Globalization

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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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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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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.

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Harlem’s Mart 125: The American Dream is a documentary that tells the tale of the epic struggle and complexities surrounding the redevelopment of Harlem.

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COOKED, a feature documentary film and engagement campaign, starts with one of thedeadliest heat waves in U.S. history and evolves into a serious yet quirkyexploration into the politics of disaster. Along the way, it presents questions and "best-case" scenarios - the kind every U.S.city could (and should) ask, answer and strive for.

What if poverty were treated as if it were an "emergency"? Can we turn the nation's obsessionwith "disaster preparedness" [fast becoming a growth industry] into amovement built on the preemptive power of community resilience?

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Song of the Bird King is a 90 min documentary about two musicians who follow the almost extinct Bird King in the sky and find and meet seven disappearing tribes across the Philippine Islands. While it might be too late to reverse the environmental devastation threatening the tribes' existence, the two set up to record their oral traditions, music and dance before their existence becomes definite and irreversible.

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Through intimate portraits of three individuals living in the poorest areas of Kenya, GOOD FORTUNE explores how massive, international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit.