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A 120 minute cinema movie, unique and coming from a country that still does not exist: The free Syria. While the western media focused on blood, sweat and tears, the Syrian freedom activists started produce many creative web shows and fantastic media artwork. Humor became a weapon against the almighty state-TV brainwash. Now the essential and best of these works have been put together into a sort of sarcastic quiz show addressing an English speaking public outside Syria in this full length cinema production.

"Deep Water Horizon" is an abstract animated short that did the festival circuit immediately following the BP Oil Spill of 2010. The entire piece is sourced from and representative of the disaster itself. The number of fish equal the number of days the spill continued, unchecked. The "music" is sourced from actual news reports, translated into midi notes and providing a somewhat unsettling soundtrack to a disaster. It is produced in Chromadepth 3D (use Chromadepth 3D glasses for best viewing).

Festival of short films made by university students and professionals from Chile and Latin America.

A profile of the damning legacy of forced species introduction in Patagonia.

In 2008, 37 death row inmates were executed. None of their organs was donated. Now consider that there are currently 2,775 people on the waiting list for a heart transplant. Graeme Wood makes the case for harvesting healthy organs from death row inmates.