Pro-Democracy Pod

Story Swap brought together high school students from New Orleans and Haiti as partners to share an important story from their lives that has transformed or changed them. Each pair shared their stories via video conference and most of them spoke about their experiences with Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti Earthquake. The students were then asked to rewrite their partner's story and create an art piece that reflected the story they had heard. By receiving the story of another, making it their own and, then exchanging the recreated stories and visual art piece, participants experienced the transformative process of walking in another's shoes and sharing the view they saw from another's eyes. The documentary provides an inspirational overview of the Story Swap experience.

Himalayan villagers in the Jaunpur district of India have been able to remain self-sufficient in their isolated mountain range for the past few centuries. They must now choose between staying home while facing increased obstacles, and moving to the cities thus losing their culture and departing from loved ones. A group of international boarding school students explore this issue while delving into their own parallels of leaving India.

A documentary about middle class Hispanic families who have lost their homes and are living on the streets without knowledge of their family or loved ones because of the foreclosure and the subsequent job crisis in the USA.

Hard days of Russian businessman and his son.

This is a story about a young couple in love and excited about what life has to offer. Ann Marie is a beautiful young lady who has seemingly found her modern day prince charming Daryl, who is a loving husband and hard working. Life is going just fine until Ann Marie surprises Daryl with some news of her own. Lets just say there is an extra addition to the family. Of course this changes the couples outlook, and their ultimate plans. Meanwhile there daughter turns out to be a wonderful blessing, until Ann Marie decides to follow her dream and pursue college without her family in Chicago, which is a long ways away from Portland Oregon. How will Daryl handle the pressure of her leaving?