Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # LOGTV | Slawomir Grünberg LOGTV, Ltd. is a non-profit organization founded to research, distribute, and produce documentary films of social and human interest. ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://logtv.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [News](https://logtv.com/news/) - [Sławomir Grünberg in the Avenue of Stars (Sławomir Grünberg w Alei Gwiazd)](https://logtv.com/slawomir-grunberg-w-alei-gwiazd/) - June 6, 2023 at 1.00 p.m. in the Lodz Avenue of Stars at ul. Piotrkowska 68, Slawomir Grünberg - a film director and cinematographer, film and television producer will be honored with the 94th star on The Alley of Stars of the Lodz Walk of Fame (the idea borrowed from the Hollywood Walk of Fame). - [Film premiere of Łódź Kaliska: Classic Artists of the Absurd (Premiera filmu „ŁÓDŹ KALISKA. KLASYCY ABSURDU”)](https://logtv.com/film-premiere-of-lodz-kaliska-classic-artists-of-the-absurd-premiera-filmu-lodz-kaliska-klasycy-absurdu/) - 29 maja 2023 r. o godz. 19:30 w Kinie pod Baranami na 63. Krakowskim Festiwalu Filmowym odbędzie polska premiera najnowszego filmu Sławomira Grünberga „ŁÓDŹ KALISKA. KLASYCY ABSURDU” https://www.krakowfilmfestival.pl/kino-online/film/4079-lodz-kaliska-klasycy-absurdu/ 6 czerwca 2023 r. o godz. 13:00 zostanie odsłonięta Gwiazda Sławomira Grünberga w Alei Gwiazd w Łodzi! English version: Polish premiere of latest film by Sławomir Grünberg, - [2 New LOGTV Films now on Amazon Prime](https://logtv.com/2-new-logtv-films-now-on-amazon-prime/) - LOGTV Films is proud to share with you our latest distribution success: 2 more of our films are now widely available through AMAZON PRIME! Everything is in Your Hands Kaya Mirecka-Ploss was closely associated with Jan Karski. She helped over a hundred children from Poland get education in the USA. She gave home to three - [Premiere of new film by Slawomir Grünberg: „Everything is in Your Hands”](https://logtv.com/new-film-by-slawomir-grunberg-everything-is-in-your-hands/) - A new film by Slawomir Grünberg: „Everything is in Your Hands” (Ja, Kaya - Dziołcha ze Śląska) starring Kaya Mirecka-Ploss and produced by Barbara Grünberg will premiere on October 29, 6 pm, Rialto Theater, Katowice, Poland. Kaya Mirecka-Ploss was closely associated with Jan Karski to whom she dedicated the book “Jan Karski - the man - ["Still Life in Lodz" Q & A with Slawomir Grunberg, Paul Celler and Lilka Elbaum - March 15](https://logtv.com/still-life-in-lodz-q-a-with-slawek-grunberg-paul-celler-and-lilka-elbaum/) - Join us for "Still Life in Lodz", our latest film Q & A with Slawomir Grunberg, Paul Celler and Lilka Elbaum sponsored by the Coolidge Corner Cinema on March 15, 2021 @ 8:00 PM EST Please click here to join the Q & A on March 15th at 8pm EST. The event will stream automatically. - [LOGTV Films now on Amazon Prime](https://logtv.com/logtv-films-now-on-amazon-prime/) - LOGTV Films is proud to share with you our latest distribution success: several of our films premiere and are widely available through AMAZON PRIME! Santa Rosa: Odyssey in the Rhythm of Mariachi In 1943 a group of 1434 Polish refugees from the Soviet Russia, including a few hundred orphans, arrived in an abandoned ranch of - [A New Film in Production](https://logtv.com/a-new-film-in-production/) - Hidden Heritage: A Jewish Awakening in Krakow is a feature documentary (in development) about the remarkable revival of Jewish life in Krakow, Poland, seen through the eyes of Polish citizens who, against all odds, have re-discovered their connections to Judaism. - [Gala Jubileuszowa 40-lecia Pracy Tworczej Slawomira Grünberga](https://logtv.com/gala-jubileuszowa-40-lecia-pracy-tworczej-slawomira-grunberga/) - 8 kwietnia 2019 r. w Teatrze Polskim w Warszawie odbędzie się Gala jubileuszowa 40-lecia pracy twórczej Sławomira Grünberga. Goście zobaczą dokument biograficzny „Opowieści filmowe Sławka Grünberga” w reż. Krzysztofa Tusiewicza, przybliżający sylwetkę Jubilata, a po filmie odbędzie się rozmowa z bohaterem wieczoru, którą poprowadzi Grażyna Torbicka. Zwieńczeniem wydarzenia będzie wyjątkowy koncert, który wprowadzi gości w - [Anna Proletariuszka / Nie płacz kiedy odjadę + spotkanie ze Sławomirem Grünbergiem](https://logtv.com/anna-proletariuszka-nie-placz-kiedy-odjade-spotkanie-ze-slawomirem-grunbergiem/) - ANNA PROLETARIUSZKA NIE PŁACZ KIEDY ODJADĘ oraz spotkanie z reżyserem Sławomirem Grünbergiem 21 października 2018, godz. 16.00 Kino Forum, ul. Legionowa 5 bilet: 8 zł – do kupienia w kasie kina i na stronie bilety.bok.bialystok.pl clomid online Anna Proletariuszka Polska 1981, 31′ reż. Marek Ciecierski, Sławomir Grünberg prod. 