Geopolitics

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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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Sandgrains is a documentary about the local effects of global fisheries on the small Cape Verdean village of Ribeira da Barca. We explore this through José Fortes, a former footballer returning to his birth place to understand why the beach by the village has disappeared.

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

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The four-part public television series Standing on Sacred Ground tells eight compelling stories of indigenous people around the world resisting the destruction of their culture and sacred lands. 

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In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, this hour-long radio documentary will portray experiences of volunteers from every decade, in every region, using audio they recorded while serving. The archive recordings from the field will be complemented by contemporary interviews with the returned Peace Corps volunteers and with historians who've written about the Peace Corps.    

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Cooking Lessons-A Palestinian American Story (working title) turns an intimate lens on what it means to be Palestinian in America through the story of the Hakim family, who were among the first Palestinian refugees granted immigrant visas to America in the 1950s. A feature-length personal documentary narrated by first born son and photographer Najib Joe Hakim and directed by daughter-in-law Laurie Coyle.

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Not My Life is a feature-length documentary film about the horrifying practices of modern-day slavery and global human trafficking, which affect millions of children, women, and men in virtually every country on earth.

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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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Dead Reckoning ~ Champlain in America will be a compelling multi-media exploration of Samuel de Champlain’s journeys, informed by current academic scholarship and archeological research.

We will collaborate with cutting-edge animators and filmmakers in Canada and the United States to create the first historically accurate completely animated documentary on Samuel de Champlain to be broadcast in the US and Canada.