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Baseball in the Time of Cholera
Shorts - Documentaries 2
Milliken at the Dennos Museum
Sun, Aug 5, 2012 9:00 AM
From the philosophical musings of the workers who wash windows on skyscrapers to the secret lives of housecats, these award-winning shorts have garnered acclaim at some of the world’s top festivals. “Aaron Burr, Part 2” gives one of history’s villains a chance to tell his side of the story, while in “I’m Never Afraid!” an eight-year-old motorcross champion laughs in the face of danger, and in “Grandmothers,” the stories of Argentinian women whose grandchildren were “disappeared” is given a lyrical animated treatment.
As the Cholera epidemic rages in Haiti, the UN still denies responsibility for introducing the disease despite glaring evidence its Peacekeepers are to blame. Baseball in the Time of Cholera is the story of Joseph, a young baseball player, and a Haitian Lawyer fighting for compensation for the victims. As the epidemic spreads, the two stories intersect in the struggle for survival and justice.
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