Earth Camp One is about how the filmmaker lost four family members in five years. Oscar Wilde wrote, “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” What do our attitudes towards loss and impermanence mean—for us as individuals, and as a society?

Edible Arts is an interactive Television and Internet cooking show that involves, educates, and empowers preteens in making healthier choices for themselves and their families. This video series will feature preteen hosts ages 11 to 13 selecting, preparing and enjoying delicious and simple meals. A guest chef will guide the youth through their journey in making healthy, smart and delicious choices.

The objective of this collection is to invite teens to think critically. The teenage years are the bridge between childhood and adulthood. Having the ability to critically think is a great tool in finding promising answers. This project, a collection of educational hip-hop videos designed for teenagers, will explore issues ranging from the humorous to the provocative. "Struggle by Design" is the third SFFS-funded piece of this collection. The intention and message of this educational work is that everyone struggles, no matter who you are—no matter what age you are, no matter how much or little money you have. To be alive is to experience levels of struggle. Life is struggle by design and is a key component of success.

Can an ancient sacred rite be the key for Elephants survival in a modern world? At the brink of manhood, a young mahout is bonded with an elephant for life. In the modern world of Thailand, he struggles to make his way, but encounters an elderly Monk whose ancient traditions could hold the key to a safe future for his elephant and himself.

This documentary profiles Elly Glass, who through amazing ingenuity rescued her husband from Buchenwald concentration camp in 1939. Henry P. Glass went on to build one of the first solar houses in the United States and became one of Chicago's foremost industrial designers. Now at age 92 Elly has a chance to tell her story. What emerges is a portrait of a couple whose ideas about living green were far ahead of their time.

Wind Powered Productions and Zack Bastian present Endless Abilities, an inspiring documentary about individuals with physical challenges who, in times of adversity, find the ability to adapt, the ability to live. Friends Tripp Clemens, Harvey Burrell, and Will Humphrey follow Bastian, as he introduces us to exceptional individuals who expose challenges facing those with physical disabilities all across New England.

Everybody Loves Oil is the story of how one man begins to acknowledge how much of life is dependent on oil. Out of pure curiosity, he takes a journey that starts at his local gas station and leads him into the world of oil where he learns how it all works. Along the way, he witnesses the incredible lengths we go to obtain oil, the immense scale of operation and what, if anything, could succeed it.

From 1975 to 1979, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people in Cambodia. In this feature-length documentary, members of Pol Pot’s inner circle try to explain what happened. This is a story of how the perpetrators of a genocide struggle to come to terms with their past. How do they narrate their history? How do they justify the choices they made thirty years ago?