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- An in-depth look at the life and music of Whitney Houston.
- In this emotionally charged account of family care giving, filmmaker Julie Winokur and her husband, photojournalist Ed Kashi, expose their personal lives with unflinching candor. Winokur and Kashi uprooted their two children and their business in order to move 3,000 miles cross-country to care for Winokur's father, Herbie. At 83, Herbie suffers from dementia and can no longer live alone. Winokur and Kashi are faced with difficult choices and overwhelming responsibility as they charge head on through their Sandwich years. It is a story of love, family dynamics and the immeasurable sacrifice of those who are caught in the middle.
- If you travel down a one-mile stretch of Doremus Avenue in Newark, NJ, you pass a natural gas plant next to a sewage treatment facility next to an animal fat rendering plant next to a series of ominous looking chemical storage containers behind acres of fencing. Airplanes pass overhead every two minutes, their engines rattling windows, while a putrid smell wafts from the open pools at the sewage treatment plant. This stretch is known as Chemical Corridor, and it's located just down the road from schools and apartment buildings. It borders the Ironbound neighborhood, where Portuguese, Brazilian, Central American and African American residents are separated from toxic substances by little more than a railroad track. The Ironbound district of Newark, New Jersey, is one of the most toxic neighborhoods in the country. Maria Lopez, a Honduran-American resident there, is waging a war for environmental justice. The Sacrifice Zone follows Maria as she leads a group of warriors who are fighting to break the cycle of poor communities of color serving as dumping grounds, so the rest of us can live in comfortable ignorance.
- "Aging in America: The Years Ahead" is a highly charged journey across the landscape of aging. This film travels from coast to coast exploring the unprecedented highs and the prolonged lows of growing old. From burlesque dancers in their seventies to geriatric prison wards, this film takes us to the extreme ends of longevity while asking 'What is a good old age?'
- Fifty years ago oil was discovered in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Today, at 2.1 million barrels per day, Nigeria is the sixth largest oil-producing country in the world and a major oil partner of the United States. Although its oil industry generates millions of dollars in revenues daily, the average Niger Deltan struggles to survive on less than $1 per day. The Curse of the Black Gold exposes the enormous costs and devastating impact of oil exploitation in the region. The impassioned voices of Nigerian environmental and human rights activists and Nigerian poets describe how the convergence of government corruption, irresponsible practices of Big Oil and abject poverty, has created a militant movement for redress.
- As part of its herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War, the U.S. military sprayed some 12 million gallons of Agent Orange defoliant on Vietnam. Forty years later, the toxin from Agent Orange is still wreaking havoc on three generations of Vietnamese civilians. 'The Leaves Keep Falling' captures the day-to-day struggle of caring for these victims of a war that won't seem to end.
- It is incomprehensible that in a country as rich as America nearly 46 million people don't have access to basic health care. For those that do, treatment within the American health care industry can be costly, ineffective, inefficient and sometimes deadly. Denied: Health Care Crisis in America addresses one of the most complex and critical issues facing America today-a health care system so badly broken that millions go without coverage and some 18,000 people die each year as a result. This film, by the award-winning documentary team of writer/director Julie Winokur and photographer Ed Kashi, recounts the toll on individuals and entire communities of having close to 47 million Americans living without health coverage. Denied tells the story of the uninsured through the eyes and emotions of those struggling to get adequate care and those fighting to deliver care with strained resources. It examines the convoluted disincentives to streamlining the system, and the innovative reforms being introduced to address the problem.
- In the second installment of American Sueño, undocumented law school student Marisol Conde-Hernandez leaves her home and family in New Jersey for the first time to take a summer fellowship at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
- Addressing one of the most complex and critical issues facing America today - a health care system so badly broken that millions go without coverage and some 18,000 people die each year as a result. It recounts the toll on individuals and entire communities in Tennessee following the single largest Medicaid dis-enrollment in history. In 2005, when Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee announced he would reform his state's Medicaid program, people took him at his word. Little did they know that Bredesen's idea of reform meant cutting 190,0000 people off the program almost overnight. The size and speed of the cuts were unprecedented; the suffering they caused was immeasurable. The sickest, neediest people were denied medical care while the nation sat by and watched, and the Governor boasted to other heads of states about his success reigning in the rising cost of health care. The story is told through the eyes and emotions of Tennesseans struggling to get adequate care and those fighting to deliver care with strained resources. This intense, moving film exposes the injustice that occurred in Tennessee and its implications for Medicaid cuts nationwide. In the richest nation in the world, where people die every day because they lack access to health care, the disparities revealed in this film are chilling.
- Every minute in the United States, an ambulance gets turned away from an emergency room because hospitals are simply too full. In Los Angeles, where the wait time in some ERs is as long as 48 hours, the entire 911 system is being dragged down in ways that are alarming. FIRESTORM follows the Los Angeles Fire Department Station 65, located in South L.A., a neighborhood with a largely uninsured and undereducated population. The LAFD handles all emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles, and currently 82% of the department's work is medical-rather than fire-related. Ten hospitals have closed in just five years in L.A., and the challenge of delivering more than 500 patients per day to a shrinking number of hospitals is overwhelming the LAFD. With resources strained, and 911 being used for everything from heart attacks to stomach aches, LAFD paramedics have become virtual 'doctors in a box' according to Fire Chief Daniel McCarthy. Shot cinema vérité, with candid interviews and punctuated with stunning still images by Ed Kashi, FIRESTORM depicts the insanity behind a rapidly unraveling health care safety net. Award-winning filmmaker Julie Winokur and world-renowned photojournalist Ed Kashi show how 911 has become the speed dial for those who either don't have access to health care or don't manage their care properly. Instead of putting out fires and responding to life-and-death emergencies, EMS personnel are essentially filling a void in medical care and stretching themselves to the brink. So who will rescue the rescuers?
- Meet six extraordinary Californians who are successfully addressing significant challenges facing the state.
- The notion of 'home' has shifting significance for Ed Kashi, a photojournalist who travels the world documenting social and political issues. For the past 30 years, Kashi has lived a life of intense engagement mixed with danger, anticipation, and loneliness. Encompassing nearly 20 years of photographs and journal entries to his wife, Julie, "Photojournalisms" (a supplement to Ed Kashi's new book by the same title) is a short, experimental film that provides a glimpse into the life and mind of an intrepid photographer. It is a complex collage defined by sensation, tension, and passion.
- Meet the 5 people who won the 2010 Purpose Prize, and $100,000, for improving their communities and the world.