Festival Year: 2000
Meet Monroe Litman and Mark Jonofsky, two guys compelled to air their private opinions in the public arena. Regular callers to NYC community-supported radio stations,…
MORE ›In 1911 Austin, Pennsylvania, was flooded after the collapse of a dam built to serve the town’s large paper mill, killing 72 people, many of…
MORE ›This stirring and beautifully photographed short film tells of the last days of Clarence, a Nebraska farmer and patriarch whose family must face putting him…
MORE ›Underneath the town of Centralia, PA, a fire has been burning for over 35 years. When gas from the decades-old coal mine conflagration seeped into…
MORE ›Set in the clinical austerity of St. Vincent Hospital’s Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit, A Chance to Grow follows three prematurely born infants and their families…
MORE ›Examining the effects of war and terrorism on the children of Bosnia, Israel, Rwanda and Northern Ireland, this story is told by the children. These…
MORE ›In his own uniquely Southern voice, Reynolds Price tells of his heritage, the people and places that influenced his life and made him who he…
MORE ›Seattle society photographer Edward S. Curtis forsook a lucrative studio and finally the security of his family and approval of his peers in his thirty-year…
MORE ›A memorable portrait of three women who, as teenagers, resisted the Nazis and helped keep others alive. The film’s straightforward and unsentimental structure, using period…
MORE ›Small-town, backroads middle America is the playing field for the barnstorming teams of the fastpitch softball league. Filmmaker Jeremy Spear signs on as shortstop with…
MORE ›A small town café is measured by far more than its menu. At Fatmans in Winston-Salem, NC, regulars look forward to the coffee or a…
MORE ›An inspiring account of the experiences and activities of Jewish scholars, refuges from Nazism, who came to the U.S. and taught in traditional black colleges…
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