Film Library

The Youth Documentary Academy will present two programs.  First, AFTER WAR is an unvarnished account by Bailey Francisco of his father’s PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury and the impact these had on his family.  Second, we will show an episode from the upcoming television series OUR TIME about youth suicide in the Pikes Peak Region.  Filmmakers will be present in conversation with YDA Director Tom Shepard to discuss mental health, PTSD and suicide prevention.   

Marina Flores, 1990, Norma Aguilar, 1991, Maria del Rosario Gomez, 1993, . . . These are the names of young women, many working in the maquiladoras”?assembly plants that line the Mexican-American border near Ciudad Juarez. All slender, dark-skinned, an…

Filmmakers Alexandra Shiva, Sean MacDonald and Michelle Gucovsky profile castrated men who live in urban squalor.  

A visual feast that captures the driven, obsessive, charismatic photographer’s life and motives behind his controversial photographs.

During the Easter break, Agnès remembers the last moments spent with her father in his bungalow on the river. They have never been linked but they have had the presentiment of not closing the door to a possible rapprochement. 

Neither depressing nor too”medical,” this film is an inspiring exploration of family relations, aging and change between the filmmaker and her mother, who has Alzheimer’s Disease. Nominated for the Best Documentary, 1995 Academy Awards. Winner of the 1995 RMWFF Founders Award.

Nearly all Indian nations sit on land threatened by ruinous environmental hazards – toxic waste, strip mining, oil drilling, and nuclear contamination. Homeland is the first film to take a hard look at these realities.

In 1979 filmmaker Patti Obrow White produced the Wagon Train Trail documenting the story of four so-called juvenile delinquents assigned to a character-building wagon train journey. Among them was angry, defiant, 14 year old Tracy. Fast-forward twenty…