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Coded Generations
Filmmakers: Camelia Fawzy, Olha Onyshko and Sarah Farhat
Film's Website: http://www.codedgenerations.com

By the year 2030, more than 6 1/2 million students (or 7% of all students) will graduate from secondary schools after having followed what is known as an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) aimed predominantly at students with behavioral, learning, or intellectual disabilities.  Coded Generations follows the day-to-day life of individuals with disabilities starting from kindergarten all the way to the workplace and investigates what could be done to allow them to live their lives in inclusive environments.The film aims to raise society’s awareness about the growing possibilities and the long-term benefits that could be offered by an inclusive workforce that embraces individuals with disabilities and gives them opportunities to productively contribute to society.

The war in Iraq has displaced more than two million refugees, including nearly 30,000 who ended up in the United States.  Many cannot go back home where militias are targeting them as collaborators with the U.S.  Yet they face challenges moving forward with new lives in America, torn by family separation, post-traumatic stress, dire economic realities, and unfulfilled promises.  In an intimate verite style, Dream of America follows some the stories of two refugee families, silent victims of the war.  This film has already received seed funding from ITVS.

Forgotten Soldiers
Filmmaker: Donald Plata
Film's Website: http://www.ww2scouts.com

They were a group of elite U.S. Army Soldiers who fought America's first major ground battle of the Second World War. They were General MacArthur's best soldiers at the start of the conflict. They were widely responsible for the prolonged seige of Bataan, an action that drained so much time and resources from Imperial Japan that it prevented the Japanese invasion of Australia.  They were the United States Army's Philippine Scouts.  Though half of these forgotten soldiers were killed in action or captivity, a few lived to tell their story.

Land of Dilemmas
Filmmakers: Olha Onyshko and Sarah Farhat
Website: http://landofdilemmas.org

This film will take viewers to an unexpected journey into the Second World War and to a place that until recently was hidden from the rest of the world by the Iron Curtain.  The events of this film take place around the current Polish-Ukrainian border where before the War, three major groups used to live: Ukrainians, Jews and Poles. When the War started, that region became the battlefield of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In addition to their own persecutions, Nazis and Soviets fueled major ethnic conflicts between these groups to advance their own interests. Yet, in the midst of total hate, there were people who refused to be brainwashed by propaganda and decided to help the "other" even if it involved putting their own lives in danger.  Now more than 60 years later, this film tells the incredible stories of a Ukrainian, a Jewish and a Polish survivor who were all saved by their enemies.

The Last Colony
Filmmaker: Rebecca Kingsley
Website: http://www.thelastcolony.org

We have learned much about the United States' transformation from a country where segments of the population were denied the right to vote and participate in their government to one of inclusion because of the courageous actions of ordinary citizens. Civil rights activism has always been a potent force in American political life. And yet today there are still more than a half million American citizens who are disenfranchised because they have no representation in the United States Congress. Adding to the irony is the fact that this denial of democratic rights is being practiced in the very city in which this government resides — Washington, D.C.

Refrigerator Ladies: The Remarkable Untold Story of the ENIAC Programmers
Filmmaker: Kathy Kleiman
Film's Website: http://www.eniacprogrammers.org

During the Second World War, many young women were hired by the Army for their mathematical acumen, taking on a job called "Computers."  In the last days of the war, six "Computers" mastered the power of an 80 foot long, 8 foot tall, black metal machine and harnessed its power through an archaic programming interface using dozens of wires and 3000 switches. They programmed ENIAC, the first all-electronic programmable computer to perform a ballistics trajectory, a differential calculus equation important to the war effort, and they succeeded brilliantly. When the ENIAC was unveiled to the public on February 15, 1946, their program captured the imagination of the press and made headlines across the country. Afterwards, the ENIAC became a legendary machine which would pave the way for the computer age.  Its engineers (all men) became famous. Never introduced or credited at the ENIAC events of the 1940s, the women programmers' story disappeared from history. They became invisible.  Until now.

U.S. Army Photograph, 1946, Courtesy of the
University of Pennsylvania Archives