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A documentary about Human Rights (particularly dealing with freedom of speech, gay rights, civil rights in relation to race, and freedom of religion) in 2000 through the eyes of Salt Lake teens from diverse backgrounds as they compare and contrast how their lives have benefited from the sacrifices of others in previous generations to procure those rights.

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Two kids see a late night commercial and decide to call the 1-800 number to order a mail-order granny of their own. After assembling the Granny, the kids put her to work cleaning and baking cookies for them until she short-circuits and comes after them attacking all who cross her path. The delivery man rescues them with a recall notice and takes out Granny's batteries.

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A white witch in Utah talks about her beliefs and how those beliefs affect her daily life, her family, and her interaction with her neighbors and the community.

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The manager of a Clean Flicks location is interviewed about the store's business involving the post-release editing of motion pictures for content such as offensive language and sexual or graphically violent content. In contrast, the director of the Sundance Film Festival gives his views on the matter.

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An experimental film using colors and textures in a domestic setting: orange carrot, blue furry pillow, green wall, black shoe soles.

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Filmmaker Melissa Mullen takes a journey where her initial pity for local (Salt Lake City) street performers leads her to ask the question "what is success?" Determining after asking several street performers what success is to them, Mullen believes that she is the only one who can measure her own success and that happiness and personal fulfillment are vital in the equation.

Scope and Contents Two French girls and a French man sit at a cafe table when the man sees a flier advertising travel to the US. When they arrive at the US airport, their culturally-insensitive tour guide takes them to a restaurant where all of French-named items on the menu have been crossed out and the word "French" replaced with "Freedom." So outraged by such an action in addition to the callous treatment they receive from their tour guide, the French tourists beat up their tour guide and leave. After...

Scope and Contents Two little girls, Katie and Amy, bump into each other one day and mix up their backpacks. When Katie tells her dad about the mix up, she asks him to take her to Amy's house to swap backpacks but her father doesn't like the look of the house and turns around. Secretly, Katie calls Amy and they agree to meet at Amy's house. When Amy opens the door the girls "instantly" become best friends. Later that night Amy asks her own father why the two families were feuding but he couldn't remember how...

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Nefarious characters murder a man only to die in painful ways themselves.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Spy Hop Productions independent film collection (2000-2009) consists of raw footage and finished films assembled by elementary and high school aged filmmakers under the tutelage of Spy Hop Productions, a Salt Lake City not-for-profit youth media center specializing in educational solutions through the multimedia arts. The collection contains narrative, claymation and documentary films and includes extensive footage about Salt Lake City hosting the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Many films...