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Precious Objects of Desire
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IN POST-PRODUCTION: Precious Objects of Desire is a feature-length documentary exploring the thorny ethical issues surrounding international adoptions through the personal journey of Korean adoptee Deann Borshay Liem, who travels to Korea in search of her “double” – a girl whose identity was switched with hers immediately before Liem was adopted by an American family. This is a follow-up to Liem’s film First Person Plural, which premiered at Sundance and aired on the POV series on PBS.more >>
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The End of America
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NOW AVAILABLE: The End of America details the ten steps a country takes when it slides toward fascism. Based on the best-selling book by Naomi Wolf, the film takes a historical look at trends in once-functioning democracies that are being repeated in our country today. In this pivotal election year, The End of America seeks to accompany Naomi's book as a clarion call for citizen awareness -- and for the protection of the Constitution that defines and unites us as Americans. more >>
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A Jihad for Love
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IN THEATERS: Filmed in twelve different countries and in nine languages, A Jihad for Love is the first-ever feature-length documentary to explore the complex global intersections of Islam and homosexuality. With unprecedented access and depth, the film brings to light the hidden lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Muslims and goes where the silence has been loudest, to countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt and Bangladesh, as well as to Turkey, France, India, South Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom.more >>
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The Garden
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IN FESTIVALS: Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy, this verite-style documentary follows the plight of a 14-acre community garden in South Central Los Angeles. It started as a form of healing after the devastating riots in 1992. Since that time, the South Central Farmers created a miracle in one of the country's most blighted neighborhoods. But in the summer of 2006, after a heavily publicized struggle with a powerful developer, the garden was leveled by bulldozers to make way for a warehouse. It was a tragic end to a long and complicated story.more >>
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Special Circumstances
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IN FESTIVALS: At 16, Chilean native Héctor Salgado was arrested, tortured and imprisoned for three years by Pinochet’s forces. By 20, Héctor was without a country, living in exile in the U.S., the very place whose devastating foreign policies in Chile caused the death and torture of thousands. Special Circumstances follows Héctor as he returns to Chile almost thirty years later, looking for answers and justice from the perpetrators and his former captors. In the process, the documentary takes an unflinching look at the legacy of Pinochet in Chile today.more >>
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Out in India: A Family’s Journey
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IN FESTIVALS: A documentary about the transforming power of love, and the universal power of the arts, Out in India follows David Gere and Peter Carley, a gay couple with two young children, as they journey to India, where Gere tries to stop the deadly march of AIDS through collaborations with a range of courageous artists. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Tom Keegan, who worked intimately with the participants in the U.S. and India for over a year.more >>
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Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul
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IN DEVELOPMENT: From award-winning filmmaker Huey comes a portrait of Thoreau emphasizing how the writer’s voice and spirit have echoed throughout history and still resound today. Thoreau’s call for preservation forms the philosophical basis for many environmental organizations today. He almost single-handedly established the basic principles of the modern-day science of ecology. His essay “Civil Disobedience” is the impetus for many civil rights movements and influenced Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.more >>