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In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, this hour-long radio documentary will portray experiences of volunteers from every decade, in every region, using audio they recorded while serving. The archive recordings from the field will be complemented by contemporary interviews with the returned Peace Corps volunteers and with historians who've written about the Peace Corps.    

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The Terrors of Basket Weaving is a short film thriller about a woman who becomes possessed after discovering a basket near her beach home.  Based on a short story by Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr. Ripley.  

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Coexist is a documentary and educational outreach project that includes a 40-minute film, a standards-aligned Teacher's Workbook, and curricular and technical support, which together constitute a ready-to-use toolkit for teachers and staff who aim to strengthen social and emotional learning, and programs to prevent violence and bullying. Coexist is a documentary and educational outreach project that includes a 40-minute film, a standards-aligned Teacher's Workbook, and curricular and technical support, which together constitute a ready-to-use toolkit for teachers and staff who aim to strengthen social and emotional learning, and programs to prevent violence and bullying. We work with individual middle and high schools and school districts, and serve youth development organizations, and colleges and universities. Coexist is a project of amazo productions LLC, a documentary film production and educational outreach organization. -->

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Threatened by sprawl and ravaged by Katrina, a Mississippi community settled by emancipated slaves fights for a just and sustainable future for the Gulf Coast.

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Filmmaker Dakin Henderson, age 24, grew up with two grandmothers who have aged very differently—one is a healthy and active 86-year old, the other died recently after a long and painful decline into dementia. From the perspective of the youngest generation, What Time Is Left is a personal story of how three generations of one family are coping with the process of their loved elders growing old and dying.

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Becoming Helen Keller, a 90 minute documentary biography for American Masters, will explore the long life and legacy of this global media celebrity and advocate for the disabled and disenfranchised.This project is a co-production of Straight Ahead Pictures, Inc., American Masters-WNET-Thirteen, and WETA-Washington DC.

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When a young, irreverent priest arrives at Saint Patrick Parish in Lawrence, Massachusetts, he discovers the unexpected—boiling ethnic tensions in a changing working-class community.  Filmed over four years, Scenes from a Parish tells the wildly diverse personal stories of Father Paul O’Brien and his unruly flock, as they struggle to hold onto faith in the face of desperate circumstances.

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A feature documentary about filmmaker Jon Goldman's attempt to understand his family's connection to oil and the film Louisiana Story.  Using Robert J.Flaherty's classic film as a point of reference he returns to the bayou sixty years later and discovers the price of progress on the land and its people.

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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.