2009

The filmmaker documents her job editing erotic videos for a drug trial for a pharmaceutical company that is developing what they hope will be the first Viagra drug for women. This film is a look inside the medical industry and the marketing campaigns that are literally and figuratively reshaping our everyday lives around health, illness, desire ?

The story of a Mississippi town still divided about the meaning of justice 40 years after the murders of civil rights workers. Although Klansmen bragged openly about what they did in 1964, no one was held accountable until 2005 when one Klansman was arrested. Can healing and reconciliation are possible without telling the unvarnished truth?

In the suburban setting of a quiet tree-lined street in Granada Hills, California we see a 61 year old woman pushing a grocery cart to her front door. We watch her climb through a window covered in ivy and cob webs into her house, stepping on top of stacks of newspapers, piles of debris, rotting …

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With its red-and-gold fall colors, Morgantown seems an unlikely battleground for the soul of Islam in America. But that’s what happens when journalist Asra Nomani enters a nondescript mosque. Her demand that women be allowed to pray with the men, instead of being relegated to the backroom, ignites a national controversy.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, thousands of pets were left stranded on rooftops, or left behind by their displaced guardians who desperately wanted to take them, but couldn’t. A powerful, heart-felt story about the essential bond between humans and animals told against the backdrop of one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history.

A young lesbian feels isolated in her large extended family. When she discovers vintage photographs that reveal the hidden life of her great grandmother, she begins to suspect she is not alone.