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Driftless by Danny Wilcox Frazier
producer/editor

As the economies of rural communities across America fail, abandonment is becoming commonplace Driftless explores a Midwest that resides in shadows, a people quietly enduring America’s new economic reality.

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Condition: Critical by Médecins Sans Frontières
producer/editor

Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run, fleeing a war raging in eastern Congo in the provinces of North and South Kivu. They are frightened. Many are sick or wounded. Others have been harassed or raped, or have had everything they own stolen. For more than a decade, several armed groups and the army have been fighting each other in the Kivus. The violence has made it impossible for people to lead normal lives. Life isn’t just hard in the Kivus: this region is in critical condition. And things aren’t getting any better. The destiny of everyone in this region of Congo is shaped by the war. The story of their struggle to survive needs to be told.

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Rape of a Nation by Marcus Bleasdale
producer/editor

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is home to the deadliest war in the world today. An estimated 5.4 million people have died since 1998, the largest death toll since the Second World War, according to the International Rescue Committee (IRC). After successive waves of fighting and ten years of war, there are no hospitals, few roads and limited NGO and UN presence because it is too dangerous to work in many of these regions. The West’s desire for minerals and gems has contributed to a fundamental breakdown in the social structure.

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Never Coming Home by Andrew Lichtenstein and Zac Barr
producer/editor

As soldiers and marines perish in Iraq, headlines and funerals mark their passage. Never Coming Home details a deeply personal and public bereavement, and shows a portrait of grief and sacrifice of families with a hole in their lives, nothing but memory where once there was a living son and brother. Originally published on MediaStorm in 2005, Never Coming Home has been expanded to include never-seen-before stories from several other American families who lost loved ones in Iraq.

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Love In The First Person: by Matt and Melissa Eich
co-producer

In Love in the First Person Matt and Melissa document their life together as they share their thoughts and fears on the sudden changes in their future. In the span of a year, Matt, 20, won College Photographer of the Year, Melissa, 19, discovered she was pregnant, they married and moved to Portland for Matt’s internship.
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Finding the Way Home: Two Years After Katrina by Brenda Ann Kenneally
producer/editor

What does it take for a family to start over? Photojournalist Brenda Ann Kenneally documents the seemingly endless struggles some families face as they set about Finding the Way Home: Two Years After Katrina.

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Black Market: by Patrick Brown
producer/editor

Black Market is an in-depth look into the wildlife trade, the third largest illegal trade in the world. A driving force behind the trade is the ancient belief that animal parts contain “magical” properties. Although science has largely disproved these superstitions, these illegal practices continue.

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The Party by Eric Maierson
writer/director/co-editor

In The Party, a middle-aged man tries to share his sadness with an adolescent woman – a colleague’s daughter – that he’s just met at a company party. A short, fictional film about honesty and everything that gets in the way.

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BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family by Kristen Ashburn
producer/editor

BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family is Kristen Ashburn’s intimate look at the harsh reality of the AIDS pandemic in Africa. Her images remind us how tenuous our connection is to each other. In doing so, they show that what matters most is the care extended to those in need.

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Iraqi Kurdistan by Ed Kashi
producer/editor

Iraqi Kurdistan is an expansive look into the lives of the Kurdish people of northern Iraq. These images provide an alternative perspective on a changing culture, one different from the discord that dominates so much media coverage of the region.

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Kingsley’s Crossing by Olivier Jobard
producer/editor

In Kingsley’s Crossing, a 23-year-old lifeguard from the impoverished town of Limbe, Cameroon, dreams of a better life in Europe. He embarks on a harrowing journey that takes him halfway across Africa. Photojournalist Olivier Jobard documents the passage.

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