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"Revolution", Noelle Lilley
"Revolution", Noelle Lilley
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When faced with gun violence in 1990s Canarsie, one 17-year-old carried his community on his back. “Revolution” chronicles the rise and fall of the Canarsie arts youth-led movement, Team Revolution, and the man at the center of it all: Divine Bradley.
Vidigal Nights: Big Dreams In A Small Favela, Christina Thornell
Vidigal Nights: Big Dreams In A Small Favela, Christina Thornell
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This 14-minute documentary follows Tatiane and Rafa, two aspiring actors in Rio de Janeiro's favela of Vidigal in Brazil. They are both performing in “Noites de Vidigal” (Nights of Vidigal) a community play about their favela and the challenges it has faced in the last decades. As we follow Tatiane and Rafa while they rehearse and perform, viewers are offered a window into their lives and the world around them.
Tatiane and Rafa aren't just aspiring actors but community members who experience firsthand the joys and hardships of living in a favela.
Vidigal, the favela Tatiane and Rafa live in, …
Iron Tower, Laura Bult
Iron Tower, Laura Bult
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The current state of higher education in prisons in the U.S., as a reflection of our changing attitudes about the purpose of incarceration, as told by the story of Clyde Meikle, a man with a life sentence in Connecticut who is a student in Wesleyan's Center for Prison Education, a liberal arts program.