A Little Revolution- A Story of Suicides and Dreams, follows the remarkable journey of filmmaker Harpreet Kaur, who travels from the rural villages of Punjab to the capital of India with children of farmers, who've committed suicide. She confronts the government's highest officials with the hope that they will understand the effects of their policies and avail the opportunity to help these children.

A short film about Inside Books Project, a nonprofit organization in Austin, Texas, that provides free books to people in Texas prisons. The film features volunteers of the organization who explain how the organization works and why its purpose is so important.It also raises the question of who has the most to gain by not allowing an offender the opportunity to educate himself.

Admissions is a short film starring Academy Award nominee James Cromwell that tells a transformational tale about what it takes to find lasting peace, even in war-torn places like the Middle East. Featuring an Israeli couple and a Palestinian man, this modern parable is set in the Admissions Room for the afterlife. Its purpose is to start a conversation that heals.

American Colter follows the compelling story of Colter White, a 41-year-old felon soon to graduate from Santa Clara University. After having spent 15 years in some of the highest security prisons in California, Colter was released and made a complete transformation. Colter's fruition is rare, especially for felons who spend nearly half of their life behind bars. American Colter focuses on this anomaly. The short documentary highlights the monetary, familial, and educational hurdles that felons must leap over as they reintegrate back into society through a unique story of how one man breaks the status quo.

Imam Siraj Wahhaj is one of the most prominent and controversial Islamic clerics of the United States. He leads a Muslim community in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. His daughter Hujrah Wahhaj works along side him, reaching out to the Facebook generation in search of its soul. The Imam's longtime companion Ali Abdul Karim has helped him lead the Islamic community where they settled in the 1980s when the neighborhood was Brooklyn's roughest ghetto. This is a look behind the scenes of the African-American Muslim community in the United States today.

Bartertown Diner, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is setting out to change the restaurant world. Going against the traditional lines of capitalism, their focus is on being sustainable in every aspect of their business. The workers form a collective, where everyone makes the same amount of money and has equal say in what they do within the restaurant. Everything in the restaurant is reused or was bought pre-owned. All of the food is fresh and local, an important part of their view of sustainability. They offer cooking class to teach their customers how to both shop local and eat healthy. At first glance, Bartertown appears to be a normal restaurant, but once you dig deeper, you realize it is much more.

A homeless man tries to quiet the painful memories of his severed past by chasing the very distractions that were his undoing.

Brothers On The Line is a provocative documentary feature exploring the legacy of the Reuther brothers, labor and civil rights champions, whose leadership of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union transformed the social, economic, and political landscape of a nation. Comprised of never-before-seen footage from the UAW internal archive, stirring first-hand accounts and narration by Martin Sheen, this film takes an in-depth look at a controversial history. It not only weaves a striking personal narrative of one family's commitment, but provides timely commentary on issues that resonate far beyond their era, from the virtual collapse of the 'Big 3' automakers to current debates over workers rights, trade agreements, national health-care, and the Occupy movement. A tour-de-force sure to engage and inspire.

In Kenya's Western Province, most drinking water is contaminated. The wood many Kenyans use to boil this water to make it safe is increasingly valuable. Women and girls, who bear the responsibility for finding water and fuel, often miss school or work while seeking both fuel and water. Some even encounter sexual violence. Yet waterborne illness remains a daily--and life-threatening--reality for them and their families. Carbon For Water introduces audiences to the inspiring people who face these hardships, and explores one company's innovative solution for improving the health of millions of Kenyans and the environment in which they live.

A CEO of a multinational has a particular way to decide which one of his employees can save his/her job. He thinks of himself as a Roman emperor who rules over life or death, as in an arena.

Follow one of CNN's Heroes, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow as we get a glimpse into his simple, yet groundbreaking, idea that is working to lift the developing world out of poverty. Hailed by Gerard Butler and Anderson Cooper, Mary's Meals' life-changing work helps to give a face to hunger's deadly numbers.

Close Ties: Tying on a New Tradition provides an intimate look at a rites of passage ceremony that connects teenage boys with male role models. The ceremony at this New Orleans barbershop was created by Dr. Andre Perry and Wilbert 'Chill' Wilson as a way to strengthen communities struggling with crime, poverty and alarming high school drop out rates. Cultural traditions have been the cornerstone of African communities for centuries. Close Ties examines the impact of this new tradition and shows us how tying a necktie --- an act associated with men who embody professionalism and prestige -- can inspire high school boys to commit to a life of achievement and success.

