FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted families, cultural alienation, drugs and violence. Neighborhood teenagers responded by organizing into street groups known to the members as "families", but labeled in the most alarming terms as violent gangs by the press. The documentation of these lives over a twenty-year period offers a remarkable perspective on life in the ghetto (spanning four generations), and the means that people devise to cope from the time that they are children to when they serve as parents and role models for a new generation.
In the ‘poor crescent’ around Brussels one child in three lives on the poverty line. But they can fi...
Gangstresses, a documentary by Harry Davis, tells the story of violence, poverty, and survival in th...
Last Man Standing takes a look at Death Row and how L.A.’s street gang culture had come to dominate ...
The Fall of the I-Hotel brings to life the battle for housing in San Francisco. The brutal eviction ...
Intimately following 1st and 6th graders at a public elementary school in Tokyo, we observe kids lea...
A film about the cultural evolution of the Sydney beach side suburb of Maroubra and the social strug...
The story of Severino, a man who tries to escape the misery and the drought prevailing in the rural ...
When the 2004 tsunami hit the coast of Sri Lanka, 65-year-old Anton Ambrose's wife and daughter were...
The history of warfare as it relates to global Black society, broken down into 7 chapters that exami...
Santiago Mitre co-directs his first movement following The Student together with choreographer Onofr...
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
A documentary film that highlights two street derived dance styles, Clowning and Krumping, that came...
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the ...
In the midst of a catastrophic steel industry collapse, a remarkable grassroots community effort lea...
NYC Graffiti Documentary "Kings Destroy" straight from the boogie down Bronx and right into your liv...
J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will ...
Successful model Samira Hashi makes an emotional return to Somalia, one of the most dangerous places...
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each wa...
The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced pe...