Land

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Two environmental films filled with hope: Tales of the San Joaquin Revision, the total success story of the contemporary restoration of the San Joaquin River after an eighteen-year lawsuit; and Tulare Lake, the prospects for restoring what was once the largest lake west of the Mississippi River.

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Above the Arctic Circle, a poor indigenous village that is swiftly eroding due to global warming is short-listed as one of Alaska’s most endangered communities.

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"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.

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A Fierce Green Fire is a documentary which tells stories of environmental activism – people trying to save the planet, their homes, their lives, the future. The first overview of the environmental movement, the film spans five decades and brings together all the issues and causes.

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The Iraqi Seed Project is a cross-platform media project examining the long history of agriculture in Iraq and the legacy left to farmers in the region after years of war, sanctions and environmental neglect. It consists of a short documentary film, interactive website and real life farmer/seed exchange.

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Six people, one city, our future. From front-porches to frontlines, LAND OF OPPORTUNITY captures the tumultuous reconstruction of a quintessential American city, New Orleans.

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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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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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Bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon reunites with Chase County, Kansas to experience one of America's most environmentally advanced communities in "Return to PrairyErth." The Center for Independent Documentary is serving as fiscal sponsor for the film project.

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Almost one million people live in the slums of Durban, South Africa. The city has promised to ‘eradicate the slums’ by 2010 in time for the Soccer World Cup and is evicting shack dwellers from their homes at gunpoint. DEAR MANDELA is a feature documentary that takes viewers from the chaos in the slums to the highest court in the land as we follow three young shack dwellers who embark on a quest to stop the bulldozers and secure the better life Nelson Mandela promised them.