In 2009, JIMENA launched its Oral History Program and Website Program in order to develop a dynamic and sustainable educational and cultural resource to raise awareness of Jewish refugees from the Middle East and North Africa, and to preserve an important aspect of Jewish and Middle Eastern history.
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.
Hot Topics will bring to light the human impacts of climate change around the world. The project’s products will include a book (both paper and an interactive e-book) and related multimedia materials, such as dispatches for National Geographic News Watch and radio features for Public Radio International's program The World.
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.
DRYING FOR FREEDOM takes a unique look at one aspect of our lives, electric clothes drying is the new environmental battlefield as millions of outdoor clotheslines are banned in the U.S and electric drying is sold as a status symbol. The film explores how clothes dryers are becoming ‘must have’ appliances dramatically increasing global energy demands bringing the environmental campaign home revealing how our future is hanging on a line.
The Vanishing of the Bees, a feature-length documentary, takes a piercing look at the economic, political and spiritual implications of the world wide disappearance of the honeybee, a keystone species vital to sustaining our ecosystem.
"Germ Wars,” a 60-minute documentary, examines the epidemic in food borne diseases, and consumers fighting for the most fundamental of liberties-the right to choose our food.
DeAf Jam— a documentary film where American Sign Language (ASL) meets Spoken Word. A group of New York City deaf teens reveal their passions, frustrations, and senses of humor as they discover ASL poetry - eventually stepping into the world of the youth poetry slams with their hearing peers.
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.
