DocMiami International Film Festival

In California, the state with more Mexican immigrants, there's a cuisine that has a deeper meaning.

Teotihuacan - City of the gods is a 12 minute documentary of an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, containing some of the largest pyramidal structures built in the pre-Colombian Americas. The city is thought to have been established around 100 BCE and continued to be built until about 250 CE. Follow Adventurer David B as he travels the globe to this important destination. During the documentary, you will learn important historical facts about this great city. Also, David also gives the view important travel, safety and photo tips to help them when the visit the city.

A short documentary film produced by Chapman University's Dodge College of Film & Media Arts following the journey of Fernando, a young dancer enrolled in The Wooden Floor's year-round dance, academic, and family service programs. While on the dance floor Fernando finds his strength and his self-determination to graduate high school on time and enroll in college - out performing almost two thirds of his peers nationally.

This short documentary aims to deliver a warm insight into the legendary Stephen Foster song Suwanee River, and the lives of everyday folk from Suwanee county. Filmed in Florida, it combines personal interviews from a cross section of the community with a series of photographs and archive footage.

City of Murals is a short documentary that traces the history of the Mural Arts Program in Philadelphia. This film charts the tremendous growth the program has had under the leadership of Jane Golden, its founder and visionary. City of Murals encompasses Ms. Golden's professional and personal journey as she takes a small city funded anti-graffiti program and turns it into one of the most influential public art programs in the world. Jane guides us through her story as a young mural artist who is forced to move back from Los Angeles to her hometown in New Jersey due to an illness. Applying on a whim for the head position of the newly founded Anti Graffiti Network, Jane's persistence lands her the job and the challenge of a lifetime: How do you convince skeptical graffiti artists to turn to Mural Making? City of Murals recounts Jane's first sit down with the most notorious graffiti artists in the city, where she realizes the raw talent that could be harnessed to create civic art and social change. City of Murals incorporates Ms. Golden's story with those of fellow Philadelphians who speak on their impressions of the Murals and how the art has affected their lives and experience of in the city of brotherly love. Incredible art comes from great artists and City of Murals is also tailored with insights from the program's talent. Today there are 3,000 murals in Philadelphia, the City of Murals.

Hidden Books: The Art of Kumi Korf, is a 30 minute documentary about Kumi Korf, who was born in Japan and now lives in Ithaca, N.Y. Kumi received a B.A. in architecture from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and an MFA in printmaking from Cornell University. Her art involves several disciplines: architectural design, printmaking, painting, papermaking and artists' books. Her work can be found in the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, and the Tate Library, among others. The documentary gives a unique perspective on Kumi's life as an artist, and how the world around her influences her work.

Morgan Hoesterey came up with an idea. Stand up paddle across the Hawaiian Island chain as a way to raise awareness about plastics and their effects on the ocean. A seasoned stand up paddler (she was the first woman to stand up paddle across the Molokai Channel), she knew the challenge that she had presented with herself. She recruited fellow distance racer, Jenny Kalmbach to join her on this expedition. They, along with a small crew, pushed themselves mentally and physically across some of the most dangerous waters in the world - culminating in the daring 82 mile , night time crossing from Oahu to Kauai. Destination 3 Degrees is the story of two women striking out across three degrees of oceanic latitude that are some of the most dangerous open ocean waters in the world.

Are we all doomed to lose our minds? Or are there ways to keep our memories - and even make them better? If you can lose our memory, can you find it? 'Where Did I Put My Memory?' is a light hearted and enlightening journey into our memories - and how we can improve them.