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Film Descriptions
American Love StoryAmerican Love Story is the extraordinary 10-hour series about a black man and a white woman who have struggled for 30 years against racial stereotypes and societal prejudice to keep their family together. The American Love Story series follows Bill Sims and Karen Wilson, their family and friends through a dramatic two year period in their lives. With over one thousand hours of footage recorded, American Love Story is one of the most profound films ever created about love, race and family in America. "There's never been a more intimate study of the everyday significance of race and racism in American life" -- Amy Taubin, Village Voice. 10 hours. Americanos is a documentary about the segment of American citizenry most rapidly transforming the face of our nation today. Latinos have become the largest, single minority group in the United States, and the film explores their complex and multifaceted legacy. Americanos contests the myth of a monolithic Latino culture and explores the diverse group of people in this country designated Latino. Carlos Santana, Tito Puente, and the first Puerto Rican female presidential cabinet member, Aida Alvarez, present their views alongside Nuyorican Poets Café performance artists, Little Havana doctors, midwestern lowriders, East L.A. Harvard-bound youth, and Chicano border-patrol officers. A cornucopia of truths emerges, including the highly contested nature of Latino identity, the rising power of Latinos in business, the paradoxes of United States immigration policy, and the important role diasporic communities play in preserving age-old cultural traditions while creating new ones for the future. Directed by Susan Todd & Andrew Young. Produced by Nick Athas & Edward James Olmos. 80 min. This film explores the power of youth and beauty in the gay community. A diverse group of gay men, ages 19 to 77, negotiate their fears of becoming old, undesirable, and alone. The film critically examines the pressure to look young and attractive, the lack of positive older role models, and the ways in which AIDS intensifies the fear and process of aging. This short offers a male perspective on a historically female issue, and illuminates the larger societal obsession with physical appearance. By Johnny Symons, the same filmmaker who brought us Daddy & Papa.” Filmed in the Castro District. 22 min. Blink examines the dramatic story of one-time white supremacist leader Gregory Withrow who, at the height of his involvement in the movement, fell in love with a woman whose parents had fled Nazi Germany. His own subsequent flight from the militant White Aryan Resistance captured the imagination of the national media when Withrow was found beaten and “crucified,” his hands nailed to a board. Now, more than a decade later, Withrow is married to Maria, a Mexican-American woman, and lives a low-key, semi-isolated rural existence. Unlike simplistic stories about “evil racists turned model-citizens,” Blink explores the complex middle ground where Withrow still battles his demons, at times questioning the possibility of fundamental personal change. The painful irony of his predicament is that when he renounced the world of racial hared he was left with the same enraged, alienated, masculine self that once propelled him into the movement. 60 min. This documentary probes the roots of violence in men, finding them in the ignored emotions of boys. The film opens with a gathering of young adult ex-offenders who are participating in an unlearning violence program. They tell us how, as boys, they learned to be tough, to enforce one's control and authority over others, often with violence, were lessons they learned at an early age. We visit a first grade classroom where we see developmental differences between boys and girls that educators (including local teacher Jamie Carlson) hypothesize affects the fit between some boys and school, and boys’ ability to communicate their needs verbally. Boys are also filmed in 3-week therapeutic wilderness program, where angry and resentful teens learn self-sufficiency and cooperation. As Michael Thompson concludes, near the end of the film: “The greatest thing that feminism did for girls was to say there are many different ways to be a woman. We have to show boys that there are many… different ways to be a man.” By Tom Weidinger. 57 min. Breathing Lessons is a now-classic documentary by award-winning filmmaker Jessica Yu that explores the unique world of Mark O'Brien, the Berkeley poet-journalist who has lived for four decades paralyzed in an iron lung. Incorporating the vivid imagery of O'Brien's poetry and his candid, wry, and often profound reflections on work, sex, death and God, this provocative documentary asks: "What is a life worth living?" By presenting O'Brien's life from his point of view, the film provides an intimate window into the reality of a life of severe disability, as well as an illuminating portrait of a remarkable artist. Winner of the 1996 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. 