Culture

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Beyond the Bricks Project is a media and international community engagement initiative encouraging and promoting solutions based dialog and action that increases the educational and social outcomes for school age black males. The BTBP engages black male youth in the use media and 21st century tools to reimagine and reimage the black male persona and advocate for his community.

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Five Blocks is a journey through the trials and tribulations of a community struggling to transform from “skid row” into a vibrant neighborhood filled with promise and hope. A determined yet shaky coalition must redeem the area without casting aside the poor and underserved. It may be their last chance.

 

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Bordering On Treason tells the amazing story of Lorna Tychostup, a single mother and photojournalist who travels to Iraq eight times to put a human face on a horrific global tragedy. Visiting military units and Iraqi families beyond the green zone, she evolves from naïve civilian to established journalist. Through Lorna’s personal journey, Treason explores the complexities of this war and the possibility of hope.

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A Fierce Green Fire is the first big-picture synthesis of environmentalism - grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years worldwide. It tells the story of the environmental movement from conservation to climate change. We focus on activism -- people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future. Our concerns are connecting causes, how the issues grew, exploring ideas and the evolution of a vision. The common theme is a struggle to save nature against the destructive impact of humanity – from halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization. Our thesis is that this is the time when mankind must learn to live with nature, move beyond the exploitation at the heart of industrial society and find a way based on biology, balancing human needs with the natural world that sustains us, creating a living planet. As Stewart Brand says in the film, “We’re not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are Spaceship Earth. We are Gaia.”  

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Media has fueled our nation's deadly gun violence epidemic, so Beyond Bullets is using media to change the message about gun violence and become part of the solution. By putting cameras instead of guns into the hands of youth, Beyond Bullets distributes youth-created anti-gun violence videos and starts community conversations about ways to stop the carnage.

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The first documentary film that tells the story of when Jews dominated the sport of boxing both in and out of the ring.