Documentary

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From My Heart to Yours

Sep 2020

From My Heart to Yours
2019 | Directed by Erica Jones and Stuart Roelke

“From My Heart to Yours” provides an intimate look at how the availability and use of opioids have impacted the lives of many individuals throughout New England. It also offers an opportunity to see how the City of Somerville is working with the community to stamp out stigma by supporting the many individuals that are involved in recovery.

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Andrew Raftery: Autobiography of a Garden on Twelve Engraved Plates

Sep 2019

2017 | Directed by Richard Goulis

Eight years in the making, the artist Andrew Raftery, known for his masterful narrative engravings, tells the story of his most recent project, an autobiographical, self portrait on twelve ceramic platters. Each platter represents a month of the year and depicts a task Raftery does in his mother’s garden in Providence, Rhode Island. Fascinated with Victorian era transferware pottery, Raftery developed a new technique with students and fellow faculty at The Rhode Island School of Design for putting his meticulously engraved images onto the ceramic plates.

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You Could Use That

Sep 2019

2018 | Directed by Dan Harris

With incredible authenticity, Belle Flint illustrates her journey through life as an actress, writer, choreographer and trans woman. Growing up in Harvard Massachusetts, she discovered a passion for writing and performing arts at a young age. During Fitchburg State’s 2018 theater production “The Women of Lockerbie,” she connected with an incredible community of fellow actors, and the empowerment they found together channeling their life experiences into the characters they portray. Through her craft, Belle shows us the amazing healing power of art, and how it brings us together through shared experience.

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UpReach Therapeutic Equestrian Center

Sep 2019

2019 | Directed by Liz Klein & Bob Pierce, LightStream Associates

UpReach Therapeutic Equestrian Center is a short film highlighting the work of a New Hampshire based non profit that provides physical, emotional and psychological equine therapy to children and adults.

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DS Bicycles

Sep 2019

2020 | Directed by Justin Roy

A documentary on DS Bicycles, a bicycle repair shop that’s a hotspot for young bikers in Irving Park, Chicago.

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Coastline

Sep 2019

2019 | Directed by Gus Hawley

Coastline is a film about a young man’s passion for fishing and his journey to catching the fish of a lifetime.

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KWABENA

Sep 2019

2018 | Directed by Déwun Owusu

Narrated & captured by filmmaker Déwun Owusu, the short film ‘Kwabena’ drops you in the middle of a once in a lifetime event. Powered by mystery, revelation and raw emotion, ‘Kwabena’ expressively captures an extraordinary human experience that sticks with you long after the conclusion of the short.

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Murder in Mobile

Sep 2019

2019 | Directed by Adam Fischer

In 1948, in Mobile, Alabama, a black man named Rayfield Davis is beaten to death by a white man who is not prosecuted. The crime is forgotten until 2012, when the investigation is revived by a Northeastern law student. Her discoveries lead to a shocking conclusion.

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Recipe For Disaster: Green Crabs In The Great Marsh

Sep 2019

2019 | Directed by Nubar Alexanian

When faced with an invasive species and the prospect of ecological devastation, residents along the New England coast are in search of a sustainable solution to save the marsh.

Recipe For Disaster tells the story of the little-known invasion that is threatening an entire New England ecosystem, and the struggle of local experts and residents to understand and prevent this catastrophe. Driven by the rising temperatures in the Gulf of Maine, billions of green crabs have overrun the abundant natural marshes on coastal Massachusetts, decimating the populations of clams, scallops, mussels, and eelgrass that birds and fish depend upon to survive. In just a few short years of explosive population growth, the damage caused by green crabs has local residents and experts rushing to avert irreparable destruction with approaches such as transplanting eelgrass and paying fishermen to trap the crabs for compost.

The most promising solution, however, is popping up on gourmet restaurant menus in the form of green crab roe.

This short, powerful documentary film explores one aspect of the consequences of climate change that are echoed in coastal communities around the world, with stunning footage of the beautiful marshes and estuaries whose salvation may come on a dinner plate.

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Meet The Artist: Melissa Glick

Sep 2019

2018 | Directed by Sara Pagiaro

Melissa Glick artist working from the Artisan’s Asylum Somerville, MA transforms old computer parts and recycled paper into assemblages, mosaics, tiles and clocks.

For more information see: www.hackercreations.com

Directed, produced and edited by Sara Pagiaro; Interview & sound by Sam Bruce; Music by Saul GuanipaArtisanal Asylum. Produced for Cambridge Community Television.