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- Young lesbian parents Shareen and Claire are raising their 5-year-old daughter Honey in a converted garage on Staten Island. Shareen salvages refuse with her pickup truck while Claire waits tables at the hip Naga Saki restaurant in Manhattan, caught up in a global exchange of industrial waste via contaminated sushi. As a ghost barge bearing nuclear refuse circles the planet in search of a willing port, household pets begin to glow ominously, then disappear; and people start speaking in tongues. The crisis escalates when a multinational corporation is implicated, the couple's daughter Honey mysteriously vanishes, and a group of young New Yorkers strike back in an unlikely alliance with activists in the developing world.
- After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matter of time before his enemies closed in. Despite death threats and intimidation, Malcolm marched on - continuing to spread the word of equality and brotherhood right up until the moment of his brutal and untimely assassination. Highlighted by newsreel footage and interviews, this is the story of the last twenty-four hours of Malcolm X. Featuring the music of jazz percussionist Max Roach.
- Chicago's Black transgender icon Gloria Allen blazed a trail for trans people like few others before her. Born in 1945, she grew up amid the celebrated Black "sissy" balls on Chicago's South Side and transitioned after high school with the love and support of the women in her family - her mother Alma, a former showgirl and Jet centerfold who taught her about makeup, and her grandmother Mildred, a seamstress who designed clothes for her. Gloria overcame traumatic violence to become a proud leader in her community. Most famously, she pioneered a charm school for young transgender people that served as inspiration for the hit play Charm. Now in her 70s, Gloria is aging with joy and grace at a time when Black transgender women in America face escalating violence and make up the majority of transgender people killed each year. Luchina Fisher's directorial debut is not only a portrait of a groundbreaking legend, but also a celebration of unconditional love, the love Gloria received from her own mother and that she now gives to her chosen children.
- This is an experimental documentary chronicling the March 1995 groundbreaking conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora. The conference brought together an array of dynamic scholars, activists and cultural workers including Essex Hemphill, Kobena Mercer, Barbara Smith, Urvashi Vaid and Jacqui Alexander to interrogate the economic, political and social situations of diasporic lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender peoples. The video brings together the highlights of the conference and draws connections between popular culture and contemporary black gay media production. The participants discuss various topics: Black and queer identity, the shortcomings of Black nationalism, and homophobia in Black communities. Drawing upon works such as Isaac Julien's "The Attendant" and Jocelyn Taylor's "Bodily Functions", this documentary illuminates the importance of this historic conference for Black lesbians and gays.
- Audre Lorde, the highly influential, award-winning African-American lesbian poet came to live in West-Berlin in the 80s and early '90s. She was the mentor and catalyst who helped ignite the Afro-German movement while she challenged white women to acknowledge and constructively use their privileges. With her active support a whole generation of writers and poets for the first time gave voice to their unique experience as people of color in Germany. This documentary contains previously unreleased audiovisual material from director Dagmar Schultz's archives including stunning images of Audre Lorde off stage. With testimony from Lorde's colleagues and friends the film documents Lorde's lasting legacy in Germany and the impact of her work and personality.
- Documentary on young South Korean women who work in sex related enterprises adjacent to American military bases in South Korea. Also explores the lives of Korean American women who came to the United States as wives of American servicemen.
- As Hurricane Katrina approached, New Orleans' Sheriff abandoned the city's prison leaving prisoners to drown in their cells, a story of what happened there as a city's history of racism turned a natural disaster into a political crisis.
- Broken Whole is a dramatic psychological experimental short that follows an emotionally absent mother's (Mona) journey of facing unspoken truths as she cleans her daughter's (Zora) apartment after her daughter decides to end her life. Mona is stuck in her ways and has difficulty seeing, let alone understanding, Zora's feeling of not wanting to be alive. Even while cleaning Zora's apartment, Mona focuses on trivial things versus tapping into her feelings. That is until she notices the DRUM on Zora's altar. A drum that holds unfaced truths. A drum that has been passed down between generations of women except Mona. Seeing the drum takes Mona back to the moment she witnessed Zora receiving the drum. It is at that moment Mona sits with this uncomfortable, unfaced truth and comes to terms with the impact her mothering had on Zora while realizing her own mother's impact on her.
