When ancient writings of Sanskrit and Tibetan texts vanish during the political turmoil of the 1950s and 1960s, the history of a whole society is in danger of disappearing. Digital Dharma chronicles the 50-year journey of E. Gene Smith, a Mormon from Utah, the unlikely leader of an effort to rescue, preserve, and share 20,000 volumes of ancient Tibetan text; an epic of one man's mission that became the catalyst for an international movement to provide free access to the story of a people.

Director/Producer/Writer: Dafna Yachin
Writers: Timothy Gates, Arthur Fischman
Executive Producer: Dafna Yachin, Bill Harris (Consulting EP)
Lunchbox Communications
82 min. India/USA/Nepal/China
Website/Trailer | Filmmaker Interview

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• FRI 8/17 3:40 pm, 9:55 pm
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Garden in the Sea is a documentary about art, landscape, and environment. Over a period of four years, the director followed Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias to the Mexican Sea of Cortez where she was commissioned to create an underwater sculpture that gradually would help enhance marine life. Expanding the form of a classic portrait, the film talks not only about the role of art but also about human passion, experiences, and longings and makes the stunning beauty of our world tangible inviting us to care for it.

Director/Writer: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Producer: Manuel Arango
Executive Producer: Rodolfo Ogarrio
Mexican Foundation for Environmental Education
69 min. Mexico
Website/Trailer

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• FRI 8/17 1:45 pm, 6:15 pm
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• SUN 8/19 1:35 pm, 8:15 pm
• MON 8/20 12:00 pm, 4:15 pm
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• THU 8/16 1:45 pm, 6:05 pm

Narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash), in what The Washington Post calls an "artfully shot documentary," La Source tells the uplifting story of Josue Lajuenesse, a Haitian Princeton janitor who returns to his country after the devastating 2010 earthquake to revive his lifelong dream to bring what is most fundamental to his village's survival; clean water.

Director//Producer/Writer: Patrick Shen
Producer/Writer: Brandon Vedder
Producer/Executive Producer: Jordan Wagner
Executive Producers: Christian Tureaud, David Salzberg, Regina Manian, Nancy Luyen
Transcendental Media/All Cut Up Films
71 min. USA/Haiti
Website/Trailer

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• FRI 8/3 2:35 pm, 7:20 pm
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• SUN 8/5 12:05 pm, 4:35 pm
• MON 8/6 2:35 pm, 7:15 pm
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The PS22 Chorus from Staten Island became a YouTube sensation when their teacher started posting videos of them singing on his blog. At their annual Holiday Concert they received a surprise visitor. Anne Hathaway was there to invite them to be the featured performance at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards! Once in a Lullaby follows these lovable fifth-graders from the streets and hallways in Staten Island to the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, where creative differences, lost voices, and homesickness threaten their performance.

Director/Producer: Jonathan Kalafer
Producers: Steve Kalafer, Bao Nguyen
New Jersey Pictures
86 min. USA
Website/Trailer | Filmmaker Interview

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• FRI 8/3 1:45 pm, 7:30 pm
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• SUN 8/5 3:30 pm, 9:40 pm
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Scars are like tattoos—but with better stories. TRIAL BY FIRE: Lives Re-Forged follows the journeys of extraordinary people who survive critical burns and rise above their injuries to discover a transformed worldview. A firefighter endures a 1500 degree inferno; a teenage athlete engulfed in flames triumphs against all odds; an oil worker survives an incredible refinery blast; a race-car driver's miraculous comeback from a fiery wreck; an honors student caught in a chemistry class explosion; and a mother burned at home dedicates her recovery to her children. All are given context and perspective by burn survivor and Dancing with the Stars Champion, J.R. Martinez. When you forge metal with fire, it becomes stronger. The same is true of the human spirit.

Director/Producer/Writer: Megan Smith-Harris
Writer/Executive Producer: Bill Harris
Pyewackitt Productions
88 min. USA
Website/Trailer | Filmmaker Interview

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• FRI 8/3 4:55 pm, 9:25 pm
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• SUN 8/5 2:15 pm, 9:15 pm
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Djeferson, Bárbara, Rayana, and Platini live in a drug controlled slum of Rio de Janeiro. Their families are struggling, their homes are physically unstable, and everyone they know has dropped out of school. When a big-top circus tent suddenly appears in a nearby parking lot, they decide to take a chance. They learn trapeze, acrobatics, juggling, and contortion, and then audition for the end-of-year show, rehearse, and prepare for the curtains to part on opening night. Along the way, Without A Net explores the connections between risk, desire, poverty, and circus and celebrates the perseverance and resilience of youth in the face of tremendous odds.

Director/Producer/Writer: Kelly J. Richardson
Producer: John Antonelli
Live Wired Productions
60 min. USA/Brazil
Website/Trailer

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• FRI 8/17 3:10 pm, 8:10 pm
• SAT 8/18 12:00 pm, 6:20 pm
• SUN 8/19 3:00 pm, 9:55 pm
• MON 8/20 1:25 pm, 6:00 pm
• TUE 8/21 3:10 pm, 8:10 pm
• WED 8/22 12:00 pm, 6:20 pm
• THU 8/23 3:00 pm, 9:50 pm

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• THU 8/16 3:10 pm, 9:55 pm

Beauty CULTure explores how feminine beauty is defined and revered, and the consequences for female body image. Through an examination of the photography industry and iconic fashion images, the film investigates our age-old obsession with beauty, its biological origins, and the role of the media and technology in narrowing its definition with ubiquitous imagery. Fashion photographers, avant-garde artists, celebrated models, child pageant stars, body builders, teenagers, and intellectuals engage in a provocative dialogue about the "beauty contest" of modern life.

Director: Lauren Greenfield
Producers: Frank Evers, Shanah Blevins
Executive Producer: Frank Evers
Evergreen Pictures
31 min. USA/France
Website/Trailer

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• FRI 8/10 4:25 pm
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Director Sari Gilman tells the stories of five seniors living in a typical American retirement resort—men and women who came to Florida decades ago with their spouses by their sides and their health intact, and now find themselves grappling with love, loss, and the prospect of dying alone. A bittersweet look at our national obsession with self-reliance, Kings Point explores the dynamic tension between living and aging—between our desire for independence and our need for community—and underscores our powerful ambivalence toward growing old.

Director/Producer: Sari Gilman
Producers: Jedd Wider, Todd Wider
Co-Producer: Susannah Ludwig
Kings Point Documentary/Wider Film Projects
31 min. USA
Website/Trailer | Filmmaker Interview

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• FRI 8/3 12:05 pm
• SAT 8/4 4:35 pm
• SUN 8/5 6:45 pm
• MON 8/6 12:05 pm
• TUE 8/7 4:35 pm
• WED 8/8 12:05 pm
• THU 8/9 4:35 pm

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• THU 8/16 4:25 pm