Delta 180: Changing Lives in the Mississippi Delta is a documentary film which tells the still evolving story of despair turned into hope, about at-risk youth in Greenville, Mississippi, and about their journey towards a more hopeful future made through an innovative, grass-roots mentoring and life skills program that is 'changing lives, one degree at a time.'

A girl goes through life facing rejection, only to find out it is because of her skin colour.

Frente al mar (Oceanfront) is about a poor family in 1980, who lives on the oceanfront of Loiza, Puerto Rico where their only support is the ocean and their surrounding. As they raise six children the family faces a problem that threatens their way of living.

Educating its adolescent girls has proven to be the cornerstone of Kenyan development, yet so many are denied equal access to education, social and economic equality and respect. The half-hour documentary Graceland Girls provides an intimate look at how the high school students at Graceland Girls School in central Kenya have, so far, defied the odds. Using a combination of video and digital photographs - taken by both the subjects and the filmmaker - the girls express the beauty and pressures of empowered Kenyan girlhood and share their personal struggles to find hope for a better future.

'The Invisible Men' tells the untold story of persecuted gay Palestinian who have run away from their families and are now hiding illegally in Tel Aviv. Their stories will be told through the film's heroes: Louie, 32 years old, a gay Palestinian who has been hiding in Tel Aviv for the past 8 years; Abdu, 24 years old, who was exposed as gay in Ramallah and then accused of espionage and tortured by Palestinian security forces; Faris, 23 years old, who escaped to Tel Aviv from the West Bank after his family tried to kill him. Their only chance for survival -- to seek asylum outside Israel and Palestine and leave their homelands forever behind

From Chicago to Springfield, Peoria to Champaign, our 16 plaintiff couples and their children share a dream of being part of a married family. It's just time, Illinois. Meet the brave families fighting for marriage equality in Illinois!

Using expert interviews, historical research, animated reenactments and found footage, this feature length documentary looks closely, and critically, at the tween markets evolution and the role of Dualstar (Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen's company) in the markets explosion. Interviews with Jean Kilbourne, Gail Dines, Sharon Lamb, Terrill Bravender, Lisa Machoian, Diane Levin, Susan Linn, plus various mothers, teachers, tweens and MKA fans highlight the impact Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen have had on the girls tween market since they first hit the scene in 1987.

Nine-year-old Dylan wants his Dad's attention but must compete with the TV. A prime-time current affairs show holds Dad's attention and peddles fear and loathing about refugees and 'boat people', while Dylan's big sister would rather be left alone on the phone. It all comes to a head for Dylan and his family in the playground.

Opportunities for kindness surround each of us on a day to day basis. On this specific day a man begins his morning by assisting a child who has fallen, little did he know that the simple act of kindness he did for that young boy would touch the lives of 10 strangers on that same glorious morning, eventually finding its way back to him.

LOVE FREE OR DIE is about a man whose two defining passions are in direct conflict: his love for God and his partner Mark. Gene Robinson is the first openly gay person to become a bishop in the historical traditions of Christendom. His consecration in 2003, to which he wore a bullet-proof vest, caused an international stir, and he has lived with death threats every day since. LOVE FREE OR DIE follows Robinson from small-town churches in the New Hampshire North County to Washington's Lincoln Memorial to London's Lambeth Palace, as he calls for all to stand for equality--inspiring bishops, priests and ordinary folk to come out from the shadows and change history.

'Love, Dad' is the story of career criminal James Gardner, who estimates that between 1970 and 1999, he committed over a thousand burglaries and stole close to $4 million in property. Gardner felt at the time that his life was one big adventure, but he soon found out that it was hardly an adventure to the family he left behind during his 30 years in prison. To them, it was nothing short of abandonment and embarrassment. This documentary short takes a trip through Gardner's past as he visits family and the mentor who helped turn his life around, and examines the impact of his absence on loved ones, and his attempts at reformation, reconciliation and making up for lost time.

Love, Sex & Disability is a film that follows several individuals as they explore their thoughts on sex, disability and their own desires. They explain the challenges and pleasures of their own bodies, relationships and the battles to tear down the modern stereotypes of body image and beauty.

Maestra is a 33-minute documentary that explores the experience of nine women who, as young girls, taught on the Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961.The film begins with archival footage from the UN General Assembly in September 1961, when Cuba announced that they would eradicate illiteracy in one year. Over 250,000 citizens volunteered. Interviews, recorded testimonials, and powerful archival footage that took years to compile, tell this story. The volunteer teachers lived with the families they taught, working alongside them in the fields during the daytime & teaching classes (often by kerosene lantern) at night. In the midst of the campaign, the Bay of Pics was invades, and in spite of the dangers and difficulties, their eyes sparkle as they share their stories. And each of them insists this was the most important thing they had ever done.

