Aging in America: The Years Ahead is a journey across the topography of aging in search of what it means to have a ‘good old age’. This film traverses the experience of our elders from the wellderly to the elderly, as told through a series of intimate vignettes of people who are living the new old age.
Meet five extraordinary Californians who are successfully addressing some of the state’s critical challenges. As recipients of the 2012 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards, each of them will receive $125,000 to support their work benefitting the people of California.
Every minute in the United States, an ambulance gets turned away from an emergency room because hospitals are simply too full. In Los Angeles, where the wait time in some ERs is as long as 48 hours, the entire 911 system is being challenged in ways that are alarming.
The notion of ‘home’ has shifting significance for Ed Kashi, a photojournalist who travels the world documenting social and political issues. For the past 30 years, Kashi has lived a life of intense engagement mixed with danger, anticipation, and loneliness. Encompassing nearly 20 years of photographs and journal entries to his wife, Julie, "Photojournalisms" is a short, experimental film that provides a glimpse into the life and mind of an intrepid photographer.
The California foster care system is set up in such as way as to march young adults into long-term, chronic homelessness. Each year in the San Francisco Bay Area, more than 600 youth age out of foster care when they turn 18 and lose access to all state-funded foster care services. Without housing, education or emotional support, 65 percent of foster youth will face imminent homelessness, 20 percent will be arrested or incarcerated, 46 percent will complete high school and only 1 percent will graduate from college.
While on patrol in Iraq in 2005, an improvised explosive device (IED) blasted through Juan Arredondo’s vehicle resulting in the loss of his left hand and much of the calf muscles from both legs. Now, four years later, Ret. Sgt. Arredondo struggles to overcome not only his physical injuries but the impact of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as well. Juan Arredondo is one of nearly 300,000 veterans of the United States’ war on terror suffering from invisible psychic wounds caused by the ubiquitous bomb blasts.
50 years ago oil was discovered in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Today, Nigeria pumps 2.1 million barrels a day, making it the sixth largest oil-producing country in the world and a major oil partner of the United States. Although its oil industry generates billions in revenues every year, the average Niger Deltan struggles to survive on less than $1 per day.
Where does your money go when you pay at the gas pump? Follow the Money, takes you on a fantasy voyage through the pipelines back to the source of the oil reserves. The harsh reality is that people who live in countries that are rich in natural resources often suffer extreme poverty. Poor communities have no say in the extraction of resources from their own land and receive little benefit from these projects.
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