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Documentary Feature: Indoctrinate U A revolutionary film about the repressive climate at our nation’s colleges and universities, Indoctrinate U reveals a campus culture in which speech codes rule the day; in which free inquiry has been replaced with prescribed, politically correct values; and in which students are taught not how to think, but what to think. Find out more… |
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Documentary Feature: The Singing Revolution A moving, intensely human testament to the sustaining power of hope and the motivating strength of song, The Singing Revolution documents how, between 1987 and 1992, the Estonian people peacefully attained political independence after decades of Soviet occupation. Find out more… |
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Documentary Short Series: Free Market Cure Featuring short films about government-managed health care, the Free Market Cure film series educates the American public about the dangerous fantasy of a single-payer system. Find out more… |
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Documentary Feature: Marina of the Zabbaleen Uncovering the hidden culture of Cairo's garbage collectors, Marina of the Zabbaleen focuses on a marginalized Egyptian people's struggle to support and sustain a culture of family and belief. Find out more… |
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Documentary Short: The Libel Tourist The Libel Tourist exposes how litigious Saudi billionaires have exploited British libel laws to threaten American freedoms—and tells the story of one brave author who fought back. Find out more… |
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Documentary Feature: Mine Your Own Business Mine Your Own Business examines the consequences for indigenous peoples when Western environmental groups decide to mount activist campaigns in developing nations. Find out more… |
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Documentary Feature: Freedom's Fury Freedom’s Fury tells the heroic story of the democratic Hungarian uprising of 1956 through the lens of the epic Olympic water polo showdown between Hungary and the Soviet Union. Find out more… |
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Documentary Feature: Hammer & Tickle Hammer & Tickle shows how, in the former Soviet bloc, jokes offered people a means of dissenting from state authority when such dissent was strictly forbidden. Find out more… |
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Documentary Feature: Do As I Say Based on Peter Schweizer’s bestselling book, Do As I Say is a wry, humorous exposé of liberal icons who embrace capitalist ideas while discouraging others from doing the same. Find out more… |
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Documentary Feature: U.N. Me With shocking footage and exclusive interviews, filmmaker Ami Horowitz shows how the United Nations has abdicated its responsibility to international peace, becoming instead the pacifier of dictators, thugs, and tyrants. Find out more… |
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Narrative Short: 2081 A stunning adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's chilling short story “Harrison Bergeron,” 2081 is set in a dystopian future so stifled by mandated egalitarianism that no one can think, no one can love, and no one can register how much they have been dehumanized by social engineering. Find out more… |
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Documentary Feature: The Battle of Brooklyn Detailing New Yorkers' efforts to prevent a billionaire developer from seizing their homes and businesses under eminent domain, The Battle of Brooklyn explores pressing interlocking concerns about property rights, politics, the media, and information flows. Find out more… |
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| Narrative Feature: It’s My Mountain Russel Taylor calls his screenplay It’s My Mountain a “comedic tour de force filled with essential and universal human themes.” Humor, he believes, is the best way to bring the deep seriousness of his subject—the Armenian genocide—to audiences around the world. This film is a comedy that deals with themes of property rights, due process, human rights, and reclamation. “For so long I seethed with anger at the injustice of the Armenian genocide,” Taylor says. “Perhaps I was just exhausted from being angry—but the whole thing finally became ridiculous to me. I found the whole denial situation completely absurd. A ‘what if?’ scenario came to me. What if an American-born Armenian went to modern-day Turkey to reclaim land that was his great-grandfather’s? He knows the truth, and that should be enough, right? Through the questions I began to ask myself—such as ‘What kind of person would be so solipsistic as not to anticipate a ferocious Turkish reaction?’ and ‘What kind of person would be granted the ear of the entire country?’—the meat of the story materialized.” Taylor’s production credits range from off-Broadway and Broadway to live television and feature film. |
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| Narrative Feature: Homesteaders Jared Lapidus and Shawn Kittelsen’s Homesteaders depicts urban squatters who struggle to make a home in a dilapidated building whose owners have long since forgotten and abandoned it. Living in a part of town where cabs won’t go, the squatters fix up the building to make it livable--but government bureaucracy and legal red tape prevent them from claiming it, or their work, as their own. A story that champions hard work, tolerance, and personal freedom, Homesteaders will raise awareness about the phenomenon of urban squatting while also exploring the obstructionist role government can take toward housing, particularly in minority communities. The inalienable rights granted to all Americans by the founding fathers--life, liberty, and the right to own property--are the central thematic focus of the film. “Property” and “the pursuit of happiness” coalesce in home ownership: For many, working for and finally owning a home is a source of intense pride. But when it comes to urban renewal, the state routinely blocks willing would-be homeowners from undertaking reclamation projects that would benefit both the individual and the municipality. Homesteaders will take aim at wayward, hostile, and oppressive government policies and practices--convoluted housing and building codes, overbroad eminent domain laws, obscure slum revitalization laws, and closed, noncompetitive systems for distributing properties and contracts--that keep the industrious working classes from raising their standard of living and improving their future prospects while also reclaiming and enhancing their communities. |
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