Films about family & society
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Sept. 3, 2018
A mother yearns to escape the hardships of Cuba for a potentially fatal American dream.
Feature Film
Encore Broadcast: Aug. 20, 2018
Parents of a boy on the autism spectrum form a competitive swim team, recruiting other teens on the spectrum and training them with high expectations and zero pity. A co-presentation with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: Aug. 6, 2018
A rural poet becomes a sudden star in China, whose writings ponder life, love and pain.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: July 26, 2018
Glenda fell for Lauree at a time when both women felt societal pressure to pursue traditional paths. Though fate interfered with their plans to enjoy a late-in-life reunion, Glenda never forgot what it felt like to be loved by Lauree.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: July 26, 2018
Camaran Henson grew up thinking his grandfather possessed super powers. Now that his grandfather is gone, Camaran remembers large and small ways the man lived up to his legendary status.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: July 26, 2018
A San Antonio bishop believes he is his family’s dispenser of spiritual wisdom, until he is reminded by his aging abuelita that there are some things only our elders can truly grasp.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: July 26, 2018
Caught in a thoughtless act of cruelty, a young man learns a lesson in compassion from his father, a larger-than-life tribal leader of the Caddo Nation. Years later, he passes that lesson down to his own son.
Short Film
Digital Premiere: July 26, 2018
Sometimes it takes a great love to make you feel like you belong. Lyle Link wasn’t cut out for farming, but in his marriage to a fellow adventurer he found his purpose.
Short Film
PBS Premiere: July 23, 2018
A portrait of Beatrice Vio, a Paralympic fencing champion.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: July 16, 2018
Lindy starts a journey looking for the 11 jurors with whom she sentenced a man to death.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: June 25, 2018
A Korean opera singer leads his children’s choir to produce a musical in India.
Feature Film
PBS Premiere: June 18, 2018
An intimate film capturing eight years in the life of a black family from Philadelphia.