35 min. This is a documentary portrait of Bayard Rustin, little-known African-American activist for peace, racial equality, economic justice and human rights, and, an openly gay man in a fiercely homophobic era. During his sixty-year career as an activist, Rustin formulated many of the strategies that propelled the Civil Rights movement, and was an advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his work to desegregate the South. Rustin's work culminated when he organized the 1963 March on Washington, D.C. But his open homosexuality forced him to remain in the background, making him the Brother Outsider. He was a man ahead of his time, and has become an inspiring role-model in today's struggle for gay rights. Winner 2004 American Library Association Notable Video Award, Winner 2003 Cine Golden Eagle. 84 min. Brothers & Others: The Impact of September 11th on Arabs, Muslims, and South Asians in America This documentary about the impact of 9/11 on Muslims and Arabs living in America follows a number of immigrants and American families as they struggle in the heightened climate of hate, government investigations, and economic hardships that erupted in America following the attacks. By jailing thousands of Arabs, Muslims, and South Asians without evidence or due process, is America perpetuating the cycle of hate and ignorance which claimed so many innocent lives? "The filmmaker has really captured the human cost and real-life consequences of the 9/11 arrests... Very compelling." Lucas Guttentag, American Civil Liberties Union. 60 min. Chicks tells the story of two Jewish women who want a traditional Jewish wedding, to each other. The film follows the women from their registration at Crate and Barrel to talking with their families, who have very different reactions to their wedding plans. An in-depth, warm, family piece, with plenty of room for laughter. Nominated for Oscar in best Documentary Short Subject (1993). 20 min. Daddy & Papa is a one-hour documentary exploring the personal, cultural, and political impact of gay men who are making a decision that is at once traditional and revolutionary: to raise children themselves. Taking us inside four gay male families, the film traces the critical issues that inevitably intersect their private lives -- the ambiguous place of interracial families in America, the wonder and precariousness of surrogacy and adoption, the complexities of marriage and divorce within the gay community, and the legality of their own parenthood. Warm, humorous, inspirational. Bold and controversial, this film featuring Cheryl Marie Wade, the self-proclaimed "Queen Mother of Gnarly,” takes a fresh look at what it means to be disabled in America. Through hundreds of images and a high-energy delivery, this is disability through the eyes of the disabled telling us who they are in their own words instead of the usual anthropological study of disabled people as specimens. Disability Culture Rap addresses issues of freedom of choice, disability pride, independent living, the power of language and images, sexuality, community, and the right to live with dignity. Silver Screen Winner at the US International Film and Video Festival and Best of Festival at Superfest XX. 22 min. This movie examines, often with painful honesty, how Fahm Saeyang's Mien immigrant family suffered through a 20-year ordeal of poverty, racism, jail and the murder of a family member. The Shaman’s daughter, Fahm, records on her video camera what happened to her father, who was a respected Shaman in Thailand, but lost his way in Kansas. A chronicle of a darker side of the pursuit of the American dream that affected many of the 40,000 Mien who came from a primitive life in the mountains of Southeast Asia to the United States, the film is also a moving account of one daughter’s need to understand her father's pain and desire to figure out what will placate his troubled spirit and her own. This documentary chronicles the struggles of girls and women who have or have had had anorexia or bulimia. It reviews the medial complications associated with prolonged starvation, investigates why eating disorders are growing, examines how culture contributes by reinforcing “thin is beautiful,” and highlights important aspects of successful treatment, including psychotherapy in live-in programs. 60 min. Macky Alston is the son of a Southern minister committed to civil rights ideals. But when he “came out” to his family as a gay man, he recalled that there were some things he had been trained not to talk about. His ancestors’ ownership of a large plantation with slaves was among those things. Macky chronicles his efforts to have real conversations about these topics with his nuclear family and with the African American Alston’s who were descended from the same roots. After Family Name was previewed in Piedmont and at Glide Church in San Francisco, PBS placed the film first in their Television Race Initiative. By Macky Alston. In 1994, California voters approved Proposition 187, a ballot initiative denying public education and health care to all undocumented immigrants. Laura Angelica Simón, a Mexican immigrant and fourth-grade teacher at Hoover Elementary School in Los Angeles, was devastated and felt motivated to make a film