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[edsanimate_start entry_animation_type= "fadeIn" - [How About We Stop by Tomaszow for the Day?](https://logtv.com/tomaszow/) - How About We Stop by Tomaszow for the Day? Is a feature-length documentary film by Slawomir Grünberg about Tomaszow Mazowiecki’s Jewish community - [GENIUS LOCI. PINKUS/PANUSZ](https://logtv.com/genius-loci-pinkus-panusz/) - "Genius Loci. Pinkus/Panusz” is a story about how great dreams and achievements intertwine with the inexorable reality of the history of the country, the city and the hero himself. - [Jewish History and Identity](https://logtv.com/jewish-history-and-identity/) - JEWISH HISTORY AND IDENTITY FEATURED FILM KARSKI AND THE LORDS OF HUMANITY VIEW FILM PAGE BUY DVD STREAM STREAM EDUCATIONAL Additional language streaming options: HebrewGermanFrenchSpanish ALL FILMS GENIUS LOCI. pinkus/panusz How About We Stop by Tomaszow for the Day? Nobody Told Me Everything is in Your Hands Lubliners Golfer Still Life in Lodz The Case - [Lodz Kaliska. Classic Artists of the Absurd](https://logtv.com/lodzkaliska/) - The documentary film ‘ŁÓDŹ KALISKA. Classic Artists of the Absurd’ presents a group portrait of one of the most ambitious art groups – Łódź Kaliska, which has remained consistently active in Poland for the last 42 years. - [Films in Progress](https://logtv.com/films-in-progress/) - FILMS IN PROGRESS Hidden Heritage Help Support Independent Film. Make a donation here. - [Hidden Heritage](https://logtv.com/hidden-heritage/) - Hidden Heritage: A Jewish Awakening in Kraków is a groundbreaking feature documentary about the remarkable revival of Jewish life in Kraków, the second largest city in Poland. - [Arts And Literature](https://logtv.com/arts-and-literature/) - ARTS AND LITERATURE FEATURED FILM BURNING MAN VIEW FILM PAGE BUY DVD ALL FILMS Lodz Kaliska - Classic Artists of the Absurd Plonacy Facet (Burning Man) See All Film Categories Help Support Independent Film. Make a donation here. - [Plonacy Facet (Burning Man)](https://logtv.com/burningman/) - America is known to Polish audiences mostly through the pictures and events of New York City and Chicago. The rest of this fascinating country, which is home to more than 250 million people, is a mystery. - [Warsaw: A City Divided](https://logtv.com/warsaw-a-city-divided/) - In 1941, in German-occupied Warsaw, soon after the creation of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto by the Nazis, a Polish amateur 8mm camera enthusiast shot a remarkable 10-minute film from both sides of the Ghetto walls. - [Nobody Told Me](https://logtv.com/nobody-told-me/) - ‘Nobody Told Me’ is a short twenty-seven minute documentary that tells the story of Dr Halina Rotstein, a dedicated doctor - [Still Life](https://logtv.com/stilllife/) - A large still-life painting hung on the wall above Lilka Elbaum’s childhood bed in Lodz, Poland. It was the first thing she saw when she woke up, and the last thing she saw before she fell asleep. - [Everything is in Your Hands](https://logtv.com/everything-is-in-your-hands/) - Back to Film Categories EVERYTHING IS IN YOUR HANDS (Ja, Kaya – Dziołcha Ze Śląska) Kaya Mirecka-Ploss was closely associated with Jan Karski to whom she dedicated the book “Jan Karski – the Man to Whom I Told the Truth”. She helped over a hundred children from Poland get education in the USA. She gave - [Law, Social Justice and Immigration Rights](https://logtv.com/law-social-justice-and-immigration-rights/) - LAW, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND IMMIGRATION RIGHTS FEATURED FILM SCHOOL PRAYER VIEW FILM PAGE BUY DVD STREAM STREAM EDUCATIONAL ALL FILMS Everything is in Your Hands Arabic Secret The Good Change (Dobra Zmiana) Santa Rosa: Odyssey in The Rhythm of Mariachi Michael and Svetlana B&B Guestbook 9/11 Zielona Karta (Green Card Gamble) The Closure Myth A - [Lubliners](https://logtv.com/lubliners/) - Poland has always been a country of many cultures, and the life of the Jewish community for centuries has been inseparably linked with its history. And suddenly, the Jewish population ceased to exist. - [Golfer](https://logtv.com/golfer/) - Stanislaw Aronson, the protagonist of this documentary, was born in Warsaw, in 1925, in a wealthy assimilated Jewish family. When he was 14, the WWII started. At this moment his happy childhood ended up forever. A few days after the outbreak of war, Aronson’s family moved to the east of Poland. - [Arabic Secret](https://logtv.com/arabic-secret/) - One who doesn’t have roots won’t be able to grow wings – a documentary