Project Description: Gamble Rogers: singer, songwriter, storyteller… hero. Gamble conjured up a cast of mythical characters from his fictional Oklawaha County, then took them on the road. First to the stages of “skull orchard” saloons, then on to NPR and all the way to Carnegie…
Jumping back and forth in time, Mangore is the life story of Agustin Barrios. Born in Paraguay in 1885, Agustin showed an aptitude for music and poetry and a special talent with the guitar. As a young adult, those talents caught the attention of other artists, and Agustin was persuaded to move to Buenos…
Beautiful Zena Nowakowski is an eighteen year-old musician with one goal: to get a record deal. Living with her strict Christian grandparents in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the only joy she gets out of her otherwise boring life is from being the lead singer of a struggling indie-rock band. When she learns about…
Une frontière matérialisée par 4056 bornes, posées sur notre territoire après la défaite de 1870. Elles marquent la limite des provinces perdues de l’Alsace-Lorraine. Ces bornes forment aujourd’hui une cicatrice intérieure, un no man’s…
Shadow Nation is alive with music and passion as it follows a group of renowned rock musicians led by George Lynch (Dokken/Lynch Mob) on a journey through Native American reservations in the southwest and the Great Plains. Forging new friendships, they learn about the many injustices done to Native Americans…
March 25, 1994 began one of the most tragic chapters in the history of Marymount California University: two Japanese exchange students, Takuma Ito and Go Matsuura, were rushed to a hospital with gunshot injuries after a carjacking. The families of both boys made the difficult decision to remove them…
What About ME? is an astonishing and in-depth investigation of the debilitating condition known alternately as either Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CF). A mystery illness that is often incorrectly labeled as a psychiatric ailment, ME/CFS is a largely undocumented epidemic…
New York City is a metropolis of towering skyscrapers, vast infrastructure, millions of people and...farms? While few NYC residents realize it, there are three genuine farms within the city limits, one in Queens, one in east New York, and one on Staten Island. While the food they produce is only a fraction…
Although there is now no conscription of people for war, there is still conscription of your money. How would you react if someone came to your door forcing you to pay for weapons to kill people you'd never met and they did not like? Contempt of Conscience is a project started by Joe Jenkins…
This is the story of Sean Casey and the Sean Casey Animal Rescue (SCAR) organization, a Brooklyn, New York based shelter with an emphasis on caring for even the most unusual of nature's creatures. While dogs and cats may make up much of Sean Casey's everyday business, everything from snakes…
Part documentary and part performance art, Renz Julian: Thug Scholarship takes audiences on a musical journey through the life of rapper Renz Julian, a former college- and pro-football player turned musician and street activist. A native of California's Bay Area, Renz guides his audience through…
Memoirist George Crane escaped America in the late 1960s as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War while poet Barry Tagrin's nomadic life led him through Europe looking for adventure and danger. Fading hippies in their early 70s, they barely escaped death—Tagrin, while running with the…
