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THE LAST
COLONY
by
Rebecca Kingsley
(80 minutes, screened two different versions June 2004
and May 2006)
The fight for democracy
hits home in the capital of the United States where the
battle over political self-determination intersects with
historic issues of race, power, and the constitutional
balancing act between federal and local government.
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here for more information on the film and its director.
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THE LAST
GREEKS ON BROOME STREET
by Ed
Askinazi
(26
minutes/Screened
January 2006)
In the early 20th century, a vibrant Greek
Jewish community thrived in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Today there is little evidence of that community, beyond
one remaining temple and the memories of those who
experienced it firsthand.
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LEARNING FROM JAMES

by
Kendra Rubinfeld
(56
minutes/Screened January 2008)
Children
with developmental disabilities are often referred
to as special. This film helps show why, as we
follow the lives of four children with mental
retardation through their every day lives with their
friends and families.
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LESSONS
FROM DC
by Lauren
Kritzer
(16
minutes/Screened January 2005)
On the eve of her college graduation in the midst of the
2004 presidential campaign,
a young Washingtonian
reflects on living in America’s political center.
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MARE
IGNOTUM (SEA OF MYSTERY)
by Loretta
Oleck Berger and Linton Suttner
(70
minutes/Screened November 2007)
Max has
traveled many lonely roads in his 70 years. But it is the
less traveled inner road which most interests his niece as
she takes us on a journey to discover more about him and
herself in the process.
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The Market

by D.B. Long
(15 minutes/Screened
October 2007)
Underneath
the Jones Falls Expressway is a taste of real Baltimore – a
thriving farmer's market. On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, we
visit the market to explore the diversity of people, foods, and
viewpoints on the market's busiest day of the year.
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MATADOR 
by Stephen
Higgins and Nina Seavey
(75 minutes/
Screened June 2007)
David Fandila, "El Fandi," is on a quest to become the
world's top-ranked bullfighter. This is a story of love and
passion -- the tale of love of a son for his father, of the
audiences in Europe and Latin America for their heroes, of a
people for a strange and violent ritual, and of the
bullfighter's paradoxical love for the majestic beast that
he must kill to create his art.
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MOVING
FORWARD (formerly entitled EMPOWERED WOMEN)
by Karen
Zider
(26 minutes/Screened
November 2004)
Micro-credit has become a source of hope
for three
low-income women in Colombia as they work to take
the stigma out
of poverty and provide a better life for their families.
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here for more information on the film.
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MY LIFE AS
AN UNDERDOG
by Boris
Gavrilovic and Leon Martin
(75
minutes/Screened January 2006)
Suzanne Muldowney is terrified
by the possibility that she might die in
anonymity. Whether her performance art takes her to a local
parade, public access TV, or into an argument with
shockjock Howard Stern, she never relents in her
quest for proper recognition for her performance art.
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here for more information on the film and its directors.
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MY
MOTHER MARY
by David
Roberts
(22
minutes/Screened May 2005)
A
DC cabdriver's sacrifices to help her family survive the
challenges of poverty are recounted by her seven
children who each took very different paths in life.
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90
MILES APART
by
John Monte and Aaron Rockett
(9
minutes/Screened September 2004)
A
glimpse into the world of Cuba’s dissident community.
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here for more information on the film and its directors.
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PICTURE THE LOVE
by Kimberley Williams
(60 minutes/
Screened July, 2007)
See "Broken Hearts
and Butterflies"
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THE
POWER OF FORGIVENESS
by Martin
Doblmeier
(20 minute
excerpt/Screened November 2006)
In the face
of grief and anger, how do people find strength to
forgive? A look inside the painful and sometimes
impossible conversion that true forgiveness requires.
This 18-minute excerpt focuses on women who have lost
loved ones to terrorism in New York and Lebanon as they
contemplate the idea of a Garden of Forgiveness. This
film is produced and edited by Docs in Progress
co-founder Adele Schmidt.
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THE PREACHER AND THE POET
by Dean Hamer
(10
minutes/Screened May 2006)
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THE
PRICE OF PARADISE (formerly PRICE OF FREEDOM)
by Jeffrey Kramer
(30
minutes/Screened July, 2007)
This film looks at the
lives of ordinary Iraqis: refugees now living in Jordan,
athletes attempting to retain their regimen, and police
cadets being trained to put their lives in harm's way.
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RACHEL
IS
by
Charlotte Glynn
(60 minutes/Screened
June 2008)
A
personal film about the filmmaker, her family, and her
sister Rachel, who is developmentally disabled and is
transitioning from school to living in a group home.
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here for more information on the film and its director.
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READY
TO PLAY
by Jennifer
Crescenzo
(45 minutes/Screened January
2005)
A daughter tells the story of her father’s quest to
build a softball league in the Glover Park
neighborhood of Washington DC and how this shared love
of the sport keeps a changing community connected.
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here for more information on the film and its director.
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REDEMPTION
STONE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TOM LEWIS
by Tom
Dziedzic
(28 minutes/Screened January
2007)
From a dirt-poor
southern town to the mean streets of Washington DC, one
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SOLD
by
Jody Hassett-Sanchez
(60 minutes/Screened
September 2007)
Slavery is not
something which can be relegated to the history books.
Filmed in India, Pakistan and Togo, SOLD takes an
intimate look at three contemporary abolitionists
fighting a $27 billion per year business -- the modern
day slave trade. A Hindu, Muslim and Christian, each
battles a different virulent kind of slavery with humor
and righteous anger.
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STILL
CALLING
by Steven Holloway
(16
minutes/Screened January 2007).
A meditation on art
and artists who see their creations in the context of
bigger questions about beauty, faith, and humanity. |
SWING LEGENDS 
by Emily Schwartz and Tommy Greco
(30 Minutes/Screened May 2004)
Frankie Manning is nearly 90 and Dawn Hampton is 75. But age is all relative when you are still
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SYNTHETIC
ART

