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Kintsugi
Kintsugi is a 16th century process of mending broken shards of pottery. Visual artist Mako Fujimura and Kintsugi Maker Kunio Nakamura, invite us to imagine how this ancient artform might help us find healing in the midst of trauma and come to a deeper understanding of the redemptive character of ...
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DeKalb Elementary
Inspired by a 911 call placed during a school shooting incident in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Regulation
Mia is an ambitious government outreach worker who is tasked with traveling through rural America distributing and applying “microdosers,” or as they’re colloquially called, “happy patches,” to adolescents. These small, transdermal patches perfectly read body chemistry and matches just the right ...
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The Wind Phone
Inspired by true events, THE WIND PHONE follows the emotional journeys of seven strangers. Each is drawn to the same remote, eerie phone booth on a Japanese cliffside, although their conversations couldn’t seem more different. One caller seeks forgiveness for a fatal transgression while another g...
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Single in China
“Sheng nu” (“leftover women”) is a term used to describe single women who are 27 or older in China. Most of these women live in cities and lead rewarding professional lives. The term was coined in 2007 by a government organization responsible for the protection and promotion of women’s rights and...
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The Queen of Basketball
Academy Award® Winner. Lusia "Lucy" Harris Stewart is a pioneer in women's basketball, leading a rural Mississippi college to three national titles, scoring the first basket in women's Olympic history in 1976, being the first and only woman to be drafted into the NBA.
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Beneath the Ink
As society's belief systems are seemingly changing, or even reverting in time, one Ohio artist is challenging his community by saying, "bring me your mistakes". Inspired by recent events, Billy Joe White and his Red Rose Tattoo Studio are promoting one simple concept…ERASE THE HATE. Beneath the...
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Nocturne in Black
Inspired by actual events, this film takes place in a Middle Eastern community where music has been banned by Jihadists who have imposed their strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law. The film's hero, Karim, is a young pianist whose music gives his disheartened neighbors strength and inspirat...
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A Concerto is a Conversation
Academy Award® Nominated. A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family’s lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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Sister / 妹妹
A man thinks back to his childhood memories of growing up with an annoying little sister in China in the 1990s. What would his life have been like if things had gone differently?
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Love Made Visible
A Marketing Manager who struggled to find employment is now empowering others by creating hiring tools through her work at LinkedIn.
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Ground Zero
In this film, internationally acclaimed visual artist, Makoto Fujimura, reflects on his distinctive personal ground zero experience on 9/11 in New York City along with the universal experience of trauma.