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- At a time when voter frustration is mounting, there's finally a good news story about money and voting: COUNT ME IN highlights an innovative experiment in direct democracy that gives ordinary Chicagoans direct say over local public projects and monies. Pioneered in Chicago, participatory budgeting is rapidly spreading across the country and even the White House recently made it one of its key recommendations for open government. The first in-depth documentary about this burgeoning national movement, COUNT ME IN tells the compelling character-based stories of regular Chicagoans who are rolling up their sleeves to make an impact in their neighborhoods. The film shows residents pitch ideas for street repairs, bike lanes, or community gardens. Projects get researched, proposals crafted, and at the end, the entire community is invited to vote.
- For a quarter-century, Henry Brockman has worked alongside nature to grow delicious organic vegetables on his idyllic Midwestern farm. But farming takes a toll on his aging body and Henry dreams of scaling back. While his former apprentices run the farm, Henry spends a "fallow year" with his wife Hiroko in Japan. But things don't turn out as planned, and Henry must grapple with the future of farming in a changing climate on personal, generational, and global levels.
- This engaging short documentary uses a trove of oral history interviews, archival photos, broadcast and music recordings to paint a portrait of Rev. Clay Evans (1925-2019), an important leader in the Civil Rights movement, award-winning Gospel Music artist, and a trailblazer in broadcast ministry. Staring down the hopelessness of the Jim Crow South and the wrath of Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley during the 1960's, Rev. Evans founded Chicago's legendary Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, "the Ship," where he pastored for 50 years. Evans challenged the norms of political and church leadership, televised the nationally-acclaimed "What a Fellowship Hour," and is widely regarded as Chicago's Pastor. Features interviews with Reverend Evans, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., Lou Della Evans-Reid, Father Michael Pfleger, Congressman Bobby Rush, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr, Mayor Richard M. Daley, and many others.
- At the edge of Chicago, where the steel mills once operated, sits an abandoned toxic slag hill that's been harming people, wildlife, and waterways for decades. Set against a backdrop of urban wilderness that's both seductively beautiful and poisoned, The Hills uses a lyrical lens to connect legacy pollution to current environmental struggles.