Films
Films
By Documentary Film Program on February 3, 2011 at 11:33 am
This award-winning feature-length documentary details why there are more single 30-something women in the U.S. Read more about Seeking Happily Ever After
By Documentary Film Program on October 14, 2010 at 12:11 pm
When I Rise portrays the inspiring story of Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted black mezzo-soprano who, as a music student at the University of Texas, found herself in a civil rights storm that changed her life forever. Barbara had transferred from Prairie View A&M University in the fall of 1956 as part of the first racially integrated undergraduate class at the University of Texas. Read more about When I Rise
By Documentary Film Program on September 23, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Some have lost friends and family members. All bear the psychological and emotional scars of living in a war zone. In July 2002, 22 Palestinian, Israeli and Palestinian Israeli teenage girls traveled to the United States to participate in a women's leadership program called Building Bridges for Peace. "My So-Called Enemy" is the story of 6 of the girls and how the transformative experience of knowing their "enemies" as human beings meets with the realities of their lives at home in the Middle East over the next 7 years. Read more about My So-Called Enemy
By Documentary Film Program on September 22, 2010 at 11:41 am
In the last decade, China was the leading country for U.S. international adoptions. Now, there are over 70,000 Chinese children being raised by American families. Eight-year old Fang Sui Yong, aka Faith Sadowksy, is just one of them. After being abandoned at 2, sent to a city orphanage for two years, and then taken in by a loving Chinese foster family, Faith's life is suddenly upended when she is adopted by Donna and Jeff Sadowsky, a Jewish family in Long Island, New York. WO AI NI MOMMY explores, for the first time, what it feels like to be adopted from the child’s perspective. Read more about Wo Ai Ni Mommy