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Homeland Homeland
ON DVD: Nearly all Indian lands in the U.S. face grave environmental threats – toxic waste, strip mining, oil drilling and nuclear contamination. But a handful of activists are fighting back. Filmed against some of America’s most spectacular backdrops, from Alaska to Maine and Montana to New Mexico, Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action profiles the against-all-odds struggles of Native American leaders who are taking on powerful energy companies and government agencies to protect the environment for all Americans. A moving tribute to the power of grassroots organizing, Homeland is also a call-to-action against the current dismantling of thirty years of environmental laws. more >>
Blessed is the Match Blessed Is the Match
IN FESTIVALS: Narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Hungary’s Jews. Shockingly, it was the only outside rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Incredibly, her mother Catherine witnessed the entire ordeal – first as a prisoner with Hannah and later as her advocate, braving the bombed-out streets of Budapest in a desperate attempt to save her daughter. more >>
Dorothea Lange photograph of woman Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
IN PRODUCTION: Grab a Hunk of Lightning is a 90-minute film, on the photographer, Dorothea Lange. It's also an exploration of the creative process, and the cost of a creative life. Dorothea Lange was a photographer whose work during the Great Depression has resonance even today. She photographed the disenfranchised - the migration to the west during the dustbowl, extreme poverty at home in the streets of San Francisco and throughout the United States, the Japanese Internment, and the urbanization of her home state, California.more >>
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IN DEVELOPMENT: Most popular histories of American Indians end in 1890 with the massacre at Wounded Knee. But the stories of more than 500 Native American nations didn’t stop 115 years ago at a bloody creek in South Dakota. Far from it. From the birth of the reservations to the birth of Foxwoods, the original Americans have survived and even thrived over the last century.more >>
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IN DEVELOPMENT: Immigration High (working title) is a feature-length documentary chronicling a year in the life of newly arrived immigrant and refugee students at Oakland International High School, an innovative public school that educates non-English speaking students in English only. For these teens – Asian, Latino, African, Middle Eastern, many fleeing war and disease, others arriving penniless and undocumented – the first year in an American high school will be pivotal. It will be a time of reinvention and assimilation, cultural and ethnic tension, educational rigor, and new discoveries and encounters with classmates and the communities they live in.more >>