Season 2

E1. Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors

Oct 6, 2000 · 60m

NOW & THEN is a four-year journey through the American rite of passage known as college. This feature-length documentary follows ten undergraduates at Stanford University from move-in day to graduation, from their last days as teenagers to their first days as adults.

E2. No Hair Day

Oct 10, 2000 · 60m

Three breast cancer survivors discuss their fight against breast cancer and the emotional and physical stages of the disease.

E3. Short Stories

Oct 16, 2000 · 60m

Documents the trials and triumphs of three families in which some or all of the members are dwarfs.

E4. Born in the USA

Oct 23, 2000 · 60m

Three out of every four Americans becomes a parent, yet most of us have never really considered what having a "normal" birth means. How much technology is appropriate for most women? Is the full range of safe options available, and to whom? How do we decide what is best for us? BORN IN THE U.S.A. explores the landscape of current maternity care through the eyes of three caregivers: an obstetrician working at a teaching hospital, a licensed midwife attending home births, and a certified nurse-midwife bridging both worlds in an urban, out-of-hospital birth center. This provocative film raises questions about technology, safety, quality of care, and current childbirth practices in America.

E5. Girl Gone Bad

Oct 30, 2000 · 60m

A gripping documentary about the extraordinary world of biker women, an amazing group few of us know anything about. An intimate wild ride with hard-core biker Dusty, a native-born Apache, ex-felon, ex-go-go dancer, and a single mother of three as our guide. Outriders and outlaws, club mamas, Dykes on Bikes, biker babes, weekend warriors, each character we meet along the road struggles to defy traditional stereotypes in the sexually charged world of motorcycling, and in the process, establishes her own uncompromising identity.

E6. Passing Through; Graham's Diner

Nov 6, 2000 · 60m

Passing Through follows Nathan Adolfson—a.k.a. Chai Chee Man, his Korean birth name—as he searches for his identity between two worlds. In the comic drama Graham's Diner, a workaholic photographer contemplates selling the diner where her family is employed.

E7. The Return of Navajo Boy

Nov 13, 2000 · 60m

The Return of Navajo Boy is a documentary film produced by Jeff Spitz and Bennie Klain about the Cly family, Navajo who live on their reservation. Through them, the film explores several longstanding issues among the Navajo and their relations with the United States government and corporations: environmental racism, white supremacy, media and political representation, off-reservation adoption, and denial of reparations for environmental illnesses due to uranium mining in Monument Valley, Utah, which was unregulated for decades. Bill Kennedy served as the film's executive producer; his late father had produced and directed the earlier silent film The Navajo Boy, which featured the Cly family.\nIn 2000, the film was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival. It has won numerous awards.

E8. Music in Their Bones

Nov 20, 2000 · 60m

The program explores the mountain music of Sand Mountain in rural Alabama. This music tradition is woven into the simple lives of the southerners, proud people who live their music and rely on it to tell the stories of their lives.

E9. In Harm's Way; Carved from the Heart

Nov 27, 2000 · 60m

In Harm's Way is an experimental film exploring how the experiences of adulthood both defy and reinforce the lessons of childhood. In Carved from the Heart, a Tsimshian carver turns personal grief into a community art project.

E10. A Wok in Progress

Dec 4, 2000 · 60m

This video journal chronicles the intertwined stories of Paul Kwan, a Chinese filmmaker and gourmand who came to the United States from Vietnam 25 years ago, and his sister Diana, a recent immigrant from Hong Kong and a struggling entrepreneur. This personal documentary is both a stand-alone program and the third in a trilogy that probes the American immigrant's experience through the unlikely perspective of Paul's personal relationship with food. Through this program, the twin passions of Kwan's youth — food and films — provide a language to mourn cultural loss as well as retrieve cultural memory.