film about a man tracking his origins to the Middle East and trying to establish a connection with his father, whom he have never met before. - [The Warsaw Ghetto](https://logtv.com/ghetto/) - The Warsaw Ghetto (1940-1943) is documentary project that features three films. The main film is 912 Days of the Warsaw Ghetto (37 min.), and the two short ones are Children in the Ghetto and Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. These films were created for the Jewish Historical Institute as part of its permanent exhibit on the fate of Warsaw’s Jews during the period from 1939 to 1945. They present the daily lives and deaths of those imprisoned in the ghetto, their hopes and efforts to survive, their armed resistance and struggle, and finally their total extermination. - [The Peretzniks](https://logtv.com/peretzniks/) - The events of March '68 are still somewhat obscure in Poland. The political background is known, as are the film archives, and press coverage. However, little is known about how it was to grow up in Poland of the sixties as a Polish Jew, or as a Pole of Jewish origin. - [Karski & The Lords of Humanity](https://logtv.com/karski-the-lords-of-humanity/) - Karski & The Lords of Humanity is a feature-length partially animated documentary project. The film tells the story of a member of the Polish underground who acted as a courier during World War II - [Shimon's Returns](https://logtv.com/shimon/) - The documentary shot in Poland, Ukraine and Israel tells the story of Shimon Redlich, a Holocaust survivor who returns to places from his childhood as well as different hiding places in his struggle to survive. - [Rainbow Folk](https://logtv.com/rainbow/) - Many Polish gay men and lesbians remain in the closet for fear of being ostracized from family and friends, and in some cases losing their jobs. Rainbow Folk offers a rare look into the lives of ‘out’ gay people in Poland presents some of the complexities involved in being gay or lesbian in contemporary Poland. - [It's Not a Fairytale](https://logtv.com/its-not-a-fairytale/) - This film portrays Sigmund A. Rolat, a New York – based patron of the arts, businessman and philanthropist. Born in Czestochowa, Poland and a Holocaust survivor. - [The Presence of Their Absence](https://logtv.com/the-presence-of-their-absence/) - The story of Fred Zaidman, a Los Angeles son of Holocaust survivors, on a journey of discovery to trace his roots and “inherited trauma”. Armed with the determination and perseverance to push his limits, and only scant clues from his late parents, Fred ventures into a world of unknowns. - [The Case of Johanna Langefeld](https://logtv.com/johanna/) - Krakow, Poland 1946. SS-Oberaufseherin Johanna Langefeld a highest ranking female SS-guard at Auschwitz and Ravensbrück escapes from prison where she waited for Nazi crimes trial. - [Terms and Conditions](https://logtv.com/terms-and-conditions/) - Terms and Conditions Agreement between User and logtv.com Welcome to logtv.com. 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Winds scattered the heaviest radioactive deposits across the country, where, even after a decade, 25% of the land is judged uninhabitable. - [Dobra Zmiana](https://logtv.com/dobra-zmiana/) - The Good Change – Poles Apart is a unique documentary analysis of the conflict, which is tearing Poland apart and is an example an early glimpse of the populist movement spreading throughout the Western world. The story is led by two Polish women and their families representing the country’s deep ideological split and revealing a nation at a crossroads. - [Environmental](https://logtv.com/environmental/) - ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURED FILM FENCELINE VIEW FILM PAGE BUY DVD STREAM STREAM EDUCATIONAL ALL FILMS Chelyabinsk: The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet Fenceline: A Company Town Divided From Chechnya to Chernobyl See All Film Categories Help Support Independent Film. Make a donation here. - [About](https://logtv.com/about/) - LOGTV, LTD is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c) (3) public charity organization, founded in 1999 by the acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Slawomir Grünberg, to research, distribute, and produce educational documentary films and educational programming with a special emphasis on themes connected to Jewish life, identity, history as well as the Holocaust. - [LGBT&Q](https://logtv.com/lgbtq/) - LGBT&Q FEATURED FILM COMING OUT POLISH STYLE VIEW FILM PAGE BUY DVD STREAM STREAM EDUCATIONAL ALL FILMS Rainbow Folk Coming Out Polish Style Coming Out In Poland Trans-Action