Emergency Relief

Content Project

Returning home to rebuild their shattered lives, a group of Liberian child soldiers discover their new identities as peacebuilders through the art of photography.   

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?

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Explosive ethnic violence in Rwanda spread into the Democratic Republic of Congo, separating Rose Mapendo from her five-year-old daughter, Nangabire. Over a decade later, mother and daughter are reunited in the US where they must face the past and build a new future.

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“Take Us Home” is a independent public television documentary that tells the story of the last remaining Ethiopian Jews—called Falash Mura—who are attempting to immigrate to Israel. The film documents this historic rescue and, through the eyes of individuals and families, explores the challenges and struggles, triumphs and heart-wrenching setbacks Ethiopian Jews must endure in both countries—often over many years.

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Sun Come Up is a character-driven documentary that follows the relocation of some of the world’s first climate change refugees, the Carteret Islanders – a matrilineal society of 3,000 people living on a chain of low-lying islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

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The goal of this project is to ensure that the experiences of rural Gulf Coast communities inform private and public institutions as they consider issues such as community development, disaster recovery, and neighborhood investment. The project seeks to keep the stories and voices of the rural Gulf Coast in the public eye so that 1) these communities receive due consideration in philanthropic and governmental policy decisions and 2) so the nation as a whole may benefit from the lessons and experiences of the rural Gulf Coast.

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FIRESTORM is a one-hour documentary that reveals the shocking reality of The Los Angeles Fire Department's Station 65—where paramedics run themselves ragged as 911 has become the speed dial for a crumbling health care system. Instead of fighting fires, the LAFD delivers more than 500 patients every day to ERs that are closing their doors at an alarming rate.  Sometimes, the consequences can be deadly.

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Karla's Arrival is a human-rights documentary about a teenage mother raising her newborn on the same streets she herself grew up in. The film follows Sujeylin, a young mother living in a park in Managua Nicaragua, and her baby, Karla, through the first year of the child’s life; their complicated personal journey reveals a universal story and a dire human rights issue which has yet to be told.