by Matthew Radcliff
(16 minutes/ Screened June
2007)
The skills of a
scientist are normally considered very different from
those of an artist, but the two share more than one
might assume. The thoughts of one scientist turned
filmmaker are laid bare as he struggles to explain his
lifelong fascination with chemistry. The result is a
meditation on the creative connections between chemistry
and art.
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THROUGH
THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE: THE ART OF ESTHER KRINITZ
by
Nina Shapiro-Perl
(12
minute trailer/Screened June 2008)
A seamstress recounts on fabric her survival of the
Holocaust.
Click
here for more information on the organization sponsoring
the film.
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TUMAINI LETU (Our Hope)
by
Natalie Halpern
(20
minutes/Screened July 2006)
In the villages of
western Kenya, AIDS has robbed hundreds of thousands of
children of their parents. This film looks at the
lives, struggles, and indomitable spirit of three women
left to care for these orphans and how they are working
to help the next generation have a chance at a better
future.
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UN-NATURAL STATE

by
Kirk Mangels and Brad Mendelsohn
(90 minutes/Screened September 2007)
There is a
black hole in American Democracy - and it's called
Washington, DC. Through visual metaphor and the
perspectives of politicians, activists, and
residents, we go on a journey through the city's
streets to discover if the U.S. is living up to its
international dreams of democracy when the 500,000
citizens of its capital are denied voting
representation in Congress.
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Unravelling Michelle

by Dan Schaffer and Michelle Farrell
(90 minutes/Screened October 2007)
At
a turning point in his life, Joe O'Ferrell took the
courageous step to become a filmmaker. Even as he
achieves his creative aspirations, he knows there is
still one dream left unfulfilled. In a journey of
secrets, revelations, and a transformation that is both
physical and emotional, Joe slowly fades away and
becomes Michelle.
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UP TO THE MOUNTAIN, DOWN TO THE VILLAGE
by Chris Billing
(64 minutes/Screened two different versions in May
2004 and November 2004)
During the Cultural Revolution, more than 16 million Chinese
students left their parents behind in the cities and
went to the countryside to learn from the peasants.
Thirty years later, members of that generation return to
those villages to reflect on their
experiences.
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here for more information on the film and its director.
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THE WALK-ONS

by Tim
Durham and Aimee Nowland
(30
minutes/Screened November 2007)
College football may be
best known for the frenzied competition for top
recruits. But what of the local students who have
dreams that they may capture the coach's attention?
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WAR AND PEACEMAKERS
by Mike
Blain and Kelley Jones
(15
minutes/Screened July 2004)
Anti-war organizing can be a means to building
community. This filmlooks at one community
in Seattle, Washington over the course of two months
leading up to the war in Iraq.
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WITNESS
A PEACE MOVEMENT (formerly entitled VOICES
FROM THE MOVEMENT)
by Roger
Hill
(55
Minutes/Screened July 2004)
Shot in
various cities over a year-long period, this film is a
look from the inside at the contemporary anti-war
movement.
Click
here for more information on the film and its director.
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YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG (formerly GERTRUDE BERG: AMERICA’S MOLLY GOLDBERG)

by Aviva
Kempner
(17
minutes/Screened January 2005)
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