See All Film Categories Help Support Independent Film. Make a donation here. - [Disabilities and Human Rights](https://logtv.com/disabilities-and-human-rights/) - DISABILITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURED FILM PORTRAITS OF EMOTION VIEW FILM PAGE BUY DVD STREAM STREAM EDUCATIONAL ALL FILMS Like A Butterfly Portraits of Emotion When the Family Gets AIDS Borderline: The People vs. Eunice Baker Adopting Olya The Red Button Anna Proletarian Is This Life Worth Living? See All Film Categories Help Support Independent - [Contact](https://logtv.com/contact/) - CONTACT US Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. Help Support Independent Film. Make a donation here. - [Screenings and Permanent Collections](https://logtv.com/screenings-and-permanent-collections/) - SCREENINGS AND PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Documentary films by Slawomir Grünberg have been screened & some of them made their way to permanent collections of film societies, libraries and various prestigious institutions. They also have been shown at all major universities in the US and Canada and many universities across the world. Also at many festivals in - [Filmmakers Comments](https://logtv.com/cinematographers-comments/) - FILMMAKERS COMMENTS TOD LENDING I’m starting to screen assemblies of Redemption and I must tell you that your shooting is extraordinary. I think you are getting better and better even as you get older and older. You’re listening, composing, and moving all in one beautiful seamless dance. I feel like I’m watching a choreographed feature - [Farewell to My Country](https://logtv.com/farewell-to-my-country/) - In 1968, following student demonstrations, Poland expelled the last remaining Jews from what once was the largest Jewish settlement in the world, effectively ending over a thousand years’ history. - [Castaways](https://logtv.com/castaways/) - Before World War II, Lapy was a town of about 4000 residents, among them some 630 Jews. In the summer of 1943 the Nazis began the last transportations of Jews from the Bialystok region to the Treblinka death camp. - [The Legacy of Jedwabne](https://logtv.com/jedwabne/) - Inspired by Jan Gross’ book titled Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, this film tells a shocking and brutal story that has been kept a secret in Poland for over 60 years. - [Saved by Deportation](https://logtv.com/deportation/) - In 1940, a year before the Nazis started deporting Jews to death camps, Joseph Stalin ordered the deportation of approximately 200,000 Polish Jews from Russian-occupied Eastern Poland to forced labor settlements in the Soviet interior. - [Samuel](https://logtv.com/samuel/) - The film presents the extraordinary life of Samuel Willenberg, a sculptor and painter, prisoner of Treblinka, participant of the Warsaw Uprising, recipient of the Virtuti Militari Medal and the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. - [Irena Sendler: In The Name of Their Mothers](https://logtv.com/sendler/) - In the Name of Their Mothers tells the story of Irena Sendler and a group of young Polish women — some barely out of their teens – who outfoxed the Nazis for five years during WWII. - [Michael and Svetlana](https://logtv.com/michaelandsvetlana/) - When the former Soviet Union opened its borders in 1991, dozens of match-making agencies started exploring the new market of Russian brides. Michael and Svetlana is a documentary about a man who subscribed to such a service. - [Zielona Karta (Green Card Gamble)](https://logtv.com/zielona/) - The documentary series Zielona Karta (Green Card Gamble) follows the lives of three Polish families who, as a result of winning a Diversity Program visa lottery, each received a green card, allowing them to become permanent residents of the United States. - [Everyone Had Their Own Jew](https://logtv.com/suchowola/) - Everyone Had Their Own Jew (Kazdy mial swojego Zyda) is a story how Poles, who live in Suchowola today remember or want to remember their Jewish neighbors. Suchowola – was a small shtetl located between Bialystok and Grodno. Before World War II the population of Suchowola consisted of 3,000 people out of whom 1,500 were Jews. - [The Pencil](https://logtv.com/pencil/) - A short feature film based on a script by Tomas Wisniewski is intended as a pilot for a full feature movie. The film tells the story of a birth of a difficult love, which happened between a Jewish boy coming for a religious family and a Polish girl brought up in a Catholic family. - [Grants](https://logtv.com/grants/) - GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARD