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Shelf Life
Content Project
For six decades, Lanzi Candy Company was one of dozens of family-run confectioneries that, along with candy giants Brach’s, Mars, and Wrigley, helped make Chicago the undisputed Candy Capital of the World. Now, 25 years after Lanzi’s candy was last produced in Chicago, local businessman Jerry Ostermann is determined to bring Lanzi’s Cashew Nut and Rice Crunch back to the city. One problem: he has neither the recipe nor the machinery to make it.
Our Irish Cousins
Content Project

'Our Irish Cousins' is a significant ethnic heritage documentary film that celebrates and discerns the mystical and mythological alchemy of Irish ancestry. Irish American News columnist Mike Houlihan has created a very personal and comedic look at his own family history, which The Center For Independent Documentary recognizes as a very entertaining cultural testimony with mass appeal.

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COOKED
Content Project

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?

The Lead Wars
Content Project
A television, Internet and DVD public health outreach tool about an environmental justice issue that remains the largest environmental health problem for children in the U.S. today: lead paint poison. With the tobacco settlement as a precedent, the lead industry today faces public accountability as it never has before.   
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On Beauty
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ON BEAUTY is a documentary film telling the story of how one man's lens can change the way we see and experience beauty around the world.
"W.C. HANDY: THE FATHER OF THE BLUES"
Content Project
A musical documentary that traces the the life of W.C. Handy, who has become known as the "Father of the Blues".  We will use live performances of his music, archival footage and interviews with current music luminaries, historiographers, family members, and musicologists.
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Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo
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Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo is a documentary film and audio archiving project about the adhan, or call to prayer, in Cairo – a 1400 year old oral tradition that will change forever in 2010.

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Love-Life
Content Project
Love-Life is a short 16mm experimental docu-drama, a poem, a love song; an image journey to elucidate faith, hope, and connectedness.
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Can
Content Project
What does it take to heal from mental illness when medications don't work? This documentary film follows 37-year-old Can Truong, a refugee who was among the millions of boat people who fled Vietnam in 1979, as he searches for healing, dignity and recovery from depression and bipolar disorder. 
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News You Might Have Missed
Content Project
News You Might Have Missed has published important but overlooked news from around the world every Wednesday since February 2002, and now is expanding to a free daily service and a syndication-based revenue model.
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