Laury Sacks the film’s subject faces the camera and squarely asks: “What do I hope for?” At the age of 45, Laury, an ebullient actress and the doting mother of two ...

Out in the Silence

Feature Film
2015

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When filmmaker Joe Wilson announces that he is to be wed to another man, a firestorm of controversy ignites his small Pennsylvania hometown. Drawn back by a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen being tormented at ...

A Will for the Woods

Feature Film
2015

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Musician & psychiatrist Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial while battling lymphoma, determined that his last act will be a gift to the planet. Boldly facing his mortality, Clark and his partner Jane have inspired a local cemeterian ...

Shell Shocked

Feature Film
2015

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New Orleans is one of the "murder capitals" of the U.S.; statistics show murder rates are 4-6x higher than the national average. 80% of the victims are black males, mostly in their teenage years. Shell Shocked starts at the ...

The Hill

Feature Film
2015

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Set upon building a new school, New Haven claims eminent domain over the Upper Hill neighborhood. With community leaders and a lawyer, a group of neighbors, mostly low-income African-American families, take the case to court. The Hill is a fascinating ...

Our Mockingbird

Feature Film
2015

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In the '80s, the desegregation of U.S. public schools peaked, but since then, schools have become even more segregated (Civil Rights Project). Our Mockingbird highlights the experiences of teens from two Birmingham, Alabama high schools -- one all black and ...

Gaucho del Norte

Feature Film
2015

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Since the 1970's, sheepherders from South America have been brought to work in the American West. In the quiet, bucolic Patagonian countryside in the town of Bahia Murta with 587 inhabitants we meet Eraldo Pacheco, a thoughtful man who has ...

American Heart

Feature Film
2015

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In Minnesota, devoted doctors in a primary care clinic meet the health care needs of refugees and immigrants wrestling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as chronic and compounded prognoses. In addition to medication, they treat their patients with ...

Trash Dance

Feature Film
2015

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Allison Orr, a modern dance choreographer, found inspiration in the movement of garbage trucks and the graceful dynamics of the workers who operate them. Orr transforms the initial skepticism and reluctance of her subjects into complete commitment to the dance ...

Purgatorio

Feature Film
2015

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Leaving politics aside, Reyes' Purgatorio looks anew at the U.S/Mexico border and the people caught in it's spell. The evocative Dantesque essay film presents the border as a mythical exploring the vulnerability of the human soul, the violence ...

Broken Heart Land

Feature Film
2014

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Broken Heart Land is a vérité documentary that follows a conservative family transformed as they find themselves unexpectedly embroiled in the controversial issue of LGBTQ rights in their Oklahoma town.

Reserved To Fight

Feature Film
2014

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In May 2003, Fox Company of Marine Reserve Unit 2/23 returned home from front-line combat in Iraq. Reserved To Fight follows four Marines of Fox Company for four years through their postwar minefield of social and psychological reintegration into ...

Dignity Harbor

Feature Film
2014

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Dignity Harbor is a homeless encampment along the Mississippi River, just north of the St. Louis Arch - the residents say it is more than a shelter from the elements but a home and self-sustaining community. Meanwhile, winter approaches and the ...

Rachel Is

Feature Film
2014

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Honest, heartbreaking and funny, filmmaker Charlotte Glynn's Rachel Is chronicles her sister Rachel, who is developmentally disabled, in her last year of school. The film moves past the safety of political correctness, and into the most intimates in their family's ...

Come Hell or High Water

Feature Film
2014

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Turkey Creek residents are descendants of former slaves who settled on the Gulf Coast in the 1860s. They have been stewards of the creek's rich wetland habitat for generations. Now, developers have set their sights on this prime real estate ...

Deputized

Feature Film
2014

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In the aftermath of a senseless hate crime, an all-American town finds itself desperately seeking answers: What really killed Marcelo Lucero?

Town Hall

Feature Film
2014

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A portrait of two Tea Party members during the Obama era, Town Hall is a time capsule of the burgeoning 21st century right-wing movement.

Mothers of Bedford

Feature Film
2014

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Mothers of Bedford presents five incarcerated mothers of diverse backgrounds and their families who manage in their absence. The film follows them as they strive to be engaged with their children's lives while participating in an innovative parenting program at ...

The LuLu Sessions

Feature Film
2014

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Dr. Louise Nutter, or LuLu, has just discovered a new anti-cancer drug when she finds out she is dying of breast cancer herself at 42. The LuLu Sessions is a raw, intimate, yet surprisingly humorous story about the filmmaker's friendship ...

