Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary), 6 min, Documentary
Directed and produced by Kirsten Kelly and Anne De Mare
Journey to the "Asparagus Capital of the World" to discover why one little vegetable is so important.
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Food Justice, A Growing Movement, 8 min, Documentary
Directed and produced by Martina Brimmer and Zora Tucker
Farmers become activists in the fight for food justice in West Oakland, California.
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Recycle, 6 min, Documenatry
Directed and produced by Vasco Lucas Nunes and Ondi Timoner
Poet Miguel Diaz transforms poverty into cultivation in the middle of a Los Angeles street.
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Inch By Inch: Providence Youth - Gardens for Education, 8 min, Documentary
Directed and produced by Ilana Friedman
Teachers and students in Providence, Rhode Island get their hands dirty and their lives enriched.
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Terminator Tomatoes, 5 min, Claymation
Directed and produced by Suzanne Twining
A farmer and his daughter get in too deep with a crop of genetically modified tomatoes.
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Young Agrarians, 8 min, Documentary
Directed and produced by Johanna Divine
Young people plant the seeds for a sustainable future in this portrait of organic farming in California.
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Profit Cola, 2:06 min, Animation
Produced by Mark Fiore for Parents Action for Children
All aboard! Ride the sugar rollercoaster with Profit Cola. Next stop: childhood obesity.
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Directed and produced by Liz Miller
When water costs soar, residents of Highland Park, Michigan, demand to know who will foot the bill.
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Don't Worry, 8 min, Puppet Expose
Directed by Emily James and produced by Fulcrum TV
Find out how Sunny D and “that purple stuff” are marketed to children as young as three.
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One More Dead Fish, 7:50 min, Documentary
Directed and produced by Allan and Stefan Forbes
Handline fishermen fight to survive in a rapidly globalizing industry.
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The Meatrix, 3:47 min, Animation
Directed by Louis Fox and produced by Free Range Graphics & Global Resource Action Center for the Environment
Will Leo the pig take the blue pill and remain in a fantasyland where quaint family farms produce food for our tables?
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The community website Craigslist.org has become one of the most popular sites on the Internet, boasting 10 million active users and 3 billion page views per month. "24 Hours on Craigslist" documents a random day-in-the-life on Craigslist.com in San Francisco, which has evolved into the world's largest community board since 1995.

On this day of August 4, 2003:

An Ethel Merman drag queen searches for the perfect backup band for her Led Zeppelin covers. A suburban professional woman assembles a diabetic cat support group. A couple seeks the perfect rabbi for their marriage. A would-be mother finds her ideal sperm donor. Doors for sale, one night stands, compulsive roommates, transsexual erotic services. The mundane and the sublime, the ridiculous and the profound, all come together to paint a portrait of a thriving, humanistic community in the midst of an ever-accelerating culture.

A Girl Like Me is part of the 6th annual Media That Matters Film Festival collection - download the entire collection.

Part of the Bay Area Video Coalition's youth film program, high school students directed, acted, and edited this short film.

A mother of two returns to her home and children in Bolivia after 15 years of working in Israel to make a better life for her kids, only to find her family members have become strangers. "A Working Mom" is a story that demonstrates the extremes that individuals will go to in order to save their families -- sometimes saving and losing them in the same act.

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Gavin Tartowski has been called a quack, a cult-leader, and a barista who sees himself as a guru. Looking for a support group to help him with his compulsion to wear extremely tight pants, Gavin was turned away from 12-step programs like AA, NA and GA.

“Why all the labels?” Gavin asks. “Why not put all problems under one umbrella?” “That is why I created A. I want to help people no matter what their challenges are.”

The group’s newest challenge is Benji, a troubled 35 year-old “huffer” whose mother has sent him to A. As the members struggle with Benji, they begin to work through their own inner-demons and start to see the value in their lives. Although Tartowski’s methods are less than orthodox, his ability to heal is indisputable.

This film is as life affirming as A itself.

Executive Produced by Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven, The Good German) and shot entirely against a green screen, "Able Edwards" is "Citizen Kane" in the 23rd century. A retro sci-fi story, "Able Edwards" is about the clone of a Walt Disneyesque entertainment mogul created to revive the glory days of his deceased predecessor's corporation. In the process of restoring reality entertainment to a synthetic, virtual world the clone realizes he has yet to live as his own man.

Stop-motion animated film about an android trapped inside of a large maze, fighting for his life and having to make difficult decisions.

This film is also included in the Carrotkid Films DVD that can be downloaded on Caachi.