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Clinica De Migrantes
''Clinica de Migrantes'' is a 2016 HBO documentary short produced by Third Party Films that investigates the intersection between immigration and healthcare through the work of Puentes de Salud, a volunteer-run network of clinics providing preventive care to the Latino community of South Philadelphia. It has won several awards, including the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films Best Documentary Short Award and the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival Norman Vaughan Human Spirit Award (2016). Overview In ''Clinica de Migrantes,'' director Maxim Pozdorovkin looks at Puentes de Salud, a South Philadelphia clinic serving undocumented immigrants. Dr. Steve Larson and his team face numerous obstacles as they strive to help the community attain healthcare, when even a basic checkup is fiscally out of reach for many of the patients. The staffers treat approximately 10,000 patients each year, with little funding and space. As they plan on moving to a new facility, the viewer ...
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South Philadelphia
South Philadelphia, nicknamed South Philly, is the section of Philadelphia bounded by South Street to the north, the Delaware River to the east and south and the Schuylkill River to the west.The Political and Community Service Boundaries of Philadelphia
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A diverse working-class community of many neighborhoods, South Philadelphia is well-known for its large population, but it also contains large
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Palm Springs International Festival Of Short Films
The Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films (a.k.a. Palm Springs International ShortFest) held annually in Palm Springs, California is the largest film festival for short films in the United States.Los Angeles Times
anuary 12, 2000 The Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films takes place across seven days each June, showing more than 350 short films every year, and hosting a Short Film Market with over 3,000 new short films annually. It also presents a three-day program of seminars, master classes, panels and roundtable discussions with free admission for all filmmaking and industry guests. An AMPAS qualifying Festival, PSISF has hosted 97 short films in its 19-year history that went on to secure Oscar nominations in the short film categories. The Festival of Short Films is a
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Telluride Mountainfilm
Held every Memorial Day weekend since 1979, Mountainfilm is a documentary film festival that showcases nonfiction stories about environmental, cultural, climbing, political and social justice issues in Telluride, Colorado. In 2000, Mountainfilm started touring its films and speakers internationally with Mountainfilm on Tour. Mountainfilm has since added Mountainfilm for Students, an educational component for schools across the country with free screenings of festival films that are supported by customized educational materials. Mountainfilm also funds Mountainfilm Commitment Grants, annual grants for filmmakers, photographers, artists and adventurers. The History of Mountainfilm Mountainfilm began in 1979 when Telluride was completing its transition from a hard-rock gold and silver mining community to a destination resort and ski town. Lito Tejada-Flores, after screening his adventure and mountaineering film ''Fitzroy'' at the Trento festival in Italy, and Bill Kees, a local c ...
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Maxim Pozdorovkin
Maxim Pozdorovkin is a Russian-American filmmaker based in New York. He is the director of ''The Truth About Killer Robots'', an HBO documentary that premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. ''The Truth About Killer Robots'' was described by The Guardian as "the year's most terrifying documentary". His film '' Our New President'' premiered at Sundance 2018 where it won a Special Jury Award. Variety also listed it as one of the ten best films from the festival. Pozdorovkin's other films include: '' Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer'' (Emmy winner), '' The Notorious Mr. Bout'' (Sundance 2014), '' Clinica de Migrantes'' (HBO). Upcoming feature documentary ''How to Rob Banks For Dummies'' is currently in post-production. Along with Joe Bender, Pozdorovkin co-founded Third Party Films, a Brooklyn-based production company. Pozdorovkin holds a PhD from Harvard University and is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He appeared on ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart ...
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema. The festival is a program of the Center for Documentary Studies, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) at Duke University. This event receives financial support from corporate sponsors, private foundations, and individual donors. The Presenting Sponsor of the Festival is Duke University. Additional sponsors include: A&E IndieFilms, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, National Endowment for the Arts, Merge Records, Whole Foods, Hospitality Group (parent company for Saladelia Cafe and Madhatter Bakeshop and Cafe), and the City of Durham. The festival began in 1998 with no more than a few hundred patrons and has grown tremendously since then. Full Frame is now considered to be one of the premier documentary film festivals in the United States. The Festival was founded by Nancy Buirski, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor of ''The New York Times'' an ...
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Documentary Films About Immigration To The United States
Immigration has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the history of the United States. In absolute numbers, the United States has a larger immigrant population than any other country in the world, with 47 million immigrants as of 2015. This represents 19.1% of the 244 million international migrants worldwide, and 14.4% of the United States' population. According to the 2016 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, the United States admitted a total of 1.18 million legal immigrants (618k new arrivals, 565k status adjustments) in 2016. Of these, 48% were the immediate relatives of United States citizens, 20% were family-sponsored, 13% were refugees or asylum seekers, 12% were employment-based preferences, 4.2% were part of the Diversity Immigrant Visa program, 1.4% were victims of a crime (U1) or their family members were (U2 to U5), and 1.0% who were granted the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) for Iraqis and Afghans employed by the United S ...
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