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November, 23, 2004

Los Angeles Now

Independent Lens

Los Angeles, once the whitest city in America, is now the most multicultural city in the world. Yet the city’s cultural transformation has gone largely overlooked by the movies, the media and even by many of its residents.

May, 11, 2004

Refugee

Independent Lens

Three young Cambodian American men living in San Francisco return to the land of their roots wielding video cameras to document their experience of meeting fathers, sisters, and brothers for the first time.

March, 29, 2004

The New Americans

Independent Lens

What does the “American dream” look like through the eyes of today's immigrants and refugees? The New Americans shows from Nigeria, India, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, they come with different dreams.

November, 4, 2003

A Wedding in Ramallah

Independent Lens

This documentary puts a human face on the Middle East conflict by chronicling the story of Bassam, a Palestinian American telephone repairman from Cleveland who returns home for an arranged marriage with a "home-made bride."  On the West Bank, everyday…

March, 25, 2003

The Workers

Independent Lens

It's 1999, and the booming city of Austin, Texas keeps on growing — thanks largely to men like Ramon and Juan, who work some of the hardest jobs in an America that doesn't want them. Through their lives and a…