This documentary highlights Baltimore, Maryland's Ashburton Community. Ashburton in West Baltimore has been home to Baltimore's elite since 1920. Its residents have changed over the years but its high standard of living has not. Deemed, "The Suburb in the City", the neighborhood…
We are now being asked what kind of energy to choose. We live in an age where global warming is causing environmental destruction that transcends national boundaries, and we are faced with the dilemma of our own lives leading to environmental destruction. I would like to ask this question again…
Synopsis: "Ashigara-san" (Mr. Ashigara) is a homeless man who has been living on the streets for more than 20 years. He eats food that he finds in garbage bags. He does not talk much, and he does not associate with others. One day the director saw him smiling and decided that he would like…
Sinopsis: With free eyes, an open heart, good friends and a handful of luck, Gurcius Gewdner revisits some of his adventures of the past five years, survives the relentless Russian winter and asks the following question: How far can an underground Brazilian film go? Witness an intimate dive of…
Ashkenazim—Jews of European origin—are Israel’s “white folks.” And like most white folks in a multicultural society, they see themselves as the social norm and don’t think of themselves in racial or ethnic terms because by now, “aren’t we all Israeli?”…
Ashkenazim—Jews of European origin—are Israel’s “white folks.” Like most white folks in a multicultural society, they don’t think of themselves in racial or ethnic terms because by now, “aren’t we all Israeli?” Yiddish has been replaced with Hebrew,…
This short version of "I Know a Man ... Ashley Bryan" is now available on Vimeo, designed as a companion to the free Ashley Bryan Teacher/Librarian Resource & Activity Guides for Grades 4-12. The Guide was created in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is the…
The shocking story of the Ashley Madison hacking scandal In July 2015, Ashley Madison, ‘The Original Extramarital Affairs Site’, was hacked. Pandemonium ensued when the names, details, and fetishes of its members were revealed to the world. Families were torn apart, and some people were…
*A Shot in the Back*: In March 29, 1957, my uncle, whom I have never met, private Benjamin Lempel, was killed by a stray bullet mistakenly shot by his colleague in a Navy base in Eilat, Israel. Benjamin, which studied in Chabad Yeshiva, was 18 years and a week at the time of his death. What happened…
AWARDS: Best Feature Doc: Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival, Delhi Offical selection Gouden Kalf comptetion, Dutch Film Festival Official selection: Saratov Sufferings, Film Festival Official selection: Festival du Film Insulaire, De L’ile de Groix Official selection: Ischia Film Festival Official…
A mental health day centre. Gives a picture of the Ashwood Psychiatric Day Centre, run by the Leeds Association for Mental Health. Its programme centres on shared experience and mutual support, through group discussion, the use of some basic 'encounter' techniques and a variety of shared…
Over one-hundred years ago, humanity witnessed the greatest war that had ever occurred: World War I. Nearly two-million men from across Asia were recruited to fight in the war. They were Indian soldiers from remote communities, Chinese farmers from rural outposts who worked as laborers, Vietnamese fishermen…
