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In 2011, Lisa Hepner and her husband Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that shockingly kills over five million people each year. Driven by a desire to cure Lisa of her own type 1 diabetes (T1D), the filmmakers got unprecedented access to a clinical trial – only the sixth ever stem cell trial in the world. What follows is an intimate decade-long journey with the patients and scientists who risk everything for everybody else. The Human Trial peels back the headlines to show the sweat, passion, and sacrifice behind every breakthrough cure. For the millions of patients suffering around the world, these breakthroughs can’t come fast enough.
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Las cineastas ganadoras de un Oscar, Deborah Oppenheimer y Mark Jonathan Harris se reúnen para un vistazo revelador de primera mano al sistema de cuidado de crianza como se ve a través de los ojos de quienes mejor lo conocen. Con un acceso extraordinario al funcionamiento interno del Departamento de Servicios para Niños y Familias del Condado de Los Ángeles (DCFS), Oppenheimer y Harris van más allá de los encabezados y estereotipos sensacionales para tener una visión sin precedentes de un mundo a menudo incomprendido y algunos de los mitos más perdurables, sobre el cuidado de crianza y los involucrados en el sistema.
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Este documental dirigido por Johanna Demetrakas (Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Some Nudity Required) revisita esas fotos, a esas mujeres y esos momentos, y además apunta a nuestra cultura actual que muestra alarmantemente la necesidad de un cambio continuo.
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Inspired by the transformation of the sex-trafficking survivors whose lives she follows, the filmmaker finds the courage to break the silence about sexual abuse in her own life.
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En este breve documental, Cristina, de 37 años, lucha con valentía contra el cáncer mientras se esfuerza por animar a los demás a que disfruten del presente.
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Película documental que siguió a una de las mejores tenistas de la historia a lo largo de un año para mostrar cómo se prepara -física y mentalmente- una deportista de élite para lograr semejante reto. De esta manera, las cámaras muestran las victorias de Serena en el Abierto de Australia, en Roland Garros y en Wimbledon, así como su dolorosa derrota en el US Open ante Roberta Vinci, que en aquel momento ocupada el puesto número 43 del mundo.
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El 4 de noviembre de 2008, California aprobó en referéndum la llamada Proposición 8 (52,5% a favor, 47,5% en contra de la Proposición), que modificó la Constitución de ese Estado, eliminando el derecho de las parejas del mismo sexo a contraer matrimonio e invalidando los matrimonios de ese tipo ya celebrados. Comenzó entonces una batalla legal sin precedentes hasta lograr que el Supremo desestimara el resultado del referéndum y reconociera el derecho constitucional de igualdad ante la ley. Filmado durante 5 años, este documental narra, desde el punto de vista de los que participaron en ella, la batalla legal que consiguió tumbar la Proposición 8 y permitió el reconocimiento del matrimonio entre parejas del mismo sexo en California.
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A short documentary on the first term of President Barack Obama's administration.
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CRAZY WISDOM explores the arrival of Tibetan Buddhism in America through the story of Chögyam Trungpa, who landed in the U.S. in 1970. Trungpa became renowned for translating ancient Buddhist concepts into language and ideas that Westerners could understand and shattered preconceived notions about how an enlightened teacher should behave. Initially rejected, his teachings are now recognized by western philosophers and spiritual leaders as authentic and profound.
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Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone’s brutal war come together for the first time in an unprecedented reconciliation program of grassroots truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies.
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A documentary that follows six young dancers from around the world as they prepare for the Youth America Grand Prix, one of the most prestigious ballet competitions in the world.
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In the fall of 2009, Lindsay Ellis, a 26-year old graduate student, went through the painful process of having an abortion. “The A-Word” follows Ellis as she opens up to her family and organizations from both sides of the debate, in search of healing. This is not a film about the protests and debates wrapped up in religious views and political agenda, but rather a personal journey about one woman’s struggle to shed the stigma attached to the A-word in hopes of starting a dialogue.
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Every year thousands compete in the world's greatest singing competition - that you've never heard of. AMERICAN HARMONY journeys deep into the ultra-obsessive, zany, and heartfelt world of competitive barbershop singing, where passion is equaled only by raw talent, and the reward is not fame or fortune, but simply victory. The film focuses on four quartets vying to win the International Championships of Barbershop Singing, in what turns out to be the closest and most controversial victory in its 70 year history. Max Q is the heavy favorite - a superstar quartet comprised of former Champions. Looking to upset them is OC Times (The Heart-Throbs), Vocal Spectrum (The Rookies) and Reveille, an aging foursome who that has been together for 30 years. In total, fifty quartets duke it out for the coveted gold medal, while facing the pressures of quartet life - from big egos to brain cancer and everything in between. - Written by Colin King Miller
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A chronicle of the former president's tour recent for his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
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The story of four women suffering from anorexia and bulimia in South Florida
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Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it won the Documentary Award at the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival in 2003.
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Durante 1938 y 1939, durante los nueve meses previos al inicio de la II Guerra Mundial, hasta 10.000 niños, la gran mayoría judíos, fueron enviados a Inglaterra desde diversos países como Alemania, Austria y Checoslovaquia, salvándoles de la muerte. Los niños, que fueron hospedados en centros y casas en el Reino Unido, abandonaron sus familias, sus hogares, y su juventud, y emprendieron un amargo viaje que les salvó de la muerte. Este premiado documental -ganador del Oscar- relata los hechos. Su director, Mark Jonathan Harris, había ganado otro Oscar al mejor documental 3 años antes con un documental (The Long Way Home, 1997) sobre los judíos europeos desde el final de la II Guerra Mundial hasta la creación del estado de Israel en 1948.
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In 1995, at the urging of her then-husband, an Oklahoma housewife submitted a topless photo of herself to a men's magazine, thus launching her phenomenal career as porn star Stacy Valentine. In this eye-opening and refreshingly even-handed film, Valentine candidly discusses the inner-workings and occupational hazards of the adult entertainment world, touching on the glamour -- and frequent emptiness -- of life in "the business."
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A woman working in the B movie industry begins examining the industry and the damaged, desperate people who work in it.
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The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
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A documentary about the making of director Martin Scorsese's 1993 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence. It features a conversation between Scorsese and the star of the film, Daniel Day Lewis, as well as rare behind-the-scenes footage.