about the impact of this initiative on her school. Located in Pico Union, the Ellis Island of Los Angeles, Hoover Street Elementary is the largest grammar school in the city. The majority of its students are economic and political refugees from Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, who have the most to lose from Proposition 187. Many, like Salvadoran fifth grader Mayra, voice their fear of betrayal, deportation and shattered dreams for a better life. Leading her teacher on a tour of the cramped apartment she shares with her family, Mayra describes her hardscrabble life and seeks reassurance that she will not be kicked out of school. Her story is intertwined with those of two teachers at Hoover Elementary, one who voted for Proposition 187 and one who did not. Freedom of Expression award at the 1997 Sundance Festival. 57 min. In 1966, Deann Borshay Liem was adopted by an American family and was sent from Korea to her new home. Growing up in California, the memory of her birth family was nearly obliterated until recurring dreams lead Borshay Liem to discover the truth: her Korean mother was very much alive. Bravely uniting her biological and adoptive families, Borshay Liem's heartfelt journey makes First Person Plural a poignant essay on family, loss, and the reconciling of two identities. Peter Bratt, of South American Indian ancestry, wrote and directed Follow Me Home, a defiant, humorous, poetic tale exploring race and identity in America. By weaving together traditions of Native American, African, and Latin cultures, the film tells the story of four artists and their journey across the American landscape. Among other honors, the film won the Best Feature Film Audience Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Angela Davis describes it as " a wonderful gift....it is a breathtaking journey through the present, the past, and toward the future....To whatever extent 'American' fits into -- or collides with -- your identity, you must see this film." This film examines the impact of class, sexism and violence on the dreams and expectations of teenage girls. It follows four adolescent girls from a South Philadelphia through ages 14 to 18 and chronicles their hopes and experiences. “The girls strut, flirt and testify in this vibrant, affecting portrait of teenage girls’ experiences of high school and sexuality.” Intimate interviews and candid footage introduce Anna, whose need for freedom in a new culture counters her family’s strictness; DeYona, who dreams of a singing career while coping with family tragedy; Raelene, who confronts violence and issues of self-esteem as a teenage mother; and Lisa, who faces the difference between the feminine roles of her Catholic upbringing and her own wishes. By Jan Wagner & Tina DiFeliciantonio. 56 min. Stephanie is pregnant and has a warrant for running away from a group home. Shangra is torn between taking care of her mother, who is homeless and struggling with drug addiction, and taking care of herself. Sheila, whose father and siblings have been in and out of jail, risks arrest and jail time by selling and using drugs. Here is an intimate look at the compelling personal stories of three teenagers entangled in San Francisco’s juvenile justice system. Trying to change their lives, the girls work part-time at the innovative Center for Young Women’s Development, an organization run by young women who have faced similar challenges. As the girls confront seemingly impossible problems and pivotal decisions, the Center’s 22-year-old executive director is often their only support and mentor. Bay Area filmmakers Lexi Leban and Lidia Szajko document the girls’ remarkable successes and heartbreaking setbacks over a four-year period and expose a system that fails to end the cycle of incarceration. Appropriate for High School and some Middle School youth. 57 min. This film follows the intimate journey of four fascinating people who are homeless. Experiencing homelessness through their eyes, we come to understand a political and social system that draws controversy from all sides of the political arena. In most U.S. cities, residents pay roughly fifteen to thirty cents per person per year on homeless services. In the city of Santa Monica, that amount is closer to one hundred dollars. But how is it spent, and what effect do the programs have on the psyches of the programs recipients? What Santa Monica is facing now, is something arising in urban centers across the country. Homeless in Paradise spotlights a national problem by framing it within the dramatic struggles of real people. New Day Films, 50 min. You've never seen basketball like this. Kiss My Wheels follows the Zia Hot Shots, a nationally ranked junior wheelchair basketball team, through a season of training and tournament competition. This under-funded, co-ed team in a poverty-stricken area of New Mexico soaks you in their sweat, tears, fears, wins and losses, ultimately exposing their gritty grasp on what's important in life and bringing a special meaning to the idea of teamwork. The scene-stealers are an immigrant girl from India and a boy from a local reservation. Hollywood would have submerged it in sentiment. This