2013
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LA CAMIONETA : THE JOURNEY OF ONE AMERICAN SCHOOL BUS
About four times a year in rural Pennsylvania discarded school buses are auctioned off to bidders most of whom are from Central America. They have been decommissioned after 8 – 12 years of ferrying kids to school, but are still in good road-worthy condition. In this delightful documentary from Student Academy Award Nominated filmmaker Mark…
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LETTERS TO JACKIE : REMEMBERING PRESIDENT KENNEDY
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy Oscar winning Director Bill Couturié (‘Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt’) has produced this tribute to the late President using some of the myriad of letters of condolences his widow received in the months after his death. They had a lot to choose from ….…
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In The Name Of
Father Adam is the pastor of a minute parish in the hinterlands of Poland where he has opened a center for ‘difficult’ teenage ex reformatory boys. In this bleak countryside he, and his lay helper Michel, have fashioned their small group of unruly charges into almost responsible young men. They play football, go swimming and…
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THE IRAN JOB
As a professional basketball player for hire St Croix native Kevin Shepherd was recruited to play for teams in Argentina, Venezuela, Israel and Puerto Rico before he landed his most unusual gig in 2008. He was employed by A.S. Shiraz a fledgling team who were desperate to make the Iranian Playoffs and they saw Shepherd as the…
