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Publisher
New Day Films
Language
English
Description
This film captures two years in the lives of four disadvantaged fathers in New York City as they fight to defy the odds against them. And the odds are real - men living in poverty are more than twice as likely to become absent fathers than their middle-class peers (U.S. Census Bureau). DADDY DON'T GO is a tough but tender journey that aims to illuminate the everyday struggles of disadvantaged fathers. Alex, Nelson, Roy and Omar shatter the deadbeat...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
For the first time, the greatest singer-songwriters, authors and performers from Greenwich Village reflect on how they collectively became the voice of a generation. Through poignant interviews with the likes of Pete Seeger, Carly Simon, Judy Collins, Kris Kristofferson, Arlo Guthrie, Peter Yarrow, Michelle Phillips, and many more, plus rare archival footage and new live performances, Greenwich Village: music that defined a generation tells a story...
Publisher
New Day Films
Language
English
Description
The compelling stories of factories that flourish in Brooklyn, NY, challenge the notion that manufacturing is dead in America. Workers reveal how their jobs bring not only regular pay checks, but meaningful relationships, enhanced self-esteem, and pride in themselves and their products. Made in Brooklyn has lessons about the economy for the entire nation.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Anthropological in scope, sensuous in detail and emotionally resonant throughout, Foreign parts is an exemplary social record of Willets Point, an industrial graveyard of scrap heaps and auto shops in Queens, New York, that is scheduled to be demolished and redeveloped. Filled with scrapyards and auto salvage shops, lacking sidewalks or sewage lines, the area seems ripe for urban development. But Foreign parts discovers a strange community where wrecks,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
An astonishing documentary about a man who overcomes his disability one day at a time, Alan Govenar's new film reveals the extraordinary life of African immigrant Sidiki Conde. Sidiki lost the use of his legs to polio at age fourteen. Today, he balances his career as a performing artist with the almost insurmountable obstacles of day-to-day life in New York City. From his fifth-floor walk-up apartment, he traverses down the stairs on his hands and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
This intimate documentary follows Danny Meyer, one of America's preeminent restaurant owners, over a 12 year span as he struggles to open not one but two ambitious restaurants next to New York's Madison Square Park. Tabla and Eleven Madison Park, if successful, will join Union Square Café and Gramercy Tavern as the jewels in Meyer's crown. We follow the restaurateur and his team as they experience gut-wrenching construction delays, missed deadlines,...
Publisher
New Day Films
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn Matters reveals how a few powerful men tried to tilt the Brooklyn landscape in favor of big real estate at the expense of urban livability. Disregarding time-honored urban planning principles and manipulating a desperate need in the African-American community for jobs and affordable housing, they pushed their own interests forward--luxury housing and a 20,000 seat sports arena. The film poses vital, timely questions that are relevant to cities...
Publisher
First Run Features
Language
English
Description
In this extraordinarily intimate film, seven years in the making, we are taken into the depths of the Hasidim's joyous, sometimes harsh, and often beautiful world. With their use of the Yiddish language, their distinctive clothes and their strict observance to Jewish ritual and law, the Hasidim are considered by many an insular people with little connection to mainstream America. And yet their values are those that many Americans find most precious:...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
NOVA returns to Ground Zero to witness the final chapter in an epic story of engineering, innovation, and the perseverance of the human spirit. Ground Zero Supertower examines the new skyscraper, One World Trade Center, rising up 104 stories and 1,776 feet from the site where the Twin Towers once stood. NOVA also goes underground to see another engineering marvel taking shape here: the construction of the National September 11 Memorial Museum that...
11) The new public
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
In fall 2006, former DJ, point guard and teacher turned first-time principal, James O'Brien, opened a small public high school in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where 1/3 of residents live below the poverty line and the graduation rate is 40%. With infectious optimism, O'Brien and his team of eight undertook an unconventional approach and ambitious mission: Create a school with an arts-oriented curriculum that also emphasizes self-development, community...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we shine the spotlight on New York Fashion Week! Entitling her Spring 2015 DNKY collection “New York Nation,” Donna Karan celebrates to the eclectic make-up of contemporary urban life. At BCBG Max Azria, a carefree bohemian girl takes center stage. Plus, Tommy Hilfiger rocks the summer season by paying homage to the Beatles. Tommy gives the legendary style of the iconic Brit band an American edge.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we begin our world tour of the Spring/Summer 2015 collections! See the gingham, florals, and broderie anglaise on Oscar de la Renta's elegant spring runway. Carolina Herrera showcases contemporary garden styles, with photographic floral prints, techno fabrics, and mosaic evening gowns. Take a first look at the Badgley Mischka Spring 2015 runway! Plus, Monique Lhuillier debuts an iridescent, ultra-feminine...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we kick-off the Spring/Summer 2014 fashion season in New York City! Donna Karan journeys to India in search of an elusive scarf and returns with much more. The design legend talks to Videofashion about her East-meets-West collection. Narciso Rodriguez reinterprets the concept of modern proportion with refined femininity in organic patterned devore fabrics and pale blush tones. The duo behind Proenza Schouler,...
15) Stages
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Stages is a moving and surprisingly funny vérité exploration of the unexpected power of the simple act of storytelling. In New York City's oldest community center, a group of older Puerto Rican women and inner-city youth come together to create an original play out of the stories of their lives. Weaving together themes of immigration, identity, aging and coming of age, Stages offers an intimate portrait of an unlikely ensemble, transformed by the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, New York Fashion Week continues to steal the headlines! Miami to Manhattan, graffitied and collaged, street art has stylish impact on Donna Karan’s Spring 2015 collection. It’s a bouquet of laidback luxury from perennial favorite, Michael Kors! Kors, the king of comfort, makes sportswear classics optimistically chic for the upcoming season. Plus, Peter Som’s Pop Art prints create clean crisp summer...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery is a fascinating four part series that focuses on the history of the African American experience in New York, urban archaeology, and social activism. Part One - The Search, explores the search and discovery of the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. It examines the archeological dig that resulted in unearthing the remains of some 400 African men, women and children. Part Two - a History, presents...
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English
Formats
Description
There are 8,000 miles of roads and paths in New York City and for the past six years Matt Green has been walking them all – every street, park, cemetery, beach, and bridge. It's a five-borough journey that stretches from the barbershops of the Bronx to the forests of Staten Island, from the Statue of Liberty to Times Square, with Matt amassing a surprisingly detailed knowledge of New York's history and people along the way. Something of a modern-day...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Iris Baez, a Puerto Rican from the Bronx, never meant to become an activist. Kadiatou Diallo never meant to leave her home in Africa and move to the U.S., to fight for justice for her son. Doris Busch Boskey, a Jewish woman from the suburbs, never thought she'd become a spokesperson against police brutality. This film profiles three women from very different walks of life who find themselves united to seek justice after their sons are unjustly killed...
20) All this panic
Publisher
The Film Sales Company
Language
English
Description
Shot over a three-year period with unparalleled intimacy and access, ALL THIS PANIC is a feature length documentary that takes an intimate look at the interior lives of a group of teenage girls as they come of age in Brooklyn. A potent mix of vivid portraiture and verite, we follow the girls as they navigate the ephemeral and fleeting transition between childhood and adulthood. ALL THIS PANIC is a meditation on the mysterious, often painful, yet ultimately...
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