RECOGNITIONS Docboat 2009 Award, Warsaw, Poland DreamCatcher Award from the Hope and Dreams Film Festival EMA Award – Environmental Media Association Award Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation – Production Grant Golden Glan Award by Charlie Theater in Lodz, Poland Guggenheim Fellowship in Documentary Film Making Jan Karski Award: For Moral Courage - [Boris Dorfman - A Mentsh](https://logtv.com/mentsh/) - A Mentsh (full title: Boris Dorfman – A Mentsh) is a movie shot entirely in the Yiddish language. It’s set in the former multinational city of Lviv, Ukraine, and the first part of a planned Yiddish trilogy (Lviv, Tel Aviv, New York). Lviv was a centre of Jewish life for more than 600 years. - [Central Park](https://logtv.com/centralpark/) - After more than a year’s work, I have at last finished “Park Centralny” (Central Park), a film which I am convinced will play a major role in the ongoing efforts to restore Białystok’s Jewish heritage. I sincerely believe that its screening will result in real action being taken to reconstruct Białystok’s most ancient Jewish cemetery, a place that was once an integral part of the city’s townscape. - [Magda](https://logtv.com/magda/) - The film portrays Magda (Magdalena Grodzka-Gużkowska) who joined the Polish Underground in the fight against the Nazis at age 15. During World War II – unaware of her Jewish roots – Magda risked her life saving Jews in Warsaw. Decades later, she discovers her own Jewish ancestry. - [Stefania Sitbon](https://logtv.com/stefania-sitbon/) - Survivor Stefania Sitbon travels back to Poland to show her daughters, where her family was hidden during the war: The Warsaw Zoo. She met Teresa, the Zabinskis’ daughter, and toured the basement she once called home. - [Don't Cry When I'm Gone](https://logtv.com/dont-cry-when-im-gone-nie-placz-kiedy-odjade/) - The film’s title Don’t Cry When I’m Gone comes from the popular song, performed by the Italian singer Marino Marini who visited Poland in the 60s. The lyrics were written by Wanda Sieradzka, the author of many Polish pop hits. This film is about her – a woman who survived the historical turmoil, Warsaw Ghetto and miraculously avoided annihilation by the Nazis to build a great artistic career in a postwar Poland. - [Bogdan's Journey](https://logtv.com/bogdans-journey/) - Kielce, Poland was the site of Europe’s last Jewish pogrom in 1946. The militia, soldiers and ordinary townspeople killed over 40 Holocaust survivors seeking shelter in a downtown building, injuring 80 more. - [Tell Me Why](https://logtv.com/tellmewhy/) - That one thing that is most difficult to discuss, and which happens to only so few of us… love. We dream of it, we struggle to find it… and want to believe that if we only do, the world will become a better place. But what if love comes to us at a time we ought to forget? What happens when love is intimately linked with tragedy? - [The Last Witness](https://logtv.com/lastwitness/) - The documentary spins a tale of Samuel Willenberg’s life. He was 20 at the outbreak of the armed revolt on August 2nd of 1943 in the death camp of Treblinka in Poland. - [Radegast](https://logtv.com/radegast/) - Back to Category Radegast In October of 1941 first transport of Jews from Western Europe had arrived at the Radegast station at the already overcrowded ghetto in Lodz. The majority of the Polish Jews considered assimilation an apostasy, whereas the German Jews considered their attachment to an orthodox mysticism and isolation from society ignorant. They - [Paint What You Remember](https://logtv.com/opatow/) - Mayer Kirshenblatt left Poland for Canada in 1934. Fifty-six years later, at age 73 Mayer began to paint his childhood memories of prewar life in Opatow. Before Second World War Opatow (or Apt in Yiddish) had 10 thousand inhabitants, more than half of them Jewish. Nowadays, little is remembered of the shtetl character of the town and of its Jewish population wiped out entirely by the Holocaust. - [The Red Button (Czerwony Guzik)](https://logtv.com/redbutton/) - The Red Button is a 52-minute documentary film that tells the dramatic story of Stanislav Petrov, the Russian officer who, in 1983, saved the world from atomic war. - [Schoolprayer: A Community at War](https://logtv.com/schoolprayer/) - A Mississippi mother of six sues her local school district to remove intercom prayer and Bible classes from the public schools. Christian community members rally against her to protect their time-honored tradition of religious practices in the schools. Both sides claim they are fighting for religious freedom. - [Niedziela (The