California

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A film and interactive website following two brothers who ride recycled bicycles through the American South over two years, seeking radical locality amid increasing globalization.

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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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A tremendous cinematic pretext for 70 solid minutes of 16mm urban landscape cinematography, The Royal Road offers up an unconventional California adventure as it blends a creative personal monologue with a vast array of non-fiction tangents including an illuminating capsule history of the Mexican American War and a brilliant five minute lecture on nostalgia and socialism by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner.

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The story of a small group of activists scattered globally, who build a major global movement that created a historic and dramatic day of the anti-war protests of February 15 2003 leaving an astonishing legacy and social consequences that are being felt with the Arab Spring and Occupy Movement today.

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With thousands of untested chemicals in our everyday produts, have we all become unwitting guinea pigs in one giant human experiment? The fight is on to protect us from these toxic products before they cause irrevocable harm to our health.

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Five Blocks is a journey through the trials and tribulations of a community struggling to transform from “skid row” into a vibrant neighborhood filled with promise and hope. A determined yet shaky coalition must redeem the area without casting aside the poor and underserved. It may be their last chance.

 

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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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Vamos a Hablar/Let’s Talk is a bilingual video, completed in May 2012, intended for Latino youth and families to discuss how to prevent unplanned pregnancies and maintain adolescent reproductive health through open intergenerational communication. We are seeking funds for distribution. 

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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.