one stays real all the way. 57 min. Winner of the Grand Prize for Best Documentary at the 2000 Sundance Festival, and ALA Booklist’s Editor’s Choice Award for Best Video of 2000,this documentary tells the story of the hearings in South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). When apartheid collapsed after forty years, the victims wanted justice, and the apartheid enforcers wanted amnesty for their crimes. The TRC investigated the crimes of apartheid and brought together victims and perpetrators to relive South Africa’s brutal history in an effort to build a better foundation for the future. What is the role of information in producing justice? What is the role of forgiveness where the crimes are unthinkable? What enables a community torn by violence to move forward? 94 min. This is a documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks, dehydration, exhaustion, hunger, and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia. This is an amazing story of the courage of these young refugees and the kindness of those who helped them. It is also a story about all refugees who travel through unimaginable conditions and survive against all odds. 60 min. A very funny and equally moving documentary about fifth-graders learning ballroom dancing. Told from their candid, sometimes hilarious perspectives, the film follows students at three schools in the neighborhoods of Tribeca, Bensonhurst, and Washington Heights. The students are united by a zeal for the ballroom dancing lessons, which builds over a 10-week period and culminates in a competition to find the school that has produced the best dancers in the city. Gender and race boundaries disappear as focus on the competition consumes the students' energy, and the teachers are brought to tears as they see their prodigies transformed from reluctant participants to determined competitors. One of 2005's most uplifting slices of cinema, Mad Hot Ballroom is a joyous, life-affirming film. Directed by Marilyn Agrelo. Mai’s America is an intimate portrait of Mai, a spunky, mini-skirted daughter of Ho Ch Minh's revolution who leaves cosmopolitan Hanoi on a high school exchange program. Anticipating Hollywood, Mai crash lands in rural Mississippi where her relationships with white Pentecostal and black Baptist host families, self-proclaimed rednecks, transvestites, and South Vietnamese immigrants challenge her long-held ideas about herself, about freedom, about America, and even about Vietnam. “Imagine going to work and not being able to do your job. Now imagine that you can’t leave your job. Imagine having to do that every day. This is what life is like for children with learning disabilities” says Dr. David Urion. For one in five students, learning is an exhausting and frustrating struggle. Kids are sometimes mistakenly called “lazy” or “stupid” by their teachers, classmates, or even parents. But these children with misunderstood minds can be successful in school and on the playground if the correct, specific learning strategies can be discovered and practiced. This documentary follows the fascinating stories of five children and their families as they try to solve the mysteries of their children’s learning difficulties. 90 min. The Personals is an Academy-Award Winning documentary by Keiko Ibi who made the film as a 30-year-old film student at NYU. The film tells the story of a play produced by the Alliance Stage Company at the Educational Alliance. Through it, Ibi explores the stories of single older people looking for love. On stage, a group of seniors perform their roles with energy and laughter. As the rehearsals progress, the camera turns to the individual members of the group at home, in an attempt to uncover both the joys and the sorrows of growing old in America. About making the film, Ibi has written: “I don’t deny that they’ve given me a glimpse of the aging process that is sometimes scary…maybe even threatening. But they have constantly surprised and inspired me, just by being themselves….we made a connection. We became friends.” Academy Award, Short Documentary Category. 37 min. Promises is a documentary which explores the Middle East conflict as seen through the eyes of Israeli and Palestinian children living in and around Jerusalem. The film looks at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and prospects for peace by drawing viewers into the hearts and minds of Jerusalem’s children ages 9-13. Each child offers dramatic, emotional, and sometimes hilarious perspectives on issues that lie at the heart of the Middle East conflict. Neither as self-conscious as teen-agers nor as polite as adults, they communicate without self-censorship. Although they live no more than 20 minutes apart, the children are locked in separate worlds. Promises explores the boundaries that lie between these children and tells the story of a few who dared to cross the lines to meet their neighbors. Rabbit is a visually stunning and emotionally compelling account of the filmmaker’s family experience in a Japanese internment camp. The documentary by San Francisco filmmaker Emiko Omori has received critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival.
