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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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"Mariachi High" is a documentary film intended for public television broadcast that presents a timely, spirited and authentic portrait of growing up Mexican American by capturing a year in the life of champion high school mariachi musicians in south Texas.

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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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The Storm That Swept Mexico, a two-hour HD documentary for PBS and other distribution, tells the story of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, its causes and its legacy, using contemporary footage and interviews with participants, historians, and others, as well as with period photographs and motion picture from the earliest days of cinema. The film, and an accompanying website, will debut in the fall of 2010, on the centennial of the revolution.

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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.

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"The Greenhorns" is a documentary film that explores the sprit, practices and needs of America's emerging young farmer community--both urban and rural--who are the future of organic, sustainable food and agriculture.