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Keith Hartley on Hartley Film Foundation's history and on the life of its founder and his mother, Elda Hartley.

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WOR Radio Host Bill Bertenshaw interviews a number of the award-winning documentary filmmakers who are fiscally sponsored by Hartley Film Foundation....

June Cross, director of Azusa!, traces the roots of Pentacostalism, the fastest growing religious movement in the world, to a two-story white-washed building on Azusa Street in Los Angeles in...

Menachem Daum, director of Common Ground, documents the heroic efforts of Catholics and Jews in a small Polish town to make peace after centuries of anti-Semitism that during World War II eli...

Isaac Solotaroff, director of Gethsemane, focuses on a Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn run by and for ex-prisoners, their familes, and individuals in partnership with the poor and imprisoned....

Carole Hart, director of For the Next Seven Generations: The Grandmothers Speak, follows seven Grandmothers who are shamans, medicine women and prayer people from Africa, Asia, the Arctic Cir...

Miles Christian Daniels, producer of In All Things, investigates the fascinating history and the world-wide impact of the Jesuits as it unfolds chronologically and candidly before the camera ...

Ilana Trachtman, director of Praying With Lior, challenges our beliefs about who and how one speaks to G_d....

Parvez Sharma, director of A Jihad For Love, brings to light the hidden lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Muslims and goes where the silence is lou...

David Grabias, director of Extra Credit, follows three students at an Islamic school outside of Dallas as they attempt to memorize the entire Qur'an in order to co...

Sarah Masters, managing director of Hartley Film Foundation, updates WOR host Bill Bertenshaw on the latest doings and exciting future plans for the Foundation. ...

Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, director of The New Muslim Cool, follows members of a struggling young Muslim hip-hop label as they tour the U.S., discovering a dive...

Alan Dator, co-director with Lisa Merton of Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, pays homage to Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, a spiritual leader and passionate advocate...

Arleigh Prelow, director of Howard Thurman, shines a light on the story of one remarkable individual....

Geeta Patel and Senain Khesghi are two American women, a Hindu and a Muslim, who sneak into the war zone of Kashmir to uncover the truth of what is happening in what is considered to be one of the mos...

Yoni Brook, co-director with Musa Syeed of Bronx Princess, accompanies headstrong Rocky as she leaves behind her mother in New York to reunite with her royal father in Ghana, West Africa....

Lacey Schwartz, director of Outside the Box, explores the universal theme of dual identity, and the story is rooted in her Jewish ...

Mary Ann Brussat, with her husband Frederic, reports on the people, the practices and the ideas of the current spiritual renaissance, and reviews the latest resources for people on spiritual journeys....

Andrew Jacobs, NY Times writer and director of Four Seasons Lodge tells a counterintuitive and spiritually uplifting tale about 100 Polish, ...

Andrea Eisenman tells the stories of three courageous Orthodox Jews, forced by the customs of their community to keep their life-threatening illness, the genetic diesease cystic fibrosis, a secre...

Sandy Itkoff, producer of Defamation, discusses film director Yoav Shamir's personal and global search for a better understanding of anti-Semitism....

Norris Chumley traces the footsteps of the ancient monks, hermits and sages of the first to twelfth centuries who lived in caves, and the first monasteries established in Egypt, Israel, Syria, Gr...

Micahel Singh takes viewers on a chronological journey through more than a century of images of Muslms, Arabs and Islam in the U.S....

Anak Selatae (Son of the South), formerly titled Between the Verse and the King, follows the journey into manhood of several young Malay-Muslims from southern Thailand....

Julie Englander takes an intimate look at the struggles of evangelical Missionary Kids, who have dug wells in Senegal, translated the Bible in Romania and learned to cope in countries where clean wate...

A muezzin calls Islamic worshippers to prayer from the minaret of a mosque five times a day, in a 1,400-year-old tradition called the adhan....

Geeta and Senain, a Hindu and a Muslim, are two American friends from opposite sides of the divide who investigate the war in Kashmir....