Drivers Wanted

Feature Film
2014

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Drivers Wanted reveals the impossibly eclectic community inhabiting NYC's most famous taxi garage. Located directly across from the UN, the garage is a refugee camp in the heart of NY, where drivers come for protection from human rights abuses, racism ...

The Prep School Negro

Feature Film
2014

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Filmmaker André Robert Lee grew up in the ghetto in Philadelphia. Then an amazing opportunity came knocking. A scholarship to an elite private school would change his life forever. But his "golden ticket" out of poverty cost him more than ...

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

Feature Film
2014

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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home.

Downeast

Feature Film
2014

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Downeast portrays the small village of Prospect Harbor, Maine - home to the last sardine cannery in the U.S. before it closed in 2010. A few months later, entrepreneur Antonio Bussone bought the plant, with plans to build and operate ...

Fate of a Salesman

Feature Film
2014

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In its 60th year of business, Washington D.C.’s Men’s Fashion Center represents identity, legacy and redemption for its salesmen and owner. But business has crawled to a halt in the face of a tough economy and changing ...

My Brooklyn

Feature Film
2014

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As small businesses are replaced by high rise luxury housing and chain retail in director Kelly Anderson's Brooklyn neighborhood, she uncovers the web of global corporations, politicians and secretive public-private partnerships that drive development, and explores her own role in ...

America ReFramed: The Way We Get By

Feature Film
2013

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Inside a small airport in central Maine, a group of senior citizens are making history by using handshakes and hugs to play a critical role in the Iraq war.

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea

Feature Film
2013

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While covering the historical, economic, political, and environmental issues that face the Salton Sea, Plagues and Pleasures offers an offbeat portrait of the peculiar and individualistic people who populate its shores.

Code of the West

Feature Film
2013

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Set against the steamy lamplight of marijuana grow houses and the bustling halls of the Montana State Capitol, Code of the West follows the political process of marijuana policy reform - and the recent federal crackdown on medical marijuana growers across ...

The New Public

Feature Film
2013

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The New Public follows the lives of the ambitious educators and lively students of Bed Stuy's new Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High School over the course of the founding year, with the filmmakers returning three years later to again ...

The Medicine Game

Feature Film
2013

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Filmed over seven years, The Medicine Game is the remarkable journey of two brothers from the Onondaga Nation driven by a single goal; to beat the odds and play lacrosse for national powerhouse Syracuse University.

Radio Unnameable

Feature Film
2013

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Radio Unnameable is a visual and aural collage that pulls from Bob Fass's immense, yet stirring archive of audio from his program, film, photographs, and video that has been sitting dormant until now.

Building Babel

Feature Film
2013

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Building Babel follows a year in the life of Sharif El-Gamal, developer of the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque," a Muslim-led community center two blocks from the World Trade Center. With unlimited access to his home and office, the film ...

Follow The Leader

Feature Film
2013

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Follow The Leader is a political coming-of-age documentary about three boys who want to be President. Over three life-changing years, each rethinks his beliefs & discovers who he truly wants to be as an adult.

America ReFramed: Big Enough

Feature Film
2013

In this intimate portrait, several dwarves who appeared in Jan Krawitz and Thomas Ott's 1982 film Little People welcome the camera into their lives once again. Through a prism of "then and now," the characters in the film confront ...

America ReFramed: West 47th Street

Feature Film
2013

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Mental illness is a topic rife with stereotypes and misunderstanding. Made with depth and compassion, West 47th Street is an intimate cinéma vérité portrait of four people struggling to recover from serious mental illness. They've all come to Fountain House ...

Men of Hula

Feature Film
2013

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This program captures the journey of legendary master teacher Robert Cazimero and the only all-male hula school in Hawai'i as they prepare to compete at the world's largest hula festival. Beyond deep-rooted stereotypes of "grass-skirt girls," the film tells ...

Flying: Confessions (Part 2)

Feature Film
2013

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In this two part documentary, storyteller Jennifer Fox lays bare her own turbulent life to penetrate what it means to be a free woman today. As her drama of work and relationships unfolds over four years, our protagonist travels to ...

Flying: Confessions (Part 1)

Feature Film
2013

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In this two part documentary, storyteller Jennifer Fox lays bare her own turbulent life to penetrate what it means to be a free woman today. As her drama of work and relationships unfolds over four years, our protagonist travels to ...

51 Birch Street

Feature Film
2013

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Documentary filmmaker Doug Block had every reason to believe his parent’s 54-year marriage was a good one. So he isn’t prepared when, just a few months after his mother's’ unexpected death, his 83-year old father, Mike, phones to ...