A film about the experiences of three teens and their gay or lesbian parents as they bridge the transitions to adulthood. Cooper has two mothers, Martina and Tanya, who have been together twenty-five years. Conceived via artificial insemination, Cooper always appreciated the love and support his parents gave him... but he also wondered about his biological father. Now, because of a contract drawn up by the sperm bank 19 years ago, Cooper can make contact with his sperm donor father. Born in the earlier years of assisted fertility, Cooper is the first child from the renowned gay friendly sperm bank, Pacific Reproductive Services, to find out the identity of his father. Aidan is a political activist with two moms in Richmond, Virginia. While Janet was pregnant with Aidan, she met Jane. Despite the strength of their relationship, Aidan's moms felt they had to hide it from their conservative neighbors in Richmond, Virginia. Today, Aidan is facing her own battle with homophobia as she tries to become Drum Major of her high school marching band. It is her family's worst fear that she may not get it yet again this year because community leaders are concerned about a teenager with gay parents representing their children in such a public position of leadership. Aidan's activism with her school's GSA also concerns the band director, who thinks it might get in the way of her ability to lead the band. Hope is about to leave home for college but her two Dads are having trouble letting her grow up. In 1987 when Wayne and Sal decided to adopt, they applied to the New York City public system and inquired about 24 children. They were turned down 24 times. They were moments away from pursuing legal action when they received a call asking if they were interested in a four-month old bi-racial girl fittingly named Hope. Growing up, Hope never felt like she missed having a mother. Since Hope's "arrival day" in 1987, Sal and Wayne's entire world has revolved around parenthood. Wayne and Sal are now on the precipice of massive change: in just a few weeks Hope will be going off to college. Though they knew this moment was inevitable, Wayne and Sal are crestfallen. Hope, on the other hand, can't wait to spread her wings. It's a story of holding on and letting go to which all parents can relate. Raymond’s Portrait traces the personal and artistic development of this talented young Chinese-American brush painter, including his family’s experience when Raymond was one of the first full-inclusion students with Down Syndrome at San Ramon High School. Raymond Hu’s phenomenal paintings were exhibited in the Piedmont schools and at the screening, and he led an engaging discussion about the effect of his childhood on his art. By Donald Young. 30 min. "To be physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight," this is the Boy Scout Oath. Since 1910, millions of boys have joined. But today, if you are openly gay, you can't. Witness how Steven Cozza, a 13-year-old Boy Scout, launches a grassroots campaign to overturn the ban on gays. "Scouting for All" is the movement built by Cozza with the help of a long-time scout leader, community members, and his own family. Moving from Petaluma, California to the Supreme Court, the film chronicles a modern interpretation of the scouting ideals of courage and honor. Skin Deep takes the viewer on a journey of dialogue with a group of contemporary college students from UMASS Amherst, Texas A&M and UC Berkeley. They come from vastly different racial, religous and economic backgrounds. They are from all over the country - small rural towns, huge cities, liberal, conservative, wealthy, middleclass and poor families. They spend a weekend at a retreat center in California, talking about their differences around race. 53 min.
Imagine: Your child is born deaf, but a miraculous new operation can restore the baby's hearing. So given the limited risk, of course you decide to undertake the procedure. Right? Therein lies the intriguing premise of this fascinating portrait of deaf families and deaf culture. The battle over cochlear implants, a medical technology welcomed by some as a cure for deafness and reviled by others as a cruel procedure which will result in the end of American Sign Language and deaf culture, threatens to divide the deaf community and define the future of those who are hearing impaired. Two branches of the Artinian family, each headed by a brother, are at the center of a passionate and elucidating debate. The anguish of parents, grandparents, children and many others as they negotiate the emotional travails that color these issues and choices is vividly on display. One of the most talked about films at this year's Sundance and San Francisco Film Festivals. 