Family Films (Northeast)

Post Industrial Fiddle
Post Industrial Fiddle
1982 | 23mins
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Post Industrial Fiddle
1982 | 23mins
This deceptively simple but profound film explores the importance of music-making in the life of Jerry Morrell, a pulp mill worker in rural Maine. His “Down East” fiddling style…
Hollow, The
Hollow, The
1975 | 1h 4mins
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Hollow, The
1975 | 1h 4mins
A rare 1975 film on a rural impoverished community in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. This remarkable film deals with stereotypes of improvised rural life, but unfolds into…
Look Forward and Carry on the Past
Look Forward and Carry on the Past
2002 | 26mins
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Look Forward and Carry on the Past
2002 | 26mins
“Look Forward and Carry on the Past": Stories from Philadelphia’s Chinatown” illustrates the strength and complexity of Philadelphia’s only remaining community of color in the…
Eatala: A Life in Klezmer
Eatala: A Life in Klezmer
2011 | 38mins
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Eatala: A Life in Klezmer
2011 | 38mins
Klezmer is Eastern European Jewish folk music. In other parts of the country, klezmer seemed to disappear and then was revived. But in Philadelphia, the Hoffman family never…
Blinking Madonna
Blinking Madonna
1996 | 58mins
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Blinking Madonna
1996 | 58mins
After recording an Italian-American religious festival in Boston’s North End with her video camera, filmmaker Beth Harrington’s neighbors tell her that they see a miracle on the…
Finah Misa Kule
Finah Misa Kule
2015 | 41mins
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Finah Misa Kule
2015 | 41mins
In Search of Finah Misa Kule chronicles the quest of poet Kewulay Kamara to reconstitute an ancient epic handed down in his family.
Family Farm
Family Farm
1973 | 6mins
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Family Farm
1973 | 6mins
A day on the farm with the David and Ada Schwartz family in the Indiana Amish community. This 1968 film shows the family making apple butter. David Schwartz talks anecdotally…

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