Alive Mind Cinema

Director Eric Steel and his crew spent an entire year looking very carefully at the Golden Gate Bridge. Running cameras for almost every daylight minute, he documented nearly two dozen fatal moments as well as others where suicide was avoided.

An intimate and revealing documentary that follows two years in the private life of Marilyn Sewell, an outspoken and socially progressive Unitarian minister who has re-energized her Portland community. While serving a community that relies on her for wisdom and advice, Marilyn struggles quietly with decisions about her own future. As she seeks to reconcile the commitments of her profession with a longing for intimacy and love, childhood memories of...

Being in the World raises the question of whether we have forgotten what it means to be truly human in today's technological age, and this program proceeds to answer this question by taking a journey around the world to meet a whole host of remarkable individuals, including Manuel Molina, the legendary poet and flamenco master; Leah Chase, affectionately known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine; and Hiroshi Sakaguchi, a master carpenter from Japan. While...

A first kiss, a first dance. These are the rites of passage of American youth that hold the promise of magic, romance and initiation into adulthood. For kids from all walks of life, these first steps toward intimacy are at once exciting and terrifying. For some teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum, the transition can be nothing less than paralyzing. In Columbus, Ohio, a group of young people with an array of developmental challenges prepares...

12-year old Sam and his family and best friend Felix face Sam's leukemia and his uncertain future by learning about the disease as well as making lists of what Sam wishes to do someday.

Jeffrey Jones entrance into the comic book art world in the early 1970s paved the way for many of today's most popular comic book artists to branch out into the more commercially visible world of art galleries and fine art collectors. Follow the stories behind his success and showcases of his artwork through interviews with his family and peers. Though it may be hindered by discrimination or bigotry, true artistic genius cannot be held back, and neither...

For thousands of years, songbirds were regarded by mankind as messengers from the gods. Today, these creatures, woven inextricably into the fabric of our environment, are vanishing at an alarming rate. Under threat from climate change, pesticides and more, populations of hundreds of species have dipped dramatically. As scientists, activists and bird enthusiasts investigate this phenomenon, amazing secrets of the bird world come to light for the first...

A documentary from the perspective of pro-sex feminism which asserts that pornography must be wrested from patriarchal control, and that in the hands of women and sexual minorities, it can become a tool of liberation. Director Virginie Despentes takes a wide ranging look at the movement and maps the evolution of pro-sex, with roughly two dozen interviews with members of the post-porn movement.

Documents the aspirations, practices, and beliefs of three young Westerners who follow three different Eastern spiritual traditions. An intimate, compelling look at the people who turn their backs on the material to find new meaning in their lives.

At age 23, Simi Linton was injured while hitchhiking to Washington to protest the war in Vietnam.