4by Tim Slade and Joanna Buggy In four corners of the globe on four different days throughout the year, four violinists and a small ensemble of their musician friends come together to perform one of the most well loved pieces of music in the world; Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
Acrobatby Olivier Meyrou Fabrice Champion was an accomplished trapeze artist when a circus accident paralyzed him from the neck down. But he is determined to return to the big top. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldiby Quique Cruz and Marilyn Mulford Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi follows exiled Chilean musician, Quique Cruz, from the Bay Area to Chile and back as he creates his masterwork. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
Belarusian Waltzby Andrzej Fidyk and Torstein Grude In Belarus, Europe's last dictatorship, performance artist Alexander Pushkin uses his "patriotic" art to protest his government's policies and persecution. POV, Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
Blessed Is the Matchby Roberta Grossman Narrated by Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured, and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Independent Lens, Global Voices | |
Circus Schoolby Guo Jing and Ke Dingding Take a rare look into one of China's most treasured commodities — acrobats. Circus School reveals the rigorous physical training students must endure as they prepare for a national competition. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices | |
Companerasby Elizabeth Massie and Matthew Buzzell Compañeras profiles America’s first all-female mariachi band, Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles, founded in 1994. Independent Lens, Global Voices | |
Docby Immy Humes The amazing adventures of novelist and Paris Review founder Harold Louis “Doc” Humes — featuring a paper house, the Hip Messiah, Don Peyote, Leary, Mailer, Auster, and the FBI. A story about ideas, drugs, literature, protest, and paranoia, that sheds light on American cultural history as well as an original mind. Independent Lens, Global Voices | |
Estilo Hip Hopby Virgilio Bravo and Loira Limbal Estilo Hip Hop chronicles the lives of three hip-hop enthusiasts from Brazil, Chile, and Cuba who firmly believe that hip hop can change the world. Global Voices | |
The Flute Playerby Jocelyn S. Glatzer and Christine Courtney The heart-wrenching journey of a survivor of Cambodia’s killing fields, and his work to heal himself and his country through music. POV, Global Voices |
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