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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...
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
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
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A Chinese-American family’s search for their roots leads them to the Mississippi Delta, where they stumble upon surprising family revelations and uncover the racially complex history of the Chinese in the segregated South. FAR EAST DEEP SOUTH presents a personal and eye-opening perspective on race, immigration, and American identity. It sheds light on the history of Chinese immigrants living in the American South during the late 1800s to mid-1900s...
87) Waking Dream
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
WAKING DREAM weaves together the stories of six undocumented young people as they sit in limbo between deportation and a path to citizenship. DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) has provided nearly 800,000 undocumented young people a chance to work legally, go to college, start businesses, and pursue the “American Dream.” After DACA is rescinded, WAKING DREAM follows the unfolding fate of six of these young people as they fight for legal...
88) Among Wolves
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Wolves are no ordinary motorcycle club, which is revealed in this gorgeous, surprisingly intimate documentary about trauma and survival. Still struggling after the Bosnian War, the Wolves organize charity for their town and defend the threatened herd of wild horses they first met on the front line. Out there, with the horses, they confront their past and reclaim that territory as a space for healing. Winner of Best Film at the **Chicago International...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
This road documentary travels across South America to understand Cartonera book production, finding citizens and cooperatives committed to using literary production as a means of fighting for social justice, economic equality, and a more sustainable world. Cartonera publishers are proponents of a salvage economy. They handcraft their books out of recycled materials, often bought straight from Cartoneros, people who make their living by collecting...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this Emmy-winning documentary, acclaimed Muslim filmmaker Deeyah Khan meets U.S. neo-Nazis and white nationalists face to face and attends the now-infamous *Unite the Right* rally in Charlottesville as she seeks to understand the personal and political motivations behind the resurgence of far-right extremism in the U.S. Speaking with fascists, racists and proponents of alt-right ideologies, Deeyah attempts to discover new possibilities for connection...
91) 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
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder, two living legends in the world of American dance, are the subjects of this intimate and revealing documentary. Carmen achieved notoriety in the early 1950s, as a lead dancer of incomparable beauty and grace with Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theater. Geoffrey, large in life and an elemental force on stage, found fame not only as a dancer but also as an actor, soda spokesman and theater director. He and Carmen...
93) Citizen Ashe
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Explore the enduring legacy of tennis great and humanitarian Arthur Ashe, charting his personal evolution from Grand Slam champion to global activist against a tumultuous historical backdrop.
Publisher
Scorpion TV
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Throughout the Southern U.S., tempers flare up as confederate monuments are targeted for removal. During a 6000 mile road trip through the former confederacy, MONUMENTAL CROSSROADS explores the legacy of Southern Heritage. A myriad of supporters and opponents is met along the way: White, Black, North and South. Each with their own view on what's worth remembering and preserving. Is there a way past these crossroads?
95) The Great Day
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Cesar-winner Pascal Plisson ("On the Way Back to School") introduces four children from different regions of the developing world, all of whom have the ambition and talent to rise to the top. Their perseverance is the foundation of their dreams, and it fires their capacity to practice regularly and to make the most of their physical, mental, and emotional powers. A 15-year-old girl from Benares, India, studies to pass a test to gain a scholarship...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Rolling Stones bassist Darryl Jones reflects on growing up on the South Side of Chicago, playing alongside Miles Davis, Madonna, and Sting, and replacing Bill Wyman in the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band. Featuring interviews with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts and more.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Hindi
Description
A university student in India writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
THEY AIN'T READY FOR ME is the story of Tamar Manasseh, the African American rabbinical student who is leading the fight against senseless killings on the south side of Chicago. The film explores the challenges and motivations of this fearless community leader as she works to prevent more people from being killed by gun violence. Tamar's complex identity and magnetic personality combine to make her a force to be reckoned with, and she hasn't even...
99) Hello World
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The film tackles the tough topic of why women, black, and latinx people don’t pursue software careers.
100) 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...
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