(Note: DVDs shipping on June 3rd!) 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.
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Includes 11 DVDs and five foldout promotional posters. Because it includes 11 DVDs, you have 10 extra DVDs that you can sell for $30 at the event so that the kit pays for itself! This kit is licensed for larger, better-endowed organizations, congregations and student groups* (*with no affiliation to a university academic department) doing free or at-cost screenings* of any size up to 150 people. (
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Includes six DVDs and two foldout promotional posters. Because it includes six DVDs, you have five extra DVDs that you can sell for $30 at the event so that the kit pays for itself! This kit is licensed for small, low-budget organizations, congregations and student groups (with no affiliation to a university academic department) doing free or at-cost screenings* of up to 50 people. If you think yo
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Includes 11 DVDs and five foldout promotional posters. Because it includes 11 DVDs, you have 10 extra DVDs that you can sell for $30 at the event so that the kit pays for itself! This kit is licensed for larger, better-endowed organizations, congregations and student groups* (*with no affiliation to a university academic department) doing free or at-cost screenings* of any size up to 150 people. (
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Includes six DVDs and two foldout promotional posters. Because it includes six DVDs, you have five extra DVDs that you can sell for $30 at the event so that the kit pays for itself! This kit is licensed for small, low-budget organizations, congregations and student groups (with no affiliation to a university academic department) doing free or at-cost screenings* of up to 50 people. If you think yo
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Includes 11 DVDs and five foldout promotional posters. Because it includes 11 DVDs, you have 10 extra DVDs that you can sell for $30 at the event so that the kit pays for itself! This kit is licensed for larger, better-endowed organizations, congregations and student groups* (*with no affiliation to a university academic department) doing free or at-cost screenings* of any size up to 150 people. (
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Includes six DVDs and two foldout promotional posters. Because it includes six DVDs, you have five extra DVDs that you can sell for $30 at the event so that the kit pays for itself! This kit is licensed for small, low-budget organizations, congregations and student groups (with no affiliation to a university academic department) doing free or at-cost screenings* of up to 50 people. If you think yo
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Includes 11 DVDs and five foldout promotional posters. Because it includes 11 DVDs, you have 10 extra DVDs that you can sell for $30 at the event so that the kit pays for itself! This kit is licensed for larger, better-endowed organizations, congregations and student groups* (*with no affiliation to a university academic department) doing free or at-cost screenings* of any size up to 150 people. (
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Includes six DVDs and two foldout promotional posters. Because it includes six DVDs, you have five extra DVDs that you can sell for $30 at the event so that the kit pays for itself! This kit is licensed for small, low-budget organizations, congregations and student groups (with no affiliation to a university academic department) doing free or at-cost screenings* of up to 50 people. If you think yo
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Includes 11 DVDs and five foldout promotional posters. Because it includes 11 DVDs, you have 10 extra DVDs that you can sell for $30 at the event so that the kit pays for itself! This kit is licensed for larger, better-endowed organizations, congregations and student groups* (*with no affiliation to a university academic department) doing free or at-cost screenings* of any size up to 150 people. (
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Includes six DVDs and two foldout promotional posters. Because it includes six DVDs, you have five extra DVDs that you can sell for $30 at the event so that the kit pays for itself! This kit is licensed for small, low-budget organizations, congregations and student groups (with no affiliation to a university academic department) doing free or at-cost screenings* of up to 50 people. If you think yo
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Includes 11 DVDs and five foldout promotional posters. Because it includes 11 DVDs, you have 10 extra DVDs that you can sell for $30 at the event so that the kit pays for itself! This kit is licensed for larger, better-endowed organizations, congregations and student groups* (*with no affiliation to a university academic department) doing free or at-cost screenings* of any size up to 150 people. (
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Includes six DVDs and two foldout promotional posters. Because it includes six DVDs, you have five extra DVDs that you can sell for $30 at the event so that the kit pays for itself! This kit is licensed for small, low-budget organizations, congregations and student groups (with no affiliation to a university academic department) doing free or at-cost screenings* of up to 50 people. If you think yo
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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 previously hard-to-find, feature-length documentaries and short films of the past decade. The box set inclu
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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. Through the stories of three generations of adoptees, the film explores the many complex issues that ar
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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. Through the stories of three generations of adoptees, the film explores the many complex issues that ar
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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.
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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 previously hard-to-find, feature-length documentaries and short films of the past decade. The box set inclu
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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 previously hard-to-find, feature-length documentaries and short films of the past decade. The box set inclu
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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 on his parents' tradition of activism on one of the front lines of the contemporary civil rights mov
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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 on his parents' tradition of activism on one of the front lines of the contemporary civil rights mov
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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 one. Factory workers, ex-felons, harried moms, Native American activists, and diligent poll watchers
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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 one. Factory workers, ex-felons, harried moms, Native American activists, and diligent poll watchers
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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.
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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 tool for a screening in your community center, library, classroom or living room!
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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 and galvanize your community by screening the festival DVD in your classroom, family room or commun
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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.
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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 ways to participate all year long!
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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 understand why Marc dropped out of college and converted to Christianity. With warmth and humor, this film e
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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 understand why Marc dropped out of college and converted to Christianity. With warmth and humor, this film e
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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 college; siblings Beti and Tati deal with drug addiction; and mother Marta resorts to selling her home
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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 college; siblings Beti and Tati deal with drug addiction; and mother Marta resorts to selling her home
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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 in California, the film examines what the popularity of traditional Chinese medicine says about the
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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 in California, the film examines what the popularity of traditional Chinese medicine says about th
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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, philosophical figure to his son, keeps the ways of his Gwitchin ancestors alive by hunting, fishing and
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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, philosophical figure to his son, keeps the ways of his Gwitchin ancestors alive by hunting, fishing and
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Brother Born Again and Election Day composer John Kimbrough's latest musical venture, Valley Lodge, released their first record in 2005, songs from which were used in the FOX T.V. pilot "Pool Guys." The record has also seen airplay on nationally syndicated radio, including Adam Curry's top-rated weekly podcast. In the 90s, Kimbrough was the frontman and creative force behind the celebrated trio Wa
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The Brother Born Again (2000) soundtrack contains original music from the film by composer John Kimbrough. Kimbrough's songs have been featured in both movies and T.V. commercials, and his compositions can frequently be heard on the nationally syndicated NPR program, "This American Life." This audio CD includes six compositions from the film: "Marc's Theme," "Julia's Theme," "Mountains," "New York
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