Conexión Samanta

A gripping look into the difficulties facing of the women of India and what is being done to counteract generations of oppression against them.

Bullied to Silence is a must see that provides hope and a path for change to anyone who has ever witnessed or experienced being bullied or a bully. More than a feature documentary, this 2012 film empowers you to Be the Change to stop verbal bullying. Bullied to Silence focuses exclusively on hateful and hurtful words and cyber bullying. It gives a voice to the bullied and allows dozens of youth from all walks of life, ethnicities, physical challenges, sexual orientations, communities and ages to tell their stories. Exclusive conversations with Tyler Clementi's first cousin; Casey Heynis of Australia, American Idol semi finalist Brett Loewenstern, WNBA Coach Bridget Pettis, International Bullying Expert Michel Borba, and many others present candid information never before disclosed. New research released.

Niels Deboos is fed up to the back teeth. Eurobonds, bankruptcy, corruption and reinless capitalism. The whole misery goes against the grain for Niels. He decides, to turn his back on the Federal Republic of Germany. Admittedly, without leaving the country. Instead, he succeeds to bring his weird plan to life. Together with Christian Darre and a handful of allies he founds his own state. Right outside of Berlin. The self organized society does not stay undiscovered for very long. But not only from the outside, also from the inside it starts to ferment. The collapse is beyond remedy. And a surprising breakthrough.

RWANDA & JULIET is a feature-length documentary that follows ivy league professor emeritus Andrew Garrod to Kigali, Rwanda, where he mounts Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet with Rwandan college students from both Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds. Twenty years have passed since the 1994 Genocide that left 1,000,000 Tutsis dead. Predominantly orphans, the cast of young Rwandans, led by a stunning, strong headed Juliet, tackle their country's past and their own future as hopes, expectations, pasts, personalities and cultures collide as opening night approaches.

Twenty Five people are convicted of murder and fourteen of them are sentenced to hang, one lawyer is assassinated and the other chooses exile in this dramatic story behind a notorious murder trial that marks South Africa's transition from the apartheid era to a new South Africa. Told through the perspectives of defense lawyer, Andrea Durbach, The Independent journalist, John Carlin, and the accused themselves, the story unfolds to reveal a landmark victory in legal history's biggest case on extenuation. A timeless and inspirational story about the fight for justice in a country where injustice was enshrined in law.

In creating The Breach I began to think of the symbiotic agreement Native Peoples had with salmon for millennia and how that has been compromised. There are hopeful restoration projects for repairing salmon runs - including the largest dam removal in US history on the Elwha River. But in thinking of what remains, my mind turned to Bristol Bay Alaska - where I'd spent those college summers 20 years before. Bristol Bay still has a perfect, healthy fishery, where 30-60 million wild salmon return each summer. They feed the land, animals and people of Bristol Bay, as they have for time immemorial. And they feed the world. Half the world's sockeye salmon supply comes from Bristol Bay. In the middle of all this, a Canadian mining company is attempting to construct North America's largest open-pit copper mine in the heart of Bristol Bay. I sought out tribal leaders, scientists, policy makers, fishermen, artists, authors and chefs - all with a shared knowledge and passion for wild salmon as cultural treasure, mystery from the sea and food for the planet. Many spoke of salmon surviving ice ages and earthquakes for millennia. Our shared journey is in asking if wild salmon have a chance of surviving us.