Films with: Weisberg, Roger

Broken places

Why are some children permanently damaged by early adversity while others are able to thrive? To help answer this question, filmmaker Roger Weisberg dug into his extensive film archives to update a few of the stories of the abused and neglected children he filmed decades ago. Viewers are given a unique time-lapse perspective on how the trauma that these children experienced shaped their lives as adults. BROKEN PLACES interweaves these longitudinal narratives with commentary from a few nationally renowned experts in neurobiology and early childhood development in order to illuminate the devastating impact of childhood adversity.

DVD 13019

Full frame documentary film festival 2 complete documentary shorts /

Why can't we be a family again? chronicles the plight of two brothers in foster care, as they attempt to reunite with a mother who abandoned them for drugs over a decade ago. We got us, captures four elderly, Jewish women during their weekly game of Mah Jong, as they reminisce about their childhood, marriages, illness, and bereavement.

DVD 7125

Money & medicine

Filmed at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and Intermountain Medical Center in Utah. The dramatic stories filmed at these two world-renowned hospitals capture the powerful forces driving soaring health care costs as well as proven strategies that effectively reign in excessive medical expenses.

DVD 8972

Sound and fury

If you could make your deaf child hear, would you? Sound and fury is the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Together they confront a technological device that can help the deaf to hear but may also threaten deaf culture, and their bonds with each other.

DVD 4284