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Project Type: Documentary

  • Digital Dharma

    A film on the preservation of Sanskrit and Tibetan texts With this feature film, I want viewers to quickly move from asking why to wanting to learn how: how the

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  • A documentary about converting gangs into faith communities In Guatemala and elsewhere in Central America, a wave of criminal violence has replaced the politically motivated violence of the 1980s and

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  • Nationalism 2.0

    A film on social media, nationalism, and the Indian diaspora India is home to the second-largest online user community globally. Its global diaspora adds to its expansive scope. Sahana Udupa’s film

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  • Tim Slade’s film describes how assaults against a society’s infrastructure lead to the annihilation of its people The history and culture of a people are not just preserved in their

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  • A Study of Refugee Resettlement in Italy Narrating Authentic Refugee Experiences What does it mean to accompany someone? Is “integration” always the correct word? What is “culture clash?” Can a

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  • Two films that showcase the struggles of Indonesian women The Indonesian Pluralities project, created by Robert W. Hefner and Zainal Abidin Bagir, was a multimedia initiative focused on studying pluralism

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  • Josee Molavi’s film explores the unbreakable connection between a land, its people, and the spiritual world In September 2017, Hurricane Maria ripped through the Caribbean. Of the 3,059 deaths caused

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  • When the Forest Weeps centers the Kichwa people’s fight to preserve life in the heart of the Amazon “They will have to assassinate us to enter here. As long as

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  • A film series on equality and faith in post-pandemic Indonesia Indonesian Pluralities is a film, print and multimedia project that explores cultural and religious diversity, democracy, and civic coexistence in

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  • This documentary examines climate change as a driving force of migration from Central America to the United States In the city of Quetzaltenango in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, a

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