This Academy Award-winning documentary explores issues facing elders who raise their grandchildren. Big Mama, 90, takes on Walter, 9, after convincing welfare officials that "age has nothing to do with love."
This now-famous college town came to symbolize the era that shaped a generation and forever changed this country. Interweaving footage and music from the time with insightful recollections from 15 former leading political and cultural activists this remains the outstanding examination of the late 1960s.
Tormented by anxiety, depression and a life-threatening eating disorder, a teenage girl confronts her buried emotions through yoga. With infectious authenticity, I AM MARIS paints an unguarded portrait of mental illness and recovery, using Maris’ own words and vivid artwork to illustrate her…
Sunny San Diego is the place to be if you like lots of Red Trolley, BNSF and Amtrak action. We'll also see new "Surfliner" GM F59PHI engines as they speed under the international airport approach, traveling south to the historic Santa Fe depot, downtown. We're caught in a rare downpour…
ASK THE SEXPERT is a feature length documentary about a highly popular 93-year-old sex advice columnist, Dr. Watsa, who writes for a daily newspaper in Mumbai. Despite sex being a taboo topic in that country, the column’s brand of non-moralistic advice and humor has emboldened many to write in…
This is a visual exploration of what is considered to be one of American railroading's "seven wonders of the world" - the Tehachapi Loop in Southern California. In Volume Two we visit the Mojave river wash, Cameron Crossing, the defect detector at Monolith, the town of Tehachapi, a working…
This is a visual exploration of what is considered to be one of American railroading's "seven wonders of the world" - the Tehachapi Loop in Southern California. Volume One visits Tunnel 3 at Bealville, Mojave Yard, a quarter-mile long "ribbon rail" train, the famous "Loop",…
Throughout the early twentieth century thousands of European Jews sailed to Mexico looking for opportunity and escaping increasing persecution at home. A small group made their way north to the border town of Tijuana. Tijuana Jews is a documentary and a personal exploration of this community that blended…
A sensory ethnography on the Balinese cockfight Shot in the arid landscape of West Bali, Indonesia, Tajen, Balinese for cockfight, follows multiple narrative threads of this ancient spectacle– that of the blade, the rooster, the cockfighter. It is the moment when these elements come together…
Challah Rising in the Desert celebrates the history and people of New Mexico’s unique Jewish community. In this new feature documentary, braided Challah bread represents five waves of settlement of New Mexico’s Jewish community including Conversos escaping the Spanish Inquisition 400 years…
By wagon train and steamship, Jews began arriving in San Diego in 1850 when it was a small pueblo in the remote southwest corner of the U.S. Meet descendants of early Jewish pioneers, scientists, entrepreneurs as well as avant-garde artists, rabbis, and surfers in a living portrait of a vibrant and culturally-dynamic…
The Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad splits the town of Fresno, CA in two! Lots of exciting freight and Amtrak passenger train locations to trainspot from! See a derailment crew at work in the Union Pacific railroad yard! Visit the restored Santa Fe depot, now an active Amtrak station. Watch a long…
