2009

Smile ‘Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story explores the clean-cut, smile-drenched singing phenomenon Up With People. Since 1965, this peppy youth group has sung to 20 million people worldwide, performed at four Superbowl halftime shows, and been parodied on The Simpsons and South Park. Talent was not required of its members, just a …

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DoriAnn is a Mormon fundamentalist who shares a husband with her younger biological sister. During a private bathing meditation and candid interviews, DoriAnn explores the surprisingly universal challenges of her marriage and reveals an unexpected explanation for why she chooses polygamy.

Inside the California Institution for Women, the first inmate initiated goup in U.S. prison history, shatters the misconceptions of domestic violence. Convicted Women Against Abuse (CWAA) was created in 1989 to help women inside prison break the silence about abuse and learn more about what they needed to do to help others stop the cycle of violence.

The filmmaker’s subject is free speech and why it is the basis of a free society.?? Garbus’s storytelling genius is in her use of the loveable persona of her father, Martin Garbus, a famous First Amendment attorney. She shows examples from past interpretation and defense of the First Amendment, such as the scare of McCarthyism, the Skokie, Illinois, march by neo-Nazis, and Ward Churchill’s fight at the University of Colorado.

Beginning with Woodstock ‘99, director Michelle Esrick has spent ten years documenting the life of Wavy Gravy. Saint Misbehavin’ journeys from the hills of California to the Himalayan Mountains to reveal the life of this one of a kind servant to humanity. The film blends Wavy’s own words with magical stories from an extraordinary array of fellow travelers both cultural and counter-cultural, revealing the man behind the clown’s grin and the fool’s clothing.

Anna is preparing for a first date with Henry, but there’s a huge pimple on her nose and she’s fat! Argh! If only she could change a few things about how she looks – like those girls in beauty magazines! If you could, would you? And how far is too far? Beware of your dreams they might just come true!