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We often create “dinner videos” for nonprofit organizations, including several for the Spina Bifida Association. Abigail’s Story, a powerful portrait of a young swimmer and her family, was featured at this year’s annual roast to raise money for Spina Bifida research.
Survivors of the Storm premiered in October 2007 at a black tie benefit in support of Equal Justice Works. The video showcased extraordinary efforts of public interest lawyers assisting individuals who lost their homes in three states stricken by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
It’s not unusual to find us in an edit room working on productions for the Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice. Recent releases include DNA: Critical Issues for Those Who Work with Victims; Promising Practices in the Faith Community’s Response to Crime Victims; and Responding to Victims of Human Trafficking: A Training Video for Victim Service Providers.
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Langston
This documentary, by director Drew Jones, focuses on Langston, the historic Washington D.C. golf course that gave birth to some of golf's first premiere African American golfers. This course was historically the only place in the District that allowed for African American golfers to play. It was host to such famous people as Joe Louis, Calvin Peete, and Lee Elder. It has managed to last the test of time. Langston is a jewel of the nation’s capital with a story of intrigue that must be told.
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The Last Boat Out
Filmmaker Laura Seltzer is documenting the story of a family of watermen from the Virginia Peninsula who are tirelessly trying to preserve their way of life on the waters of Chesapeake Bay in the face of diminishing harvests. The Last Boat Out, slated to air on public television in Spring 2010, will shed light on the potential demise of the bay and how it is directly affecting the people who work, love and depend on the waters.
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Indian Hill
Cinematographer Tom Kaufman has always been fascinated with Indian Hill, a school for gifted young musicians, singers, actors, dancers, painters, and writers. Indian Hill was not an experimental school - quite the contrary. Mordecai Bauman based his teaching principals on those of JS Bach - that a communal environment, with teachers and students living and working together, would provide the kids with a positive learning experience that would last them their entire lives. Using interviews with teachers and alum including Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, and Julie Taymor, Indian Hill will explore how a singer, created an amazing school, despite numerous obstacles.
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Remember Spain
When Spanish-American filmmaker James Mercé Edwards set out to discover the “truth” about the Spanish Civil War, a period in his family’s history filled with secrets and hyperbole, he discovered a global movement struggling to come to terms with the same history. Remember Spain is a multimedia chronicle of the filmmaker’s personal journey that is currently unfolding online. The film will be a portrait of the people, movements and events that Edwards discovers as he joins a process some call “la recuperacion de la memoria historica” or the recovery of historical memory.
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Walk With Me
Rebecca Rice, a theatre artist and activist whose mantra was “art saves lives,” unexpectedly died in April of 2002. Years later, her death remains a void to a community of artists, including filmmakers Ellie Walton and Tanisha Christie. By collecting interviews from family, friends, students and colleagues from across the country, they will paint a vivid portrait of their mentor beginning in the 1960s when the art for social change movement came alive in the United States and discover how artists are continuing this work today. Walk With Me reveals how making art with community can inspire transformation and how one person – one artist – can make a difference.
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A Community of Gardeners
An outdoor classroom, an oasis of peace in an inner-city neighborhood, a link to an immigrant’s homeland: the roles of seven Washington, D.C. community gardens are as varied as the gardeners themselves. Meet them and visit their plots in filmmaker Cintia Cabib’s timely documentary, A Community of Gardeners.
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