SAGE DOCUMENTARIES

Coming in September 2007 — Sage Film and Video has been commissioned to produce an historic documentary for the tri-centennial celebration of Tredyffrin Township, PA. Highlights to include events of American Revolution at Valley Forge National Historic Park, Memories of Valley Forge Music Fair and local folklore.

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United Traces.

Producer: Deborah Arnold. Deborah captures the tradition, color and excitement of ethnic parades in Philadelphia. This independent film received a grant from WYBE TV35 and was aired on the PBS station as part of the Philadelphia Stories 4 program in 2004. Four ethnic celebrations that take place in Philadelphia annually are documented revealing how ethnicity and traditions are expressed in a city and country that encourages assimilation. Americans of African, Irish, Asian and Latin descent are shown participating in, and reflecting on aspects of their ethnic identity. Learn how celebrating our differences is, in fact, a commonality that we all share. The documentary reflects Deborah’s education in anthropology and her passion for exploring cultures.

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From Prison to Pearls.

Producers: Jane Pollini and Samantha Schutz. Three articulate women have recently been released from prison and are living in a residential drug treatment center in Germantown. The women are filmed as they receive head-to-toe makeovers to prepare them to search for jobs and to help build their self-esteem. One woman, Mary, is an older, single, black woman with HIV; Antoinette is a younger white woman with growing children; and Soprano is a single black woman. In August, 2004 the camera captured the women’s emotional, and sometimes amusing experience with The Career Wardrobe a non-profit organization that provides clothing for women in transition and with Sophia Demas, Program Director for the pilot program for incarcerated women, Living a Fearless Life.