Screening Room
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ZUZANA: MUSIC IS LIFE is the triumphant story told by Zuzana Ruzickova, 90, and how she became a world famous harpsichordist and interpreter of Bach under the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia after surviving four concentration camps during her teenage years.
HARVEST OF EMPIRE dives into the controversy of why people from Latin America have been driven to come North
THE PENGUIN COUNTERS follows a rag-tag team of field biologists to Antarctica, where climate change has impacted penguin populations.
INTO THE LOST WORLD for Nat Geo scales vertical peaks 2,000 feet high in search of unimagined new species.
BEHIND THE ICE WALL follows Tibetan children on a 100-mile journey down the frozen Zanskar River in temperatures of -40F. Discovery, Canal+ & ZDF.
HUGO CHAVEZ'S BLACK MAGIC for HDNet World Report is where faith, politics and magic collide, deep inside the secret cult of Maria Lionza
MOCHE MURDER MYSTERY brings a homicide detective to Peru, to discover how and why a population was tortured in ancient times. National Geographic Explorer
BASEBALL'S SECRET FORMULA for Discovery Science, shows how statistics, not performance, can predict the outcome of the World Series.
IN SEARCH OF KENNEDY'S PT109 for Nat Geo tells the extraordinary story of the discovery of JFK's WW2 boat in the South Pacific.
LIFE OR DEATH ON DENALI is a two hour special for National Geographic Explorer that follows rescue teams over a full season of climbing
web & Promos
TEHRAN DC: Axis of Dialogue
CHANGE - Addiction treatment at Caron Renaissance is driven by methods far from the norm.
FIGHT LIKE A MAN - A promo for a work in progress about the making of Afghan Girl Boxers
I SPEAK ARABIC - A series of portraits about people learning to speak Arabic.
DAI
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
Conservation International filmed in Chiapas, Mexico
BLIND PASSION - Blind soccer players around the world vie to compete in global tournaments.
SHALE COUNTRY - In a series of photo essays, rural Americans say how shale gas has impacted their lives in ways they could never have imagined only a few years back.
LIBD
PATRICIA - Planning for the future, produced as part of a short series about long-term care for AARP.
USIP
SERIES
CLOSER TO TRUTH is a PBS series about the cosmos, consciousness and meaning, now in its 16th season with Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
SHANGHAI EXPO is a five part series about the world class designers of the biggest world's fair to date.
CHINA'S CHALLENGES is a five-part, Emmy Award-winning series about the challenges faced by the most populated nation on Earth. Two seasons co-produced with KCET.
Oldies But Goodies
BEHIND THE ICE WALL in Ladakh, India for Canal+, ZDF and Discovery. This is about Tibetan children in the hidden Himalayan kingdom of Zanskar. When King Nima Norbu realizes that the modern world will never come to them, he arranges for children to take the 100 mile journey down the frozen Zanskar River to the city of Leh, where they will attend school. In temperatures of -40F, sleeping in caves, one mis-step is a life and death matter. 50m
HUGO CHAVEZ'S BLACK MAGIC in Venezuela for HDNet. Every Columbus Day aka Day of the Indigenous People, 10,000 people gather on a mountainside in Venezuela, where they are possessed by historical deities in the name of Maria Lionza. This is the largest trans-possession cult in South America. Filmed in 2007 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, 40m
GHOSTS OF THE KILLING FIELDS in Cambodia for Discovery. A Cambodian hill tribe is finally able to perform a ritual they haven't practiced in decades, to rid their midst of bad spirits left over from the days of Pol Pot's killing fields, and a B52 that crashed near their homes. 50m
THE NEW RASPUTIN in Vladivostok and Novosibirsk for Channel 4 UK. Spiritual awakenings sweep the former Soviet Union with the fall of Communism. Nearly 100 years after the Revolution, the notorious Boris Zolotov, a mathematician and self-proclaimed sex-guru, ties past traumas to the ecstasy of new beginnings, by bringing roomfuls of women to orgasm using telepathy. 40m