Filmakers - 2009-2010 New Films

2009-2010 New Films

45 film(s) found

	The Adventurers Series This intriguing four-part series chronicles scientists and anthropologists searching for vanishing populations, lost cultures, and hidden cities. more »
	All of Us This is a deeply personal exploration of the bedroom politics that make black women especially vulnerable to AIDS infection. The film follows a young female doctor, working in the South Bronx, as she gives medical and emotional support to her afflicted patients. more »
	Aphasia: Struggling for Understanding This film is about two people faced with the daunting task of learning to speak again. As the wife of one of them says, "...a person without language is a non-person." more »
	Artists of the Bahamas: A Tribute to African Roots Artists of the Bahamas is a unique film that brings to light the rich artistic talent flourishing on the islands. The film profiles locally and internationally recognized artists in the homes, communities, and studios where they develop their vibrant creations. more »
	Battle For Warsaw '44 The Warsaw Uprising was the largest and bloodiest military operation undertaken by any resistance movement in World War II. From August 1 - October 2, 1944 the Nazis were challenged by an underground army of irregular volunteers - the vast majority barely adult. The allies did not come to their aid and 80% of Warsaw was destroyed. With unique testimony from Polish, British, and German participants. more »
	The Brain That Changes Itself Recent research into the human brain is radically changing how we look at the potential for neurological recovery. Psychiatrist and author Dr. Norman Doidge meets pioneering scientists who are proving that our brains can be "rewired" so that stroke victims and other brain-injured patients can regain their lost skills. more »
	Buried Stories "Buried Stories" reveals the life story of a Native American Ella Rodriguez, who, in her seventies, resents that she was taken from her rural California home at age thirteen and sent to an Indian boarding school. A resilient woman, she now fights to preserve her ancestors’ history. more »
	Carmen Lomas Garza: Looking Back Carmen Lomas Garza is a Chicana artist who creates images about the lives of Mexican Americans based on her memories and experiences growing up in South Texas. In this charming film, Carmen returns to Texas to revisit the people and places that inspired her work. more »
	Cinema Korea The Korean film industry, which once struggled to attract domestic audiences, has been successfully exporting its movies and expanding its influence throughout Asia, Europe and North America in the past decade. Korean cinema is enjoying a revival of interest internationally because of the broader cultural phenomenon of hallyu ("Korean Wave"). But contemporary Korean cinema's roots run deep and hallyu is only the latest chapter in a rich history. more »
	The Everlasting Oasis Egyptologist Tony Mills unearths artifacts and examines skeletal remains of "the other Egypt," an area around the Dakhleh Oasis, far away from the pyramids and the Nile. more »
	Flying on One Engine: The Slumdog Surgeon Each year the wheelchair-bound 76-year-old Dr. Dicksheet, travels from New York to India to perform free reconstructive facial surgery on hundreds of children. Without the operations, these children would be not be able to develop normally and would be treated as outcasts.The film shows how this quirky, funny, and sometimes difficult character overcomes his own ailments by curing others. His stamina and commitment are truly staggering. more »
	The Great Granny Revolution This film describes the remarkable partnership between black South African grandmothers who are raising their grandchildren, orphaned by AIDS, and a group of grandmothers from North America who are being supportive of them. more »
	Greensboro: Closer to the Truth This documentary explores the Greensboro Massacre of 1979 and its aftermath. Members of the Communist Workers Party massed for a “Death to the Klan” rally when a caravan of Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis arrived. The Klansmen opened fire. A quarter of a century later a truth and reconcilliation committee explores the tragedy. more »
	In Body and Soul This groundbreaking film profiles an experimental program recently begun in Switzerland: "sex workers" of both sexes provide sex for a fee to people who are physically or mentally challenged. more »
	In My Hands Dancer and choreographer Ann Reinking, works with a group of teenagers with Marfan Syndrome, a little-known and potentially fatal connective tissue disorder, designing movement and dance that capitalizes on their shaky long bodies and unexpectedly inspires their self- esteem. more »
	Karsh: The Searching Eye For more than six decades, portrait photographer Yousef Karsh captured many of the world's most famous, powerful, and influential people. In this definitive biography, Karsh speaks of his work ethic and philosophy. more »
	The King of Calls In a call center in India, young sales agents struggle to sell an unmarketable product and are at risk of losing their jobs. This poignant but humorous film points up the absurdity that can occur in the global telemarketing industry. more »
	The Last Nomads Linguist Ian Mackenzie preserves the unique language of the Penan of Borneo, the last true nomadic hunting and gathering people on earth. more »
	Last Rights Who decides how life ends? The patient? The family? The physician? The health care system? Last Rights is a compelling, deeply personal exploration of four families and their terminally-ill loved ones as they begin to contemplate death. more »
	The Last Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Rebirth of an American City Frank Lloyd Wright was considered the most innovative architect in Chicago when he traveled to Mason City, Iowa, in 1908 to design a unique business block—a bank and adjoining hotel facing a park. This unique film traces the life, death, and possible rebirth of a Midwest downtown through the prism of the decaying hotel. more »
	The Lost People of the Baja Paleo-athologist Eldon Molto examines the bones of the now-vanished Pericu of Baja California, Mexico, using DNA to piece together the story of a fierce and independent people. more »
	Mad Cow, Sacred Cow With a sense of humor and curiosity, the filmmaker explores the shocking connections between the mad cow crisis, the farm crisis, and the global food crisis. Globalization emerges as a recurring theme, connecting the food we eat to the environmental, cultural, economic and health crises we are currently facing. Ironically, India is home to a burgeoning meat export industry that threatens to destroy an agricultural economy once centered around the feeding of the sacred cow, which was the livelihood 65% ot the population. more »
