"Getting Out" (62 minutes)
This documentary shows the impact that the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program had on former prisoners trying to reestablish their lives. Filmed inside the walls of the notorious "Sing Sing" prison in New York, this video documents the 15-year incarceration and subsequent release of two inmates. It also highlights the difficulties many former prisoners experience trying
to reestablish life outside of prison walls. This documentary was created by David Bagnall and George Stoney. Known as “the father of public access TV” by video activists across the US, Stoney passed away on July 12, 2012 at the age of 96. He is also known for his other documentaries, including the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary "We Shall Overcome", "All My Babies" in 1953 (which was recently inducted into the National Film Registry), "The Uprising
of '34" and "The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time."
"Let the Show Begin" (15 minutes)
This film documents a 5 day international short film festival
held in Baghdad in extremely difficult circumstances in September 2005. The
young organizers of the event are determined to do something constructive
and to assert a sense of creativity in a situation where daily violence
traumatizes and paralyzes people.
"Seeds of Freedom" (28 minutes)
This film, narrated by Jeremy Irons, details how seeds, which have
been the heart of traditional farming and natural biodiversity since the
beginning of agriculture, are being transformed into an expensive, patented
commodity used to monopolize the global food system.
"A Stranger in His Own Country" (10 minutes)
Thousands of Iraqis have been displaced by
sectarian violence and have had to seek refuge in other parts of the
country. This is a portrait of Abu Ali, a refugee from Kirkuk living in a
displaced person’s camp on the outskirts of Kerbala. He is a peace-loving
man with a keen sense of justice, trying to find a way to survive and
provide for his family in the difficult circumstances in which they now find
themselves.
