PatchWorks Films explores contemporary social issues through intimate character stories, and builds innovative partnerships for their use with educators, NGOs, and community partners. Their award-winning documentaries have been broadcast worldwide and shown at museums, libraries, schools, universities, community centers, street corners, conferences, and film festivals.

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Speaking in Tongues

Closely following four very different local public-schoolers through an academic year, [the producers] draw on subtle nuances of the kids' stories to illustrate the complex shades and permutations of bilingual schooling. Two children are placed in im..

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The Return of Sarah’s D..

The Return of Sarah’s Daughters peers into the Orthodox Jewish world, focusing on the filmmaker Marcia’s interactions with two very different women, Rus and Myriam. Rus, in the center of Lubavitcher Chassidic life in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, is a..