Executive Producer
All across the globe, Chinatowns are under threat of disappearing – and along with them, the rich history of a community who fought from the margins for a place to belong. Big Fight in Little Chinatown documents the collective fight to save Chinatowns across North America.
Editor
Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of a makeshift medical clinic in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya (a Muslim minority community) are persecuted and denied basic rights. Nyo Nyo is a Muslim and an apprentice midwife who acts as an assistant and translator at the clinic. Her family has lived in the area for generations, yet they are still considered intruders. Encouraged and challenged by Hla, who risks her own safety daily by helping Muslim patients, Nyo Nyo is determined to become a steady health care provider for her community.
Executive Producer
The story of how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with the Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America in 1973 — a visionary project eventually deemed too dangerous to exist in America.
Executive Producer
Boniface Mwangi es atrevida y audaz, y es reconocida como la fotoperiodista más provocativa de Kenia. Pero como padre de tres hijos pequeños, estas cualidades crean una tremenda confusión entre él y su esposa Njeri. Cuando quiere postularse para un cargo político, se ve obligado a elegir: ¿país o familia?
Editor
Boniface Mwangi es atrevida y audaz, y es reconocida como la fotoperiodista más provocativa de Kenia. Pero como padre de tres hijos pequeños, estas cualidades crean una tremenda confusión entre él y su esposa Njeri. Cuando quiere postularse para un cargo político, se ve obligado a elegir: ¿país o familia?
Executive Producer
Follows four women of the estimated 40,000 displaced people moved from the banks of the Xingu River in the Amazon Basin to make space for construction of one of the world's largest dams, the Belo Monte.
Executive Producer
Este documental acompaña a la estrella del pop japonés Rio y a sus fans, en su mayoría de mediana edad, dispuestos a pagar lo que sea si se trata de su cantante favorita.
Editor
En la campiña francesa al sur del país, un grupo de científicos de 37 países distintos colaboran en la construcción de un complejo experimento: una estrella artificial que proporcione energía limpia y para siempre a la humanidad.
Writer
En la campiña francesa al sur del país, un grupo de científicos de 37 países distintos colaboran en la construcción de un complejo experimento: una estrella artificial que proporcione energía limpia y para siempre a la humanidad.
Director
En la campiña francesa al sur del país, un grupo de científicos de 37 países distintos colaboran en la construcción de un complejo experimento: una estrella artificial que proporcione energía limpia y para siempre a la humanidad.
Producer
Strict military rule and international sanctions kept Myanmar sealed off from the world for decades. The Vote observes residents of the bustling city of Yangon as they navigate their first democratic election in over 50 years.
Director
Strict military rule and international sanctions kept Myanmar sealed off from the world for decades. The Vote observes residents of the bustling city of Yangon as they navigate their first democratic election in over 50 years.
Editorial Services
Juanicas is an intimate portrait of a Mexican immigrant family in Quebec affected by mental illness. Using material shot over almost 10 years, the filmmaker documents her complex relationship with her mother and brother, both suffering from bipolar disorder.
Executive Producer
Juanicas is an intimate portrait of a Mexican immigrant family in Quebec affected by mental illness. Using material shot over almost 10 years, the filmmaker documents her complex relationship with her mother and brother, both suffering from bipolar disorder.
Executive Producer
From the shadows of the majestic Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan comes a story of Azam, a shepherd and Buzkashi champion, who faces the pressures of modernization in the sport and in his own personal life. Azam plays as an individual for honor and integrity, but his success is increasingly thwarted by organized alliances, or "mafias", encouraged by his rival Khurshed, a member of Tajikistan's nouveau riche. Khurshed believes that team play is the future of the sport. Between challenges on the field and within his own family, Azam tries to find a place for himself in the new Tajikistan. Written by Najeeb Mirza
Director
The story of the lone inventor who fought all his life to be recognized as the originator of one of mankind’s most significant inventions. John Atanasoff, a physics professor at Iowa State College, needed a better calculator that could quickly solve advanced equations and when he tried to find such a machine, realized none existed. So Atanasoff decided he must build his own calculator. Through archive material, reenactments, interviews with experts and first hand witnesses this documentary shines a light to controversy over who was the actual inventor of the computer and an unknown part of our history.
Producer
Three years in the making, this feature documentary follows the progression of the Muslim Punk scene: from its imaginary inception in a novel written by a white-convert named Michael Muhammad Knight to a full-blown, real-life scene of Muslim punk bands and their fans.
Executive Producer
Three years in the making, this feature documentary follows the progression of the Muslim Punk scene: from its imaginary inception in a novel written by a white-convert named Michael Muhammad Knight to a full-blown, real-life scene of Muslim punk bands and their fans.
Additional Camera
RIP: A Remix Manifiesto es un documental que profundiza en el copyright, la industria musical, la cultura y la tecnología, y que además está publicado bajo la licencia Creative Commons. Brett Gaylor, ciberactivista y cineasta, ha dedicado seis años a establecer relaciones entre el pasado, presente y futuro de la cultura, la creatividad, y el constante versus entre los movimientos copyright y copyleft.
Executive Producer
RIP: A Remix Manifiesto es un documental que profundiza en el copyright, la industria musical, la cultura y la tecnología, y que además está publicado bajo la licencia Creative Commons. Brett Gaylor, ciberactivista y cineasta, ha dedicado seis años a establecer relaciones entre el pasado, presente y futuro de la cultura, la creatividad, y el constante versus entre los movimientos copyright y copyleft.
Producer
A sensitive depiction of the real and imaginary worlds of a little six-year-old boy, who is lucid, confident and blind.
Producer
A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze - navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river's edge - a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The Three Gorges Dam - contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle - provides the epic backdrop for Up the Yangtze, a dramatic feature documentary on life inside modern China.
Director
In this feature-length documentary, 8 Inuit teens with cameras offer a vibrant and contemporary view of life in Canada's North. They also use their newly acquired film skills to confront a broad range of issues, from the widening communication gap between youth and their elders to the loss of their peers to suicide. In Inuktitut with English subtitles.
