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Bachelorette, 34
Kara Herold
Bachelorette, 34 is one woman's examination of the ubiquitous belief that marriage equals happiness, laced with poignant irony as the mother yearns for her daughter's comfort and security at all costs, and the daughter runs the risk of inadvertently falling off the course carved by tradition.
Bamako Chic: The Women Cloth Dyers of Mali
Maureen Gosling, Maxine Downs
This one-hour film illuminates the world of five celebrated cloth dyers in a country where hand-dyed cloth and clothing serve as social capital, equity, wealth, inheritance and articles of beauty. Through their stories, we explore this lucrative industry for women and the impact that global economic policies, such as microcredit programs, have on their lives.
Bands in Barracks
Julie Cho
Nine out of ten World War Two internment camps had jazz bands but few Japanese Americans would cross over into music on the “outside.” Bands in Barracks follows one teenager’s California evacuation, incarceration in a Utah desert, and Minnesota road gigs, into the heyday of San Francisco’s Fillmore music district. From these bands behind barbed wire come stories of pioneer Asian American performers whose spirit lives on through the sounds of today’s multiracial jazz orchestras.
The Bank of Suubi
Rachel Benson, Jen Gilomen
Orphaned at twelve, Fred Ssewamala returns to Uganda with a bold plan to help orphans save for their futures, instilling a glint of suubi (hope) into their lives.  If his plan succeeds, societies around the world will embrace asset-based empowerment models like his. But if not, what future do they have to bank on?
The Beat Within
Kevin Gordon, Nadia Sussman
Will and Perry are two formerly incarcerated youth who forged an unlikely friendship in prison and helped each other turn their lives around. Now on the outside, they work together at the Beat Within, the creative writing program and publication for incarcerated youth that first helped spark their transformations. At the same time, they struggle to navigate the opportunities and pitfalls of freedom for which prison never prepared them.
Beautiful
Lee Anne Campbell
In this film I explore the way I, as an American woman, have used the promise of the media's beauty ideal to fuel my own self loathing. Can a woman be loved, accepted and happy if she is not beautiful? Who defines this feminine beauty? Through the journey of this film I seek out women who have triumphed over our society's treacherous belief systems about beauty and found happiness. With the aid of their wisdom and my own dogged perseverance I move towards self acceptance and the belief that maybe, even I, can be beautiful.
Blind Spot (working title)
Ahree Lee
When looking back at a childhood through the lens of home movies, what are the memories behind the idealized memories and the moments between the Kodak moments? Using home movie footage taken by the filmmaker's father over 30 years ago, Blind Spot is a short experimental film that explores memory, nostalgia, and family relationships.
Burning the Village
Liz McBee
This feature-length documentary film will examine the darker side of motherhood. Exploring postpartum depression and maternal anxieties, the film reveals how the village of support for raising children in America has been painfully undermined. Opening an honest dialogue about American motherhood and mental health, the core of the film resonates this simple truth: A happy mother equals a happy home, equals a happy community, equals a happy society.
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