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Director Kahane Corn Cooperman and producer Innbo Shim talk about their film, Creede USA, about the impact of a theater on a small conversative mountain town that saw its boom when it was established for mining in the late 1800s.

Filmmaker Kim A. Snyder tells the story of book banning and witch hunt of librarians in Texas and Florida in the documentary, The Librarians.

Co-director Elliott Kennerson talks about Love Birds, the study that discovered lesbian seagulls who became a mascot for a movement.

Filmmaker Allison Argo talks about Forever Home which follows a couple who build a refuge for abused and orphaned farm animals with natural and sustainable

Filmmaker Paulo Marinou-Blanco talks about his tragic comedy Dreaming of Lions which addresses terminal illness and euthanasia. It's about an intimate friendship that forms between a depressed mortician who asks his dead clients for advice and former professor who wants to be done with her pain.

Tech Disclaimer: My computer died, so I cobbled this together quickly without my normal equipment and intro/outro, etc. Pardon the editing.

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Emerald Trinket Walker discusses teaching history through music, movement and performance. Her program Undesirable Elements at Global Kids has performed at many locations including Columbia University, Council on Foreign Relations, Lincoln Center Institute, Apollo Theater, Sarah Lawrence College, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, United Nations Special Session on Children, New York University, Museum of Television & Radio.

Their performance at the Global Kids Annual Conference addresses a new theme each year, and is based on Ping Chong’s award-winning piece, now in its 31st year of international production.

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This episode focuses on fear and empathy in humans and other animals. Dr. Abigail Marsh also talks about our biological predisposition toward empathy and care, how adolescent brains evolved to rebel and take risks, why teens are more anxious than in previous generations, and psychopathy as a spectrum. Find out why fearful expressions evolved to protect us and why we love cute animals so much.

Dr. Marsh was rescued by the heroic act of stranger which led her to study altruism. In studying empathy, she began by studying the brains of those who are empathy deficient, or what we call psychopathic. She found that psychopathy is on a spectrum, which includes people who are anti-psychopathic. She also found it all connects with fear and the neurological function and structure of the amygdala. The amygdala is complicated and it has two main axonal pathways which connect it with other parts of the brain. Oxytocin modulates the amygdala in a way that it supports nurturing care, even in the case of danger or threat, related to protection of others at the expense of protection of self, as with caring for those in need and in the case of saving a stranger's life.

People with altruistic behaviors have larger amygdalas and people with psychopathic behavior have significantly smaller amygdalas! But there are interventions that can change and influence the development of the brain in adolescence. Children can grow out of callous behaviors.

Dr. Marsh is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Georgetown University where she directs the Laboratory on Social and Affective Neuroscience. She is the author of The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between.