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Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
ROOTS IN THE SAND challenges prevailing impressions of the rugged frontier by enriching the landscape with stalwart Sikh, Moslem and Hindu settlers in this Mexican-Punjabi version of the "taming of the Wild West. Federal laws prevented "non-white Caucasians" like themselves from going home to marry, importing brides, or becoming American citizens. Instead, they married Mexican fieldworkers - women with the same color as themselves - with the blessings...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
A passionate documentary about the history of the legendary Gypsy district, the Sacromonte barrio in Granada (Spain). Founded in the 1600s, it served as a source of inspiration for artists such as Debussy, Glinka, Falla, and Lorca. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Valladolid Film Festival**. *“In this film, [the director] passionately documents the history of a legendary district, the Sacromonte barrio in Granada, through a range of artists and...
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
RETURN features charismatic Roxanne Swentzell from Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico whose efforts to reclaim ancient foodways are echoed across the continent by Tlingit, Muckleshoot, Oglala Sioux, Menominee, and Seneca women. At its heart this film is about empowering people to overcome their current circumstances through eating as their ancestors did - nutritiously and locally. RETURN offers an approach to confronting the diabetes epidemic now rampant...
64) We Breathe Again
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
For millennia, Alaska Native peoples thrived in the seasonally harsh conditions of life in the far north. They depended upon strong social, cultural and spiritual practices passed from generation to generation. In the last century, rapid and forced changes in the life ways of Alaska Native peoples created many complex, painful scars for Elders who experienced them, and for their children’s children. In a landscape as dramatic as its stories, WE...
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Four Native American veterans reflect on their experiences in the military during the divisive Vietnam War and how their communities helped them carry their warrior legacy proudly. From the Marine Corps to the Navy to the US Army, veterans Valerie Barber, Art Owen, Sandy White Hawk, Vince Beyl, and civilian eyapaha (announcer) Jerry Dearly recall their memories of one of the most controversial wars in United States history. Even as they struggled...
Publisher
Annenberg Foundation
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Complex, challenging, and immersive, W|ALLS: DEFEND, DIVIDE, and the DIVINE is a historical look at civilization’s relationship with barriers, both real and imagined. For centuries, across diverse civilizations, walls have been central to human history. This film explores the various aspects of walls – artistic, social, political, and historical.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On August 3rd, 2019, a racist murderer, hating Mexican people, committed the ultimate hate crime. This film honors all of the innocent victims without one mention of the shooter. This is a complete analysis of what happened that day, as well as an exploration of many overlooked angles.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2008, it is still racially segregated. A fascinating investigation into our nation's history and traditions, this acclaimed, award-winning documentary illuminates the complexities of race relations in 21st century America. Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Nominated for the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the **Sundance Film...
70) Double Solitaire
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In DOUBLE SOLITAIRE, the filmmaker uses the motif of games to tell the story of her Japanese-American father and uncle’s incarceration as children in an internment camp during WWII, and the legacy of that experience up to the present day, including the effect of Redress and Reparations. Winner of the SECA Award in Film from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the King Hu Award from the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
71) Mixed Match
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Multiracial Americans is one of the fastest growing community demographics in North America. MIXED MATCH is a story told from the perspective of mixed race blood cancer patients who are forced to reflect on their multiracial identities and complex genetics as they struggle with a seemingly impossible search: To find bone marrow donors. MIXED MATCH explores the role race plays in medicine, and what happens when being mixed race is more than just an...
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Catherine Keener, LOST ANGELS: SKID ROW IS MY HOME takes an uncompromising yet life-affirming look at the lives of eight remarkable individuals, people who have found a way to make a life for themselves within the community of homelessness. The film shows how their descent into society’s basement has been exacerbated by the forces of gentrification and the increasing criminalization of homeless people while exposing the draconian changes...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Migration is frequently a multi-generational experience for families; not an individual choice or the particular economic decision of a single family, but rather a collective practice, repeated again and again by both individuals and communities. THE TIME OF THE FIREFLIES portrays this interconnected history through the narrative of Miguel and his family, questioning long-held misconceptions about immigration, as well as to the political and economic...
75) American Teen
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Popularity is everything; breakups and missed jump-shots are the end of the world; a college acceptance is a dream come true; and an email forwarded to the wrong person is your worst nightmare. Now experience senior year of high school through the eyes of five real-life Indiana teenagers: the Prom Queen, the Heartthrob, the Jock, the Rebel and the Geek. This revealing year-in-the-life feature delivers the real heartbreak, hilarity and – OMG –...
76) Invisible Valley
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
INVISIBLE VALLEY weaves together the disparate stories of undocumented farmworkers, wealthy snowbirds, and music festival-goers over the course of a year in California’s Coachella Valley. In exploring the Valley’s history as well its imperiled future, this riveting documentary uncovers an imminent environmental and social crisis, and the looming consequences for the people who call it home.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five history students from St. Mary’s University take a 2,000 mile bus trip from the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas to Springfield, Illinois to build a Day of the Dead altar honoring Abraham Lincoln’s support of Mexico, and then to ask the Illinois State Military Museum to return General Antonio López de Santa Anna’s prosthetic leg to Mexico. With humor, humility, and a few animated history lessons, these students, mostly Mexican American,...
78) The Pearl
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An intimate and cinematic profile of 4 transgender women that come out for the first time in their senior years. Set against the backdrop of logging towns in the Pacific Northwest, the visceral and observational story captures the indelible moment in time as they begin the long journey towards acceptances. Coming out as trans after decades of hiding from those closest to them, theirs is a story not of transitioning into womanhood, but rather explores...
Publisher
Twin Seas Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Ashley Bryan is a 94-year-old creative wonder who skips and jumps in his heart like a child. He served in a World War II all-Black battalion and experienced the D-Day and the racism of a segregated Army. As a result he dedicated his life to creating beauty and joy, spreading love and awe through his art. He's a poet/illustrator of over 50 award-winning children's books, former professor at Dartmouth College, and maker of magical puppets and sea glass...
Publisher
Virgil Films and Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 2009, 1,176 Atlanta teachers were investigated for test cheating; 35 were indicted, 12 went to trial and 11 were found guilty on RICO charges, which are typically reserved for the mafia and drug lords. The guilty, serving 30-year sentences, finally break their silence in this tell-all, controversial film that takes a closer look at the legislation called No Child Left Behind, the politics behind it, and a race and power struggle that spawned one...
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