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- An anthology of short films that pairs directors with leading economic advisers to create stories that offer a better understanding of how the economy impacts all of our lives.
- What is the real value of a dollar? You think that a dollar bill is money and that banks are where your cash is stored and safeguarded. Well, you're wrong. Like, really wrong. The seventh film in the WE THE ECONOMY series.
- 13-year-old inventor Aidan has discovered that trees use a mathematical formula to gather sunlight in crowded forests. Now he wonders why we don't collect solar energy the same way.
- Who would dare to pit one fatal disease against another... inside the body of an six-year-old patient? Dr. Carl June and his team of researchers and scientists at Penn Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have taken cliff-hanging risks in their patients' treatment. With profound results, their medical trials are shattering long-held expectations in the field of cancer research.
- Dan Nocera has a simple equation to save the planet: sun + water = energy for the world. Taking his cues from nature, what the father of photochemistry Giacomo Ciamician called "the guarded secret of plants", Nocera has invented an artificial leaf with a self-healing catalyst that can power the earth inexpensively by using sunlight to split water and store energy.
- Biologists spent ten years trying to map the structure of the elusive Mason Pfizer Monkey Virus, a problem that could unlock the cure for AIDS. The Contenders solved it in three weeks. Using the online puzzle game Fold It, scientists are enlisting video gamers to solve real- world problems. Fold It allows regular people from all over the world to team up and contribute to scientific breakthroughs by discovering the shape of proteins. The Contenders is one such team. How did these citizen scientists solve a problem that was once thought uncomputable?
- The Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, epitomizes what can be achieved by progressive government working with local activists to adopt the latest technology - but it's the award-winning architecture and design courtesy of New York City's Percent for Art program that will drop your jaw, especially those eight magnificent Digester Eggs.
- Scott, an Idaho engineer, was pained to see that the US alone used 3,741 Billion kWh of electricity per year, and nothing is being done. He and his wife came up with a real solution: cover roads with solar panels, collecting energy from the sun and providing to the areas around.
- ROBOT is set in the Yale Social Robotics Lab where Brian Scassellati designs robots we enjoy being around and are helpful in our homes and schools. The film features NICO and KEEPON, robots who are becoming socially intelligent: they teach us lessons, learn to dance and even cheat while playing games with us.
- The Sky Is NOT The Limit profiles Peter Diamandis, his character and passion to dream big, through his work as founder and visionary behind the X Prize Foundation. From his recent successes (e.g. the 2011 Oil Clean Up X Prize) to his vision for the next big thing - revolutionizing global health care by partnering with communications companies to bring the knowledge of the medical world to people in developing and rural areas without easy access to doctors - the film envisions the world through Diamandis' inspired point of view, mixing dynamic visuals of recent X Prize challenges with artful animated sequences to visually express Diamandis' vision of a world of abundance.
- Design students Anna and Terese took on a giant challenge as an exam project. Something no one had done before. If they could swing it, it would for sure be revolutionary. The bicycle is a tool to change the world. If we use bikes AND travel safe: Life will be better for all.An invisible bicycle helmet is a symbol for the impossible. If you can swing it everything is possible. Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin took on a very special exam project at their southern Sweden design school seven years ago. An airbag bicycle helmet. In Malmö, Sweden everybody use bikes, if other cities in world would have the same amount of bikes on the streets we would live in a much better world. A greener and healthier world. The bicycle is a tool for changen. Bike safety will make more people use bikes, Anna and Terese believes. They want to save the world. A good thing.November 2011 the Hövding bicycle helmet was launched in Sweden. Now Anna and Terese has 20 employees and works hard to make their dream come trough.
- Dr. Joseph Rizzo and Prof. John Wyatt co-founded the Boston Retinal Implant Project. It's a Harvard/M.I.T. collaboration whose "Bionic Eye" technology is aimed at restoring sight to patients who suffer from degenerative blindness. They have invented a microelectronic retinal implant that restores vision to patients, particularly those with age-related macular degeneration and blindness.
- Billie has a rare condition that causes her estrogen to form dense tumors in the soft tissue of her body. Her body is filled with tumors that, on days, like this, make bed a place called home.
- MUSIC MAN tells the story of professor and inventor Ge Wang who teaches computer music at Stanford University where he began the innovative Stanford Laptop Orchestra. Wang believes everyone who loves music should be able to play it. To that end, Wang was the first to turn the IPhone into a musical instrument when he created the "Ocarina" phone app which became one of the most popular in the world when it was launched in 2009.
- A short documentary focused on inventor Dean Kamen (Segway) and his work to solve the world's safe water crisis.
- Shun's passion for flight isn't simply about airplanes; it's ultimately about the passion in all of us that gives us a reason to live. Shun's mystical vision of the world in the sky versus the monochromatic Japanese lifestyle reflects the fight against the mundane in all of us.
- Brooklyn painter Marie Roberts comes from a family long entrenched in Coney Island's Sideshow. Her family home once housed the famous freaks and oddities of the 1920's and 1930's where her uncle was the "talker" luring audiences in to see them. Marie paints beautiful banners for the current Sideshow.
- A moving portrait of Hilary Lister, a quadriplegic champion sailor whose metal-and-circuit-board navigational tool, invented with friends, led her to conquer the oceans of the world.
- In today's context of biological and ecological destruction caused by chemical farming, industrial agriculture and genetic engineering, the film explores the core philosophy of "Navdanya" movement ignited by Dr. Vandana Shiva who believes seed is a gift of life, heritage and continuity and saving seeds leads to conserving biodiversity, knowledge, culture and sustainability.
- All Hail the Beat' celebrates a rhythm machine deemed obsolete in 1984 but still influential until to this day. The Roland TR-808 existed from 1980 to 1984. In that brief time span it was embraced by hip hop and helped inspire the creation of new dance music genres (electro boogie, techno) as we hear in testimony from innovators D-Nice, formerly of Boogie Down Productions, Arthur Baker, producer of the classic "Planet Rock" for Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force, and Juan Atkins, credited with creating the Detroit techno sound. Editor Waajeed, who is also a well known hip hop producer himself, has created a sonic tapestry of 808 beats that runs underneath the film, as if the device itself is giving commentary on its history.
- Meet Maxim, the young inventor of a truly jaw-dropping new technology with limitless applications that will eliminate the need for screens and monitors -- and all manner of electronic junk.
- After waiting 50 years, some exceedingly rare pigs help Dr Bob Elliott preform a medical miracle.
- For over 25,000 poverty-stricken children in China, a "free lunch" is their daily reality. Journalist Deng Fei set up the Free Lunch Campaign in 2011, raised USD 3.9 million from Chinese social media users in just one year and pioneered the power of micro-blogging in China's battle against inequality.