Ellen Brodsky’s delightful film about a young group of Texas history students who embark on a quest to return General Santa Anna’s wooden leg to Mexico. Don’t know who Santa Anna is? Watch the trailer!
Documentarian and camerawoman VICTORIA KEITH (Sand Island Story) produced and directed dozens of films highlighting Hawaiian culture, and the environmental and sustainability challenges of living on islands.
Director, producer, writer: Shirley Thompson
Series producers: Shirley Thompson & Vera Zambonelli
On the banks of the Ganges, in India’s holiest city, the gods descend to earth once a year to celebrate. And the boatmen carry the faithful who come to honor them.
Director Frances Causey examines the impact of white privilege on American society today through the lens of her family’s colonial past as slave owners.
Short film docu-series featuring three women from Micronesia who are transforming their lives and the lives of their families through higher education. Part of the Pacific Pulse online series, Pacific Islanders in Communications.
Prolific Native Hawaiian producer HEATHER HAUNANI GIUGNI (Family Ingredients) left the world of television news to start the first woman-owned production company in Hawai‘i.
Director, producer, writer: Shirley Thompson
Series producers: Shirley Thompson & Vera Zambonelli
Trailer for 39 1/2, an independent feature film which mixes narrative drama, comedy and animation to follow the journey of a single, female filmmaker pushing 40 and determined to have a child by virtually any means necessary.
In Adios Amor, the discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot—Maria Moreno, a migrant mother driven to speak out by her twelve children’s hunger. Years before Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta launched the United Farm Workers, Maria picked up the only weapon she had—her voice—and became an outspoken leader in an era when women were relegated to the background.
An intimate chronicle of hippie elders and their adult children, filmed over a 10-year period at a communal ranch in New Mexico. The founders of this back-to-the-land experiment are slowing down and facing declining health. Will the next generation be able to sustain the community?
