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The Backstage of Tradition is a story about the transformations on and of the stage transferred into a secular world. It is a story about the ultimate stage- the human face and its transformations.

Two inspiring real-life stories are intertwined with never-before seen footage of Billy Graham talking about heaven, filmed at his North Carolina mountain home. We never know what we truly believe until it's a matter of life and death. Billy Graham, along with firefighter Cheyane Caldwell and Laurie Coombs, a young woman forced to face the reality of death, share the Gospel message, and what really happens when we die.

This video documents the imaginative exploration of fifteen six-year-olds on a journey in Highland Park, East New York, Brooklyn. Each group, dressed in its own shade of orange clothing, discovers a mysterious seed sculpture/house hidden in the woods. The children spontaneously explore this object and play amongst themselves, creating meaning for the box and their relationship to it. The children's voices provide a meditative narration that runs throughout the video, allowing viewers to get inside the children's minds as they go together on a poetic adventure.

Intimately and exuberantly, AUGUST TO JUNE is a voice for values we are on the brink of losing in the single-minded pursuit of higher test scores for our students! In the era of No Child Left Behind rigidity, we spend a year in a public school classroom happily going against the current. The film follows 26 8-10 year-olds as they write poems, raise chickens, resolve differences, and find their own voices. With humor and poignancy AUGUST TO JUNE reveals some of the complexity involved in a meaningful education, and gently asks audiences to stop and consider how we achieve the goal of curious and creative adults able to support a democratic society.

Can the family survive? A space in jeopardy. A family in jeopardy.

Documentary exploring the wide range of nonprofit organizations that operate in Santa Barbara County, California.