Discover the world through someone else’s eyes.
On Film The Jangling Man: The Martin Newell Story With these four documentaries, we invite you to explore untold stories and histories. They’ll introduce you to a group of teens growing up in foster care, a beloved British musician, and folks who are doing the hard work of protecting people’s rights to vote and protest.
Check out the projects below and dream about your other, possible selves. And keep scrolling for a link to watch a Kickstarter-funded documentary about the magazine that shaped a generation of rock 'n' rollers.
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| By Shaun Kadlec This intimate coming-of-age documentary follows teenagers Alex and Mia through their tumultuous high school years in foster care, as they strive to ultimately graduate from college. View project |
| | | By James Sharp and Jim Larson Bringing to light the amazing career and life work of UK-based musician Martin Newell, this documentary will feature unseen performances, behind-the-scenes footage, and interviews with legendary musicians and poets. View project |
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| By American Issues Initiative Narrated by Jeffrey Wright, Rigged takes a close look at voter suppression and the strategy to reverse the rising demographic tide of minority voters in the United States. Help the filmmakers find and inform people wrongly purged from the voting rolls. View project |
| | | By Danny Alpert and Ray Nowosielski In 1981, 11,345 air traffic controllers stood in solidarity on the picket line, defying President Ronald Reagan’s order to return to work. He fired them en masse, and changed the American workplace forever. This documentary will tell the story of the PATCO strike through the eyes of those who lived it. View project |
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| Directed by Scott Crawford Capturing the messy upheaval of the ’70s, just as rock was reinventing itself, this documentary explores Creem magazine’s humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows its upward trajectory from underground paper to national powerhouse, then bears witness to its demise following the tragic and untimely deaths of its visionary publisher, Barry Kramer, and its most famous alumnus and genius clown prince, Lester Bangs.
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