Global Peace Film Festival 2008

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Feature Documentaries
Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. has arguably touched more lives than any American since Franklin Roosevelt. Television journalist Bill Moyers calls him “the best all-around politician I’ve ever seen.” Yet, Shriver remains unknown to most Americans today. During his tenure with JFK and LBJ's administrations, Shriver improved the lives of millions by creating the Peace Corps, directing the War on Poverty, and serving as U.S. ambassador to France. Bringing Shriver’s story to life and providing a fresh perspective on the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, this film explores Shriver's early life, his marriage to Eunice Kennedy, his legacy in public service, and endless optimism.
Feature Documentaries
With all of the problems facing the world today including war, poverty, weapons, environmental degradation, starvation, overpopulation, and severe desperation among millions, people are longing for meaning. Many seek answers in spirituality, but often faith and religion are hijacked by a fundamentalist few who use the name of God to promote their own ends. With this dichotomy in mind, we call upon key religious leaders, politicians, and luminaries in their fields to tackle the most complex issues in the modern age, and we ask what inspires them to affect positive change. The film portrays experiences that provide a new perspective on how non-violent activism and compassion can be effectively used in resolving even the most difficult disputes. The film also gives hope by exploring past and present religious-inspired movements that have resulted in positive change, in addition to documenting the work of great leaders such as Gandhi, Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama.
Feature Documentaries
Congressman John Lewis, who has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, leads us on an emotional pilgrimage to 'sacred sites of the Civil Rights Movement' in Alabama, from Montgomery where an 18-year-old Lewis first met Martin Luther King, Jr., to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma where he was brutally beaten leading a march for the right to vote. Along the way we are introduced to the 'countless unsung heroes who cared deeply, sacrificed much, and fought hard for a better America.' Archival film, historic photographs, and music recorded at mass meetings bring the personal recollections vividly to life.
Feature Documentaries
“A Dream in Doubt” is an immigrant story in a world in which patriotism has morphed into murder. When Rana Singh Sodhi’s brother is killed in America’s first post-9/11 revenge murder, he begins a journey to reclaim his American dream and fight the hate that continues to threaten his community. This intimate, hour-long documentary of one man’s odyssey from persecution in India to embracing America as his homeland proves that courage and hope have the power to overcome hate.
Short Narratives
Set in the near future, "A Drop of Life" is the story of two women whose disparate lives intersect when they each are confronted with the inhumane lack of clean drinking water.
Short Documentaries
Ben Chaney was 11 when his brother James and two white civil rights workers were murdered by Klansmen in Mississippi in 1964. 40 years later, to honor his brother, Ben takes a group of young volunteers on a Freedom Bus Ride from New York to Mississippi to register voters and teach them the price of freedom.
Feature Documentaries
Two modern women retrace the travels and exploration of Pulitzer Prize winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings as she and her neighbor Dessie Smith traveled the St. Johns and Ocklawaha Rivers more than 75 years ago. As they do, they help modern Floridians more fully understand the inextricable connection between people and place. Witnessing how others have been shaped by geography can help us appreciate the vital energies still available to us in our environment. These energies can inform our sensibilities and, in the best of worlds, may even lead us to some wisdom about the sustainability of land and water, of people and culture.
Feature Documentaries
The connection between human life and water is universally celebrated in the major ritual ceremonies of the world. Water was once even considered to be nature’s endowment to life. Like air, however, we took it for granted. Filmed in 14 countries across the globe, ‘One Water” highlights mankind’s ever-changing precarious relationship with water, delivering stunning non-verbal visual sequences, compelling expert commentary, local music and a score performed by the world renowned Russian National Orchestra.
Feature Documentaries
Hanh is an HIV-positive widow in Vietnam. Nada, a survivor of the Bosnian war. And Jacqueline works the slums of Bamako, Mali. Three very different lives. Three vastly different worlds. But each have overcome gender barriers to rise up and claim a voice in their societies. Hanh, Nada, and Jacqueline are sparking remarkable changes from fighting AIDS and rebuilding communities, to empowering and educating young girls all over the world.
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