The Kelly File

Into the Current tells the story of Burma's unsung heroes -its prisoners of conscience -and the price they pay for speaking truth to power in a military dictatorship.

Lebenverse is a multi-medium 'living verse' that engages the issues of historical construction and its entangled relation with individual memory, social identity, political agency, and personal media. The documentary moves from the intersection of the first Persian Gulf War and the Rodney King incident to current digital landscape issues surrounding Iraq War videos, the Oscar Grant Oakland BART murder case, and the Iranian 'twitter revolution'. Beginning in Los Angeles, I drove across the country to film and explore sites of personal and historical memory, from the small Georgia military town of my childhood to the Carolinas, Washington DC, New York, Ohio, and Chicago. Conducting interviews with veterans, scholars, and activists along the way, the film creates a dialogical space for intervening in our assumptions of media and power. In exploring these geographical spaces, the film grounds the issues of identity, politics, and history within material conditions of socio-economic life while questioning our developing relationships with new media technologies and online social spaces.

What's happening in Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, Lybia, Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire? Guinea has experienced these same events in 200, but its story has been hidden, isolated between an army which has always been close to the regime and the indifference of both the Media and the International Community. From the biggest revolt of the Guinean population against the military regime in 2007, through the military Coup d'Etat in 2008, to the first "democratic" elections in the Country in 2010. During 4 years Chiara Cavallazzi has followed the Country's history from the inside, showing us reality as lived by the Guineans and comparing it to the news gave by the Media and the International Community's interventions.

The Iraq war has been a prime subject for documentary filmmakers. IN SERVICE: Pittsburgh to Iraq, presents a different side of the story as seen through the eyes of Western Pennsylvanians serving as soldiers, government officials, and journalists. The film weaves war footage shot by the soldiers themselves, interviews, and still photography into a cohesive narrative of how world events affect local communities and touch the lives of our friends families and neighbors. From surviving roadside bombs to interrogating Saddam Hussein, individuals recount their tales unfolding on an international stage.

A journey of discussion bringing out the anxieties, laments and grievances of a cross section of people from the Tamil community, ranging from eruditions to politicians to former Tamil militants.

Two Cambodian-American members of rival gangs in small city in America take a journey of transformation to try and change their reality by going back to Cambodia together to learn about their history.