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The American Political/News/Commentary/Entertainment Family (2:00)

What if today’s politics actually represented the marketplace of ideas instead of the sewer? Our American political syst...

My Right, My Vote: A New Era (8:45)

This election year, I have noticed a trend. People who normally would not be engaged in the political process are getting fired ...

Ask an Iraqi! (4:38)

I have filmed interviews with many prominent Iraqi politicians, peace activists and members of the Iraqi Parliament, some from opp...

Uncle Sam Lives! (8:45)

Every now and then, someone stands out of the crowd and makes people take notice. In this case, he happens to bear a striking rese...

No Voice (2:06)

To have no voice, no say, to be subject to the choice and decision of others political views. In a country where the right to vot...

Housing: the new American Nightmare (2:06)

In 2005 the cost of my house was $570,000. Three years later the value of my house is approximately $430,000. The value of real ...

Military Absentee Voting: The Vote That Made Bush Win (9:51)

In 2000, President Goerge W. Bush won the election over Democrat Al Gore by a mere 25 electoral votes.Many scholars attributed Bus...

Election Path (1:46)

On election day, Joe, a normal guy walks through a sunny neighborhood lined with houses and trimmed lawns towards a school to cast...

Yes We Can (3:46)

I will set the scene...it is 5:30am on cold rainy February morning and as per my usual I reach over grab some head phones and chec...

Bush at a Glance (0:45)

A short, quickly paced montage of images and clips over Bush's eight year reign of upheaval. From the elections in 2000 to t...

The Good Die Young (3:11)

The Good Die Young was originally a song we made for the people that lost there loves to the random acts of gun violence at columb...

The Day I Voted Republican (4:00)

My name is Galen Carter-Jeffrey and I have never voted for a republican in my entire short voting life. That is until March 5th 20...

Are We Safer Today? (1:08)

The purpose of this short is to make a connection between the war in Iraq and how its social and economic costs are undermining th...

How Green is your Candidate ()

I would like to produce a short about the environmental inclinations of the two to three top candidates, and investigate whether t...

A Man (01:01)

A was man from Yemen who had a farm and had two sons who helped to take care of the land. Then how one day after a few extremists ...

Behind the Signs (04:41)

The 2008 election has many Greater Boston neighborhoods posting banners and signs that proclaim support for a specific candidate. ...

Taxi (Sample Reel) (9:47)

In every major city around America there is a cab driver who is not afraid to initiate the abnormal conversation.

Thug School (Sample Reel) ()

“Who in here doesn’t live in the projects?” Thirty-two ninth graders stay put. Only the teacher, who is white, raises her ha...

Forty Acres in 2007 (Sample Reel) (4:32)

As "machinima" Forty Acres explores African American heritage and the effects of capitalism unified into a common theme ...

Cleaner, Meaner Streets (Sample Reel) (6:29)

In the tiny micropolis of Harrisburg, PA, the capital of Pennsylvania, a strong minded band of do-gooders and developers is turnin...

Cleaners (Sample Reel) (3:35)

In Philadelphia the blood seems to be filling the streets, literally everyday it seems people are killed and the mess of death gro...

Bi-Racial Hair (Sample Reel) (3:45)

"Slit my wrists, my blood does not excrete in black and white" prophesizes 13-year old Zora in her poem entitled "B...

Privilege (Sample Reel) (3:20)

I would like to create a piece which explores the invisible system of racism and white privilege which exists in the United States...

Reparation Blues (Sample Reel) ()

My proposed three-minute video is a performance piece that revolves around a poem, written by poet, singer and performance artist ...

Swim (Sample Reel) (:59)

For many people the idea of an “out of the way beach” means an idyllic surrounding separated from the realities of the world.

Erase and Replace (Sample Reel) (:42)

I plan to bring home the feeling of people being expelled from their homes by tearing up and rebuilding history itself.

Sonny's Letters From the War (Sample Reel) (1:33)

Born in 1923 in Ansonia CT, son of Ukrainian immigrants, Sonny was just turning 20 when he was drafted into the army.

Domino Falls (Sample Reel) (7:47)

David, a young soldier just returned from Iraq, struggles to readjust to his quiet life in the California suburbs.

A Clearing in the Fog (Sample Reel) (:59)

My grandfather, Irving Sarot, was an Army surgeon in Europe during WWII.

The Birth of War (Sample Reel) (5:25)

The idea of war is so essential to the history mankind, yet is so foreign to the innocence we experience as children, or is it?