The growth of the tech industry in the Bay Area is a hot button issue right now. Let Julie Armstrong, host of "In Your Own Backyard," show you how some citizens are taking the local tech growth into their own hands.
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...
Les Outre-mer, des terroirs en or
A happily married woman lies with surprising ease because, according to her husband, she leads too idle a life.
When a pandemic strikes the world, Victor and his family get stuck within a hippie community.
A canterville-i kísértet
Internet icons, teamed up with JibJab and legendary director John Landis in 2006 for The Great Sketch Experiment. Together they birthed some embryo of original comedies.
Su-Yun is student in college. She meets a boyfriend, Jun, in school. They love each other but Su-Yun has a secret. She has been in forced into a sexual relationship with her stepfather, Kim Yong. Jun tries to help Su-Yun to escape her father but Kim Yong attacks Jun and tries to keep Su-Yun. Jun goes to Kim Yong's house and fights with him.
Returning to his father's cattle ranch after the excitement of serving in combat overseas, Bud McGraw becomes restless, and his father decides to send him to an old friend who commands the Border Police in Texas. On the way he meets Peggy Hughes, accompanying her Uncle Graham, a customs inspector, and he retrieves her hat from the rails of a train. At the headquarters, numerous scrapes and fights win him the admiration of, and friendship with, the men. Lazaro, a Secret Service agent, invites Mrs. Graham and Peggy, who are staying at the border station, for an automobile ride, and they are captured by bandits and held for ransom. Bud and his pals deliver the ransom and discover that Lazaro is the bandit chief. Lazaro refuses to release Peggy, but a jealous rival, Nita de Garma, causes his downfall and shoots him as the Border Police arrive to rescue the party.
Mike and Dave, two Northern British idiots sponging off the state, find themselves drunk with a case load of cash and the vague memory of a dodgy job offer. But when the sinister Mr. Martin comes to check his 'task' has been completed, Mike and Dave must learn to tell the truth or be lost in a lie forever.
Beer over the Street
A krautrock ghost story where a ghostly transmission implores the help of an occult-savvy pizza girl.
Madrid, 1993. Two old friends down on their luck kidnap a college girl and demand ransom from her family.
Sunset Shimmer studies her friends' pony hybrid transformations to better understand how magic works in the parallel world.
Rainbow Dash tries to spy on Crystal Prep Academy's sports team, but Pinkie Pie ruins her attempts to remain unseen.
Mitrice Richardson, a lovely 24 year old African-American woman, was released late at night from the Malibu, California Sheriffs jail after having been detained for not paying her bill at an upscale restaurant. She was described as 'acting crazy' and, in fact, was having a mental crisis. She was released into the mountainous region with no cell, no purse, no ID, no car, no way home and vanished. Eleven months later her remains were found in a desolate Malibu canyon. 'Lost Compassion,' shot from ten days after Mitrice went missing, tells the complex, emotional inside story of the search for Mitrice and struggles with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, whose deputies lied about her arrest and likely were involved with her disappearance and murder.
A few women, wives of a big communist bosses are blackmailed into prostitution but no one is trying to escape this business.