Films & Projects
FEATURED PROJECTS
 | Garbage Dreams Garbage Dreams is a coming of age story of three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in Cairo's largest garbage village and a journey to turn their century old recycling trade into a 21st century green job. MORE  |
 | Vanishing of the Bees Honeybees, a keystone species vital to sustaining our ecosystem, are mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives. MORE |
 | The Fence In October 2006, the United States government decided to build a fence along its troubled Mexican border. Three years and three billion dollars later, was it all worth it? MORE |
 | Freedom Riders Freedom Riders is the powerful, harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of eight months in 1961 that changed America forever. MORE |
 | Speaking in Tongues What if you went to school and your teacher spoke a foreign language? What would you learn? MORE |
 | Dirty Business A feature documentary that investigates the true cost of our dependence on coal for electricity in the age of climate change. MORE |
 | In The Matter of Cha Jung Hee Filmmaker and subject Deann Borshay Liem searches for her “double” – a girl named Cha Jung Hee – in an attempt to resolve a case of mistaken identity that took place when she was adopted by an American family in 1966. MORE |
 | Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy Wo Ai Ni Mommy explores what happens when an older Chinese girl is adopted into an American family. The film reveals the complicated gains and losses that are an inherent aspect of international, transracial adoption. MORE |
 | Off and Running When Avery - African American, teenage daughter of white Jewish moms - decides to mail a letter to her birth mother, she is propelled into a complicated exploration of race, identity, and family. MORE |
 | Tales from Planet Earth Tales From Planet Earth is a groundbreaking initiative that brings together environmental films and community allies in a three-day festival in partnership with the Nelson Institute at the UW-Madison. MORE |
 | A New Kind of Listening A New Kind of Listening follows an Inclusive Theater Group, the cast of which is made up of members with and without disabilities. The result is a groundbreaking film with the power to change beliefs about intelligence, disability and what it takes to be heard. MORE |
 | Split Estate Split Estate maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health. MORE |
 | Moving to Mars Moving to Mars tells the story of two Karen Burmese families who have been housed in a refugee camp on the Thai borders since fleeing the repressive regime in Burma fifteen years ago. MORE |
 | Erasing David Forced to contemplate the consequences of loss of privacy, David soon discovers some alarming truths about what the government and private companies already know about ordinary citizens. MORE |
 | Including Samuel Before his son Samuel was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, photojournalist Dan Habib rarely thought about the inclusion of people with disabilities. Now he thinks about inclusion every day. MORE |
 | No Impact Man A year without electricity, cars, toilet paper, and non-local food isn’t going to be a walk in the park. Or is it? MORE |
 | The Age of Stupid A groundbreaking cinema documentary starring Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at “archive” footage from 2008, asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? MORE |
 | New Faces New Faces: Latinos in North Carolina: Is a curriculum-based media project for classrooms and communities that examines the cultural and economic contributions of Latino workers in North Carolina, as well as the challenges they face. New Faces curriculum informs and engages participants around issues of worker's rights, economic justice, and race and ethnicity. MORE |
 | Everything's Cool Everything's Cool follows a group of self-appointed global warming messengers who are on a high stakes quest to find the iconic image, proper language, and points of leverage to help the public go from embracing the urgency of the problem to creating the political will necessary to move to an alternative energy economy. MORE |
 | Ghosts of Abu Ghraib Ghosts of Abu Ghraib examines and contextualizes the abuses that occurred in the fall of 2003 at that notorious Iraqi prison, abuses documented in photographs that are etched in our national consciousness and will remain so for years to come. MORE |
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