For Personal, Home-Use Viewing (Not for Organizational Use - Please contact Filmmaker Renee Warmack, at 813-610-3132, for information regarding fees for organizational screenings, events, and educational programs.) Because of Sam is a true story about an inspirational young man named Sam Piazza, who…
Filmmaker Frank van Osch travelled through Indonesia where he searched for former 'comfort women', together with photographer Jan Banning (World Press Photo Award 2004) and journalist Hilde Janssen. During the Second World War these women were forced to carry out sexual activities in military…
Program Overview: This program provides an evidence-based approach to building professional empathy in the workforce, as well as relational empathy in your everyday life. We will cover emotional intelligence, Carl Rogers’s Empathic Comprehension, and so many more techniques derived from Cognitive…
Nominated for the 2002 Student Documentary Academy Award, BECOME THE SKY maps an ecology of power spanning 4,000 miles across Texas. From offshore oil-rigs to the mouth of the Rio Grande, BECOME THE SKY weaves a web of energy and politics in the context of war–and capitalism. West Texas wind-farms.…
"When the engine starts and the race begins, every driver has a particular look in their eyes, when it comes to racing." Follow the exciting lives of four international racing drivers Scott Dixon, Bruno Senna, Memo Rojas and Jules Gounon, on and off the track in this fast paced and intimate…
BECOMING is a short film about the miraculous genesis of animal life. In great microscopic detail, we see the 'making of' an Alpine Newt in its transparant egg from the first cell division to hatching. A single cell is transformed into a complete, complex living organism with a beating heart…
Bianca and Finn are two young mountain enthusiasts, seeking out thrilling careers as mountain guides. The two aspirants embark on a lengthy training program to learn these skills, but qualifying as a mountain guide is no walk in the park – huge physical and emotional demands are placed on the…
Five accomplished historians describe how specific personal experiences were crucial in triggering their interest in history and inspiring them to become historians. Featured researchers: - David Cannadine, Dodge Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton University. - Linda Colley, the Shelby M.C.…
Nine accomplished physicists describe crucial aspects of their personal trajectories of how they became the professional scientists they are today. Featured researchers: - Nima Arkani-Hamed, permanent faculty member, Institute for Advanced Study - Claudia de Rham, Professor of Theoretical…
Five leading psychologists explain the driving factors which led them to study psychology and become professional psychologists. Featured researchers: - Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland - Diana Deutsch, Professor of Psychology at UC San Diego - Barbara Fredrickson,…
One woman’s quest to win a historic tenth Queen of the Bands in Toronto’s illustrious Caribbean Carnival.
An intimate portrait of a young man destined to make history. Includes a never-before-seen ‘lost’ interview. Becoming Barack: Evolution of a Leader traces the early path of a man destined to make history and to be a catalyst for global change. Features footage from three of the earliest known…