For over a decade, women throughout the State of Chihuahua, Mexico have been disappearing; their unidentified bodies violated and systematically dumped near maquiladoras and other deserted locations. Over 430 young women have been found raped, tortured, murdered and predominantly discovered in the US/Mexico border of El Paso/Ciudad Juarez as well as the state's capital, Chihuahua City. Since 1993, over 1000 women are still missing. NI UNA MAS was filmed during visits to the cities of Juarez and Chihuahua. Having met with delegates, state and federal officials, volunteers, and most importantly the families of the missing women, NI UNA MAS attempts to give voice to the pain, urgency and women who suffer unjustly because of violence directly targeted at them simply because they are women.

From currency to candy chocolate reflects a rich history saturated with sacredness, endorphin highs, hip anti-oxidants, exotic sensuality and high quality luxury ... and enslaved children. Anarcho-visionary Mott Green makes a deliciously radical difference with chocolate, to challenge the industrial giants who often use cocoa harvested by exploited and trafficked child labour. NOTHING LIKE CHOCOLATE (narrator Susan Sarandon) tells the compelling and intimate stories of anarchist chocolate-maker, Mott Green, founder of the Grenada Chocolate Company Co-operative and independent cocoa farmer, Nelice Stewart. This tiny tree-to-bar factory co-operative turns out luscious, organic and ethical creations. In a world saturated with industrial chocolate, often made with cocoa harvested by child labour in West Africa, this factory, working alongside farmers like Nelice, turns out a deliciously radical experience.

How many people does it take to change the world? Mother/daughter filmmakers, circle the globe on a 99-day journey seeking people who are making a positive difference in the world . They find ordinary people who are changing the world and making the impossible - possible, through the power of ONE.

Paper Planes tells the story of Alier, a young boy who is forced to flee his home in Africa when civil war breaks out. He befriends a UN soldier and is subsequently kidnapped by rebels. A boy confused for a father figure, he soon finds himself trapped between African militia, UN peacekeepers and a country being torn to shreds.

Carolyn and Kiel Twietmeyer from Joliet, IL, have chosen to double the size of their family in a most inspiring way. The Twietmeyers started their non-profit organization, Project HOPEFUL in 2007. Project HOPEFUL advocates for the adoption of children with special needs. Two student filmmakers document the everyday lives of three not-so-typical American families: the Twietmeyers, Heims, and Allens. Their unique story has been a topic for discussion worldwide. As they challenge the common conceptions of disease and disorders, they encourage viewers to redefine the average American family.

In 2010, we traveled to South Sudan weeks before its referendum for independence. We went to shoot a documentary following the day in the life of a child profoundly affected by her community’s lack of access to clean water. We met and fell in love with Jina Teji, a twelve-year-old girl from Hai Village outside of Yei, Sudan. Jina is the primary caretaker of five younger siblings and a sickly grandmother. Three times a day, Jina made a two-mile circuit to the local water source, a tepid, green hole filled with gray water. The groundwater hollow is the primary source of water for 3000 villagers. Jina’s daily treks to the water hole dominated her life. We filmed in Hai village because of the incoming well. During our filming week, Water is Basic drilled Hai's first well, which allowed us to see the profound difference one well can make in the life of a child. That one child is the story of water in South Sudan.Ru (Water is Life) is a story about the strength, joy and resilience of the people of South Sudan, seen through the eyes of a young girl, who have somehow adapted to a nation plagued with the threat of civil war. Two months after filming Ru, South Sudan became a free nation. The doors to bring fresh water to the world's newest country are wide-open. For most in South Sudan, the trek for water is an arduous daily journey. For every Sudanese, water is life.

Scarred Lands & Wounded Lives is a recognition of our deep dependence on the natural world and the significant threat to that world posed by war and preparations for war. The scale of environmental damage over the last half century is unprecedented. Falling water tables, shrinking forest cover, declining species diversity – all presage ecosystems in distress. These trends are now widely acknowledged as emanating from forces of humanity's own making: massive population increases, unsustainable demands on natural resources and ruinous environmental practices. Ironically however, war, that most destructive of human behaviors, is commonly bypassed. In all its stages, from the production of weapons through combat to cleanup and restoration, war entails actions that pollute land, air, and water, destroy biodiversity, and drain natural resources. Yet the environmental damage occasioned by war and preparation for war is routinely underestimated, underreported, even ignored. The environment remains war’s “silent casualty. Activities that do such damage cry out for far-reaching public scrutiny. Scarred Lands & Wounded Lives breaks the silence about the environmental impact of war on the grounds that such scrutiny is “inconvenient” or “callous” at a time when human life is so endangered. If we cannot eliminate war Scarred Lands & Wounded Lives demands a fuller accounting of war’s costs and consequences on our vulnerable planet. It points to the change in values and actions required to heal the planet from war and promotes a plan to cleanup the mess we have created.

