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- Documentarian Melody Gilbert follows the daily lives of three girls -- a 3-year-old Minnesotan, a 7-year-old Norwegian and a 10-year-old German -- who share an extremely rare disease: congenital insensitivity to pain. Despite seeming like a possible blessing - sufferers cannot feel when they are burning their hands, cutting their feet, even a broken bone - so they lack that warning sign by which sudden pain alerts the rest of us to the danger, causing us to jump back, let go of a hot pan, or otherwise protect ourselves from further harm. In this way, pain actually protects us, by functioning as a very effective warning signal. For children then, especially, lacking this signal becomes extremely perilous and requires just absolute constant protection and many injuries are made worse by not alerting the child to, for example, pull their hand back from a hot stove and so on.
- A documentary about abandoned, neglected, or otherwise "off limits" places...and the people who explore them.
- It's a family reunion - what could go wrong? Plenty, as we soon learn when Rita Davern exposes an ugly reality at the heart of a family legend. Her family members have always been proud to say that their great grandparents once owned Pike Island, a beautiful piece of land at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers. But when Rita relates what happened to the people who lived there before, some family members react with understanding, others with arguments and anger. Rita's attempts to understand what happened and why leads her on a journey that requires facing the complicated legacy of westward expansion in the U.S. Along the way she meets Ramona, a Dakota educator and activist. What Ramona's ancestors experienced because of U.S. government policies puts faces and names on this story. Rita listens and learns. She wants to find a way to put something right. We learn the value of finding and facing the past by watching her journey.
- Worlds apart; a five-star chef; a twelve year-old girl; and a retired schoolteacher discover how their individual efforts to feed the poor ignite a movement in the fight against hunger.
- Married at the Mall is a documentary that features an assortment of lovebirds who tie the knot at the Chapel of Love in the Mall of America. It's a story that answers the question: "Who would get married at a mall?" Minnesota filmmaker Melody Gilbert spent a year videotaping this documentary featuring quirky personalities, offbeat love stories and traditional bliss in an untraditional setting. Find out who gets married while everyone else is shopping. Vegas, shmegas!
- Every day for the past 23 years, Michael has taken a single picture with a film camera. Each image, more than 8,000 and counting, carries special meaning and is organized by date and stored in suitcases and plastic containers at his farm in rural Minnesota. He has never shown them to anyone, but now, as he struggles with the possibility of losing his memory, he ponders his obsession and wonders: Who will care when he's gone?
- In 1981, my mom was living a vibrant life when she was diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of cancer. As the illness quickly progressed, she recorded her thoughts to process the unfathomable. For 39 years I kept the tape secured safely with me through every move, but I remained unable to bring myself to listen to it. In 2020, I finally pressed play. What I heard was a deeply moving and shockingly intimate document of the full gamut of emotions my mother felt during what turned out to be her final weeks. I processed my emotions the only way I know how-by making a film. Incorporating mixed media, AI photos, dance, animation, and motion graphics, I reach across the decades to partner with my mother in creating a moving meditation on living and dying. Through her words, we experience the beauty of life- and her yearning to live and love- even as she approaches death. It's like a secret path to a world we don't know about.
- Documentary film detailing the life of former American Vice President Walter "Fritz" Mondale.