Arts Alliance America (Firm)
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English
Description
Documents the trend of unlabeled genetically-modified foods which have become increasingly prevalent in grocery stores. Unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat. Explores organic and sustainable agriculture as alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture.
4) Chalk
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English
Description
Follow the frenetic and awkwardly painful journey of three novice teachers as they navigate one memorable school year. Provides a teacher's perspective into the absurd, provocative and occasionally volatile world of public education.
7) Code blue
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English
Description
"[Code Blue] follows a passionate physician, Dr. Saray Stancic, as she reflects upon her journey from a multiple sclerosis diagnosis to wellness through her own adoption of lifestyle medicine. Dr. Stancic introduces expert physicians and scientists who are paving the way to make meaningful and necessary changes in the healthcare environment, and in turn, empowering audiences to stand up and reclaim control of their health." --
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English
Description
Francisco Goya is considered to be the father of modern art. A brilliant observer of everyday life and Spains troubled past; a gifted portrait painter; and a social commentator par excellence, Goya took the genre of portraiture to new heights. Royals, aristocrats, politicians and friends were subjected to his highly modern approach capturing subtle expressions and gestures.
9) The caller
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English
Description
A senior vice president decides to expose the wrongdoings he and others have committed at the energy company he works for. He hires a private investigator to follow him when he finds that telling the truth may lead to his death. For their efforts, they expose his corporation's corrupt practices.
Series
Exhibition great art on screen volume EX11
Language
English
Description
This film, based on the Barnes Foundation's remarkable Renoir collection, uncovers the rarely told story of Renoir's artistic reinvention following his rejection of impressionism in the early 1890s and explores the life of monumental artist Pierre Auguste Renoir. Renoir's impressionist paintings of Paris are among the public's favorites. Eventually, however, Renior grew bored of this style and drastically changed his path. His later works are much...
11) Planet B-boy
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English
Description
Set in the international world of B-boying - the urban dance more commonly known as 'breakdancing.' Weaving between the vivid backdrops of Osaka, Paris, Seoul and Las Vegas, unforgettable images frame the intimate stories of dancers who struggle for their dreams despite being misunderstood by the larger socieity and even their own families. An American dancer in Vegas looks for his big break; a Korean son seeks his father's approval; a twelve-year-old...
12) Run granny run
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English
Description
Doris 'Granny D' Haddock laced up her sneakers and walked across America to rally against the influence of big money in elections all at the age of 90. Now at 94, she jumps at the chance to run for the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire.
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English
Description
"Casting aside a certain and comfortable future, Sam Wagstaff became a curator with a taste for unique and controversial photography. In photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who was 25 years his junior, he found not only a romantic partner, but an artistic collaborator. This compelling documentary explores the relationship between the two men during the 1970s and '80s and their influence over the New York art"--Turner Classic Movies website.
16) Never forever
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English
Description
A woman with a seemingly perfect marriage to a successful lawyer begins an affair with an immigrant worker in order to get pregnant, after finding that her husband is unable to father children.
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English
Description
An unscripted look at what happens when a person is put into a lifestyle that is nothing like what they are used to for 30 days. See what is like to live in a mixed status Mexican family that live in a one-bedroom apartment. A man who lost his job to outsourcing travels to Bangalore to see how outsourcing U.S. jobs has affected India's culture. An atheist will live with a fundamentalist Christian family in Texas. A father attempts to find inner peace...
19) After
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English
Description
Set in the winter of 2002 in chilly upstate New York, after tells the story of a middle class family struggling with the financial consequences of a failing family business and a series of intergenerational conflicts and rivalries. But, what truly threatens to upset their delicate balance and shatter the emotionally fragile family matriarch is an intricately buried secret that, if revealed, could alter their lives irrevocably.