Media Edge

"To Prison for Poverty" (13.5 minutes)

To Prison for Poverty documents the system that enables private probation companies to profit from charging excessive fees to low income people who can't pay small fines like traffic tickets. If they can't pay, they go to jail.

"PSR 2014 Scholarship Essay Contest Finals" (71.5 minutes)

Last year's Scholarship Essay Contest, sponsored by the Sacramento Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, was recorded by a Media Edge crew on April 27, 2014 at the Dante Club in Sacramento. The winning essays were chosen from entries submitted by greater Sacramento area high school students that reacted to this year's prompt, a quotation from the late South African leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Nelson Mandela, who said, "Education is the most powerful weapon that you can use to change the  world.” After the ten finalists read their essays and were questioned by a panel of local community leaders, the authors of the top three essays (as determined by the panel) earned $3,000, $2,500 and $2,000 scholarships, and the other seven each earned a $1,000 scholarship.

"Nowhere To Go But Jail?" (6 minutes)

As documented in this short video by Brave New Films, Salt Lake City decided to give homeless people supportive shelter instead of throwing them in jail -- resulting not only in an extraordinary amount of savings on tax dollars but also returning respect back to those who were living on the street.

"The Story of Stuff" (21 minutes)

"The Story of Stuff" -- an animated documentary about the lifecycle of material goods -- is one of the most widely viewed environmental-themed short films of all time. Since its release in December 2007, The Story of Stuff has been shown in thousands of schools, houses of worship, community events and businesses around the world.