FROZEN ANGELS

Frozen Angels investigates the "future" as it exists, today in Los Angeles, following a cast of bigger than life, often funny, characters: wealthy sperm bank presidents, expectant surrogate mothers, gene researchers, radio-talk-show hosts, NASA scientists, infertile suburban couples, just-born and come-of-age adult designer babies, blonde, blue-eyed egg donors and feminist lawyers. The film warns of the coming dangers this brave new world poses to race relations, dividing society and the rest of the world into genetic have and have-nots. more »

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STREET FIGHT

There's a saying that democracy is a contact sport. The new film Street Fight gives you a ringside seat. Even if you know the outcome from national reports, or lived in Newark at the time, this insider's chronicle of the 2002 race for mayor in Newark, New Jersey is riveting, delivering a dramatic account of youthful energy and ideals running headlong into old-guard machine politics and racial demagoguery.

These opposing forces are, of course, nothing new in American elections. But, in Newark in 2002, a black mayor was using these tactics against a black challenger. more »