SHORT DOCUMENTARIES

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Documentary-in-progress - (12:17)

Medium:  Digital Distribution

Title:  The Good Giants

Production Company:  Pacific Film Foundation

Story Consultant:  Mark Jonathan Harris

Director (Documentary & Short Film):  Joe Hartnett

Editor:  Daniel Chun

Cinematography: Daniel McCoy

Sound Mixer:  Daniel McCoy, ToneMesa

Producer:  Dayle Hartnett, Ph.D.

Italian Producer:  Mattea Piazzesi

This is a two-minute excerpt of footage filmed inside the Valley State Prison for Women, Chowchilla, California in 2012. 

Essie Patrick is one of more than a dozen women who shared the good news about how they achieved a state of freedom inside the prison walls via a mediation and peacemaking program. 

Their moving stories may never reach the outside world because the Prison of Peace program was suddenly stopped by the closing of the women's prison in 2013. 

Corey Haas was nearly blind when he was born due to a congenital eye condition called Leber's Amaurosis. 

With the help of Dr. Jean Bennett, he is now playing Little League Baseball.

Mitochondria exist in nearly every cell of the human body. 

It’s responsible for creating 90% of the energy you need to sustain life and support organ function.  However, when mitochondria cannot convert food and oxygen into life-sustaining energy, cell injury and even cell death follow. 

When this process is repeated throughout the body, organ systems begin to fail and even stop functioning.  "Big Zach" and his loving Mom, Jennifer Haught star in this brief video about a very special event,  "SUPERCHARGED FOR MITO."