Films
Painted Nails – trailer
newest project in production
a documentary by Dianne Griffin and Erica Jordan
translation and guidance by Nhung Pham
The world is at our fingertips in Painted Nails — a Vietnamese immigrant story of exotic nail art, pampered clients, and the serious health risks that lurk beneath the brightly painted surface. The nail industry is an economic steppingstone for a generation of Vietnamese immigrant women. Yet, for these women, the promise of the American Dream has its price. Painted Nails will explore the benefits and the dangers both workers and clients face.
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FEESA Feed Educate Employ South Africa
FEESA a 501 c(3) overarching goal is to vastly improve the quality of life for South Africa’s suffering masses and to make a difference that will be felt for generations to come. They will accomplish this by empowering teachers, employing single women, and ultimately putting food in the belly of every kid with a willingness to learn. It is their strong belief that the only way the poverty stricken country can climb out of its hole is through a commitment to education.
Vietnam
Nature has blessed Vietnam with a bountiful harvest of soaring mountains, a killer coastline and radiant rice fields. Inland, peasant women in conical hats still tend to their fields, children ride buffalos along country paths and minority people scratch out a living from impossible gradients. Made in conjunction with the United Nations Development Program
Nepal Beyond the Mountain
Draped along the greatest heights of the Himalaya, Nepal is where the ice-cold of the mountains meets the steamy heat of the Indian plains. It’s a land of yaks and yetis, stupas and Sherpas and some of the best trekking on earth. The Himalaya’s most sophisticated urban cultures took shape here, in the three great minikingdoms of the Kathmandu Valley. Made with funding by the United Nations Development Program
White Hotel -trailer
They set out to make a documentary about AIDS, never expecting to become a part of the story….
When Two women with a video camera follow an American HIV research team to Eritrea, Africa, they are catapulted into a land of joy and repression of promiscuity and sexual mutilation. Captivated, they are drawn into circumstances which quickly shatter the filmmakers objectivity and turns their journalistic inquiry into an intimate investigation of their own capacities to love suffer and forgive.
This documentary has a universal appeal, combining as it does the visual character of an ancient country, the scars of war, the despair of disease, the elation of freedom. the moments of love, the struggle for forgiveness, the pain of death and the beauty of life.