Season 12

1. The Legacy

1999-06-01 · 60m

2. Well-Founded Fear

1999-06-05 · 60m

Well-Founded Fear is a 2000 documentary film from directors Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini. The film takes its title from the formal definition of a refugee under the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, as a person who deserves protection, "owing to a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.” The film analyzes the US asylum process by following several asylum applicants and asylum officers through actual INS interviews.

3. Golden Threads

1999-06-08 · 60m

4. In My Corner

1999-06-22 · 60m

5. The Green Monster

1999-06-29 · 60m

6. Rabbit In The Moon

1999-07-06 · 60m

7. Corpus: A Home Movie For Selena

1999-07-13 · 60m

Corpus: A Home Movie about Selena is a film by filmmaker, Lourdes Portillo about Mexican American singer-songwriter Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. It places emphasis on the transformation of Selena from a popular entertainer into a modern-day saint and role model. This documentary uses authentic home videos, news stories, footage from concerts and a debate between intellectuals to analyze the effect of Selena and Selena’s murder at the hands of Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her fan club.

8. School Prayer: A Community At War

1999-07-20 · 60m

9. The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez

1999-07-27 · 60m

The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez is a TV episode/documentary film directed by Gary Weimberg and Catherine Ryan.

10. Regret to Inform

2000-01-24 · 60m

Regret to Inform is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Barbara Sonneborn. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film was made over a span of ten years. The documentary features filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn as she goes to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. Her translator is a fellow war widow named Xuan Ngoc Nguyen and together try to understand their losses. The film includes interviews with Vietnamese and American widows.