"What Do You Think When You Look at Me?" (16.5 minutes)
When you look at Muslim scholar Dalia Mogahed, what do you see: a woman of faith? a scholar, a mom, a sister? or an oppressed, brainwashed, potential terrorist? Mogahed asks us to fight negative perceptions of her faith in the media — and to choose empathy over prejudice.
"Street Corner Sweatshops...How the Car Wash Industry Abuses Workers" (6 minutes)
The car wash industry in Los Angeles consisted of over 10,000 workers - mostly Latino - who report widespread abuses by management - including wage theft, denial of water, and sexual assault. In response, they formed the very first Bonus Carwasheros Union!
"Google and the World Brain" (93 minutes)
The story of the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet. In 2002 Google began to scan millions of books in an effort to create a giant global library, containing every book in existence. They had an even greater purpose - to create a higher form of intelligence, something that HG Wells had predicted in his 1937 essay "World Brain". But over half the books Google scanned were in copyright, and authors across the world launched a campaign to stop Google, which climaxed in a New York courtroom in 2011.
This film explores the dreams, dilemmas and dangers of the Internet.