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On the South Side of Chicago, Just Roots Chicago and Saint James Catholic Church come together to help alleviate food insecurity while also cultivating community. Director/Producer Anna Lee Ackermann was 21 at time of documentary completion.

As We Are Planted

Teen volunteers travel to Puerto Rico to support hurricane relief efforts. While assisting residents, they formed relationships with the people and helped to provide hope to the community.

Mission: Puerto Rico

STATE OF EMERGENCY refers to the moment the entire world went through in 2020. The COVID-19 has forced most of the earth's population to stay confined at home, causing a significant impact on our routines. Meanwhile, the cities were empty. We barely saw people on the streets, and the businesses were closed. I've found live web cameras worldwide, and I've reached 75 different cities from all the continents. We see apparent differences in architecture, nature, and cultural aspects of the cities in the images. Although they are visually distinct, they present one common detail: emptiness. I interviewed people from these different cities via Zoom. I paired people's voices with the images that I got from the cities' surveillance cameras. This film is a short version of extensive documentation of how the world deals with the pandemic through ordinary and anonymous people.

STATE OF EMERGENCY

Cute animals make everything better; including yoga.

Goat Yoga

Sheila M. Sofian, Faculty Advisor for the filmmakers of Vicky &amp; Xingyu, introduces the short film.

2021 Filmmaker Intro- Sheila Sofian

Vicky (Xingyu) Gu discusses the complexities of being immersed in a new culture and learning to communicate in another language. Directed and animated by 15 students in USC's CTAN 470 Documentary Animation Production class, Spring 2020.

Vicky & Xingyu

We are existing in an extremely pivotal time in human evolution. Keystone is a story about the land, humans, flora and fauna. A story about the co-habitation that we must embrace as humans, in order to create planetary abundance for future generations. By re-integrating our economic systems with ecosystems we can create prosperity and environmental renewal. By working initially with keystone species as a super-power of regeneration. The signal that this is being achieved is by the return of biodiversity. This film specifically looks at the role Bison play in the American plains. By removing this keystone species we have altered an ecosystem and affected all of its inhabitants. Not only have we removed this critical species we have introduced cattle into the landscape to further alter the ecosystem. To create more abundance, we look at bringing back the bison herds and restoring the western prairie. If we balanced our dependence on cattle for food with Bison we could also eliminate our need to grow GMO corn. This would open up vital agricultural land for organic farming and the raising of food for humans instead of livestock. The result of ecosystem renewal is planetary abundance for humans and all life forms. By working with nature and keystone species we can generate prosperity in the landscape for present and future generations.

Keystone

After the assaults and discrimination of Asians because of COVID-19, this film shines a light on what it is like be a “model minority” in an increasingly divided America.

Beyond the Model

Three elderly New Jersey men search for the world's greatest Hot Texas Weiner, but along the way, discover what has happened to their hometown, Paterson, New Jersey. It’s a short but poignant journey that any parent, child, hot dog aficionado or lover of humanity will never forget.

One All The Way

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