2013
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Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent over the past thirty years to bring awareness to AIDS, but TeachAIDS aims to focus on educating their audiences. This organization earned the Microsoft Education Award at The Tech Awards 2012 because of the great effectiveness of their educational campaign, which has a specific approach and style to each demographic addressed. TeachAIDS has provided HIV education to more than 200 organizations and governments in 73 countries, including regions that had banned sex education. Plays with the feature film We Were Children
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Dennis Harris and Wendy Christensen have been creating taxidermy since they were children. Today Dennis owns his own shop where he creates suspension taxidermy and Wendy works in a museum maintaining dioramas. They both compete in the World Taxidermy Championships with their creations and try to find a balance between art and science in their work.
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Considered among the best films of all time, Martin Scorsese's gritty masterpiece stars Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Albert Brooks, and Cybill Shepherd. An alienated and quiet loner, taxi driver Travis Bickle (De Niro) works the night shift in Manhattan. After failing to land a date with Betsy (Shepherd), a beautiful campaign aide for presidential candidate Palentine (Leonard Harris), an encounter with a 12-year-old prostitute, Iris (Foster), and her pimp, Sport (Keitel), convinces Travis that the world is a rotten place.
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Siaki, an elderly Samoan man struggles to come to terms with the lifelong shame of having an incomplete traditional tattoo when he is confronted with the shame of his sight. As Siaki's vision deteriorates, memories of the painful tattooing ceremony he underwent in his youth haunt him as he yearns to see his tattoo completed before it's too late. Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts
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If tango be the moves of love, dance on. Oh yes, dance on. Two couples in present day Ljubljana enroll in a dance school for tango, and in the process learn a great deal more - about life, about love, about themselves. Both are happy, long-established couples, secure in their partnerships, but "tango is a horizontal thought expressed in a vertical position," and as they share dancing partners they become friends, affections blur, forgotten feelings are reawakened.
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A story as true as you want it to be. This unexpected love story shouldn't have happened: Delilah (Natalie Zea, Justified) is distant and emotionally dry, Samson wants to live in his imagination, yet when Delilah answers his call to a phone sex number, they both weave a tale even they confuse with reality. She unleashes men's fantasies while he seeks inspiration. As they weave a sensual tale of love and lust, they wonder if they are falling in love with the fantasy, the person, or simply their voice.
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Ten year old Ana longs for a friend but her odd attempts to connect freak other kids out. Retreating into the bush for another day of lone exploring, she comes across a stranger intent on drowning a puppy in the river. Horrified, Ana battles her fear and confronts the man, saving the dog and unexpectedly finding the companionship she has craved. Part of Shorts Program 7: Time, Space, And In Between
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James Cromwell and Genevieve Bujold give powerful performances in a deeply affecting love story. Cantankerous and stubborn, Craig Morrison (Cromwell) is used to doing things for himself on his rural farm. He's kept his farm afloat due to the support and love of his wife, Irene (Bujold), who's just as tough as he is. When Irene's health begins to fail, Craig must use his skills to build a new home that is more suitable to his wife's care.
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A young couple driving on an isolated road knocks over a pedestrian. Their first reaction to assist the man is rapidly rejected because the two lovers have reasons to hide their affair. The girl presses her boyfriend to finish-off the wounded man. The road accident becomes a real murder... Part of Shorts Program 3: Choice and Effect
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An undocumented worker gambles on her own life at the track.
Dionicia lives in a small room in the back of a Bay Area racetrack, tending to horses and raising her family in the squalor of her surroundings. As an undocumented worker, Dionicia takes pride in the fact that her kids can dream of a better life due to the risks and sacrifices she is willing to bear.