Reel Midwest

Season 1

Where to Watch Reel Midwest • Season 1

10 Episodes

  • Inquiring Nuns
    E1
    Inquiring NunsTwo young nuns explore Chicago-from a supermarket to the Art Institute to the front of churches on Sunday-to confront people with the crucial question, "Are you happy?" The answers they get range in sincerity and depth.
  • Diverse Voices
    E2
    Diverse VoicesThis collection of short films follow the life and times of a variety of everyday people, including a shoeshine technician, a magician, a skateboarder, a mom-and-pop hardware store owner, and more. Films include: Shinemen, The Amazing Mr. Ash, and Parts and Labor.
  • Vietnam, Long Time Coming
    E3
    Vietnam, Long Time ComingBack in 1998, the World T.E.A.M. (The Exceptional Athlete Matters) took a 16-day, 1,100 mile bicycle expedition through once war-torn Northern and Southern Vietnam. For the veteran athletes, the ride is more of an exorcism than a race.
  • Now We Live on Clifton
    E4
    Now We Live on Clifton10-year-old Pam Taylor and her 12-year-old brother Scott grew up in a multiracial Chicago neighborhood, but they worry that they'll be forced out of the neighborhood by the gentrification following the expansion of DePaul University.
  • Winnie Wright - Age 11
    E5
    Winnie Wright - Age 11Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher, lives in a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black. As her family struggles with racism, inflation, and a threatened strike, she learns what it means to grow up white, working class, and female.
  • My Sister Hali
    E6
    My Sister HaliAfter 50 years of burying the past, Paul Sheriff returns to his childhood hometown of Blue Mound, Illinois to reconstruct the pieces of his extraordinary childhood filled with Olympic dreams and catastrophic loss.
  • The Gun Shop
    E7
    The Gun ShopGo behind the scenes at a gun shop in Michigan where customers come to get advice, handle the weapons, and practice at the on-site shooting range. Each has their own rationale for wanting to own a gun, some thoughtful, and some shocking. All are thought-provoking.
  • On Beauty
    E8
    On BeautyIn hopes to change the way we see and experience beauty, fashion photographer Rick Guidotti refocuses his lens on those too often relegated to the shadows. His photos challenge our narrow scope of beauty and the dehumanizing black-bar convention of medical textbooks.
  • In the Game
    E9
    In the GameThis Kartemquin documentary film, directed by Peabody award-winner Maria Finitzo, follows the ups and downs of a girls' soccer team on Chicago's South side, and reveals the very real obstacles that low-income students face in their quest for higher education.
  • The Way to Andina
    E10
    The Way to AndinaA witty personal documentary about the discovery of a long lost opera written by a pioneering Colombian-American immigrant composer, and his great-grandson's comical attempt to put the show on for a world premiere 80 years after it was written.

 

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