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Director: Brian Lindstrom
Portland
(Doc) Wrap is a Portland-based non-profit that reaches out to under-served populations and provides them with the opportunity to enroll in a free, rigorous, identity-specific, ten-week creative writing workshop culminating in a public reading and a published anthology. To Pay My Way With Stories closely follows participants and explores how they transcend their difficulties--including cancer, Hiv/Aids, methadone, Down's syndrome and poverty--as they find their voices. (49 mins.)
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THE Final Inch
Director: Irene Taylor Brodsky / Portland
(Doc) Brodsky's (Hear And Now) beautiful and informative new film was one of this year's nominees for the Academy Award for Short Documentary. Nearly 50 years after a vaccine for polio was developed in the United States, the polio virus still finds refuge in some of the world's most vulnerable places. In India and Afghanistan's impoverished neighborhoods, The Final Inch follows the massive--and yet highly personalized--mission to eradicate polio from the planet and challenges our most basic assumptions about disease, poverty, and our own health as a human right. (38 mins.)