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            ABOVE AND BEYOND: NASA'S Journey To Tomorrow examines the remarkable role NASA plays both in our country and for our planet. Covering sixty years and beyond, the film celebrates past accomplishments, investigates current initiatives,
and surveys future plans. This film follows NASA to the moon, to the surface of Mars, to the outer reaches of our solar system and, above all, back to our home base: Earth.In 1961, in announcing the moon shot, President Kennedy issued a great challenge, a challenge that would in many ways set NASA on its course: "We have given this program a high national priority," President Kennedy said. "Even though I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us." ABOVE AND BEYOND asks the question: what has become of President Kennedy's faith in human ingenuity, his grand vision and aspiration?For indeed, what is exploration if not an act of faith and vision-because we cannot know what benefits await us. And it is just this-the capacity to wonder-that best exemplifies NASA's work-to strive, to reach, to uncover the unknown. More than any other institution in history, NASA harnesses humankind's drive to discover, and embraces our unique need for answers-a need that may one day save us.Here now, some six decades after Kennedy's speech, when the merits and values of NASA are being hotly debated, ABOVE AND BEYOND takes measure. We stand in awe and admiration, bearing witness not only to all that NASA has given humankind, but also to the vital and ongoing role NASA plays in ensuring humankind's future.We follow as NASA searches for other life in our solar system and discovers habitable worlds orbiting neighboring stars. As it peers into the night sky with the Hubble Space Telescope discovering tens of thousands of hidden galaxies--and all the while, for more than half a century, never takes its eyes off our home planet. Monitoring the earth's seas and skies, its snows and sands, in an unrelenting effort to amass the greatest store of knowledge in the history of humankind.And here perhaps is one of the great surprises. As ABOVE AND BEYOND makes clear, just as NASA reaches out, journeying further and further into space, perhaps one day even carrying humankind to other planets-NASA also observes our own planet, working to track the Earth's environmental systems so as to keep our home in balance. Even as its telescopes point deep into other realms, NASA also watches over Antarctica and the Great Barrier Reef, over the rising sea levels in the Atlantic Ocean, over the water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico.It is through these dual roles, exploring both space and earth, that NASA seeks to truly understand our place in the Universe. So that we might see our planet, in all its wonder, the only place in the universe known to harbor life-a little blue marble alone in a vast, silent void and fragile beyond our imagining.
    

Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow

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            Shanae was arrested for murder at the age of 12, after stabbing a friend to death. Megan's mother was a drug-addled prostitute, and after being placed in, and escaping from, nearly a dozen foster homes, Megan committed a violent crime. These girls are the subjects of Liz Garbus' documentary, Girlhood. Garbus encountered the girls at the Waxter Juvenile Facility in Baltimore while making a television documentary about the boys incarcerated there. Garbus, director of the acclaimed prison documentary, The Farm: Angola, USA, examines the disparate fates of these girls and their very different treatment at the hands of the juvenile justice system. While Shanae, the victim of a horrendous violent crime herself as a child, has difficulty coming to grips with the murder she's committed, she's clearly an intelligent, charismatic, and, most importantly, motivated girl. The juvenile justice system serves her well, because she's deeply involved in forging her own path. Megan, a pretty girl with a devilish gleam in her eye, tries to get by on charm, but she doesn't have Shanae's focus. Having been abandoned by her mother, with whom she has a very complicated relationship, Megan is desperate for attention and affection. While Shanae sublimates her anger and hurt and moves on with life, for Megan everything is right on the surface. The system essentially gives up on trying to control her and turns her loose to fend for herself. Girlhood was shown at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival and at the South by Southwest Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award. ~ (Source: Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide)
    

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