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Student Films
Moma is a young man who dreams of being an architect to build a better life for himself and his family. Bigger Plans is one of five short dramatic films made during the pilot-project launch of a media development project the Burundi Film Center in the summer of 2007. Four filmmakers traveled to the war-ravaged East African nation of Burundi with no funding and borrowed equipment to train youth aged 18-25 the basics of film theory and production. The result is a truly inspiring cinematic initiative under the mandate to "Inspire. Educate. Entertain."
Feature Films
Set in small town USA, Blind Ambition revolves around Sapna, a pretty, smart, fun-loving teenager who is all about celebrating life despite the fact that she's legally blind. Sapna aspires to run a marathon as a tribute to the memory of her late mother. Supported by her quirky brother Surya and eccentric Wild Bill-the local auto mechanic, they convince the solitary school Gym teacher Autumn Milestone to be her coach. Sapna's resilience and determination serves as this little town's inspiration in the face of each of their personal tribulations. This film is also a romantic coming of age story, full of light-hearted humor as Sapna goes on her first date, has her first kiss, goes to the movies and even drives a car!
Documentaries
A filmmaker turns the camera on her 12-year-old son Adam in this award winning documentary about growing up with autism. Adam has Asperger Syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism
characterized by socially and emotionally inappropriate behavior. Unable to socialize normally with his classmates, school is a nightmare for Adam. He is regularly excluded or bullied, and left his last school after a boy pulled a knife on him. A rare, powerful and intimate portrait of an increasingly common form of autism, The Boy Inside follows Adam’s dramatic family life as he struggles against the odds to graduate elementary school and make sense of bullies, girls and life in the real world.
Documentaries
Crime, drugs, unemployment…despair. These social problems affect urban communities all over America. And nowhere more than Camden, NJ. Named one of the most dangerous cities in America, and with a graduation rate of less than 50% among public high school students, Camden is in danger of losing its young people to hopelessness.
Is it possible to overcome these obstacles? Even in Camden ? The answer is a resounding YES!
Meet five young adults who grew up in Camden and have flourished. Due to their resilient spirits and the lessons learned through the Urban Promise Gospel Choir their futures are filled with hope!
A Brighter Future explores the relationship between singing in a choir and success in life. It looks at the ways that the discipline needed for rehearsals and the self-confidence needed for performance can be transferred to other areas of life.
This uplifting and inspiring documentary looks at the way lives can be altered through the arts, and it provides encouragement to other communities hoping to engage their youth in constructive patterns of change.
Music has the power to transform lives. The scientific evidence has been demonstrated in numerous studies. A Brighter Future is about the human evidence.
Featured/Young Filmmakers
My PSA highlights just how much bullying can hurt and lead to dire consequences.
Documentaries
Waveland, Mississippi is a small town right where the eye of Hurricane Katrina stuck its blow. It was lost in the mess and almost forgotten about as there continues to be little to no assistance in these areas any longer. The people of the Phillipsburg Alliance Church have an extreme loyalty to the survivors of Waveland. They have traveled and offered their assistance three times since Katrina and it is on their agenda for the next several years to continue.
This film documents the events of their trip from March of 2007. The film includes interviews and devastating photographs of Mississippi even two years after the hurricane. The victims tell their story from start to finish about how they went from loosing everything to slowly seeing it all come back with the hearts of everyone from the Church. Whether they are feeding the hungry, clothing the cold, fixing the homes of the homeless, or providing spiritual and emotional support, everyone from the Church is determined to help these people get their lives back in order. Their devoted loyalty is extremely appreciated throughout Waveland.
Short Films
After suffering a nervous breakdown in her adopted city of Paris, Cleo receives a visit from her sister Celine. Cleo finds a renewed hope in life through the strength of her visiting Canadian sister. The film explores the triumph of laughter and love over pain and depression.
Short Films
On September 11th 2001, the filmmaker captured the most horrific image he had ever seen; that of the World Trade Center burning during the worst terror attack in U.S. history. The image of the massive cloud emanating from the towers so disturbed him that he spent the next seven years traveling the world in search of the most beautiful cloud movement formations to contrast the horrific image he had shot. Here now is the artumentary, Clouds, a five minute montage set to a piano performance by the filmmaker's father.
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