In the shadow of Silicon Valley, a hidden community thrives despite difficult circumstances. For one resident, eight-year-old Geovany Cesario, impending change is bittersweet. Through the deeply personal truths of three local residents, Edgecombe examines the ways trauma repeats and reinvents itself in rural black communities. Reluctantly Queer. A young gay man from Ghana struggles to reconcile his sexuality and love for his mother through a series of letters in this deceptively simple yet powerful piece.
Clash is a short experimental documentary critiquing the lack of diversity in on-screen representation in the U. Gentlemen of Vision. Gentlemen of Vision follows a year in the life of coach, counselor and founder Marlon Wharton, and his class of young Black males as he strives to rewrite future prospects for his students.
While striving for excellence in school For Ahkeem. Expelled from high school, Daje Shelton is only 17 years old when she is sentenced by a judge — not to prison, but to an alternative school, the Innovative Concept Academy. It offers Daje one last chance to earn a high Agents of Change.
Agents of Change examines the racial conditions on college campuses across the U. Many of the The Invisible Patients. Through the story of Jessica Macleod, Ph. The unvarnished film unfolds through the stories of postal code residents directly impacted by imprisonment: Beverly Walker and her Whiteness Project. Interactive Whiteness Project is an interactive investigation into how Americans who identify as white, or partially white, understand and experience their race.
Whiteness Project conducts interviews with people from all walks of life and localities in which they are asked about In the late s, Marta's mother found refuge for her family in Williamsburg after leaving her village in Puerto Rico and enduring homelessness and hunger elsewhere in New York.
If you work full time, you should not be poor, but more than 30 million Americans — one in four workers — are stuck in jobs that do not pay the basics for a decent life. Waging a Living chronicles the day-to-day battles of four low-wage earners fighting to lift their families out of poverty. Shot over a three-year period in the northeast and California, this observational documentary captures the dreams, frustrations, and accomplishments of a diverse group of people who struggle to live from paycheck to paycheck.
By presenting an unvarnished look at the barriers that these workers must overcome to lift their families out of poverty, Waging a Living offers a sobering view of the elusive American Dream. Her daughter Olivia and grandson Kenneth share some of the lessons she imparted and the….
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