90 min. "Part of our history, part of our heritage, Strange Fruit captures with vivid imagery the history of a song that created immediate controversy as a grim reminder of a necessarily painful and ugly chapter in American history. The song retains its force, because the issues it raises about the legacy of racial terrorism in American society still resonate. Except for Strange Fruit, none of the victims was ever memorialized and their stories and legacies are all but forgotten. This is a fascinating story about a song that compelled its audiences to confront the past in ways that could be genuinely disturbing. It is no less disturbing today." --Leon F. Litwack, A.F. & May T. Morrison Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley. 58 min. This documentary profiles Ami Ankilevitz, a 3-D animator whose bodily motions are limited to a single finger on his left hand. At birth, Ami was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophy, and was predicted to live the age six. Now thirty years later, he returns to the U.S. to confront the childhood doctor who predicted his early demise. The NYTimes found the film a “bracingly honest yet poetic portrait of a man refusing to be defined by the limitations of his body." Funny, warm, and very engaging, 39 Pounds of Love has won numerous film awards, and was in the running for an Oscar nomination this year. Told narratively as diary entries, the film follows 13-year-old Trevor, who is ostracized for being gay and ultimately attempts suicide, when a young, supportive girl inspires Trevor to live. Themes include (1) How do young people come to terms with their identity, especially their sexual identity? (2) How do sex roles and peer pressure come into play when young people try to answer the question, “Who am I?”, and (3) How important are heroes and heroines to young people? What happens if a tenage boy chooses a female heroine? Best Live Action Short, Academy Awards, 1995. By Peggy Rajski, presented by Ellen Degeneres. 23 min. Only a filmmaker who herself suffers from Tourette’s syndrome could get away with titling a documentary about the disorder so irreverently. Twitch and Shout introduces us to a professional basketball player, an artist, an actress, and a Mennonite lumberjack among others with Tourette’s. We make contact and are completely absorbed in this sometimes unsettling, ultimately uplifting film about people who must contend with a society that often sees them as crazy or bad because their bodies and minds won’t do what they’re told. By Laurel Chiten. 59 min. “We have no tea and sushi here, Yamashita!” “You speak English? We don't want your kind around here. Go back to your own country.” When Bruce Yamashita’s dreams were dashed by a consistent pattern of discrimination at the Marine Corps’ Officer Candidate School, he refused to surrender and waged a lonely, five-year battle for justice. By standing for equal opportunity and fairness, he served patriotism's highest calling, challenging the nation's powerful institutions, and emerging a most unlikely hero. 57 min. Waging a Living Waging a Living, Roger Weisberg's alarming and heart-wrenching new documentary, puts a human face on the growing economic squeeze that is forcing millions of workers into the ranks of the poor. Shot in the Northeast and California, the film presents four very different Americans who work full-time but still can't make ends meet. Despite their hard work and determination, they find themselves, as one observes, "hustling backwards." What is it really like to work full-time and remain poor? Waging a Living provides a sobering answer. Filmed over three years, the documentary intimately profiles individuals determined to lift their families out of poverty. “I wanted to bring viewers inside the daily grind of the nameless people we encounter every day who struggle to survive from paycheck to paycheck, " explains the producer. "My goal," he concludes, "was to get people to take a new look at the prevailing American myth that hard work alone can overcome poverty." 60 min.
The Way Home shows what happened when eight ethnic councils of women came together to talk honestly about race, gender and class in the U.S. Over the course of eight months, 65 women, representing a cross-section of culture in the U.S., met in councils separated by ethnicity. Their candid conversations offer rare access into multi-dimensional cultural worlds mostly invisible to outsiders. The result is a wondrous collection of stories that present an inspiring picture of women moving beyond the duality of race. By Shakti Butler. 92 min. "In a barbershop in Brooklyn, Dee-Dee admiringly looks at his collection of celebrity women, tacked up on the wall, in all their smooth, silky glory. In his opinion, these are women who are absolutely perfect. They've got no flaws. They are goddesses. So begins an absorbing and sometimes humorous twelve minutes, where we not only hear from Dee-Dee, as well as other barbers, but also a computer airbrush and touch-up artist, where they reveal how they do what they do. As one of the guys puts it, "(Dee-Dee's) been having wet dreams to false images." It's a brief documentary that brings new light to exactly how sex sells when it comes to photography, and how real women out there might also be dreaming to false images when they go on this diet and that diet to get the bodies that those women seemingly possess." review by Rory L. Aronsky in Film Threat. 12 min. What Do You Believe? is a documentary that captures a diverse group of young people as they share their most personal beliefs and feelings about spirituality, god, morality, prayer, death, the purpose of life, and freedom of religion in the U.S. The What Do You Believe Project was conceived in 1998 in order to promote tolerance and understanding among American teenagers from different religious and spiritual backgrounds. Two hundred teenage interviewees included Muslims, pagans, atheists, Hindus, Buddhists, agnostics, Native Americans, Mormon, Jews, Catholics, Baptists, Christians, Latinos, Blacks, Whites, and Asian Americans. By weaving 6 teenagers’ in-depth stories with commentary from twenty others, this documentary paints a broad picture of religious and spiritual life for Bay Area teens. 60 min.
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