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ARC OF LIGHT: A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss is a documentary film about an artist, architect, and designer who has been an exponent of Modernism devoting her life to the creation of art that explores the fascinating intersections of art, nature, science, mathematics, and technology. The film explores the range of her work from architectural commissions to painterly and digitally-based studies of color and light, and Utah-based public art commissions that tell stories of the human condition.

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GRITtv with Laura Flanders is a 28-minute daily news and culture discussion show that engages the public with critical conversations about important issues and puts powerful new media tools in the hands of non-media community organizations, artists and cultural workers.

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YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS is a documentary film that captures the mind-bending journey of a diverse cast of "mental athletes" as they prepare for and ultimately compete in the USA Memory Championship.

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A documentary interviewing "news celebrities" and local radio news journalists, on the importance of local radio news coverage, the techniques involved for those just getting started, and the economic and social rationale for doing so. 

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The Vanishing of the Bees, a feature-length documentary, takes a piercing look at the economic, political and spiritual implications of the world wide disappearance of the honeybee, a keystone species vital to sustaining our ecosystem.

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"Germ Wars,” a 60-minute documentary, examines the epidemic in food borne diseases, and consumers fighting for the most fundamental of liberties-the right to choose our food.

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In 1999, two African American boys from Brooklyn entered kindergarten at the Dalton School - an elite prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The documentary AN AMERICAN PROMISE follows the boys through their high school graduation in 2012, providing a rare glimpse into the social and emotional experiences that shape these boys into men.

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In 1942, when computers were human and women were underestimated, a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the modern computer age. Summer 2010 marks the 65th anniversary of the end of WWII, yet the story of these female ‘computers’ remains untold.

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Bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon reunites with Chase County, Kansas to experience one of America's most environmentally advanced communities in "Return to PrairyErth." The Center for Independent Documentary is serving as fiscal sponsor for the film project.

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Through the stories of farmers who steward land from Harlem to the foothills of the Rockies, from upstate New York to Florida, WHAT'S "ORGANIC" ABOUT ORGANIC? offers the audience a deeper understanding of the complexities involved in creating a more sustainable food system.  The film provides insight for certification systems taking root across our society, showing the pitfalls that can arise when idealism is formalized into a label.