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World Music

Zydeco in Northern California
Content Project
This radio documentary, on the zydeco community of California, will be produced with an eye toward creating a character-driven narrative, exploring how Louisiana Creoles have maintained their ethnic identity by recreating their musical culture in the Bay Area.
BUSK!
Content Project
BUSK! is a character-driven documentary about how an emerging cultural center like Charlotte, NC can – (and should!) – encourage street art and performance. With an inquisitive and playful spirit, the film follows the lives of four local street performers to promote an understanding and appreciation for art that reaches beyond the walls of a gallery, theater, or concert hall.
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Song of the Bird King
Content Project

Song of the Bird King is a 90 min documentary about two musicians who follow the almost extinct Bird King in the sky and find and meet seven disappearing tribes across the Philippine Islands. While it might be too late to reverse the environmental devastation threatening the tribes' existence, the two set up to record their oral traditions, music and dance before their existence becomes definite and irreversible.

Holding Fast the Dream
Content Project
For more than two centuries, African Americans lived, thrived, and achieved in the islands of Hawai‘i, but little is known about their remarkable contributions. Holding Fast The Dream: Hawaii's African American Experience corrects this omission, telling the story that begins with a freed slave in the early 1800s to Hawaii's native son Barack Obama and his island roots and ties.
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Ipuina Kontatu [Telling Stories]
Content Project

Ipuina Kontatu: The Basque Way is a documentary which explores 25 centuries of Basque culture and considers its preservation as a tale about the twin possibilities of tradition and innovation. The dramatic struggle of adoption and adaptation by which Basque culture has flourished while preserving its ancient roots offers a paradigm by which to consider the essential core of cultural identities and their situation in our modern and global society.

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Mariachi High
Content Project
"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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Regeneration
Content Project

Regeneration examines the world of young Jews living in Poland today, by following the intertwined lives of four young women struggling to create a Jewish identity and community.

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Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo
Content Project

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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Native American Marching Bands (working title)
Content Project
The phrase “Native American music” may not invoke tubas and baton twirlers, but brass band music has been a part of Native culture for over a century. Combining portraits of contemporary bands and archival material, Native American Marching Bands (w.t) offers an unexpected view into this vibrant music scene.
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The Storm that Swept Mexico
Content Project
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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