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Winner ? Audience Award, Sydney Film Festival
?The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.? -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Renaldo Kuhler is a charming, funny and utterly captivating man?who just so
happens to have created his own country.
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Ten-year-old Josh is on the wrestling team but would much rather be a cheerleader.
Josh loves dolls, fashion and desperately wants to cheer. As he continually argues his case with his school?s strict Mother Superior, his mother, Andrea, searches for her own answers on how to convince Josh that aspiring to be on the cheerleading squad, relishing the art of the French braid and calling Maria von Trapp his most influential role model is just not what little boys do!
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Just because you?re a member of the AARP doesn?t mean you have to stop fighting.
In the tune of nursery rhymes and musicals, veteran director Pam Walton (Liberty: 3 Stories About Life and Death, Call to Witness) presents Raging Grannies, a group who uses quirky street theater to protest causes dear to them. From women?s rights to anti-military recruiting, the antics of these grannies will surely pique your curiosity.
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In China's X'ian province, the earth is hard; the landscape, bare: factories, mountains, rocks, rivers and snow.
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A gritty depiction of survival alongside a tumultuously changing city.
After having just moved to Brooklyn from South America, Marta (Blanca Lewin) quickly becomes exploited by both the city and her roommate?s brother, Eddie. Otherwise alone, she waits anxiously for her Chilean boyfriend, Alvaro, to arrive in the city, alleviate her homesickness, and piece her world back together.
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In the maelstrom that is war torn Liberia and Congo, a small group of dedicated volunteer doctors works to perform miracles.
After 15 years of a devastating civil war, Liberia is basically left with no medical infrastructure, while the Congo has collapsed into its own that has left over 4,000,000 people dead. The riveting Living in Emergency follows four members of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Doctors Without Borders on their missions to ?pro¬vide emergency medical care to populations in distress.?
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All it takes is one idea.
Both raw and triumphant, director Jeffrey Balsmeyer?s (Danny Deckchair, 2003) latest film stars Jeremy Renner (Take, North Country), Ayelet Zurer (Munich, Angels & Demons) and Eddie Jemison (Ocean?s Eleven) in a true story of tenacity and the audacity to believe in your own dream.
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Writer-director Rob Margolies' debut feature bristles with smart dialogue, complex characters, and heart wrenching performances.