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Reel Midwest
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Reel Midwest

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 2, 2019

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 2, 2019

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

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Episode 1 • Jan 02, 2019
Inquiring Nuns
Two young nuns explore Chicago-from a supermarket to the Art Institute to the front of churches on Sunday-to confront people with the crucial question, "Are you happy?" The answers they get range in sincerity and depth.
Episode 2 • Jan 09, 2019
Diverse Voices
This collection of short films follow the life and times of a variety of everyday people, including a shoeshine technician, a magician, a skateboarder, a mom-and-pop hardware store owner, and more. Films include: Shinemen, The Amazing Mr. Ash, and Parts and Labor.
Episode 3 • Jan 16, 2019
Vietnam, Long Time Coming
Back in 1998, the World T.E.A.M. (The Exceptional Athlete Matters) took a 16-day, 1,100 mile bicycle expedition through once war-torn Northern and Southern Vietnam. For the veteran athletes, the ride is more of an exorcism than a race.
Episode 4 • Jan 23, 2019
Now We Live on Clifton
10-year-old Pam Taylor and her 12-year-old brother Scott grew up in a multiracial Chicago neighborhood, but they worry that they'll be forced out of the neighborhood by the gentrification following the expansion of DePaul University.
Episode 5 • Jan 23, 2019
Winnie Wright - Age 11
Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher, lives in a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black. As her family struggles with racism, inflation, and a threatened strike, she learns what it means to grow up white, working class, and female.
Episode 6 • Jan 30, 2019
My Sister Hali
After 50 years of burying the past, Paul Sheriff returns to his childhood hometown of Blue Mound, Illinois to reconstruct the pieces of his extraordinary childhood filled with Olympic dreams and catastrophic loss.
Episode 7 • Feb 06, 2019
The Gun Shop
Go behind the scenes at a gun shop in Michigan where customers come to get advice, handle the weapons, and practice at the on-site shooting range. Each has their own rationale for wanting to own a gun, some thoughtful, and some shocking. All are thought-provoking.
Episode 8 • Feb 13, 2019
On Beauty
In hopes to change the way we see and experience beauty, fashion photographer Rick Guidotti refocuses his lens on those too often relegated to the shadows. His photos challenge our narrow scope of beauty and the dehumanizing black-bar convention of medical textbooks.
Episode 9 • Feb 20, 2019
In the Game
This Kartemquin documentary film, directed by Peabody award-winner Maria Finitzo, follows the ups and downs of a girls' soccer team on Chicago's South side, and reveals the very real obstacles that low-income students face in their quest for higher education.
Episode 10 • Feb 27, 2019
The Way to Andina
A witty personal documentary about the discovery of a long lost opera written by a pioneering Colombian-American immigrant composer, and his great-grandson's comical attempt to put the show on for a world premiere 80 years after it was written.
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