- In this personal documentary, Jane Giese, a working class woman in Newark, comes to realize that she has to take control of her own life after years of physical and mental abuse.
- Boy has a secret. Girl finds out the secret. Girl helps boy share his secret with the world.
- The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in the United States.
- Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary focuses on the antifascist, anti-imperialist efforts of labor groups, peasants, and working-class soldiers to liberate Portugal from the control of the government of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.
- Story about a group of women better known as 'The Bosses' in its process of transformation and empowerment, through their work in the field of human rights with Central American migrants crossing Mexico on the freight train bound for the US
- New colonial policies implemented by the US Congress over Puerto Rico's territory triggers a new wave of protests against US colonialism.
- When, in 1961, West Side Story hit the screens after conquering Broadway, it was the entire Puerto Rican community of New York, ostracized and deprived of the American dream, that feverishly gained visibility. From Spanish Harlem to the Bronx, where poverty, drugs and gangs are rampant, Latino music and dance will then carry the identity revolution, the barrio setting itself on fire and undulating to Afro-Caribbean rhythms, led by "the king of timbales" Tito Puente. Soon mixed with soul, jazz and blues of the black neighbors, who share suffering and stigma of racism, the genres multiply: mambo, rumba, cha-cha-cha, merengue, boogaloo. All the Hispanics of Central and South America joined the movement.
- AWOL fictional short follows Keisha Johnson, an American deserter on her "walkabout" journey as she encounters children who decide to help her despite the risks. In the soldier's dazed and disillusioned state, she accepts the children's assistance and follows them back to their grandmother's house. The encounter humanizes the two parties and an emotional connection is formed despite the overwhelming political and cultural obstacles.
- A brief examination of the challenges facing the Sikh community in a post-9/11 New York City that erroneously associates the Sikh turban (or dastaar) with terrorism and Islamic extremists.
- MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE tells the story of the student-led struggle to win Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, in the late 1960s.
- As the first pupil from his Harlem high school to attend Harvard University, a teenager faces both external and internal challenges during his freshman year.
- New York's Haitian community take it to the bridge to protest years of mortal policing.
- The resilience of Traditional African Religions Practiced in The United States.
- Two sisters, both artists, embark on a quest to discover whether writer, Lorraine Hansberry was a political activist.
- JUGGLING GENDER, one of the first documentaries that looks at the construction of sexual and gender identity. It is a loving portrait of Jennifer Miller, a lesbian performer who lives her life with a full beard. Jennifer Miller works as a performance artist, circus director, and clown and as the "bearded lady" in one of the only remaining sideshows in America. In public she is often mistaken for a man, an experience she handles with the wit and intelligence that characterize her stage performances. JUGGLING GENDER explores the fluidity of gender and raises important questions about the construction of sexual and gender identity. The film is a journey through the daily life of Jennifer as she navigates her experiences from performing to people's reaction to her on the streets of New York City in the early 1990's. Some scenes include her performance at a sideshow, with friends and in her loft practicing for an upcoming performance. Through a traditional documentary genre there are moments alone with Jennifer in the bathtub, a moment in the film where the genre plays with a more experiential genre. JUGGLING GENDER is considered a remarkable short video about a performance artist who just happens to have a beard. Rotating masculinity and femininity the way some folk change shoes, Miller confronts gender every time she hits the streets. Premiered at the New York Film Festival/Video Showcase in 1992 and played at 100's of festivals worldwide. The film includes STILL JUGGLING a new video with Jennifer Miller 15 years later, discussing family and religion, gender and the beard, the sideshow then and now, life as an artist, and Circus Amok. Also SIDESHOW BY THE SEASHORE: Coney Island, New York.