Iron in the Soul: The Haiti Documentary Films of - DVD

Salt In My Soul is a documentary and a classic coming of age story about Mallory Smith, a young woman figuring out how to live while dying. Mallory's determination to fill her shortened life with hope and love will leave you breathless.

Haitian-born filmmaker Jonas Nosile put together a small team and traveled to Haiti to film Haitian history from it's early successful struggles for independence through it's contemporary - less victorious - battles with poverty. Nosile poses tough questions about the degree of Haitian's responsibility for their dilemma. Will this island nation find a way to break with the legacy of it's tragic past? Will the resilient spirit of her people be enough to overcome the obstacles and catastrophes facing her the country today? the answers may surprise it's audience. Winner of 2011 Associated Press for Best documentary!

Stories of work and play, of love and loss... and bread. Bread has been at the center of human life and creativity for at least the last ten thousand years - it is in our bones and a witness to history. This essay documentary brings bread to the front of the line and explores it's relation to politics, poetry and pleasure. The loaf of bread is the vehicle through which we explore stories of S*x and death, immigration and refugees, social justice and the counter-culture, and of art, work and pleasure. Love it or hate it, everyone has a relationship with bread. This simple staple food is brought to life by the wild energy of yeast, perhaps our first companion animal, and is a metaphor of transformation that mirrors life itself. And it is the only metaphor you can eat. Shot in Canada, the US and throughout Europe, this is a beautiful and profound journey into a subject that has come to have important meaning in our times.