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Fire Through Dry Grass
Fire Through Dry Grass uncovers in real-time the devastation experienced by residents of a New York City nursing home during the coronavirus pandemic. Co-Directors Alexis Neophytides and Andres Jay Molina take viewers inside Coler, on Roosevelt Island, where Jay lives with his fellow Reality Poets, a group of mostly gun violence survivors. Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, Jay and the other Reality Poets don’t look like typical nursing home residents. They used to travel around the city sharing their art and hard-earned wisdom with youth. Now, using GoPros clamped to their wheelchairs, they document their harrowing experiences on lock down. Covid-positive patients are moved into their bedrooms; nurses fashion PPE out of garbage bags; refrigerated-trailer morgues hum outside residents’ windows. All the while public officials deny the suffering and dying behind Coler’s brick walls. The Reality Poets’ rhymes flow throughout the film, underscoring their feelings that their home is now as dangerous as the streets they once ran and—as summer turns to fall turns to winter—that they’re prisoners without a release date. But instead of history repeating itself on this tiny island with a dark history of institutional neglect and abandonment, Fire Through Dry Grass shows these disabled Black and Brown artists refusing to be abused, confined, erased.
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Doors
Når en rekke mystiske og utenomjordiske dører plutselig dukker opp omkring på jorden, er det opp til en utvalgt gruppe mennesker å prøve å finne ut hva disse dørene egentlig er, hvor de fører og om de kan - eller bør - prøve å gå over terskelen til den andre siden…
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On the Divide
McAllen, Texas is home to Whole Woman’s Health — the last abortion clinic in the US/Mexico border. Mercedes, a tattooed Latina woman in her thirties who used to be involved in gangs, is now part of the pro-life Church movement, embracing the support from the Christian pregnancy center located next door to the clinic. Denisse, a young mother of four, volunteers at Whole Woman’s Health of McAllen and helps guide women into the clinic, providing much-needed comfort and assistance. Protecting the entryway into the clinic is Rey, a Latino security guard in his late sixties who is fervent in his religious beliefs, but also deeply understands the plight of the women who arrive at the abortion clinic. Their life decisions intertwine at this abortion clinic, as they grapple with how their devotion informs their role in fighting for or against abortion rights. Filmed over seven years, the documentary chronicles this community during the political climate of the Trump administration, the storytelling bolstered by an empathetic lens and an authentic concern for spotlighting reproductive rights as a fraught national issue. Throughout On the Divide, filmmakers Maya Cueva and Leah Galant expertly bring the audience into the rising tensions—and humanity—at the center of this contentious issue. On the Divide is a Fishbowl Films production in association with Giving Voice Films, Willa Productions, Latino Public Broadcasting, and a co-production of POV. The documentary is directed by Maya Cueva and Leah Galant. The producers are Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, Amanda Spain and Elizabeth Woodward, and the editor is Berenice Chávez. Erika Dilday, Justine Nagan and Chris White are the executive producers for POV. Sandie Viquez Pedlow is the executive producer for Latino Public Broadcasting. The original song, “Aquí No Hay Pena, ” performed by multi Grammy nominated singer and songwriter Ximena Sariñana, inspired by Danielle López and her family López-Rodriguez-Barrientos’ ancestral indigenous cantor.
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Electric Jesus
Det er sommeren 1986. Erik er en sjenert, stille fyr, med en lidenskap for Gud og rock 'n roll. Han får jobb som lydmann for et kristent rockeband som skal på turné. Men visse komplikasjoner oppstår når Sarah, datteren til en pastor, sniker seg med på reisen.
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Minding the Gap
Bing Liu's Academy Award®-nominated documentary Minding the Gap is a coming-of-age saga drawing on over 12 years of footage in his Rust Belt hometown hit hard by decades of recession. In his quest to understand why so many of his peers in the skateboarding community ran away from home when they were younger, Bing follows 23-year-old Zack as he becomes a father and 17-year-old Keire as he gets his first job. As the story unfolds, Bing is thrust into the middle of Zack's tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend and Keire's inner struggles with racial identity and his deceased father. As we watch the boys grow up before our eyes, we experience the joy, sacrifice, and hope in the gap between childhood and adulthood.
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