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Jenny Mackenzie
Jenny Mackenzie is a documentary filmmaker who produces films that promote social change. Her films include Kick Like a Girl, Where's Herbie?, Sugar Babies, Lead With Love, Dying in Vein, The Opiate Generation and the 2018 Sundance & Emmy-award winning film Quiet Heros. Her most recent film, The Right To Read will be available in spring of 2023. Jenny's films have aired on top broadcast and VOD ch…
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Quiet Heroes · 2018Quiet Heroes
★ 6.52018
MovieDocumentary
In Salt Lake City, Utah, the socially conservative religious monoculture complicated the AIDS crisis, where patients in the entire state and intermountain region relied on only one doctor. This is the story of her fight to save a maligned population everyone else seemed willing to just let die.
However LongHowever Long
MovieDocumentary
However Long is an intimate portrait of four women living with metastatic (stage four) cancer and the unique support group that connects them all. As these women process challenging questions about living with an incurable disease, themes like resiliency, hope, and ferocious honesty emerge as they gain clarity and begin to accept their terminal diagnosis. However Long addresses the question that all human beings need to ask themselves: How do you want to live the rest of your life?
Lead with LoveLead with Love
Movie
A documentary that follows four families' experiences in learning that they have a lesbian, gay, or bisexual child. Created for parents who are working through this news themselves, this poignant and informative film shares real stories from parents and children, factual information from psychologists, educators, and clergy, and concrete guidance to help parents keep their children healthy and safe during this sometimes challenging time.
The Right to Read · 2023The Right to Read
★ 2.02023
MovieDocumentary
The Right to Read shares the stories of an activist, a teacher, and two American families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most foundational indicator of life-long success: the ability to read.
Kick Like a Girl · 2008Kick Like a Girl
2008
MovieDocumentary
The story of what happens when "The Mighty Cheetahs," an undefeated all-girls soccer team, competes in the boys division. With humor and candor this documentary gets at the heart of the boy-girl issues and explores what "Kick Like A Girl" really means on and off the playing field. Kick Like A Girl reminds us all of the lessons learned in competitive athletics and how sports has been one of the most effective instruments of social change in our lifetime.
Dying in Vein: The Opiate Generation · 2017Dying in Vein: The Opiate Generation
2017
MovieDocumentary
Dying in Vein is a deeply personal exploration of opiate and heroin addiction through a cinéma vérité style that drops you directly into the lives of an addict in recovery, a couple trying to get clean, a family grieving the loss of their son and an Emergency Room Physician trying to save one patient at time.
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