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Description
Fired from her job, reporter Ann Mitchell invents a fictitious "John Doe" to write an idealistic letter threatening suicide in protest of social ills. The public response to the letter is so enormous that Ann's newspaper rehires her and hires an out-of-work baseball player, John Willoughby to play the part of John Doe. He enters into the hoax for the money but ultimately rebels against the evil, self-serving despots who attempt to further their own...
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
The Media That Matters Film Festival celebrates films, videos, and new media that inspire people to speak out and take action for social change. The goal of the festival is not simply to showcase films and new media projects that bring important social, political and environmental topics to the forefront, but to encourage the use of these films as a springboard for discussion and even more importantly, for action.
3) Intolerance
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Interweaves four stories from Babylonian times to the twentieth century to show humanity's inhumanity and intolerance through the ages.
4) Magnolia
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
"A mosaic of American life woven through a series of comic and poignant vignettes. Through a collusion of coincidence, chance, human action, shared media, past history and divine intervention, nine people will weave and warp through each other's lives on a day that builds to an unforgettable climax."--Container.
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"Consequences examines the scope of the obesity epidemic and explores the serious health consequences of being overweight or obese. Choices offers viewers the skinny on fat, revealing what science has shown about how to lose weight, maintain weight loss and prevent weight gain. Children in crises documents the damage obesity is doing to our nation's children. Through individual stories, this film describes how the strong forces at work in our society...
8) Bobby
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
The 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen. We see Kennedy's acceptance speech after winning the California Democratic presidential primary, his death at the hands of gunman Sirhan Sirhan, and the chaos and despair that ensued. The people at the hotel don't know what is coming. Our grief at hearing RFK's own words, so eloquent, so hopeful and inspiring. Watch the horrible events unfold and wonder what might have been....
9) Dames
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Three relatives stand to inherit a multi-millionaire's money if they turn against his pet hate, the theater.
10) Damage
Pub. Date
©1998
Description
A middle-aged man and his son's fiancee are entangled in an intensely erotic affair that is as irrestible as it is destructive.
11) 30 days
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
The first season of filmmaker/provocateur Morgan Spurlock's "30 days", a television program in which average Americans choose to live a different lifestyle for 30 days in order to better understand different cultures.
12) Rumble fish
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Rusty James is a troubled teen who lives in the shadow of his older brother, "the Motorcycle Boy." He wants to be smart, tough, and cool like his sibling. Trouble is, he seems to only have the tough part down. Rusty isn't a leader like his brother, he's only good at getting people into trouble and trying to kick and punch his way out of it. Everyone around him has given up on Rusty James, and he's going to destroy anybody around him, including himself....
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