Film Category: Invited

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Fashion is fickle. Remaining relevant over a whole career is an accomplishment few are afforded, but Diana Vreeland had the touch. With a keen eye…

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It Happens to Us
Amalie R. Rothschild

It Happens to Us features women of different ages, races, and economic backgrounds who boldly speak about having had an abortion. This diverse collection of…

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Growing Up Female
Jim Klein, Julia Reichert

Growing Up Female captures six women, from the ages of four to twenty-six, as they experience coming of age in America. Each reveals impressions specific…

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Betty Tells Her Story
Liane Brandon

A woman sits in a chair before the camera. At the urging of the filmmaker, she describes a past event. Years ago, she was invited…

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Anything You Want to Be
Liane Brandon

A teenager’s parents tell her time and again that she can grow up to be anything she wants to be. Through playful, yet troubling, reenactments,…

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Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
Stacey Peralta

Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain—names synonymous with skateboarding—dominated the sport in the late ’80s and early ’90s, inventing many of…

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Photographic Memory
Ross McElwee

It may be inevitable that relationships between young adults and their parents will be turbulent. When your parent is filmmaker Ross McElwee and your life…

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Love Free or Die
Macky Alston

When Gene Robinson was elected Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003, he made history as the first openly gay, non-celibate bishop in the Episcopal Church…

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Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
Fredrick Gertten

Frederick Gertten did not set out to make this film. Originally, it was an entirely different film that was making headlines. Bananas!*, released in 2009,…

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Jesse Owens
Laurens Grant

“Jesse Owens was a model of technical perfection the way he ran. . . . That was in such opposition of what African Americans were…

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