Shabbat Dinner is boring as usual for William Shore. His mother has invited two crazy hippies and their son and is doing her best to show off, his father is drunk and berating their oddball guests, and he doesn't have much in common with their son Virgo. That is, until Virgo tells him that he has just come out as gay. In William's room, the boys speak directly to each other about themselves, while just a few feet away the adults discuss trivialities about prep school, marrying Jewish, and nonfat ice cream. Shabbat Dinner opens a window into the world of Upper Middle Class New York society, with its myriad rules and tensions. In telling the coming out story of two boys, it addresses universal issues of finding acceptance and truth as a teenager.

Stories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery, is about the perfect trifecta of youth, law and justice. This 10-part series of short documentaries features the voices of daring youth from across the country who went to court to compel the government to protect our atmosphere, in trust, for future generations.

In an attempt to document an unbiased account of both sides of the gay marriage debate, filmmaker Rachel Lack discovers her own Activist Within. She documents the journey of two grassroots civil-equality organizations, one from her home state of Arizona and another from California, in their struggle for marriage equality from November 2008 to the present. Through this process, she discovers her own drive to fight for marriage equality

THE BULLY TRAP is a short film that hopes to end the vicious cycle of bullying that seems so prevalent amongst kids today

One director attempts to make a statement. In a dress.

The health care system in the United States is “broken”. The U.S. is the only industrialized nation not to provide universal health care to all its residents. The government in the United States has been trying to introduce comprehensive health care for over a century, and has experienced one failure after another. Lindsay Caron, college student in Portland, Oregon, travels to Vancouver, Canada, with a video camera and asks people on the street what they think of their health care system. She is shocked by what she hears. Almost everyone loves their system in Canada. Passionately. On the street interviews back in Portland, Oregon, reveal that people in the U.S. know little or nothing about Canada’s health care system. In Weyburn, Saskatchewan, actor John Nolan explains why he wrote a play about Tommy Douglas, the Greatest Canadian. “A lot of people did great things for Canada, but nobody had the kind of vicious opposition that this guy had to face, and accomplish all those things”.The Honorable Allan Blakeney and others describe the turmoil when Medicare was introduced in Saskatchewan in 1962, and the defining moment that ended the strike. Fast forward to the present, where four Canadian families (three from Edmonton) experience the benefits and peace of mind of Canada’s universal health care system. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,the forces against change are now much stronger and have much more at stake financially. It is easy to “wallow in despair”. Is there hope for the United States?

The Mountain Between Us is a documentary exposing the challenges that girls face in pursuit of education in rural Nepal. This short film tells the compelling story of two Nepali girls who set out to defy the odds and become the first in their families to attend higher secondary school. Despite societal pressures, these remarkable girls show their determination and desire to reach their highest potential. Child marriage is one burden the girls must face. UNICEF estimates that 51% of children in Nepal face early childhood marriage, 60% are married by age 18. The Mountain Between Us brings light to this situation and displays the lives, hope and aspirations of Nepalese girls, through their own stories.

To raise awareness about the struggles of Palestinian fair trade olive farmers — and to replant uprooted olive trees — six Americans set out in February 2012 to run 129 miles in five days across the West Bank of Palestine. The Run Across Palestine was organized by the Traverse City, Michigan-based nonprofit On the Ground, which works to support sustainable community development in farming regions across the world. Joining them was a media team comprised of a filmmaker, two journalists and a musical ambassador. The runners faced many barriers in the endeavor - barriers that represented a microcosm of what their Palestinian friends face every day. Along the way, they forged deep bonds with their hosts while witnessing the harsh political reality and uplifting beauty of life in the West Bank. The run was supported by the Palestine Fair Trade Association, a collective of over 1700 small-scale farmers in the West Bank who have embraced fair trade practices to sustain their future and to sell their products worldwide. During the run, filmmaker Aaron Dennis and journalist Jacob Wheeler created a daily web series that told the story of these farmers. The videos have received over 10,000 views worldwide. Dennis and Wheeler have since created a feature-length documentary, The People and the Olive, which narrates the drama of the run and the challenges and uplifting stories of the farmers.

