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- In early 2012, 75 actors and one theater director, all inmates at Angola Prison and Louisiana Correctional Institution for Women, came together to put on the performance of their lives. The cast and crew, made up of murderers and robbers, thieves and prostitutes, and no doubt a few wrongly convicted, prepared two yeas to put on a public performance of the life of Jesus Christ in the largest prison production of a Passion Play ever. CAST THE FIRST STONE is a feature documentary about the most powerful and popular story in history. In a place with little hope of freedom, where 95% of the men who enter the gates perish, the story of a man who sacrifices his life to save the wretched of the Earth, resonates deeply.
- Ten years after filming The Farm, Jonathan Stack returns to Angola prison and reconnects with the cast from the original film.
- Like so many in Liberia's long and gruesome civil war, the true number will never be known, but it's estimated that 30-40% of the combatants were women and girls. Illiteracy, chaos, and brutality prevented all but a few from partaking in UN-sponsored disarmament programs. These young women witnessed and participated in unspeakable violence, and were almost universally and brutally raped. How do societies and individuals heal the profound psychic wounds such acts inflict? Jonathan Stack's intimate journey with them captures the courage and dignity with which these women seek their own path to forgiveness and redemption - to, in the words of one, "become a human being".
- Filmmaker Brock Labrenz, associate artist with The Forsythe Company, present's Vesper, a film that blends abstract dance and cinematic values to tell the physically exquisite and emotionally charged story of six dancers. The piece takes the audience on a journey through a futuristic dance landscape where the filmic elements and heightened physicality work in tandem to weave a tapestry of tonality ripe with reflection and interpersonal growth. It features choreography by Stuart Loungway & Brock Labrenz and captures performances by Terra Firma Dance Theatre.
- Capturing the game-changing power of cellular telephones to deliver financial services to the poor in earthquake ravaged Haiti, teams are building on models developed in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa. Commissioned by the Sundance Institute and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, this short piece highlights the potential of low-cost cellular technology to serve the poor.