When Dian was six she narrowly escaped a tsunami of boiling mud that completely submerged 16 villages under a moonscape of grit, leaving 60,000 people displaced. Lapindo, an Indonesian drilling company, had unleashed a violent, unstoppable flow from the earth's depths, estimated to continue for…
When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transwoman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case—an activist attorney (Virgie Suarez), a transgender journalist (Meredith Talusan), and Jennifer’s mother (Julita “Nanay” Laude)—galvanize a political…
—For Home Use Only— A film by Sandra Jaffe OUR MOCKINGBIRD uses Harper Lee's 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" as a lens to view race, class, gender and justice — both then and now. Woven through the film is the story of two extraordinarily different high schools…
Every New Year, and in celebration of their Independence, Haitian families gather together to feast in honor of a line of ancestors that fought for their freedom. The centerpiece of the festivity is the joumou soup—a traditional soup dating back centuries ago. The joumou soup is a concretization…
Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime, but Zhao Xiaoyong has sold over 90,000 copies of van Gogh’s paintings in the past 20 years. Living in China, the world’s fastest developing country, Zhao has been through great transitions. First from a peasant to a rural migrant…
Song of a Jewish Cowboy 18 minutes, English/Yiddish w/English subtitles, 2002 Scott Gerber, an unlikely mix of Yiddish and cowboy cultures, learned Yiddish and progressive songs from his mother and grandmother. A descendant of the left wing Petaluma chicken ranchers, Scott carries on the Yiddish…
Trees Cry For Rain: A Sephardic Journey 32 minutes, English and Ladino with English subtitles, Spanish subtitles, 1989, DVD Rachel Amado Bortnick takes the viewer on a fascinating journey exploring her Sephardic roots, recalling the rich, vanishing world of Sephardic culture and the nearly extinct…
*Official selection of Banff Film Festival 2018* In 2017, Rickie Cotter and Lee Craigie rode the Tour Divide, a 2745 mile self-supported mountain bike race from Canada to the Mexican border. Shot entirely using a Go Pro and an iPhone, this film documents the journey the two friends made in a way The…
Filmed during the rise and fall of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Parents of the Revolution profiles a group of protester parents as they teach the values of civic engagement and resistance to their kids. Parents of the Revolution poses many questions relating to parenting, one’s relationship…
This classic case study in media bias examines how the three network affiliates covered urban unrest in Miami's predominantly African American Liberty Hill neighborhood, following the 1980 acquittal of police officers for the killing of a local resident; how it framed the uprising as "riots,"…
A mock-umentary following a small group of elite players preparing for the world championships of GoldenEye in a world which has forgotten all about the classic Nintendo 64 game.
The Bekaa Valley in Lebanon is at the centre of the illegal trade of hashish and heroin. Vast drug clans rule the land and everyone has a year round supply of ammunition. With unbelievable access, 'The Hashish Connection' goes where no police dare.
