This is a feel good story out of Africa. For more than 20 years, an amazing permaculture project has been working in Zimbabwe. Where once the people of the Chikukwa villages suffered hunger, malnutrition and high rates of disease, this community of seven thousand has turned its fortunes around. During this period they have built what is probably the biggest continuous permaculture site in the world today. Complementing permaculture strategies, they...

We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises, without knowing where it is going and without trying to plan the itinerary'...It is only now that we are beginning to realise how accurately these words describe the contemporary global society. But it has been fourteen years since Zygmunt Bauman wrote them in his In search of politics. This foresightedness is not unusual for someone...

Iceland crowd-sourced its constitution online in a rare eruption of optimism among the 2008 financial crisis. Blueberry Soup is a feature length documentary at the epicenter of one of our time’s exciting movements: the Icelandic "People's Movement".. Jaws dropped around the world in October, 2008 as a small collective of bankers brought the global economy to its knees and a small nation’s everyday citizens rose in response by rewriting its constitution....

An urgent wake-up call about the national threat posed by Alzheimer's disease. Many know the unique tragedy of this disease, but few know that Alzheimer's is also a major and rapidly growing public health crisis. This documentary powerfully illuminates the social consequences for America unless a medical breakthrough is discovered for this currently incurable disease.

In CULTS AND EXTREME BELIEF, Elizabeth Vargas, alongside former members of controversial organizations, goes on a search to uncover how these sects use their influence to prey upon people’s desperation to create powerful and often destructive belief systems. Each episode will take an immersive look at one currently active group through the eyes of past devotees and get perspective from believers and leaders that are still inside.

A film documenting Havana's vibrant community of underground drag racers and their quest to hold Cuba's first official car race since shortly after the 1959 Revolution. HAVANA MOTOR CLUB tackles how Cuba’s recent reforms have affected the lives of these racers and their families.. One racer enlists the help of a Cuban American patron in Miami to bring in parts for his modern Porsche. His main competitor is a renowned mechanic who uses ingenuity...

Savannah Burton is an actress from Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. She’s found great success from landing a role on the television show, Beauty and the Beast.

Marie Little is inspired by a trip to Cuba to “live as Marie full time.”

E-cigarettes have been called the next generation cigarette and vaping the newest way for teens to start smoking.Studies state that 1 in 4 high school students have already tried e-cigarettes. Teens who vape are more likely to start smoking than teens who don't and nonsmoking teens who start vaping are 3 times as likely to start smoking cigarettes. Vaping is on the rise amongst teens. Vaping does encourage teens to start smoking. It poses a serious...

Cuddle parties, snuggle houses, cuddle therapy … have you ever heard of such a thing? From Alabama to Colorado to San Francisco to Wisconsin to Oregon and to New York, the cuddling movement is growing bigger and bigger and faces an uphill climb in mainstream acceptance. This new documentary explores this revolutionary trend in restoring basic human needs in a world where human touch seems to happen less and less..