Maria’s Story

By Ryan Clover-Owens | May 4, 2012

It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria’s daily life in the…

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An Unreasonable Woman – Diane Wilson

By Ryan Clover-Owens | April 18, 2012

Portrait by Robert Shetterly, from his portrait series Americans Who Tell the Truth. When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, learns that she lives in the most polluted county in the United States, she decides to fight back. She launches a campaign against a multibillion-dollar corporation that has been covering up spills,…

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