Video Project
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
In a world driven by competition and capital, workers of a self-managed tea factory struggle to survive against all odds. In 2010, Unilever announced the closing of the profitable Fralibtea processing and packaging plant in the South of France. After 1,336 days of resistance, the workers celebrated their victory against the giant multinational and became owners of the factory. Now, with the take-over of the company and production under workers’...
2) Flat town
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A small Cajun town in rural Louisiana holds an annual exhibition football game between the majority Black public school and majority White private school, called the Tee Cotton Bowl. This meditative small town portrait examines racial segregation and a range of perspectives on the game and whether it should continue to be celebrated as it has been. Ville Platte, Louisiana is a dying town and one of the poorest in the state. Despite this, a strong...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
What does it take to change a child's life? Set against the backdrop of a Britain rife with debates around class, identity, and social mobility, H IS FOR HARRY follows 11-year-old Harry as he starts at a brand new school in suburban London unable to read or write. For the next two years, Harry fights to improve academically and slowly begins to believe in a different future for himself. This intimate portrayal of one charismatic boy's journey towards...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A unique tour through the South reveals the power of place-based learning in understand the Civil Rights Movement. Does the arc of history truly bend towards justice? And what does justice mean, when the problems of our past are only a grandparent away? How can we heal as a nation without honestly engaging with our history? THE ROAD TO JUSTICE follows two groups on a civil rights tour through the American South as they reckon with the country’s...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After three decades as the colorful bandleader to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, master trumpeter Doc Severinsen defies nature with a relentless schedule of touring and performing into his nineties. A musical icon traces his groundbreaking career and personal trials underscoring a life of inspiration and obsession. In 2018, at the age of 90, Doc Severinsen is still going strong as he leaves home and sets off on a performance tour. At the...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Over 90 percent of the available lands in the Greater Chaco region of the Southwest have already been leased for oil and gas extraction. Our Story documents the ongoing Indigenous-led work to protect the remaining lands that are untouched by oil and gas, as well as the health and well-being of communities surrounded by these extractive industries. Din ̌and Pueblo people directly impacted by oil and gas extraction in the Greater Chaco region have...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When filmmaker Ramsey Denison went to Las Vegas for a relaxing weekend, the last thing he expected was to be arrested and beaten for reporting an incident of police brutality that he personally witnessed on the strip. WHAT HAPPENED IN LAS VEGAS examines the lack of accountability within the Las Vegas Department concerning four cases where individuals were killed by the police. The documentary not only takes an unflinching look at one of the most corrupt...
8) Uber land
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Pulling back the curtain on the labor issues surrounding Uber and the gig economy, Uber Land tells the story of a scandal-ridden company that upended transportation, defied regulators, decimated the taxi industry, and ended up cannibalizing its own drivers. From the ashes of the Great Recession came the gig economy, which promised independence and flexibility for workers. Now, more than ten years later, the veneer of the gig economy has faded as the...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In Simple Nature, physicist Dr. Leonard Susskind introduces The Anthropic Principle in an accessible and informative way. Proposed in the 1970's, The Anthropic Principle attempts to explain how the physics of the universe may be perfectly tuned for life to evolve. Any small tweak in gravity or quantum mechanics would make all matter, planets, stars and life-forms impossible, yet it all is in perfect working order. Why? The Anthropic Principle poses...
10) As prescribed
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, Ativan all belong to a class of drugs known as benzodiazepines aka benzos. Commonly prescribed as treatments beyond their approved uses, news and entertainment media portray them in terms of either addiction and abuse or as innocuous medications that help relax nerves. As Prescribed documents a strikingly different narrative, following eye-opening stories amidst a mis-prescription epidemic resulting in illness and injury for...
Publisher
Distributed by Video Project
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Language
English
Description
Partners Jen and Grant engage in a competition to see who can swear off consumerism and produce the least garbage in an entire year. Their battle is set against an examination of the sobering problem of waste in North America. Features interviews with artist Chris Jordan and marine pollution expert Captain Charles Moore. Filmed on location in British Columbia.
Publisher
Stephen Most
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Nature sounds offer important information about the heath of today's wild habitats and the life within them. Traveling across the planet to every continent since the late 1960's, noted musician and soundscape ecologist Dr. Bernie Krause has recorded more than 15,000 species: marine and terrestrial. Over half of the soundscapes Krause has recorded are now silent or can no longer be heard in their original form.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Barack Obama moves to Chicago in 1985, in part, because of a man he'd never met: Harold Washington. An epic story of American politics,, race, and triumph against all odds, that chronicles the captivating rise, surprising reign, and enduring legacy of Chicago's first Black mayor. In one of the dirtiest political campaigns in American history, in a city rife with corruption and discrimination, Harold Washington took on the machine and won. Following...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a world increasingly dominated by humans, three teams of determined conservationists go to extraordinary lengths to save three threatened species in the American heartland. Stunningly photographed in the Grand Canyon and on the American prairie, The Nature Makers follows biologists who've deployed helicopters, giant bulldozers and a host of human tools in order to defend nature.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
A documentary on a group of elderly women who have chosen to live in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, an approximately 1,500-mile perimeter surrounding the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster designated by the government as off-limits.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Follows cultural anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz as she explores the mysteries of life and death from a variety of perspectives and world traditions. Sparked by her own near-death experience as a teenager, Schlitz has been delving into the nature of consciousness and death for the past three decades. This film looks at how popular culture deals with the ever-present fear many have about our own mortality. Interviews with mental health experts, cultural...
20) The Young vote
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Young vote takes the temperature of a generation whose political awakening has coincided with events like the Parkland shooting and the movement for Black lives. Raised uring a time of increasing distrust in government, active voter suppression, and continued inaction on the issues that matter most to them, many have lost faith in the efficacy of electoral politics. A central theme explored by the film is whether our communities, particularly...