Family & Society
by Aron Gaudet
Premiere: November 11, 2009
Over the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greeting over 900,000 American troops at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine.
by Yoni Brook , Musa Syeed
Premiere: September 22, 2009
Rocky Otoo is the sassy teenage daughter of Ghanaian parents. After she rebels against her mother's rule in the Bronx, she flees to her father, a chief in Ghana.
by Annie P. Waldman
Premiere: September 22, 2009
Three high school students return to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to graduate with their friends. (Short film shown with Bronx Princess.)
by Stewart Copeland
Premiere: September 22, 2009
Filmmaker Stewart Copeland explores his relationship with his late mother and the distance spaces between memory and history. (Short film shown with Bronx Princess.)
by Tod Lending , David Mrazek
Premiere: September 15, 2009
Over the course of a school year, two public school principals with unique styles and similar passions make a difference in the lives of their students.
by Georgi Lazarevski
Premiere: August 25, 2009
The security wall being built by Israel on the West Bank has isolated a nursing home, leaving its residents to face old age in the throes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
by Jesse Epstein
Premiere: August 18, 2009
Go behind the scenes at the Patina V Mannequin Factory in City of Industry, Calif., where the artistry, craft and marketing that go into creating “the ideal woman of the moment” — in plastic. (7 minutes)
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by Kim Longinotto
Premiere: July 28, 2009
An unblinking look inside a British school for emotionally disturbed kids captures what happens when a community of determined adults envelops them in love rather than force.
by Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath
Premiere: July 21, 2009
This Academy Award-nominated film chronicles Thavisouk Phrasavath and his family’s escape from Laos after the Vietnam War. In America, they find a different kind of war.