Independent Lens - Solar Mamas
Soul Food Junkies
Baffled by his dad's reluctance to change his traditional soul food diet in the face of a health crisis, filmmaker Byron Hurt sets out to learn more about this rich culinary tradition and it's relevance to black cultural identity. He discovers that the love affair that his dad and his community...
Air date: 01/15/2013
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Solar Mamas
Welcome to India's Barefoot College, founded by Bunker Roy to provide rural women living in poverty with an education that empowers them to make their communities self-reliant and sustainable. Rafea ? a 30-year-old Jordanian mother of four ? is traveling outside of her village for the first time to...
Air date: 11/06/2012
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Love Free or Die
Gene Robinson is a man whose two primary passions are in direct conflict: his love for God and for his partner Mark. Robinson is the first openly gay person to become a bishop in the historic traditions of Christendom.
Air date: 10/30/2012
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Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story - Available through March
March is Women's History Month and to celebrate we're bringing you 10 films as part of the Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival. Watch Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story, that follows the sad and startling story of Cyntoia Brown, who is serving a life sentence for a murder she committed at age of...
Air date: 03/01/2011
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More Than a Month
Filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman sets off on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. His thoughtful, humorous journey explores the complexity and contradictions of relegating an entire group's history to one month in a so-called 'post-racial' America.
Air date: 02/16/2012
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