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Grandmother to Grandmother
New York to Tanzania

In sub Saharan Africa, AIDS is wiping out a generation of parents, leaving 13 million orphans behind.  Many of the grandmothers, impoverished by the epidemic, have rescued these children from the streets and are struggling to raise them.

A similar thing is happening in cities all across America. AIDS, drugs, and violence are wiping out a generations of parents, leaving millions of children behind.  Determined to keep these children out of foster care, their grandmothers are stepping in to raise them.  Their task is made more difficult because many are poor women living in sub-standard housing and gang-ridden neighborhoods.

This film introduces two outstanding projects – one in the Bronx, one in Tanzania. The founders of these projects are finding simple and effective ways to support grandmothers who are raising grandchildren: Children who were “at risk” are now thriving. Grandmothers who felt hopeless are beginning to hope again.

Beyond the Politics of Life and Choice:
A New Conversation About Abortion

For the first time in the three decades since it became law, Roe v. Wade might be overturned by the Supreme Court. While politicians exploit the abortion issue to energize their “base,” other people of all persuasions wrestle with deeper questions and concerns. This documentary defuses the issue, changes the tone, and creates a space where both sides can explore ways of bridging the divide and moving forward together. (60 min./two 30-min. segments, plus special features/Discussion Guide available)

Grow Old Along With Me

Original PBS special hosted by Julie Harris and Richard Kiley, with James Earl Jones, Hume Cronyn, Leni Sonnenfeld, Frederick and Claske Franck, Shirley Verrett, and Pema Chodron. By making poetry wonderfully accessible and by sharing their personal hopes, fears, and insights, these well-loved artists and teachers reassure us that the work of achieving authenticity in later years is within our reach. (56 min./two 28-min. segments)

Life Stories

This video documents a group of senior citizens in Galveston, Texas, who gather twice a month to "re-member" their lives through poems and stories. We come to know and love these ordinary people who become elder guides for us. With honesty and poignancy, they model the art of accepting the past so that life in the present can be free of regret and open to affirmation. (56 min./two 28-min. segments)

Arms for the Poor

Cine Golden Eagle Award

Experts explore how the arms industry in America persuades the U.S. Congress to encourage and expand the sale of high-tech weapons around the globe. The arms trade destabilizes entire regions of the world, impoverishing countries where "the poor cry out for food and doctors, not guns and generals." (26 min./Discussion Guide available)

Birdsong & Coffee: A Wake Up Call

What is the “natural organic connection between coffee farmers, coffee drinkers, and birds”? Why do we need a wake-up call? Part One of this documentary explores the “coffee crisis” and its devastating effects on migratory songbirds, rainforest ecosystems, and 25 million coffee growers worldwide. Part Two shows how we, as coffee consumers, can address the environmental and fair-trade aspects of this crisis. (56 min./two 28-min. segments/Discussion Guide available)

Coming to Say Goodbye: Stories of AIDS in Africa
Cine Golden Eagle Award

This is a stunning documentary on the AIDS pandemic as experienced today by East Africans. Through the eyes of courageous people suffering from AIDS, and their eloquent and committed caregivers, we see that this disease is more than a “health crisis.” It is also part of the larger cycle of poverty and inequality that devastates food security and economic development in the world’s poorest countries. (27 min./Discussion Guide available)

The Global Banquet: Politics of Food
Cine Golden Eagle Award

Timely and provocative, this video examines how corporate globalization of food threatens the livelihoods of small farmers in the U.S. and in developing countries. We see how “free” trade is the route to mounting hunger worldwide despite an overabundance of food. (56 min./two 28-min. segments/Discussion Guide available)

Eve's Daughters

This documentary portrays five women—a painter, a writer, a performance artist, a teacher, and a massage therapist—who use their arts to heal the split between sexuality and spirituality as they struggle with being openly (and joyously) lesbian. (27 min.)

Maybe We're Talking About A Different God

This video examines events leading up to and including an unusual trial where The Reverend Jane Adams Spahr, a Presbyterian minister, was brought before an ecclesiastical court in Rochester, New York, for being a lesbian. We see how culture wars can be won by transforming fear—how approach is everything. (27 min.)

Your Mom's a Lesbian, Here's Your Lunch, Have a Good Day at School

Humorous, tender, and generous in spirit, this affectionate biography of Janie Spahr and her family is laid out against the background of our deep cultural prejudices. It proves that acceptance and love trump alienation and intolerance any day. (27 min.)

Missing Peace: Women of Faith and the Failure of War

This film takes a nuanced look at the widening polarization of religions today. It shows how fear of that which is seen as the other locks us into deepening cycles of violence and grief. More specifically, it asks us to consider how religion is being used as a justification for war. Six women (two Jews, two Muslims, and two Christians) present a bold strategy for achieving peace—personally, interpersonally, and globally. (46 min./two 23-min. segments/Discussion Guide available)

William Sloane Coffin: A Lover's Quarrel With America

For half a century, Rev. Dr. William Sloane Coffin has stood as a force for progressive religion in America and in the world. Now, when power and fear tempt the U.S. to pursue a foreign policy based on world domination, he speaks with the voice of the prophet in calling us to confront the true “axis of evil”—environmental degradation, pandemic poverty, and a world awash with weapons. (26 min./ Discussion Guide available)

Rise Up and Walk

Filmed in five countries, this documentary offers a rare glimpse inside the new religious communities that are sweeping across Africa. Led by living prophet-healers who interpret Christianity in the light of pre-Christian traditions, these “spirit-based” communities could be “an historical turning point . . . as epochal for the Christian world as the original Reformation.” (56 min./two 28-min. segments)