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Tells about the challenges of life and how being present and showing up saved my life. You need to always keep moving and never quit no matter what.

DID SHOWING UP SAVE MY LIFE?

This film is a story about how a company and its founder can lead by example to help influence change in the seafood industry. Alan Lovewell, the founder and CEO of Real Good Fish, a seafood CSA in the San Francisco Bay Area, talks about best practices for fishermen, distributors, and consumers when it comes to sustainability and transparency in the seafood industry.Alan’s company supports local fishermen by investing in his community and partnering with these fishermen to provide sustainably harvested quality seafood. In doing so, he educates consumers on best practices to help evolve the way they think about seafood. Alan is also a fisherman, so we go on the boat with him as he harvests fish off the Big Sur coast.

CLEAR WATERS: Sustainability, Transparency, and Community

Bernice Robinson, a beautician from South Carolina, was the first teacher in the Citizenship Education Schools that taught literacy in order to pass voter registration requirements in the South during the mid-1950s and 1960s.She taught adults to read and write as part of Citizenship, understanding that registering to vote and engaging people in the issues that affect their lives was a key step toward changing the system. This helped to set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

THEY SAY I'M YOUR TEACHER

The job of a prosecutor is not just to seek convictions but to seek justice. So when reports emerge of prosecutors abusing their power, it can shake public confidence in the entire justice system. Reformers argue that prosecutors exercise too much power with little or no oversight. Defenders of the current system argue that prosecutors work tirelessly to keep people safe from criminals and that abuses are extremely rare.Seven experts, Jessie K. Liu, Mark Geragos, Steven H. Cook, John Malcolm, Zac Bolitho, Bennett L. Gershman, and Clark Neily, discuss and define the power of the prosecutor in this documentary short by FedSoc Films.

TO SEEK JUSTICE: Defining the Power of the Prosecutor

Anthony Godby Johnson was an early 1990s New York City miracle: a boy who escaped years of horrific abuse only to discover that he was dying of AIDS. A boy who authored his own autobiography. A boy who earned friends and fans worldwide—and who did not exist. Featuring Oprah Winfrey and the remnants of Anthony Godby Johnson's long-forgotten television special alongside the first public glimpse of the hoaxer behind the myth, TONY FRAGINALS tells the inside story of the scandal from the perspective the person for whom Tony was a childhood friend. It is an act of narrative reclamation: a coming of age story set within the command centre of an epic fraud.

TONY FRAGINALS

Throughout the South, there are many historic African-American and unmarked burials of the formally enslaved that are derelict and almost lost to time. However, recently, there has been a rise in active restoration and preservation efforts by those who have a personal history or appreciation for these historic sites.

UNMARKED

A personal journey of a man who discovers, through genetic testing, that he is one of 9 siblings, finding the love and acceptance in a family he never knew he needed.Demetre Papageorgiou grew up as the oldest child of George and Cynthia, Greek immigrants, who settled in the Midwest. All of that changed when Demetre got a call from a man named Chris Bone of Dallas, Texas - a man who, it turned out, was his half brother. That day Demetre found out that not only did he have a half brother he never knew about, but he had 7 older siblings he didn’t know he had. In the following months, Demetre uncovered the truth about his family and their unusual story - a story of 9 strangers scattered across America with one thing in common - their father George Papageorgiou. This is the story of 5 brothers and 4 sisters, separated by distance and decades, coming together for the first time, thanks to online DNA testing. This is a story of brothers and sisters who beat all the odds and find the loving family they never knew they were looking for.

9 DEGREES

A documentary about the embroiderers&nbsp;behind&nbsp;the artistic project 'Between Threads, Wings and Brushes' ('Entre Hilos, Alas y Pinceles') by the painter&nbsp;Yudit Vidal Faife, in Trinidad, Cuba.

BEHIND THE THREADS

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