A Woman Relapses.
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Kayla Haskell
The Girl
Saz
The Angel
When a man sets out to end his life, a chance encounter with a chaotic young woman keeps derailing his plans, forcing him to confront whether life might still be worth living for.
A young woman makes her grandmother’s borscht recipe.
Stafford loses his car and trys to get it back.
Follows the creation and distribution of a flyer advising people of a way to avoid being drafted.
Conceived as a challenge between twin brothers, the Dick’s-A-Thon has grown into Seattle’s premiere marathon event. Participants must run to five different locations of the iconic Dick’s Drive-In and eat something off the menu, like burgers, fries or shakes, at each stop. Dick’s-A-Thon is the origin story of a wacky run that has evolved into a beloved race with 650 participants, a fundraiser and a memorial to one of its mountaineering founders.
A film on Eucharist in the Episcopal Church that relates the experience of liturgy to the experience of life everyday. The film expresses this relationship by focusing on the lives of four people in the congregation: a street person, a Vietnamese refugee, a Hispanic single mother, and a well-to-do businessman. Scenes from their lives are woven through the liturgical celebration.
Chaos in Seattle.
Tuni & Yoohoo have an adventurous day around Seattle.
Half-hour documentary based on the work of Northwest author Ivan Doig and his "brother" of yesteryear, Northwest pioneer James G. Swann. Broadcast November 24, 1982. Included in "Best of the Northwest Films" exhibition for Bumbershoot. Winner of the Critics Award for Cinematography at the 16th Annual Northwest Film and Video Seminar, 1983. Partial funding by Washington Commission for the Humanities.
After regenerating in Victorian London, the new Doctor and a chimney sweep, Carl Evans travel to 1980s North America; where they find a commune of Vietnam war veterans living in a national park - hunted down and killed by an alien force.
A half-hour program about the life and writing of this popular author. Partially funded by Bumbershoot, The Seattle Arts Festival. Broadcast on KCTS, and screened at Bumbershoot award ceremony honoring Robbins, August 1997. Distributed nationally by PBS Adult Learning Services.
Comprised of moments from over 40 films shot in Seattle, and a few irresistible facsimiles, Once Upon a Time in Seattle is part love letter, part loony action adventure, and part free-associative meditation on the transience of landscape in a city that has always had a complicated relationship with honoring its past while moving swiftly into the future.
Selma is a young eighteen-year-old girl and her fiance, Ali, is a workshop foreman. One day, Ali is arrested for hitting a man in a nearby cafe. This indident causes her downfall and the tragic events that occur.
The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochina to cover a story on a French-owned rubber plantation. They are to be the guests of the enigmatic plantation overseer, Daniel, and his beautiful yet difficult daughter Viola, at their elegant, decaying villa amid a tropical jungle. Michael and Louise hope that some time spent working in an exotic location will help reignite the passion in their floundering marriage. Instead they become unwittingly involved in the personal, sexual and political tensions of their hosts. Daniel is desperate to hold onto a way of life no longer possible in a country struggling for independence, bringing him into conflict with not only his daughter but also with his adopted country.
Framed for a killing, a teenager takes refuge in a farm house.
Ma is the best investigator in the homicide division, but his wife's accidental death devastates him. When a case of serial murders surfaces, he vows to track down the killer in hopes of escaping from his own personal nightmare.
1941 and the war culminates. The wife of a lieutenant and a sergeant fall madly in love. Times and circumstances -military service, marriage, friendship between the two men- forbid this love, but do not negate it. When the lieutenant is injured and taken to hospital, the two lovers, against all odds, dare the only possible way out: he defects, she leaves her husband, and they begin a journey without return towards the border.
After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final. The ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team for more than three decades have slowly spread away.
Miranda realizes her son Donald can only become the woman she is by defying her father and leaving their farm, in an outfit Miranda provides that includes a much-loved heirloom.
A WWII veteran, Apollon Golub, arrives in town in an old car. The car attracts the attention of teenager Valerka Elkin, which has grown into a real friendship between him, the veteran and, of course, the car.
The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed into a brutal underground fight by her manager and boyfriend Desi and grabs the attention of a fight league promoter who promises Jackie a life back in the Octagon. But the road to redemption becomes unexpectedly personal when Manny - the son she gave up as an infant - shows up at her doorstep. A triumphant story of a fighter who reclaims her power, in and out of the ring, when everyone has counted her out
