On the Braden Beat

Things We Don't Talk About: Women's Stories from the Red Tent is a 72-minute documentary film. Spontaneous and organic, a Red Tent is a red fabric space where women gather to rest, renew, and often share deep and powerful stories about their lives. The film weaves together healing narratives from inside the Red Tent to shine a spotlight on this vital, emergent, women's movement. The Red Tent movement is changing the way that women interact and support each other by providing a place that honors and celebrates women.

Estimates of 200,000 homeless dogs spend their short lives on the streets and beaches of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory. Project Animal Worldwide based in Monmouth County, New Jersey, seeks to help these 'Sato' (mixed breed) dogs. The Documentary portrays the plight of the Satos and how Project Animal and animal welfare leaders in Puerto Rico are working together to help the Satos by creating spay and neuter interventions, humane education programs and even bringing the dogs to mainland USA for adoption. Special appearance by Cesar Millan, who speaks about the desperate need for global spay and neuter programs.

Jealous of the Birds is a feature length documentary that provides a new angle and new stories to the pantheon of Holocaust related documentaries. The film focuses on the emotional history of a small community of Holocaust Survivors who remained in Frankfurt, Germany after liberation from Nazi death camps, and asks the question, 'Why would a Survivor choose to remain in Germany -- shoulder to shoulder with their perpetrators?'

In a salmon-colored living room, a seventy-year-old sadomasochistic literature writer narrates her turbulent sexually explicit life story, once as a pseudonym and once as herself.

An actor hits the wall with ego and vices in the modern times and decides to pursue the answers to happiness. A docudrama with extraordinary interviews and insights to wisdom.

Dramatic Escape follows inmates at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Upstate New York, as they attempt to mount a behind bars production of A FEW GOOD MEN. Tracing the inmates' steps from auditions through their curtain call, we are witness to their journey - both as individuals and as a players ensemble. All of the obstacles involved with putting on a stage production on the outside become all the more difficult behind bars. Hear the inmates' stories and candid retelling of the crimes that landed them in prison. Witness their everyday struggle with what they have done and listen as they contemplate whether redemption is ever achievable either to themselves or to the outside world.