East Lemon Films

The Sitting Machine

Experience the growing curiosity, imagination and personalities of eight fifth graders in an out-of-the-ordinary class where textbooks are put aside and risks are encouraged as students learn by doing. Voted one of the top ten films of the 2009 Philadelphia Film Festival & Cinefest. [ 2009. Documentary feature. 90 minutes ]

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Welcome to MDS

Orientation piece for Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) to be shown to new volunteers. It gives an idea of what to expect and how to act when working at an MDS project site. [ 2009. Promotion/Education. 4 minutes ]

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We Should Talk Peace

Grassroots peacemakers in Africa work to change their communities. “I feel we have to build a generation of peace-loving people,” says Sister Josephine Acan who helps rehabilitate girls who have escaped the violence of the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda. Screened at the Nazariya Films for Peace Festival in India. [ 2006. Documentary short. 26 minutes ]

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One Buccaneer

An atypical family story about a long-time theatre actor who attempts his dream of mounting a one-man marionette production of Treasure Island. His mother, an Episcopalian deacon, manages the theatre and makes the costumes while his father, a retired beer salesman, takes goading swings at his color schemes. "A joy to watch." –City Paper. Official selection of the Philadelphia Film Festival. [ 2006. Documentary feature. 83 minutes ]

Director, Editor, Co‑producer

Child’s View: Bangladesh

Follow 11-year-old Akey and her younger brother Showpawn on a typical day in a small village in Bangladesh as they eat breakfast outdoors, help their father weed a rice field, go to school and play games. Part of the Child's View educational series. [ 2004. Documentary short. 10 minutes ]

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CMU Disaster Recovery Studies

Recruitment piece for Canadian Mennonite University to promote a new program that offers field experience as well as classroom study of the recovery phase of disaster management. [ 2009. Promotion. 5 minutes ]

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