An unprecedented and compelling inquiry into a dark side of immigration so difficult to cover or probe with depth, THE PRICE OF SEX sheds light on the underground criminal network of human trafficking and experiences of trafficked Eastern European women forced into prostitution abroad. Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova’s feature documentary caps years of painstaking, on-the-ground reporting that aired on Frontline (PBS) and 60 Minutes (CBS) and earned her an Emmy nomination, Magnum photo agency’s Inge Morath Award, and a Webby for Internet excellence. Filming under cover with extraordinary access, even posing as a prostitute to gather her material, Bulgarian-born Chakarova travels from impoverished rural areas in post-Communist Eastern Europe, including her grandmother’s village, to Turkey, Greece, and Dubai. This dangerous investigative journey brings Chakarova face to face with trafficked women willing to trust her and appear on film undisguised. Their harrowing first-person accounts, as well as interviews with traffickers, clients, and anti-trafficking activists, expose the root causes, complex connections, and stark significance of sexual slavery today.

The Story of Cholera will save lives. Developed in response to the devastating cholera epidemic that began in Haiti in fall of 2010, the animation helps affected populations around the world better understand cholera and how to prevent it from spreading. It's an engaging, educational animation in which a young boy helps a health worker save his father and then guides his village in preventing cholera from spreading. By making the invisible cholera germs visible, this simple animated narrative brings to life the teaching points of cholera prevention.

The story about Lee (7, boy) and Mimi (11 girl) who struggle with their imprisonment in an illegal sweatshop and hope for a way out. Ahong (the sweatshop owner) confines the group of children workers in a depressed basement. When Lee finally discovers a chance to get away, he will make a decision that could change both of their futures forever.

Who is more fit to raise a child: a convicted killer or a lesbian? According to one judge in Florida, the convicted killer. UNFIT: Ward vs Ward follows the true story of Mary Ward who lost custody of her eleven year old daughter because she was a lesbian. The judge decided that the father was a more fit parent even though he had served nine years for murdering his first wife, did not know what grade his daughter was in or what school she attended, and had only spent four consecutive days with his daughter in the previous five years. No one could have imagined the firestorm that would ensue and the tragic consequences the judge's decision would have on the lives of everyone involved.

“Whiskey is for drinkin’. Water is for fightin’,” says Jeff Ehlert, a fly fishing guide in Rocky Mountain National Park, recalling a well worn saying heard throughout the Colorado River Basin. As the most dammed, dibbed, and diverted river in the world struggles to support thirty million people across the western United States, the peace-keeping agreement known as the Colorado River Pact is reaching its limits. Can we meet the needs of a growing population in the face of rising temperatures and lower rainfall in an already arid land? Can we find harmony amongst the competing interests of cities, agriculture, recreation, wildlife, and indigenous communities with rights to the water? In Watershed, Ehlert joins rancher Dan James, Delta restoration worker Edith Santiago, Navajo Council member Glojean Todacheene, Rifle Colorado Mayor Keith Lambert, and a group of Outward Bound teens rafting down the Colorado River as they reflect a compelling new water ethic- one that illuminates how letting go of the ways of old can lead to a path of coexisting with enough for all.

The commercial sexual exploitation of children is one of the worst forms of child abuse in the U.S. It traps children of all backgrounds in an endless cycle of violence. Despite their abuse, victims are frequently arrested and prosecuted as juvenile offenders. In this documentary we meet Katrina, whose childhood abruptly ends when she is manipulated and sold for sex by a trafficker. Her compelling story proves that with understanding and support, victims can become survivors. Experts, from juvenile justice, law enforcement, and service providers, explain the trauma these youth endure. They also share examples of approaches that shift our response from punitive to restorative. The first step is to see survivors in terms of their humanity, value and potential, and not their past.

On her return from active duty in Afghanistan, CMT Sarah Simpson is unaware that an incident whilst on duty, has left her with much more than physical scars. As everyday life quickly becomes a nightmare, Sarah begins to suffer the horrific symptoms of PTSD. As her life begins to spiral out of control, Sarah must come to terms with the fact that she could not save a comrades life after an IED explosion and accept that she did all that she could to save him.

'You bring something back' was produced by ITV Fixers to promote the awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Female Soldiers. This film hopes to show that for some soldiers returning from active duty, everyday civilian life can become a nightmare whilst suffering the symptoms of PTSD.