Tag Results for "family"
by Eric Daniel Metzgar
Premiere: July 7, 2009
When a guitarist suffers a brain hemorrhage onstage, doctors doubt he will emerge from a coma. The story of a family's astonishing struggle in the face of tragedy.
by May Lin Au Yong
Premiere: September 4, 2007
A reflection on a mother's resolute love as she confronts the fragile promise of life through the eyes of her son.
by Andrew Walton
Premiere: August 21, 2007
A clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and son at odds in the remote village of Old Crow, 80 miles above the Arctic Circle.
by Melba Williams
Premiere: August 16, 2005
A Vietnam veteran who has suffered a stroke tries to recapture his war experience for his children through photography and moving images.
by Jesse Moss
Premiere: August 24, 2004
Trapped in a failing marriage, demolition-derby driver Ed "Speedo" Jager channels life's frustrations onto the track, hoping to parlay his talents into a "real" racing career.
by Jennifer Dworkin
Premiere: April 21, 2004
Love & Diane is a frank and astonishingly intimate real-life drama of a mother and daughter desperate for love and forgiveness, but caught in a devastating cycle. During the 1980s, a crack cocaine epidemic ravaged and impoverished many inner city neighborhoods. As parents like Diane succumbed to addiction, a generation of children like Love entered the foster care system. Shot over ten years, the film centers on Love and Diane after the family is reunited and is struggling to reconnect.
by Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt
Premiere: September 26, 2000
New Hampshire’s “Live Free or Die” motto acquires tense contemporary meaning when abortion politics play out in a quiet New England town.
by Hannah Weyer
Premiere: June 27, 2000
Elizabeth is marrying Artemio in Nuevo Leon, Mexico and you are cordially invited to the wedding. Meet these two young people from the U.S.-Mexican border region whose lives are framed by the challenges of migrant life.
by Macky Alston
Premiere: September 15, 1998
This winner of the 1997 Sundance Freedom of Expression Award follows filmmaker Macky Alston from New York to the South, as he embarks on an excavation to unearth the history of his white slave-owning family, and explores the link to the black families that shared his name.