Michelle Merker

Voices from the Frontline: China's War on Poverty

The inside story of China's race to eradicate all extreme poverty by the end of the year 2020. With unprecedented access, filmmakers embed in China's poverty alleviation campaign-revealing tens of millions of poor families with customized plans, and the millions of officials recruited and held accountable for the success of the program.

Korla

Organist Korla Pandit was an alluring enigma, a television pioneer and the godfather of exotica music. He never spoke a word on 900 episodes of his groundbreaking 1950s TV program but captured the hearts of countless Los Angeles housewives with his soulful, hypnotic gaze and theatrical performance of popular tunes and East Indian compositions on the newly developed Hammond B3 organ. In the ’90s he resurfaced as a cult figure with the tiki/lounge music aficionados and ended up immortalized in the film Ed Wood. Often pegged as a “man of mystery,” Korla lived up to that billing when he took an amazing secret with him to his grave in 1998—one that is finally revealed in KORLA.

Shellter

A young woman awakens in a fallout shelter and is coerced into horrific acts in order to stay alive.