SOCIAL ISSUES DOCUMENTARIES
NET CAFE REFUGEES
In mid 2000’s Japan, customers began living in internet cafes. Internet cafe refugees don’t make enough money to rent their own apartments.
THE SURRENDER
Stephen Kim was a top level state department intelligence analyst and one of the few to go to prison for leaking information to the press.
LINE 22
What happens when a public bus turns into an unofficial homeless shelter each night?
DUTERTE’S HELL
Since taking office President Rodrigo Duterte has been waging a deadly anti-drug campaign, which has resulted the killing of thousands of people suspected of participating in the drug trade.
THE CHINESE PRISONER’S CHILDREN
Three Chinese kids are shunned by their relatives after their father accidentally kills a child. In this powerful short doc, we see the fate of parentless children across China.
DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINS
Across China, millions of rural parents flock to major cities to work for most of the year while their children remain home.
GATEKEEPER
A retired police detective dedicates his life to preventing deaths at Japan’s suicide cliffs.
DANCING TOWARDS THE LIGHT
The winner of this annual dance competition in a small arctic town battle for their survival and the survival of the town.
TALLER THAN THE TREES
Masami Hayata is a Tokyo man delicately balancing his roles as ad executive, father, husband and devoted son to his ailing mother.
LOST RAMBOS
The term Rambo is used in Papua New Guinea to describe hired mercenaries who are paid to support local combatants in violent tribal disputes.
THE TRIAL
How do you fight injustice when it's perpetrated by the government?
HOW TO MAKE A RAINBOW
This is the story of a young girl and her mother as they move together through transitions of home, identity, and name.
MEI
In the mountain village Hangsha in rural China, Shi Long Mei (13) dreams about one day becoming a famous singer.
16 HOURS
First generation Chinese Americans grapple with the different cultures they live in. As the saying goes, "fallen leaves return to their roots."
CAMPERFORCE
For nearly a decade, Amazon has recruited thousands of RVers for a seasonal labor unit called CamperForce.
LOST WORLD
In order to expand it's coastline, Singapore dredges sand from Cambodia. This process is slowly changing the ecosystem of Cambodia's mangrove forests and the people who live there.