Globalization

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DRYING FOR FREEDOM is a documentary film exploring why millions of clotheslines are banned in the U.S and how electricity is sold as a status symbol.  The film explores how corporate America now has its eyes on a much bigger prize...the world, as home appliances such as electric clothes dryers become status symbols in India and China increase developing nations energy demands causing environmental challenges for us all so 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 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. It consists of a short documentary film, interactive website and real life farmer/seed exchange.

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Six people, one city, our future. From front-porches to frontlines, LAND OF OPPORTUNITY captures the tumultuous reconstruction of a quintessential American city, New Orleans.

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BREAKING FREE, for the first time, brings in front of the camera gay, lesbians and transgenders from the closeted Indian queer community to share their stories of pain and hope, of the legal and social atrocities they suffer and their cry for a life of equality and dignity. The film captures a community in indignation, a society in transition and the euphoria around the recent decriminalizing of homosexuality in India.

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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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INTO THE LAND OF KALACHAKRA tells the story of the founding of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s personal monastery in Ithaca, New York -- the only such monastery in the world outside of India -- and of the community of Tibetan refugees resettled nearby.  The one-hour documentary film weaves together the stories of the Dalai Lama, the people of Ithaca, the monks of Namgyal Monastery, and the Tibetans who are building their lives in exile.  

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Ipuina Kontatu: The Basque Way is a documentary which explores 25 centuries of Basque culture and considers its preservation as a tale about the twin possibilities of tradition and innovation. The dramatic struggle of adoption and adaptation by which Basque culture has flourished while preserving its ancient roots offers a paradigm by which to consider the essential core of cultural identities and their situation in modern and global society.

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A series of award-winning documentaries from China being prepared for US broadcast on LinkTV, PBS stations etc. Programs are stories of communities, families, arts, sustainability, peacemakers, spirituality - ordinary daily life in locations all over China, as beautifully told by local filmmakers and translated and contextualized by Living Earth Television.