NYC PREMIERE In the fall of 1992, despite efforts to recruit minority students, SUNY Oneonta set off a firestorm of controversy that led to the longest litigated civil-rights case in US history. After an attempted rape of an elderly woman off-campus, school administrators released a list of its black male students to the police. Sean […]
NYC PREMIERE Recognizing the persistence of income inequality in South America, a group of activist economists join together to offer an alternative path to eliminating poverty: encouraging the poor to open savings accounts and thereby become active agents within the existing economic system. Fundación Capital partners with impoverished women to put their plan for financial […]
NYC PREMIERE The residents of Concord, Massachusetts take pride in their town’s role in the American Revolution and celebrate direct democracy by voting on proposed bylaws at annual town meetings. Feisty octogenarian Jean Hill, concerned about the environmental impact of our disposable culture, is on a mission to ban the local sale of plastic bottled […]
NYC PREMIERE American Richard Adams married Australian Tony Sullivan in Boulder, Colorado in 1975, during a brief period when same-sex marriage was legal in that state, and subsequently filed for a green card for Tony. After receiving an explicitly homophobic denial and an order for deportation, the couple filed the first federal lawsuit seeking equality […]
NYC PREMIERE Through a treasure trove of archival material and profiles of several outspoken pioneers of the women’s movement, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry revisits the remarkable eruption of activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s that signaled the arrival of modern feminism. Mary Dore’s vibrant and inspirational film is at once a far-ranging […]