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Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Confronted with vast stretches of abandoned buildings, the highest arson rate in the country, and a budget crisis of epic proportions, the brave men and women of Detroit’s Fire Department risk everything to try and make a difference for the place they call home. Ten years in the making, this documentary follows Detroit through impoverishment, decimation, and regeneration, as a community comes together to revive a city on its knees.
3) Peace Boat
Publisher
Lightbeam
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Meet the youth ambassadors on the front lines of climate change. They’re boarding Peace Boat to raise awareness about how global warming affects their countries.
4) White Riot
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
Description
Britain, late-1970s. Punk is exploding. The country is deeply divided over immigration. The National Front, a far-right and fascist political party, is gaining strength as politicians like Enoch Powell push a xenophobic agenda. Outraged by a racist speech from Eric Clapton, music photographer Red Saunders writes a letter to the music press, calling for rock to be a force against racism. NME, Melody Maker, and Sounds all publish the letter. Flooded...
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...
Publisher
Lightbeam
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Young people are not just our future leaders, they are our current leaders. Heirs to Our Oceans is an organization of young people taking action to protect the world's oceans. Inspired by their love of ocean life, co-founders Cambria Bartlett and Charlie Peebler are bringing their generation together to educate others on how to care for and protect our oceans and waterways. They are proof that making an impact is not about your age, but your passion!...
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...
8) Auction
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Gonzalez, Texas, a cattle auction of old-timers from the community come weekly to bid on cattle and see each other. In a time when farmland is being developed on and old time ranchers our dying out, this small cattle auction continues. The town of Gonzalez, Texas is not what it used to be, Main street is desolate, the population is shrinking, but the culture and history live on through story and communal gathering at this once...
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Guanglin is a blind boy in China who displays great skill at the ancient board game called Go, in which two players place black and white pieces on a grid in an attempt to dominate their opponent. Raised by a single father with limited means, Guanglin faces deep societal prejudice against the blind.
Publisher
Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In Germany, concerned citizens step forward to save an ancient forest from Europe’s largest coal mine. They form an unlikely alliance with a frustrated community in rural England who are forced into action to protect their homes from a new opencast coal mine. FINITE: THE CLIMATE OF CHANGE is an insider’s view of the world of direct action; a raw, authentic and emotional insight into the David and Goliath battle between frontline communities, activists...
12) Sound and Fury
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-nominated Sound and Fury follows the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Focuses on two the families with young deaf children and their conflict over whether or not to give their children cochlear implants, surgically implanted devices that may improve their ability to hear but may threaten their Deaf identity.
14) Giving Hope
Publisher
Lightbeam
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Dr. John Chacha founded Teamwork City of Hope, a children’s home, primary school and medical center in Tanzania.
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic began a new era of uncertainty. One person, Veyd, is still standing albeit with the aid of crutches, observing the chaos of past and present from his effective incarceration. Being physically vulnerable, Veyd has been ‘shielded', totally isolated, in suburban London for the previous six months. He will continue to be so - imprisoned indefinitely, or at least until it is safe for him to leave which won't be anytime soon. Somehow,...
16) Love Chinatown
Publisher
Lightbeam
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When New York City’s Chinatown was hit hard early on in January 2020 due to the coronavirus, partners Moonlynn Tsai and Yin Chang weren’t content to just be bystanders. Local businesses were closing their doors, and members of the community were being violently attacked due to racism and xenophobia. Tsai, as co-owner of Malaysian restaurant Kopitiam, decided to use her restaurant as an anchor for “Heart of Dinner,” a community relief effort...
18) Art and Pep
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Art Johnston and Pepe Peña are civil rights leaders whose life and love is a force behind LGBTQ+ equality in the heart of the country. Their iconic gay bar, Sidetrack, has helped fuel movements and create community for decades in Chicago's queer enclave. But, behind the business and their historic activism exists a love unlike any other. The documentary film ART AND PEP tells the inspiring story of the long struggle for equality and their fight to...
19) 499
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Exactly 499 years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, an unnamed conquistador washes up on the east coast of Mexico as if ejected from a time machine. In his period costume, he treks over the mountains, from Veracruz to Mexico City, the same route Hernán Cortés took to conquer Tenochtitlan.
20) The Substitutes
Publisher
Lightbeam
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
More than a quarter of a million Syrian refugee children live in Istanbul, Turkey. Not all of them have access to education. Two sisters decide to bring school to the street.
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