America ReFramedSezon 10
Through the lens of independent documentaries, America ReFramed brings to national audiences compelling stories that illuminate the changing contours of an ever-evolving America. The social-issue documentary series presents an array of personal voices and experiences through which we learn from our past, understand our present and are challenged to seek new frameworks for America's future. With weekly independent films, sometimes followed by provocative conversations led by host/moderator Natasha Del Toro, this series offers an unfiltered look at people rarely given a voice on national television. America ReFramed is co-produced by American Documentary, Inc. and WORLD Channel.
Where to Watch America ReFramed • Sezon 10
9 Episodes
- SapeloE3
Sapelo On Sapelo island, two young brothers, JerMarkest and Jonathan, are coming of age in the last remaining enclave of the Saltwater Geechee. As Sapelo’s storyteller and elder matriarch, their adoptive mother, Cornelia Walker Bailey, works to preserve what remains of her African-American community in the face of encroachment by property developers. - Daughter of a Lost BirdE4
Daughter of a Lost Bird Kendra, a Native adoptee, grew up assimilated in a loving, white family with little connection to her heritage. Now, as an adult with a family of her own, Kendra embarks on a seven year journey to find her biological mother, April, and return to her Lummi homeland. Together, Kendra and April, also a Native adoptee, navigate what it means to be Native and to belong to a tribe from the outside. - Geographies of KinshipE5
Geographies of Kinship GEOGRAPHIES OF KINSHIP weaves together the complex personal histories of four adult adoptees born in South Korea with the rise of the country’s global adoption program. Raised in foreign families, each adoptee sets out on a journey to reconnect with their roots, mapping the geographies of kinship that bind them to a homeland they never knew. - Chinatown RisingE6
Chinatown RisingWeaving together never-before-seen archival footage and photographs, CHINATOWN RISING reveals a deeply personal portrait of a San Francisco neighborhood in transition. Chinatown activists of the 1960s reflect on their years as young residents waging battles for bilingual education, tenants’ rights and ethnic studies curriculum that would shape their community and nation. - La Manplesa: An Uprising RememberedE8
La Manplesa: An Uprising RememberedThrough testimony, song, poetry and street theater, La Manplesa weaves together the collective memory of one of D.C.'s first barrios and dives into the roots of the '91 rebellion protesting the police shooting of a young Salvadoran man.
