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Peak Moment: Community Responses for a Changing Energy Future

Peak Moment: Community Responses for a Changing Energy Future is a television series showcasing perspectives and initiatives being undertaken by individuals and communities moving towards local self-reliance in response to declining energy supplies, uncertain economies and potentially catastrophic climate change. The weekly 28-minute programs feature host Janaia Donaldson's conversations and onsite tours with guests. Sample topics include local food production; renewable energy; transportation alternatives; sustainable building and economic, business, and governmental responses.
A Permanent Mark: Agent Orange in America and Vietnam
Holly Million
A Permanent Mark: Agent Orange in America and Vietnam integrates two sides of this tale: the story of the Americans exposed to the toxic herbicide while serving in the Vietnam War as well as the story of the Vietnamese people still contending with the fallout from Agent Orange’s application.
The Pickled Head
George Csicsery
Joaquín Murieta was a major figure in the history of California from the moment of his purported death in 1853. Murieta remains an iconic character, a hero who championed disenfranchised Latinos against the injustices of the 1849 Gold Rush. The Murieta story epitomizes the clash of two cultures. The Pickled Head aims to entertain, educate, and preserve a rich cultural heritage while investigating how legends are created.
Pilots of the Golden Gate
Leo Maselli
A historical documentary about the symbiotic relationship that exists between the phenomenal growth of maritime commerce on the Bay of San Francisco and an elite gang of mariners who for nearly 200 years have assumed exclusive responsibility for the navigation and safety of oceangoing vessels as they pass to and from the Bay. A tale of unheralded bravery as ship pilots take on the constant forces of nature versus the forces of commerce.
Play Like a Lion
Joshua Dylan Mellars
is the story of North Indian classical maestro Ali Akbar Khan’s musical legacy. Khan’s son Alam narrates as he explores the music’s tributaries in India and the United States with the aid of American and Indian musicians. Virtuoso tabla players Swapan Chaudhuri and Zakir Hussain, blues slide guitarist Derek Trucks, jazz saxophonist John Handy and other musical luminaries contribute to the musical tapestry.
Powder Ridge
Brett Caroline Levner
The Powder Ridge Festival is the greatest rock n' roll festival to never have existed.  Scheduled to be held July 31, 1970 in Middlefield, Connecticut, the promoters hail it the next Woodstock.  But at the last minute, local opposition secures an injunction against the festival.  Fifty thousand festival-goers show up anyway and camp out waiting for the music to arrive.  It never does.
The Power of Two
Marc Smolowitz, Andrew Byrnes
Inspired by the true story of Anabel and Isabel Stenzel, The Power of Two is a portrait of identical twins who have endured a lifelong battle with the fatal genetic disease cystic fibrosis. A compelling story of survival following a miraculous double lung transplant, the film also tells stories of others whose lives have been impacted by cystic fibrosis and organ transplantation. The Power of Two conveys a fundamental truth: there is a miracle in every breath.
Pretty People
Arika Yanaka (director/producer) Mary Baker (producer)
The documentary Pretty People follows the careers of several actors with different physical disabilities. Performers with a physical disability have had a long history in the entertainment industry. However, historically they have had limited employment opportunities and still do even today. Pretty People will lead audiences to discover why these disabled actors choose their careers, the unique issues they face, how they view their personal body image and how traditional definitions of beauty affect them. It is the filmmaker’s hope that this will be a powerful, true story that will entertain and encourage the audience to view people with physical disabilities in a new way.
Primal Cries
Dee Smith
Primal Cries is a full-length social documentary concerning the 4,000-year-old practice, widely known as female genital mutilation. Primal Cries will present footage filmed in the United States, Ethiopia and Egypt. Interview segments will be interspersed with flashbacks of a young girl being relentlessly pursued and caught on the day of her circumcision.
Prodigal Daughter
Mabel Valdiviezo
Prodigal Daughter is a one-hour personal documentary which chronicles the filmmaker's return to Peru and her realization of the cultural rift caused by 16 years of separation from her family. The tenacious pursuit of a better life has ironically dissipated her family's assets, causing misery and poverty while destroying the tight bond which they all once shared. Economic desperation drove family members to go their separate ways, creating a family diaspora reaching from Peru to the United States, Japan and beyond.
Pushing Towards Democracy
Cyrus Omoomian
This feature documentary delivers voices of Chile on the nation's struggle to evolve from a post-dictatorship towards democracy. Key experts from the honorable Judge Guzman to leaders of the indigenous Mapuche communities, journalists, professors and students, shed light on the reality in Chile today. From the peaks of the Andes to the shores of the Pacific the awakening era has arrived, ignited by the youth, who are building solidarity towards a better future.
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