Refrigerator Mothers
For decades after autism was finally named, doctors presumed the bizarre behaviors stemmed from the mothers’ emotional frigidity.
2002
Real Women Have Curves
Ana, a first generation Mexican American teenager living in East Los Angeles, has just graduated from high school. Although Ana is excited about the possibility of going to college, her overbearing and hypercritical mother, Carmen, insists that it is time for her to help provide for the family by working in her sister’s sewing factory. …
Photos To Send
1954, County Clare, Ireland”?World-renowned photographer Dorothea Lange creates a lasting record of the rural Irish people for Life Magazine. Almost fifty years later cinematographer Dierdre Lynch returns to visit some of the same people whose photos have become the face of Ireland to many of us. Filmed with remarkable grace and enhanced by the humor …
Miss America
Tracking the country’s oldest beauty contest — from its inception in 1921 as a local seaside pageant to its heyday as one of the country’s most popular events — Miss America paints a vivid picture of an institution that has come to reveal much about a changing nation
Meeting with a Killer
An innovative program brings together convicted violent criminals and the victim’s families, whose lives have been forever impacted by their crimes. This is a story about the redemptive possibility of forgiveness and the power of restorative justice.
Mavis and The Mermaid
A small girl, who doesn’t believe in fairy tales, finds unexpected help in coming to terms with changes in her life when she meets an elderly woman who claims to be a mermaid princess. It is a simple tale about love and loss and grief.
