S9.E8 ∙ Episode #9.8

Starting from a budget of zero and a handful of students, Formula Slug takes a leap to design, fund, and engineer a working race car in under a year for the Formula SAE competition.

What medical care could you afford on less than a dollar a day? The Space Between examines the effects of poverty on healthcare through the stories of four individuals struggling with life-threatening illnesses in a Kenyan hospice. When underfunded and understaffed hospitals cannot keep up with demand, the Living Room hospice steps in to provide compassion, hope and relief for those suffering and ensures that there is dignity in death for those at the end of their journey -- regardless of their economic background.

In a Montreal high school, 9 young students with atypical paths are brought together around a drama therapy project which aims at providing a voice for marginalized groups. In the course of their meetings, questions unfold around the curious institution that is the 'polyvalente' or public high school. The film discusses without detours the taboos and the difficulties that encounter a youth marked the violence of the world. Searches for meaning, drugs, mental health, performance issues, critiques of society, freedom, radicalism... these young people open up through theater and claim ownership over their words and their space, shattering the stereotypes usually tied to adolescence.

A documentary segways into the nuances of effects of employment, its unending domino effect there on. Its a regular rosy 'daily news paper' story saga of percentages or statistics, the documentary has a soul and human angle to the modern day ever perturbing 'unemployment'. Its not a story told by a management guy sitting behind the 'glassdoors'., its story ran with the real people, job seekers and their stifles'. The documentary tells about which ever the way unemployment comes to you, it stings and pierces it fangs into your personal freedom, thought and well being. It speaks about unemployment effects globally, not specific to US or any one country. A jobseeker at a employment center have no clue about world economy, recession, they don't understand how system works, all they care about is their life, their family, children. The documentary focuses on individual's feelings and aspirations for a better life. An example of VA skill source center and VA employment office, explained how they functions and processes. Orientation, counseling, training systems at skill source centers are explained in detail.

In Kisangani, a group of high-school students who cannot afford to pay the teachers' "bonuses" organized themselves to prepare the State exam together.

Three people struggle for safety, connection and dignity in the hidden world of contact improvisation dance. Dancers surmount shame, past traumas and perceived physical limitations as they explore the physics and chemistry of a dance form that involves an extraordinary amount of touch and vulnerability.