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- "I want to act." These words ring out thousands of times a day in classrooms, cafés, and bathroom mirrors around the world. Everyone wants to act, but how many people actually know what goes on behind all the smoke and mirrors? How many people really understand what an exquisite, painful, joyful, and terrifying experience the actor's journey is? From Broadway divas to stars of the silver screen, from drug addicts to TV regulars, from strippers to top runway models, The Deena Levy Theatre Studio has been teaching actors at all levels and from all walks of life to 'unlock the secrets' for 15 years. Known as so much more than just an acting teacher, Canadian Deena Levy uses a unique combination of techniques, including Grotowski, Method, and Meisner, to help her students at her studio in Manhattan find their own voices and live authentically both on stage and off. This documentary follows the students' progress throughout the school year, culminating in their powerful and self-reflexive performances in the showcase they write themselves, entitled "You, Actor." Through interviews, classes, and performances, the film explores Deena Levy's innovative processes and positive, transformational approach, which is so vital in these challenging times.
- By exploring the meaning of the garden in their lives, Canadian organic gardener Mary Perlmutter and her family members learn about themselves and each other. This film explores how the garden takes on various roles and functions within the lives of the family for whom it provides sustenance and enjoyment, including that of a mirror of the family itself.
- Mauthausen, Austria is a small town on the Danube that likes to keep up medieval appearances. It shares a name with the Mauthausen Concentration Camp that still stands today as a monument to all that can wrong in human society. Walking through both places - the way prisoners may have walked as they left one world to enter another - we find a few other things the two places have in common. Along the way, we wonder if looking at history is really a matter of trying to step in the same river twice.