Director: James Solomon
Run time: 89 min.
"On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was repeatedly attacked on a street in Kew Gardens, Queens. Soon after, The New York Times published a front-page story asserting that 38 witnesses watched her being murdered from their apartment windows—and did nothing to help. The death of Kitty Genovese, 28 quickly became a symbol of urban apathy. The Witness follows the efforts of her brother, Bill Genovese, as he looks to uncover the truth buried beneath the story. In the process, he makes startling discoveries about the crimes that transformed his life, condemned a city and defined an era."
—Publisher's description
Director: Vitaly Mansky
Run Time: 110 min.
"A rare, jaw-dropping glimpse of everyday life in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang: Zin-Mi is an adorable 8-year-old girl, who, as she prepares to join the prestigious Children's Union, participates in colorful, joyous patriotic school pageants, eats delicious evening meals at her family's well-appointed apartment, and is doted on by her attractive parents who work in model factories that regularly exceed their production targets. Sounds too good to be true? Of course it is."
—Publisher's description
Director: Brian Lindstrom
Run time: 57 min.
Call number: HV 5831 .O7 F56
"The
film follows two men and one woman leaving Portlands's Hooper Memorial
Detox, and entering the Recovery Mentor program , which provides clean
and sober housing, drug treatment, and--perhaps most importantly--a
mentor who knows first-hand what it takes to stay clean, stay out of
prison, and build a 'normal' life."
—Distributor's description
Directors: Carola Fuentes & Rafael Valdeavellano
Run time: 85 min.
Call number: HC 192 .C45 2016
"After the 1973 coup which brought Augusto Pinochet to power, a group of Chilean economists were given the power to turn Chile into a laboratory for the world's most radical neo-liberal experiments.
These men, including Sergio de Castro and Rolf Lüders, both of whom would serve as ministers of finance during the Pinochet years, met in the 1950s at the University of Chicago, where they studied under the famed economist Milton Friedman, and the man who would become their mentor, Arnold Harberger.
Chicago Boys is their story from their student days through the dictatorship, told by the Chicago Boys themselves. Could their program for 'economic freedom,' such a drastic restructuring of the Chilean economy, only have been implemented by an authoritarian regime? What were they willing to do to achieve their goals? And how do they see the long-term results today?"
—Publisher's description
Director: Phil Furey
Run time: 84 min.
Call number: HV6431 .S56 2016
"Furey weaves news footage from the bombing timeline and subsequent legal and political developments together with interviews with relatives of the victims, as well as family photos and home video, focusing primarily on the parents of college students who died in their early 20s. Some continue to express outrage over the shoddy treatment they say they received from Pan Am and US authorities. 'The State Department and the government tried to sweep this whole thing under the rug from day one,' says Pete Lowenstein, whose son Alexander died in the bombing."
—Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter (
full review here)
Director: James Solomon
