- I Promise Africa
Directed by: Jerry Henry | USA | 2004| 2:40 minutes | Public Service Announcement |
English
When Jerry Henry set off to Kenya to make a documentary about orphans he didn't realize that he would be preserving on tape the voices of a generation that would soon be silenced.
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- iThemba
Directed by: Keefe Murren and Nelson Walker III| USA | 2004| 5:19 minutes | Documentary |
English
Through the mesmerizing melding of their voices, the Sinikithemba Choir turns stage into a soapbox, singing and speaking for the 5 million HIV+ South Africans in desperate need of medication and support.
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- Seeds of Hope
Directed by: Sarah Hesterman | USA | 2004 | 6:12 minutes | Documentary |
English
Solutions to poverty and malnutrition require resourcefulness and dedication. A group of women in a South African township learn how to sustain themselves and their children.
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- The Meatrix
Directed by: Free Range Graphics | USA | 2004| 3:47 minutes | Flash Animation|
English
Will Leo the pig take the blue pill and remain in a fantasy land where quaint family farms produce food for our tables, or will be take the red pill and get a cruel welcome to the real world?
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- Laugh at the Fat Kid
Directed by: Kristina Schoentag | USA | 2004| Narrative Short |
English
Whimsical and visually creative, "Laugh at the Fat Kid" intimately portrays a young boy caught in a cycle of ridicule and overeating, forcing the viewer to ask "What's wrong with this picture?"
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- Books Not Bars
Directed by: Mark Landsman/WITNESS | USA | 2004 |3:44 minutes | Campaign Portrait |
English
A growing number of youth are questioning the way their state governments spend money. The teens of the Books Not Bars movement demand that education, not incarceration, be the priority, now and in the future
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- The Children of Birmingham
Directed by: Rebecca Yenawine | USA | 2004 |6:17 minutes | Animation |
English
Through stirring narration and beautiful illustrations, Baltimore middle - school students tell the story of their 1960's counterparts who fought for their civil rights.
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- Day of Rememberance
Directed by: Cynthia Fujikawa | USA | 2004 | 8 minutes | Political Documentary |
English
The legislators behind the Patriot Act claim to have made America safer, but in the process they have destroyed the lives of thousands of innocent Arab and Muslim Americans. "Day of Rememberance" calls attention to this tragic phenomenon and reminds us that American History has a tendency to repeat itself.
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- Dedicated to My Family
Directed by: Nicole Sobottke | USA | 2004 | 3.51 minutes | Personal Documentary |
English
Nicole dreams of a perfect family. Living in a teen shelter, she has learned that family is where the heart is.
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- Struggling to Survive
Directed by: Dana Hall| USA | 2004 | 7:37 minutes |Youth Documentary |
English
Having a job doesn't mean you make enough to get by. Teenagers in eastern Kentucky turn their cameras on the living wage crisis in their community.
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- The Sixth Section
Directed by: Alex Rivera | USA | 2004 | 8 minutes | Documentary |
English
Sometimes the "American Dream" is realized on foriegn soil. During the cold winters of Upstate New York, a group of immigrants work together to give a baseball field, an ambulance and whatever else they can manage to their hometown of Boqueron, Mexico.
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- Novela, Novela
Directed by: Elizabeth Miller | USA | 2004 | 7:20 minutes | Documentary |
English
Every afternoon, millions of Nicaraguans gather around their TV sets to watch their favorite imported novela (soap opera.) What would happen if a group of activists produced a homegrown novela about real issues like safe sex and domestic abuse?
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- Bush for Peace
Directed by: Sarah Christman, Jen Simmons | USA | 2004 | 1:56 minutes | Satirical Short |
English
It's Dubbya like you've never heard him before n a remix of U.S. foreign policy created from the Commander in Chief's "Moment of Truth" speech. "Bush for Peace" is all at once a fantasy, a satire, and an earnest plea to stop the violence.
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- Spring in Awe
Directed by: Martina Radwan | USA | 2004 | 4 minutes | Experimental Short |
English
The overpowering displays of Times Square put a spell on the world in a disturbing lullaby of global capitalism.
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- POPaganda: The Art & Subversion of Ron English
Directed by: Pedro Carvajal | USA | 2004 | 8.24 minutes | Documentary Video Portrait|
English
A modern-day Robin Hood of Madison Avenue, artist and satirist Ron English reclaims corporate billboards with uncanny canvasses that force the man on the street to look twice... or maybe three times.
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