Directed by Alice Elliott • Documentary • 2008 • 40 minutes
Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy, a PBS award winning film, looks at an unusual, symbiotic relationship between two people some would call profoundly disabled. In the film, two of the country’s most remarkable advocates for people with disabilities, Diana Braun, who has Down Syndrome, and Kathy Conour, who has cerebral palsy, met three decades ago and vowed to fight to live independent lives. Told in an intimate, verite style, the film is a story of a compelling, creative friendship.
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Tales of the Waria
Directed by Kathy Huang • Documentary • 2011 • 57 minutes
Indonesia is home to the world’s largest Muslim population. It is also home to a transgender community known as warias, biological men who live openly as women. TALES OF THE WARIA follows four characters from this little-known community a...
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Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Ma...
Directed by Lisa Merton Alan Dater • Documentary • 2008 • 80 minutes
TAKING ROOT tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democra...
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Monkey Dance
Directed by Julie Mallozzi • Documentary • 2004 • 65 minutes
Three Cambodian-American teenagers come of age in a world shadowed by their parents' Khmer Rouge nightmares. Traditional Cambodian dance links them to their parents’ culture, but fast cars, hip consumerism, and new romance pull harder....
