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The Anderson Monarchs
Content Project
The Anderson Monarchs is about an all-girls soccer team competing, living, and thriving in an at-risk urban neighborhood in Philadelphia.  Nominated in 2008 by Sports Illustrated as “Sports Team” of the year, they were also hailed as “the future of American Soccer” in the London newspaper, The Guardian.
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A FIERCE GREEN FIRE
Content Project
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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Crisis Call 211, a documentary about families struggling in today's economy, and the impact of cuts to the social safety net
Content Project

From Emmy award-winning filmmakers Joe and Harry Gantz, CRISIS CALL 211 is a documentary film that will present a powerful portrait of the effects of America's prolonged economic recession, as well as the impact of billions of dollars in budget cuts to the country's social safety net, from the vantage point of families in crisis who are searching for help.

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Beyond Bullets: Americans Using Media To Stop Gun Violence
Content Project
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.
Boys Become Men
Content Project
Boys Become Men is a two-hour documentary focusing on the life-changing initiation and mentorship of urban teenage boys into mature masculinity. The film will demonstrate how the initiation process allows young men to overcome their own inner demons, and, by filling them with confidence in their own unique gifts, enables them to meet the challenges of life with integrity, passion, and a sense of purpose, rather than entering adulthood in suspended adolescence, becoming abusive, turning to drugs, alcoholism, workaholism, or consumerism. 
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HOME COUNTRY
Content Project

HOME COUNTRY  is a meditation on personal geography across the shifting meanings of home and identity in the 21st century.  

The Greatest Story Ever Sold
Content Project
From the producers of 'The End of the Line', 'The Flaw' and 'The War Don't See', 'The Greatest Story Ever Sold' is a feature documentary revealing the nuclear industry's 5-decade campaign to sell atomic energy to an unwitting public. Using a combination of compelling personal stories, expert testimony and often blackly comic archive material, the film will delve behind the spin to discover the true costs of nuclear power in the UK, US, Europe and beyond, as well as showing how there IS another way to power all our futures.


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Rise of the Phoenix
Content Project
Rise of the Phoenix is a feature length documentary that examines how the unprecedented transformation of China's economy is changing the roles, rights and status of modern day Chinese women as witnessed by four or five women from very different social and economic backgrounds. These intimate and sometimes heart-breaking stories reflect a remarkable sexual revolution redefining one-fifth of the world's population despite a gender-biased tradition.
How Washington Really Works: The Life and Times of Charlie Peters
Content Project
The film simultaneously looks at the career of Washington Monthly founder Charles Peters, as well as examining the transformation of American journalism, and corporate monopolization of the media.
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Always in Season
Content Project
With film and virtual reality, Always in Season takes an integrated transmedia approach to telling the story of the lingering impact of almost a century of lynching African Americans until the mid-1960s.  Our documentary feature highlights the emotional journeys of relatives of the victims, perpetrators and spectators who are turning harm to hope with grassroots efforts towards reconciliation and restorative justice, and our virtual world locale, Always in Season Island, extends the film’s message by giving audiences an experiential look at the social climate that made this form of racial terrorism possible.
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