After Happily Ever After

Feature Film
2013

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After Happily Ever After is filmmaker Kate Schermerhorn’s quirky, funny and moving personal quest for the secret to a happy marriage and for answers to some timely questions about an institution which might just be due for some review ...

America ReFramed: Brother Outsider

Feature Film
2013

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Long before Martin Luther King Jr. rose to national prominence, Rustin was putting his life on the line in pursuit of racial equality. His advocacy of pacifism and Gandhian nonviolence made him a pioneer in the 1940s and, a decade ...

America ReFramed: New Muslim Cool

Feature Film
2013

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After pulling himself out of a drug dealing street life, Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Pérez became a Muslim, and moved to Pittsburgh's tough North Side to start a new religious community, rebuild his shattered family and take his message of ...

Trembling Before G-d

Feature Film
2013

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Portraying the lives of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation, this film follows several gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews and includes interviews with rabbis and psychotherapists about Orthodox attitudes towards homosexuality.

Beyond Belief

Feature Film
2013

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Susan Retik and Patti Quigley are two ordinary soccer moms living in the affluent suburbs of Boston until tragedy strikes. Rather than turning inwards, grief compels these women to make the courageous journey from their comfortable neighborhoods to the most ...

American Dreams Deferred

Feature Film
2012

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A young Latino man, William Caballero, juggles unconditional family love with the challenges of breaking the cycle that has kept so many relatives from reaching their dreams. Set against a backdrop of Coney Island and Fayetteville, North Carolina, an NYU ...

All Me

Feature Film
2012

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InAll Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert, we see firsthand the depiction of the day-to-day existence of African Americans in the segregated South. The artist relives his turbulent life, abundantly visualized by his extensive paintings and, in ...

America ReFramed: 90 Miles

Feature Film
2012

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90 Miles depicts the heartfelt story of a young Cuban boy and his family’s journey into exile. Migrating to Miami in 1980 during the Mariel boat lift, Juan Carlos Zaldívar and his family explore the struggles of exile, and ...

Red Without Blue

Feature Film
2012

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The intimate bond between two identical twin brothers is challenged when one decides to transition from male to female; this is the story of their evolving relationship, and the resurrection of their family from a darker past.

abUSed: The Postville Raid

Feature Film
2012

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abUSed: The Postville Raid looks at the effects of US immigration policy enforcement on communities, families and children. The film tells the gripping personal stories from Postville, Iowa, the site of the most expensive and largest immigration raid in the ...

Meat Hooked!

Feature Film
2012

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Meat Hooked! is part history of butchering but mostly an entertaining look at the current phenomenon of environmentally conscious twenty and thirty-somethings bringing butchering back as a kind of new green collar job.

My Louisiana Love

Feature Film
2012

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My Louisiana Love traces a young woman’s quest to find a place in her Native American community as it reels from decades of environmental degradation. Monique Verdin returns to Southeast Louisiana to reunite with her Houma Indian family. But ...

Skydancer

Feature Film
2012

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The Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center: for more than 120 years, Mohawk ironworkers have raised America’s modern cityscapes. They are called "skywalkers" because they walk fearlessly atop steel beams just a foot wide, high ...

Trust

Feature Film
2012

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Trust begins when Marlin, an 18-year-old Hondureña, shares a hidden history about her childhood with a neighborhood youth theater company. Marlin’s story is about resilience: she endured rape as young girl, survived a harsh and difficult journey from Honduras ...

Passionate Politics

Feature Film
2012

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Passionate Politics is a new one-hour documentary that brings Charlotte’s story to life, from idealistic young civil rights activist to lesbian separatist to internationally-recognized leader of a campaign to put women’s rights, front and center, on the global ...

Push: Madison v. Madison

Feature Film
2012

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This documentary film chronicles the stories surrounding the players of an inner-city high school basketball team over the course of a potentially historic season. It is as much about the challenges facing inner-city youth and the public school system, as ...

La Americana

Feature Film
2012

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When nine-year-old Carla suffers a life-threatening accident, her mother, Carmen, must leave her behind and make the dangerous and illegal journey from Bolivia to the U.S., where she hopes to earn enough to save her daughter’s life. Working ...

America ReFramed: Street Fight

Feature Film
2012

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Illustrating the adage that politics is a contact sport, Street Fight gives viewers a ringside seat. This up-close chronicle of the 2002 race for mayor in Newark, New Jersey is riveting with its dramatic account of youthful energy and ideals ...

America ReFramed: Chisholm '72

Feature Film
2012

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In 1968, Shirley Chisholm becomes the first black woman elected to Congress. In 1972, she becomes the first black woman to run for president. Shunned by the political establishment, she's supported by a motley crew of blacks, feminists, and young ...