My Mom, The Scientist explores the extraordinary life of the director's mother, Rudean Leinaeng, who overcame discrimination to become a beloved professor of Chemistry at Bronx Community College and a fearless global activist for human rights.
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DirectorThomas Allen Harris
ProducersThomas Allen Harris, Don Perry, Shanti Avirgan
The Last Spy is a riveting portrait of 100-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel. From escaping Nazi Germany as a Jewish refugee to becoming the first CIA Station chief in post-war Berlin and a key player in Cold War espionage, Sichel unpacks the obscured roots of many conflicts that shape today's world.
Three former guerrilla fighters face retribution, anxiety, and danger as they attempt to rebuild their lives after leaving the FARC rebel army and the bloody Colombian conflict. Strangers to Peace intimately captures the personal stories of Dayana, the market vendor navigating her new identity as a trans woman; Ricardo, the young father secretly clinging to his communist ideology; and Alexandra, the indigenous child soldier, who was forced to leave her family behind in the Amazon. Their stories are told through the lens of filmmaker Laura Àngel, who herself was a victim of FARC violence.
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Directors/ProducersLaura Angel, Noah DeBonis
Awards
Award for Excellence in Documentary Directing, New York Latino Film Festival, 2022
Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary, Sherman Oaks Film Festival, 2022
Václav Havel Jury Award, One World Festival, 2023
Best Documentary Award, University Film and Video Association, 2022
Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris investigates the ways in which African American communities have repurposed the camera as a tool designed to enact social change.
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DirectorThomas Allen Harris
ProducersThomas Allen Harris, Ann Bennett, Don Perry
Broadcast
Independent Lens (PBS) Feb. 2015
Awards
Outstanding Documentary, NAACP Image Award 2015
Outstanding Independent, Black Reel Awards 2015
Best Diaspora Documentary, Africa Movie Academy Awards 2014
Nominations
Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming, 37th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards
TEDDY, Berlin International Film Festival
Festivals
Documentary Fortnight 2014: MoMA International Festival of Nonfiction Film
Carmen Castillo, a Dominican hotel housekeeper, wins a seat on the city council of Providence, R.I. She has to manage her day job cleaning hotel rooms while advocating for low-income workers as a rookie politician.
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DirectorMargo Guernsey
ProducersMargo Guernsey, Patricia Benabe
Broadcast
America Reframed (PBS) Sept. 2019
Awards
LOLA Award, Philadelphia Latino Film Festival 2019
Never have the stakes and the waves been so high. Bangla Surf Girls is an immersive documentary that takes us into the heart of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.
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DirectorElizabeth D. Costa
ProducerLalita Krishna
Awards
Best Canadian Feature Film or Documentary, Oakville Film Festival 2021
Matthew has been working as a documentary editor since 2014. Films he's worked on have shown at numerous festivals including Cannes, Sundance, and Hot Docs where they have won various awards and were subsequently broadcast on PBS and picked up by multiple streaming services. He enjoys working on character-driven stories whose emotional journeys push the boundaries of narrative structure.
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