DOCUMENTARY FILMS

A poetic look at the dying art of the Amasan, or Sea Women of Shirahama, Japan, women who plumb the depths of the ocean without any technical diving equipment, holding their breath for up to two minutes at a time. 

Viridiana Martinez only discovered her illegal status after graduating from high school and realised that she could not work or go to college. This is her story.

One by one the children of Fallon are falling…to cancer. The film probes the loaded question of a “cancer cluster” through the eyes of the children and their families who challenge medical, government and military experts, desperate for answers to what has made their children sick.

In 2010, a group of female American filmmakers came to South Africa to teach twenty young women how to cover the World Cup as local journalists.

After being brutally raped during Kenya’s recent post-election riots, Stella, a high-school girl from the slums, struggles to find peace within herself and her fractured country.

The Northern Arapaho in Wyoming introduce and immersion language program to help save their dying language.

For six years, four months and ten days, workers at a Las Vegas Strip hotel maintained a 24-hour picket line, and not one worker crossed the line to return to work. This is their story.

Five multi-ethnic Los Angeles high school seniors travel to South Africa to meet and live with five South African students in a black township one year before Nelson Mandela is released from prison and Black South Africans gain the right to vote.

Three Afghan women tell how international interventions, war and the rise of political Islam has stripped Afghan women of basic rights.