Once Upon a Time in the Bronx

by Ela Troyano

Exploration of the the bicultural and bilingual experiences of Latinos and Latinas living in New York.

Poetry in Motion

by Francesca Talenti

Voice narrations of poems come to life in this series of animated interstitials illustrating the subtle and ambiguous nature of poetry.

Great Performances

Race Is the Place

by Rick Tejada-Flores and Ray Telles

Race Is the Place presents the creative visions of a group of multicultural actors, poets, visual artists and musicians on America’s most pressing social issues.

Independent Lens

Right Here, Right Now

by Ellen Schneider

A series of first-person video diaries.

Short Stack 2006 with "My Life ... Disoriented"

by Eric Byler, Claire Yorita Lee, Di Quon, Liza Suh, Jasmin Gordon, Mai Heiselmann, and Mike Blum

Four films — including the two grand prize-winners of the first Independent Lens Online Shorts Festival — explore questions of love, displacement, belonging, and identity. Short Stack 2006 looks at the rise and fall of a boy's first zit, uprooted sisters taking on a new school, revelations about a mourned father, and country-western romance, Japanese style.

Independent Lens

Short, Not Sweet

By Robert Slane, Timothy Greenberg, Louise Johnson, David Fukushima, Matthew Miller, Ezra Krybus, and Jamie Travis

This short film "medley" includes Fine Line Between Cute and Creepy, La Puppe, A Monster's Calling, The School, and Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner.

Independent Lens

W.I.S.O.R.

by Michel Negroponte

In this science fiction documentary, scientists create a high-tech robot programmed to do critical repair work under the streets of Manhattan.

White Homeland Comando

by The Wooster Group

America's leading experimental theater group turns prime time cop shows on their ear in this stylized take-off of deceit, politics, and consequences.

A Wok-in-Progress

by Paul Kwan and Arnold Iger

A video journal of the intertwined stories of a disabled Chinese/Vietnamese artist living in America and his sister, a recent immigrant and struggling entrepreneur.

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