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RAIN IN A DRY LAND is a verité feature documentary
chronicling two years in the lives of two Somali Bantu families
as they journey from Africa to America. It is a story of time
travel, culture shock, a leap from the nineteenth to the twenty-first
century as these subsistence farmers find themselves in a
mysterious and confusing land. More importantly, it is an
intimate, human story about two extraordinary families who
somehow managed to keep their spirits intact through years
of mayhem and deprivation, and whose astonishing, open-hearted
resilience enables them to make a new life.
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The award-winning documentary, Coming to Light, tells the
dramatic story of the life of Edward S. Curtis, his creation
of his monumental work, and his changing views of the people
he set out to document. More importantly, the film gives Indian
people a voice in the discussion of Curtis images. Hopi, Navajo,
Cupig, Blackfeet, Piegan, Suquamish and Kwakiutl people, many
of them descended from Curtis’s photographic subjects,
tell stories about the people in the photographs, and discuss
the meaning of the images from their own perspectives.
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In Baby, It's You, filmmaker Anne Makepeace takes us on an
intimate journey through the Kafkaesque world of fertility clinics,
into the home of lesbian parents, to Christmas among Utah polygamists
and New England Puritans, to her brother’s Appalachian
goat farm, and on a time trip back to the dark age of illegal
abortion. Linking these stories is the bond of family. The characters
are the filmmaker, her husband, and their brothers and sisters,
all baby-boomers in their forties. The documentary looks at
the unconventional ways they are all belatedly creating families
of their own. Woven throughout the program is the story of Makepeace
and her husband's attempts to conceive a child through intensive
fertility procedures, and the emotional roller coaster of anticipation,
disappointment, and hope that carries them along.
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