	Mechanic to Millionaire: The Peter Cooper Story This carefully researched film celebrates the life and legacy of Peter Cooper, the remarkable 19th century inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. When business success brought wealth, Cooper used it to foster social justice. more »
	Miss Lou: Then and Now Louise Bennett-Covelly, a Jamaican icon, is an ebullient performer, folklorist, playwright and poet. She has spent her life furthering Jamaican language, raising the patois dialect to an art level. more »
	My Father the Luo "My Father the Luo" is about a young woman with a similar multicultural heritage to President Barack Obama. Roma Ndolo’s mother is European and her father from Kenya. Like Obama, she journeys to Kenya to find her “African side.” Each of their fathers was from the Luo tribe. There is historic footage of Obama’s initial journey in 2006. Roma Ndolo is an example of a person successfully integrating her multicultural identity. more »
	My Iranian Paradise This unique documentary interweaves the story of the filmmaker—who grew up in Persia, today known as Iran—with the history of the country from the 1930s onward to the Islamic Revolution. more »
	No More Smoke Signals "No More Smoke Signals" is about Kili Radio, "Voice of the Lakota Nation," which broadcasts out of a small wooden house in the vast countryside of South Dakota. There, people converge to speak to the community about daily concerns and in doing so, strengthen their sense of identity. A film about the role of media, as well as an up-close look at present day life on the reservation. more »
	No Tomorrow No Tomorrow focuses on the murder of Risa Bejarano, the principal subject of Aging Out, a documentary about teenagers leaving foster care. The film explores how Aging Out unexpectedly documented the last year of Risa’s life and became the centerpiece of a chilling homicide investigation and death penalty trial. more »
	One Summer in New Paltz: A Cautionary Tale This film focuses on the small village of New Paltz, N.Y. where the 26-year-old mayor Jason West stunned his neighbors and the nation by performing 25 same-sex marriages in defiance of state law. The film probes the debate on same-sex marriage as it relates to the Constitution and the family. more »
	Our Land: The Struggle for Land Rights in Nicaragua The struggle for ownership of land in Nicaragua has been particularly bitter. This film takes an in-depth look at the history of agrarian reform policies since they were first instituted by the Sandinista administration in 1979. more »
	The People v. Leo Frank This dramatized documentary drawn verbatim from testimony examines the painful story of the only known Jew to be lynched in America. Originally from New York, Leo Frank was the manager of a pencil factory in Atlanta in 1913, when he was falsely accused and convicted in the rape and murder of a worker. more »
	Pianists: Defining Chopin The International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, which takes place every five years, is the oldest and most prestigious piano competition in the world. This spirited film follows four young American pianists from different backgrounds through each stage of the grueling thirty-day competition. more »
	The Poet's View The Poet's View takes viewers inside the homes and lives of our era's foremost poetic talents as they reminisce about their formative years, reveal their poetic processes, and read some of their best-known works. more »
	Poet's View: C.K. Williams This addition to the popular Poet's View series focuses on Pulitzer Prize winning poet C.K. Williams. more »
	Rip Off! Banks Exploiting Consumers The film serves as an exposé of how the banking industry harvests billions of dollars from consumers in the form of overdraft and other fees and shares how individuals can fight against the unfair fees. more »
	Salt Harvesters of Ghana This starkly beautiful film exemplifies the burden borne by African women to survive and support their families. The Ghanaian women who live on a lagoon in Ada, mine for salt with their bare hands during the three month-long dry season. more »
	A Story Told in Stone Archeologist Edmundo Edwards explores the French Polynesian islands which are filled with huge stone cities, left by thriving native populations that were wiped out by European disease. more »
	Sun and Shadows: Tourism has traditionally been presented as a factor of modernization and economic growth for poor nations. But it often develops at the expense of indigenous populations. This film looks at the issue in five countries: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Honduras. more »
	The Tipping Point The Arctic sea ice, a plate of ice roughly the size of Europe, is disappearing. This film discusses the dramatic environmental, political, and economic implications. more »
	Uncovered "Uncovered" puts a human face on America's health care crisis by chronicling the harrowing struggles of the Nazaretyan family to care for their disabled children without insurance. more »
	Under the River: Exploited Children of Ghana In Ghana, children as young as three and as old as sixteen are often sent away from home to work in bondage for small payments, desperately needed by impoverished families. more »
	Voices from El Sayed Because of a genetic predisposition, the Bedouin village of El-Sayed in southern Israel has an extraordinary number of deaf people. But when one child is offered a cochlear implant by the Israeli government, the community is conflicted over its potential impact on their unique culture. more »
	Water Flowing Together: Jock Soto Water Flowing Together offers an intimate portrait of a remarkable dancer, Jock Soto, who retired from the New York City Ballet at age forty, after a twenty-four-year career. Soto’s journey as an openly gay man of Navajo Indian and Puerto Rican descent provides a rare glimpse into the life of a dancer and the disparate worlds which shaped this important artist. more »
	Willa Beatrice Brown: An American Aviator Willa Beatrice Brown was the first African American woman in the U.S. to be a licensed pilot. Her  efforts were responsible for Congress' forming the renowned Tuskegee Airmen squadron, leading to the integration of the U.S. military service in 1948. more »
	World of Witchcraft In the Central African Republic, one of the poorest countries in the world, witchcraft is an enshrined element of their legal system—formally treated as a crime. Each year thousands are tried, imprisoned, and even killed in accordance with the law. more »