- Battleground Minnesota
Directed by: Gabriel Cheifetz | USA | 2005 | 8 minutes | Youth Documentary |
English
Hip-Hop activist Shakademic proves that if Walter Mondale can learn how to scratch, young voters can get schooled in election politics.
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- All That I Can Be
Directed by: Educational Video Center | USA | 2005 | 8:30 minutes | Documentary |
English
William, like many young Americans, feels that joining the military is the only way out of a dead-end job and a rough life.
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- Pizza Surveilance Feature
Directed by: Michal Laaker | USA | 2005 | 2:20 minutes | Public Service Announcement |
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 News Is What We Make It
Directed by: Nickey Robare | USA | 2005 | 8:21 minutes | Animation|
English
When the same company owns all the TV stations in town, where can you turn for an alternative perspective? A high schooler gets burned and turns insult into action.
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- Laptop
Directed by: Larry Frye | USA | 2005 | Public Service Announcement |
English
A computer is only as advanced as the person behind the keyboard. Laptop reminds us that the digital divide still resides within our borders
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- A Girl Named Kai
Directed by: Kai Ling Xue | USA | 2005 | 8 minutes | Experimental |
English
Through a stirring poetic mix of video and sound, Kai appeals to her traditional Taiwanese parents for acceptance in spite of her untraditional take on life and love.
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- Homecoming
Directed by: Brian Schirber, Kirstin Nelson | USA | 2005 | 5:30 minutes | Youth Documentary |
English
When coming out makes Ron a target for attack, he finds a school where respect and acceptance are taught, alongside Math and English.
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- Bad Choices
Directed by: Aderian Fair| USA | 2005 | 3 minutes | Digital Story |
English
Without a support system, it's hard for a teenager to stay out of trouble. Aderian reflects on the lessons he has learned from his bad choices.
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- Happy Ending
Directed by: Chris Irrizarry | USA | 2005 | 8 minutes | Personal Documentary |
English
Drugs have taken Chris's mom out of his life but not out of his heart. In this personal travelogue, he goes to Philadelphia in search of a happy ending.
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- System Failure
Directed by: WITNESS | USA | 2005 | 8 minutes | Documentary |
English
Physical abuse, sexual harassment, inadequate education for incarcerated youth - if a society can be graded by how it treats its prisoners, then the state of California gets an "F."
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- Fast and Reliable
Directed by: Tom Soper | USA | 2005 | 8 minutes | Documentary |
English
Nothing can stop Dexter the bike messenger - not homelessness, or even a close encounter with a ten-ton truck.
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- Neglected Sky
Directed by: John Cooney with Citizens for Global Solutions | USA | 2005 | 1:36 minutes | Animation |
English
In this fast-paced animation, youth-producer John Cooney shows us that a little effort can go a long way in reversing global warming.
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- Young Agrarians
Directed by: Johanna Divine | USA | 2005 | 8 minutes | Documentary |
English
Young people plant the seeds for a sustainable future in this portrait of organic farming in California.
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- World on Fire
Directed by: Sophie Muller | USA | 2005 | 4:20 minutes | Music Video |
English
$5,000 could cover the cost of hair and makeup for one day on set in LA, or pay for one year's schooling for 145 girls in Afghanistan. Sarah McLachlan does the math and encourages you to join her.
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- The Luckiest Nut in the World
Directed by: Emily James | USA | 2005 | 8 minutes | Musical |
English
A singing peanut and his gang of shelled friends explain that sometimes free trade is just nuts.
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- Something Other than Other
Directed by: Jerry A Henry and Andrea J. Chia| USA | 2005 | 7:05 minutes | Experimental |
English
New parents Jerry and Andrea have endured their own share of discrimination growing up. They hope their newborn son can grow up identifying as something other than "other."
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