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Endless Exodus is a film about migrants from Mexico and Central America who cross the border and enter California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas without any documentation.
The film hopes to shed light on the life of the poor in order to help you better understand why they are forced to leave their homes
and countries for a back-breaking, low-paying job in a foreign land whose culture is dramatically different from theirs. |
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Embracing the Leper tells the inspirational story of Jim Flickinger, a Secular Franciscan who gave up his successful law practice to form Amazon Relief, a nonprofit charitable organization that brings aid to the lepers and chronic poor of Manaus, Brazil, in the heart of the Amazon region.
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Divided into two DVDs, Rescue Me is a 3 hour and 20 minute documentary film on the horrific plight of the poor and homeless of Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles and the heroic work of the Union Rescue Mission which offers them food, shelter and rehabilitation programs.
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When did I See You Hungry? is a photographic and textual mediation on the plight of the poor in United States, Canada, Mexico, Italy, India, Jamaica, the Philippines and Kenya.
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Holy Pictures stresses the importance of stillness and silence in the spiritual life. This exquisitely crafted film reflects St. Francis of Assisi's passion for prayerful solitude, often in far-off, mountaintop hermitages where he earnestly sought God's will for his life.
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Gerry Straub pauses in Poverty and Prayer to reflect on the impact of filming. While Poverty and Prayer contains some new footage, the film features the most powerful scenes from five of the films produced and distributed by The San Damiano Foundation.
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The Patients of a Saint is the story of an American doctor working in the high-tech world of a university hospital, who felt compelled to abandon everything and enter the harsh world of extreme poverty and weakness in Lima, Peru. Dr. Tony is a candle in the darkness of crippling, chronic poverty, bringing hope and healing to some of the children of Lima, Peru.
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Room at the Inn represents a summation of a journey into the bleak and grim world of chronic poverty. Besides telling the inspirational story of the St. Francis Inn, the film subtly takes on the form of an Advent retreat whose message resounds throughout: the poor, the broken and rejected are portals through which we can enter fully into the life of Christ.
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