Early this year, some friends from church approached me about organizing a
monthly film night. They had just finished remodeling their single-family home
in Brooklyn, and they were feeling generous towards their neighbors,
Brent Renaud [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1863692/] is an award-winning
documentary filmmaker whose work has shown at numerous festivals, and broadcast
on HBO, PBS, CBS, the Discovery Channel, the Discovery Times Channel,
Nurturing, stimulating, enriching, challenging: these are the words used to
describe nursery programs for children as young as two years old. It sounds
wonderful until you realize that the culture surrounding pre-school programs
Shortly after the dawn on August 7, 1974, a 24-year-old Frenchman named Philippe
Petit stepped off the South Tower of the World Trade Center and onto an
illegally rigged highwire. Within the next
Made In America is a documentary film that explores the history and current
realities of gang life in Los Angeles, California. While we’ve become accustomed
to some pretty challenging topics on screen
