Globalization

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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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The Hunger Chronicles is a documentary series for radio and web that explores the causes of the global hunger crisis and the most promising efforts to combat it. Partners are Homelands Productions, a nonprofit media cooperative specializing in public radio documentaries; Magnum Photos, widely considered the world’s most prestigious photo agency; NPR; Cornell University, and the USC Annenberg School. 

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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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The story of the bagel is the classic story of the immigrant made good in America – struggling, then prospering, and finally assimilating. This one hour documentary tells the fascinating tale of the bagel’s transcendence from urban Jewish street food to America’s favorite mass-market breakfast, and relates how the bagel itself has changed -and changed people’s lives - in the process.

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Follows four public school kids on the road to becoming bilingual, posing a provocative question: in the 21st century, is English enough?

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DRYING FOR FREEDOM takes a unique look at one aspect of our lives, electric clothes drying is the new environmental battlefield as millions of outdoor clotheslines are banned in the U.S and electric drying is sold as a status symbol.  The film explores how clothes dryers are becoming ‘must have’ appliances dramatically increasing global energy demands bringing the environmental campaign home revealing how our future is hanging on a line.

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Through a humanistic lens, BEIJING TAXI is a feature length documentary that vividly portrays the capital of China undergoing a profound transformational arch in an era of Olympic transitions. The intimate lives of three taxi drivers connect a morphing cityscape and a lyrical journey through fragments of a society riding the bumpy roads to modernization.

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A Fierce Green Fire is a documentary which tells stories of environmental activism – people trying to save the planet, their homes, their lives, the future. The first overview of the environmental movement, the film spans five decades and brings together all the issues and causes.

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The Iraqi Seed Project is a cross-platform educational resource and media project examining the long history of agriculture in Iraq and the legacy left to farmers in the region after years of war, sanctions and environmental neglect.