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Home Court traces the ascent of Ashley Chea, a basketball prodigy whose life intensifies amid recruitment, injury, and triumph throughout her high school career.

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Two Trinities

Ole Anthony and the Trinity Foundation not only minister to their community, but take on televangelists who prey on the poor and desperate.

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Sandra Guardado won an Emmy and Special Jury Prize for writing from the Sundance Film Festival for her PBS documentary George Wallace: Settin’ the Woods on Fire and first place in the Silver State Film Festival for The Reunion, which documents her return to El Salvador.

Guardado received a M.F.A. in film and video production from the University of Texas at Austin.

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