Filmakers - 2010-2011 New Films

2010-2011 New Films

19 film(s) found

	The 10 Conditions of Love Rebiya Kadeer is a human rights activist twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is the impassioned though graying exiled leader who continues to lobby for the Uyghurs, a Muslim people whose ancestral home was annexed by the Chinese in 1949. more »
	Brain Gain Brain Gain transports viewers to an inner city high school in Saskatchewan where disciplinary and learning problems are rampant among students before one teacher instills motivation and discipline by adding an exercise program. more »
	Cheating the Stillness: The World of Julia Peterkin Cheating the Stillness: The World of Julia Peterkin chronicles the life of a remarkable woman and author who rebelled against expectations of Southern women in the early twentieth century. more »
	China's Earthquake When a massive earthquake struck China's Sichuan province in May, 2008, China's government presented a new face to the world, allowing increased media coverage. But as the months passed, this newly transparent China melted away into one of secrecy. more »
	Finding Kalman In this profoundly touching, intergenerational documentary, a charismatic Holocaust survivor inspires her family to connect to relatives they could never meet. Focusing on her brother Kalman, Anna recounts tales of a mischievous boy who tried to escape the Warsaw ghetto with her. more »
	Girls in White Dresses Girls in White Dresses is the delightful chronicle of young middle-class African American women in Oxnard, California, who eagerly participate in the coming-of-age ritual of the debutante ball. more »
	Good Fortune Good Fortune is a rare and intimate portrait of two vibrant Kenyan communities, one rural, one urban, battling to save their homes and businesses from large-scale development organizations more »
	Imaginary Enemy Chinese sculptor and painter Liao Yibai recounts his remarkable life. He depicts his childhood in his imaginative and ironic stainless-steel sculptures, reflecting the complex cultural relationship between China and the US. more »
	Israel-Palestine: Two Peoples, Two States for One Peace This film is the record of these meetings of the Geneva Initiative that succeeded in bringing Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table in order to discussion a peaceful solution to their conflict. more »
	Kids With Cameras This engaging film follows an intensive film camp for children eleven to nineteen who have autism spectrum disorders, and shows how developing their creative abilities significantly improves their social interaction skills. more »
	Lick Salt The film is a vivid character study of a strong minded lady in her declining years, confused between reality and delusions. more »
	Muslims in Love How do you find a mate when your religion doesn't permit you to date? Muslims in Love shares the stories of devout American Muslim young people pursuing love and marriage. more »
	The Mystery of Sleep This film explores the strange and relatively unknown world of sleep—a state in which we spend approximately one third of our lives. It shows how the discovery of REM in the early 1950s brought about a much broader understanding of the mechanism of sleep. more »
	A Place Without People: Tanzania This documentary tells the story of the eviction of the indigenous people from their lands in Tanzania, to make way for the creation of the world's most famous nature reserves. more »
	Rape in the Ranks Though a culture of fear, secrecy, and hopelessness prohibits many women in the military from speaking out about their frequent sexual abuses, Rape in the Ranks shares the story four young women and their families brave enough to talk openly about their ordeals. more »
	Regretters Regretters gives heartfelt voice to two transgendered people who underwent sex change surgery to become women. Now, years later, they would like to return to their original male bodies. more »
	Virtuoso: The Olga Samaroff Story Olga Samaroff, born Lucy Hickenlooper, had to battle anti-American sentiments and Old World prejudices against women to forge her remarkable career as a concert pianist in the early years of twentieth century. more »
	The Whole Enchilada In recent years, more than one million Latin Americans in search of a better life have surged into the United States. The US has undergone one of its history’s most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts, with Latinos expected to emerge as an American majority by 2050. This film details how this influx has resulted in acute growing pains along with countless successes. more »
	¡Ya No Mas! (I've Had Enough!) ¡Ya No Mas! chronicles the epidemic of domestic violence in Nicaragua, as several women recount their attacks and their frustrating attempts to obtain justice from the Nicaraguan police, district attorneys, and judges. more »