Outside Looking In features three American families brought together—and at times pushed apart—by transracial adoption. Filmmaker and transracial adoptee Phil Bertelsen examines the bonds and strains that family members experience when white couples decide to adopt and parent black children. Thr ... (more)

Outside Looking In features three American families brought together—and at times pushed apart—by transracial adoption. Filmmaker and transracial adoptee Phil Bertelsen examines the bonds and strains that family members experience when white couples decide to adopt and parent black children. Thr ... (more)

An image captures a feeling, a story shares a message, a movie becomes a movement. Media That Matters brings you 12 inspiring films by youth and independent filmmakers committed to changing the world, in 12 minutes or less. ... (more)

Arts Engine’s Ten Year Anniversary Collection presents a ten-year retrospective of Arts Engine, a pioneering force behind the new generation of mediamakers exploring social issues. Celebrating the power of film to create positive change, the new DVD box set showcases highly acclaimed, yet previou ... (more)

Arts Engine’s Ten Year Anniversary Collection presents a ten-year retrospective of Arts Engine, a pioneering force behind the new generation of mediamakers exploring social issues. Celebrating the power of film to create positive change, the new DVD box set showcases highly acclaimed, yet previou ... (more)

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Innocent Until Proven Guilty takes a critical look at the US criminal justice system through the eyes of a young black public defender in Washington, DC. James Forman, Jr., the son of civil rights leader James Forman (executive secretary of SNCC, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee), carries ... (more)

Innocent Until Proven Guilty takes a critical look at the US criminal justice system through the eyes of a young black public defender in Washington, DC. James Forman, Jr., the son of civil rights leader James Forman (executive secretary of SNCC, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee), carries ... (more)

Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in today's America? In a triumph of documentary storytelling, Election Day combines eleven stories--all shot simultaneously on November 2, 2004, from dawn until long past midnight-into ... (more)

Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in today's America? In a triumph of documentary storytelling, Election Day combines eleven stories--all shot simultaneously on November 2, 2004, from dawn until long past midnight-into ... (more)

Ready for some film for thought? Arts Engine brings you a collection of short films on food and sustainability. From singing peanuts to teenage tomato-growers, these films will make you laugh, make you think and inspire you to take action for a healthy, sustainable and delicious future. ... (more)

Culture-jamming, food politics, environmental justice--the Media That Matters Film Festival tackles all these issues and more. This jam-packed DVD features sixteen jury-selected films by independent and youth producers. The collection of animation, documentary, and experimental shorts is the perfect ... (more)

Ready to be inspired? In the fifth annual Media That Matters Film Festival hip-hop activists, dancing peanuts and clay-mation teenagers tackle today’s most pressing social issues. These films will make you think, make you laugh, and move you to take action. Find inspiration, motivate your students ... (more)

An image captures a feeling, a story shares a message, a movie becomes a movement. Media That Matters brings you 16 inspiring films by youth and independent filmmakers committed to changing the world, in 8 minutes or less. ... (more)

Arts Engine brings you sixteen innovative shorts by independent and youth filmmakers from across the country and around the world. These films will make you think, make you laugh and move you to take action. Find inspiration, motivate your students, galvanize your community – there are hundreds of ... (more)

Brother Born Again is an intimate documentary about Julia Pimsleur’s attempt to reconnect with her only brother, Marc, a born again Christian who spent ten years living with his spiritual family on a remote island in Alaska. Julia, a bisexual Jewish New Yorker, travels to Alaska to try to understa ... (more)

Brother Born Again is an intimate documentary about Julia Pimsleur’s attempt to reconnect with her only brother, Marc, a born again Christian who spent ten years living with his spiritual family on a remote island in Alaska. Julia, a bisexual Jewish New Yorker, travels to Alaska to try to understa ... (more)

Nuyorican Dream chronicles the struggles and aspirations of the Torres-Gutierrez clan, a Puerto Rican family trying to rise above and stick together in New York. But the effects of urban poverty run deep: eldest son Robert suffers alienation after becoming the first family member to graduate from co ... (more)

Nuyorican Dream chronicles the struggles and aspirations of the Torres-Gutierrez clan, a Puerto Rican family trying to rise above and stick together in New York. But the effects of urban poverty run deep: eldest son Robert suffers alienation after becoming the first family member to graduate from co ... (more)

Journey to the West is an exploration of the ways in which Traditional Chinese Medicine-including acupuncture, herbs, and martial arts-is being practiced in the 21st century. From a self-taught herbalist in the Himalayan foothills to an experimental acupuncture clinic treating Parkinson’s patients ... (more)

Journey to the West is an exploration of the ways in which Traditional Chinese Medicine-including acupuncture, herbs, and martial arts-is being practiced in the 21st century. From a self-taught herbalist in the Himalayan foothills to an experimental acupuncture clinic treating Parkinson’s patient ... (more)

In the tiny village of Old Crow, eighty miles north of the Arctic Circle, a father and son are reunited after a lifetime apart. They share a name and a bloodline, but the worlds they know and the lifestyles they lead are as different as their respective hometown climates. Stanley Sr., a distant, phi ... (more)

In the tiny village of Old Crow, eighty miles north of the Arctic Circle, a father and son are reunited after a lifetime apart. They share a name and a bloodline, but the worlds they know and the lifestyles they lead are as different as their respective hometown climates. Stanley Sr., a distant, phi ... (more)