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- A terrifying monster grizzly bear comes out of a blinding blizzard to feed on the trapped residents of an isolated town.
- From National Geographic Documentary Films, Academy Award-winning director Cynthia Wade, award-winning director Sharon Liese and executive producer Giannis Antetokounmpo, "The Flagmakers" poses one of today's most pressing questions: who is the American flag for? Employee-owned Eder Flag in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, sews and ships five million American flags a year. The flagmakers - locals, immigrants and refugees - stitch stars and stripes as they wrestle with identity and belonging. Sewing manager Radica, a Serbian immigrant, believes every flag has a soul. Ali, a war survivor from Iraq, is learning how to use a sewing machine after arriving in the United States just 90 days prior. Midwestern-born Barb's genuine friendships with her immigrant co-workers belie her staunchly conservative beliefs. SugarRay, a Black man born and raised in Milwaukee, reflects on his complicated relationship with this country. Each considers: What does the American flag represent in a changing nation and world, and for whom? "The Flagmakers" is an intimate glimpse into the people whose hands make America's most recognizable icon.
- In Oak Creek, Wisconsin on August 5, 2012, a gunman opened fire and killed six people in a Sikh gurdwara - the largest mass killing at a house of worship since the 1960s. The killings thrust the Sikh community into the national spotlight and this short film presents an intimate portrait of Oak Creek in the days and weeks after the shooting.
- With the metaphorical baggage inherent in violence, "Postfuture" uses the act and the outcome as opposing ends of a lever which is balanced upon the fulcrum of the perpetual moment to describe the explosive dynamism hidden within the intangibility of any given instant. The immediacy of pure existence, being continuously refreshed, is never to be revisited except in the form of idealized and corrupted memories. Weaving a braid of sepia-toned war propaganda with computer-enhanced demolition, "Postfuture" sets emotionally charged images, originally intended for the manipulation of mass consciousness, against artificially beautified demolition in a charged, dualistic manner. The message is not intended to actually appear in the visuals that are beating against each other, but rather in the immeasurable space between. The kinetic images, riding on a roller coaster of sonic abrasion, consistently strobe at a rate of 7.5 Hz, the same rate at which the human brain electromagnetically oscillates when in a deep state of meditation. When the viewer's mind successfully links with this sensory metronome, it will then be balanced between the conscious and subconscious states where it can most effectively accept suggestion.