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  • Gringo-thon: The Films of Greg Berger

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Greg Berger's award-winning films and lectures address critical social and political issues concerning grassroots movements in Mexico, as well as relations between the United States and Mexico.  His films include […]

  • “Operation: Dreamland” with Filmmaker Garrett Scott

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Occupation: Dreamland is an unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraq city of Fallujah during the winter of 2004. A collective study of […]

  • Journalist Dahr Jamail of Iraq Dispatches

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    In late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people, Dahr Jamail went […]

  • Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Al Otro Lado”

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Thousands of people try to cross the Mexico/U.S. border every year. Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side) directed by Natalia Almada, tells the human story behind illegal immigration and drug […]

  • Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: “Awake Zion”

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Awake Zion (Monica Haim) is a documentary that explores the unsuspecting connections between Rasta, Reggae, and Judaism, through one woman's beat-laden adventure into the meaning of identity. All the way […]

  • Prison Activist Robina Courtin and “Chasing Buddha”

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Chasing Buddha (2000) is a documentary by acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson about Robina Courtin, an Australian ex-Catholic, ex-political activist and feminist who has been a Buddhist nun since 1978. […]

  • “Tying the Knot” with Filmmaker Jim de Séve

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Jim de Séve's 2004 documentary Tying the Knot digs deeply into the meaning of marriage today. From an historical trip to the Middle Ages, to gay hippies storming the Manhattan […]

  • “The Trouble With Music” with Author Mat Callahan

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Mat Callahan's The Trouble with Music (2005) explores the crisis facing music. The signs are everywhere, from the saturation of public space by tuneful trivia to the digital downloading controversy. […]

  • “Quantum Leaps” with Video Curator Astria Suparak

    Quantum leap, a physics term deriving from the mid 1900s indicating significant and swift advances (originally via a sudden shift in energy within an atom), became the title of an […]

  • Prometheus Radio Project Presents “The Spectrum Roadshow”

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    The creation of the Low Power FM radio service stands as one of the greatest successes in recent efforts for grassroots media reform. As a result, hundreds of new low […]

  • “Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony” 

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Lee Hirsch's 2002 film Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony documents South African musicians, playwrights, poets and activists as they recall the struggle against apartheid from the 1940s to the 1990s that stripped black citizens […]