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America Reframed Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 2017 - 2017
Episode 1
A New Color - The Art of Being Edythe Boone
Tue, Feb 14, 201756 mins
The life and work of self-taught artist Edythe Boone. Filmed over five years, follow the spirited and captivating septuagenarian who became an artist/activist simply because empowering and building community is "the right thing to do." Ultimately, Boone's mission is to empower individuals and transform communities through art and activism.
Episode 2
70 Acres in Chicago
Tue, Feb 21, 2017
Explores the effects of the Plan for Transformation, an order requiring the demolition of Chicago's public housing high rises, and the building of mixed-income condominiums. "70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green" illuminates the layers of socio-economic forces, and the questions behind urban redevelopment and gentrification taking place in U.S. cities today.
Episode 3
Radical Grace
Tue, Mar 14, 2017
In 2012, The Vatican censured American nuns. "Radical Grace" follows three U.S. nuns, who refused to back down and continued to challenge the patriarchal system, are willing to lose it all and risk their place within the Catholic Church for their devotion to social justice and to meet their higher calling - to apply their faith to action.
Episode 4
Enter the Faun
Tue, Mar 28, 2017
The culmination of an intensive two-year collaboration between veteran choreographer Tamar Rogoff and Gregg Mozgala, an actor with cerebral palsy. Their creative exploration, at the intersection of science and art, led them to discover that his diagnosis and physical limitations were not necessarily fixed and immutable.
Episode 5
Good Luck Soup
Tue, May 9, 2017
For filmmaker Matthew Hashiguchi, growing up half Japanese/half Italian in a white Irish-Catholic neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, was a difficult experience. In GOOD LUCK SOUP, Hashiguchi sets out on a journey to discover how the rest of his multi-racial family made sense of their lives and their Japanese American heritage.
Episode 6
Unbroken Glass
Tue, May 16, 2017
Things happen to you when you're a kid, says filmmaker Dinesh Sabu, "and you make sense of it after." Sabu is ruminating on his parents' deaths, which came when he was 6 years old. Two decades later, worried that he has no memories of his mother and father, he turns a camera on his brothers and sisters, trying to understand their parent's lives and tragic deaths. It's a journey that takes him back to India, a country he barely knows, and it forces him to think about the mental illness that seems to run in his family.
Episode 7
Breathin' - The Eddy Zheng Story
Tue, May 23, 2017
Eddy Zheng came to America with his family when he was 12 years old. Then at the age of 16, he committed a horrible crime: home invasion and kidnapping. Year after year he hoped for parole, and after almost 20 years in prison, Zheng was released, a model prisoner who wanted to become a community leader. But his victims insisted he should still be deported.
Episode 8
Vegas Baby
Tue, Jun 27, 2017
The Sher Institute in Las Vegas is holding a contest. First prize: a free round of in-vitro fertilization - but even for the winners, there's no guarantee of success. VEGAS BABY follows the journeys of three families so desperate to have a child, they're willing to take the gamble. This may be their last chance to have a baby.
Episode 9
Oxyana
Tue, Jul 11, 2017
Set among the hills and hollers of Appalachia, Oceana, WV looks like a rural paradise. But this community is under siege: a raging epidemic of prescription drug abuse is so deadly that residents have nicknamed the town "OXYANA." A close-up look at people who live from one pill to the next, and a harrowing vision of today's AnyTown, USA.
Episode 10
Care
Tue, Sep 5, 2017
90% of Americans want to age at home, but many of them have to rely on paid care workers because their families can't provide the support they need. CARE illuminates the many challenges and deep attachments that can be formed between the elderly and the home care workers they depend on - and exposes the cracks in a system that is poorly serving both.
Episode 11
Night School
Tue, Sep 12, 2017
Every year, over a million students drop out of high school. They may complete their graduate equivalency degrees, but then they discover they're still struggling to get good jobs. For some in Indianapolis, there's another option: a night school program that will get them their full high school diploma - if they can complete a tough curriculum.
Episode 12
We Breathe Again
Tue, Sep 26, 2017
Suicide - one of the leading causes of death for Alaska Natives. Almost every family has lost brothers, sisters, parents, and children to it. We Breathe Again introduces four Alaska Natives who are trying to break free from their families' histories of trauma and suicide, creating a new, more positive trail for their communities.
Episode 13
Farewell Ferris Wheel
Tue, Oct 10, 2017
Carnivals have a delightful place in the American imagination, with childhood memories of family fun, fantasy, and summer love. But rising expenses and changes in U.S. labor patterns mean this national pastime is nearly extinct. FAREWELL FERRIS WHEEL is an inside look at the struggles of an industry trying to stay alive by employing Mexican migrant workers with a controversial visa.
Episode 14
Deej
Tue, Oct 17, 2017
DEEJ is the story of DJ Savarese, a gifted, young writer and advocate for nonspeaking autistics. Once a "profoundly disabled" foster kid on a fast track to nowhere, DJ is now a first-year college student who insists on standing up for his peers: people who are dismissed as incompetent because they are neurologically diverse. Will Deej be able to find freedom for himself and others like himself?
Episode 15
On a Knife Edge
Sat, Oct 7, 2017
The coming-of-age story of George Dull Knife, a Lakota teen growing up on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation. Inspired by his family's history of fighting for justice for Native Americans, George is focused on shutting down liquor stores in Whiteclay, a tiny town nearby that exists only to sell beer to the reservation's vulnerable population.