Monk in Pieces

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Visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame hostile critics to become one of the great artists of her generation. In her seventh decade of creativity, she ponders how such singular work can go on without her.

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This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a dark and difficult masterpiece and the deeply gifted and flawed people who made it. It is about New York in a troubled era of cultural ferment and social change.

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From executive producer John Legend:In 1960's Louisiana, a black teenager named Gary Duncan, after being arrested for touching a white boys arm, challenged the systemic racism of Louisiana and took his fight for justice all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Generation Startup takes us to the front lines of entrepreneurship in America, capturing the struggles and triumphs of six recent college graduates who put everything on the line to build startups in Detroit.

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A shofar blower, a gun shop housed in a former synagogue, and eleven hundred mitzvahs weave this intimate tapestry of a community rebuilding after eleven people are brutally murdered inside their synagogue for being Jewish.

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Paper Children reveals America’s invisible refugee crisis through the eyes of one family that defies a broken system with their unwavering resilience.

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Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rape investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice.

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This film will present the men and women of Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) as individuals, first and foremost; and not as “ex-convicts” or “offenders”.

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Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother die in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a “new old” single mother at 50. Overnight, she’s pushed to deal with her “stuff”: 63 boxes of her parents’ heirlooms overwhelming her office-turned-future-baby’s room, the weight her mother had begged her to lose, and the reality of being a half-century older than her daughter.

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Obsessed with Light is a film about transformation. It's about a Midwestern vaudeville performer, born during the Civil War, who became a world-famous star of Belle Époque Paris with her elaborate productions of ephemeral, shape-shifting abstractions.