Codes of Conduct

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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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This film examines the presence of today's UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, known as MINUSTAH. Acclaimed by the international community for restoring peace to a nation ridden with violence, perceived by the population as a racket for making money off of the country’s problems, and critiqued by human rights investigators for inaction and excessive use of force, this film explores the complexities of foreign intervention through the eyes of peacekeepers and residents of the infamous slum where they have been most actively engaged.

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RESILIENT, a feature-length documentary film, profiles four women who, in the face of brutality and injustice, are creating hope in their communities and in the world. The film is being directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, the directors of the 2008 Academy Award nominated film WAR/DANCE. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie and journalist Mariane Pearl, who will also serve as our leader on the journey in the film, are Executive Producers.

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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.

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Cecie Johansen, of Platteville, Wisconsin, has transformed into someone many people fear: a devout Muslim in the Middle East. In 2008, I journeyed to Dubai to see Cecie, my childhood best friend, for the first time in over 20 years to figuratively “uncover” who my friend is now.

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Immigrant Nation is a documentary film that tells the story of the modern immigrant-rights movement and the struggle of Elvira Arellano, who fought against her deportation. It tells how organizations, activists, community leaders and individuals came together to oppose bill HR4437 and called for just immigration reform.

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In July 1995 a heat wave hit Chicago; 739 people died that week.Survival was determined by the neighborhoods where people lived: air-conditioned supermarkets and movie theaters or quick-marts and boarded-upstores? COOKED, a feature documentary and engagement campaign that asks questions and explores solutions every U.S. city is grappling with. Global warming? Poverty? Green-jobs? All together? 

 

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One-hour documentary film brings to life the remarkable untold story of Alaska's civil rights movement.  Led by Alaska Natives in the first half of the 20th Century, the movement rose and came to fruition with the passage of equal rights legislation during World War II, a groundbreaking success for non-violent social change.

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A musical documentary that asks the question: What would make a group of New York Women strap missiles to their crotches and take to the streets of the US in a parody celebration of war and greed?