Sunday)](https://logtv.com/sunday/) - The boredom of a typical Sunday is relieved when the circus troupe, comes to town. The politically charged performance given by the “Arnoldo and Mellissa Boticellissa” performers turns out to be the troupe’s last show. - [My American Dream](https://logtv.com/americandream/) - Back to Category My American Dream This video collection of three episodes is part of a larger ten-part series that explores the “American Dream.” The three segments presented in this collection are portraits of unique individuals whom the filmmaker met during his travels to Middle America, searching out varying elements of American culture. These insightful - [A Tower of Babel USA (Dutch From Amsterdam, New York)](https://logtv.com/babel/) - Dutch from Amsterdam, NY is a family portrait that demonstrates how Americans are as diverse in their ideas and lifestyles as they are in their aspirations and interpretations of the “American Dream.” Part of an original four-part series A Tower of Babel-USA, screened on select PBS stations. - [The Closure Myth](https://logtv.com/closuremyth/) - The Closure Myth tells the story of Aba Gayle, a woman whose daughter was stabbed to death in 1980, yet who now visits the murderer on death row and acts as an advocate on his behalf. Formerly lusting for an execution, - [B&B Guestbook 9/11](https://logtv.com/guestbook/) - This half-hour documentary, shot at a bed and breakfast four hours Northwest of New York City, captures the reactions of guests to the September 11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath. - [Santa Rosa: Odyssey in the Rhythm of Mariachi](https://logtv.com/santarosa/) - In 1943 a group of 1434 Polish refugees from the Soviet Russia, including a few hundred orphans, arrived in an abandoned ranch of Santa Rosa at the invitation of the Mexican President. Santa Rosa, near Leon, Mexico became their home for the few years to come. - [Trans - Action](https://logtv.com/transaction/) - Trans-Action (HBO Central Europe 2010) tells the story of an extraordinary woman. Anna Grodzka who in 2011 became the first transgender person in the Polish government, and the third transgender member of government in world history, was born in the male body and decided to finally begin her life as a woman only in her 50s. - [Coming Out in Poland](https://logtv.com/comingout/) - Many Polish gay men and lesbians remain in the closet for fear of being ostracized from family and friends, and in some cases losing their jobs. Coming Out in Poland offers a rare look into the lives of “out” gay people in Warsaw. - [Coming Out Polish Style](https://logtv.com/lgbt/) - Coming Out Polish Style (Coming Out Po Polsku) was directed by Slawomir Grünberg & Katka Reszke, who first began documenting gay and lesbian life in Poland in 2008, in their short documentary Coming Out In Poland produced for PBS television. - [Is This Life Worth Living?](https://logtv.com/living/) - The new technologies that allow us to prolong life have raised many questions of medical ethics. What is “quality of life?” Who determines or defines this concept? Is This Life Worth Living? examines the different cases of families forced to ask such questions. - [Anna Proletarian](https://logtv.com/anna/) - Weeks before Christmas in 1970 the government, under Gomulka’s leadership, raised the prices of food, fuel, and other basic goods, and furthermore cancelled the Christmas bonuses for workers at the shipyards. Strikes erupted in the port cities of Gdansk, Szczecin, and Elblag and casualties ensued. Eventually Edward Gierek replaced Gomulka, and after continued strikes, the price hike was finally rescinded in 1971. - [Adopting Olya](https://logtv.com/olya/) - These days, the daily flight from Moscow to New York City carries a few American families with Russian children — some cross-eyed or hare lipped, but all with pasty complexions and brand new, ill fitting American clothing. Russian law allows foreign nationals to adopt Russian orphans. But there is a catch: only children with birth defects and incurable medical conditions may be adopted. Adopting Olya is the story of one such adoption. - [Borderline: The People VS Eunice Baker](https://logtv.com/borderline/) - Borderline is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of Eunice Baker, a borderline mentally retarded woman who was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for murdering a young child, despite evidence that the death was accidental. - [When The Family Gets AIDS](https://logtv.com/aids/) - This documentary traces, over a 15-month period, the ravaging impact AIDS has on the Strenger family of rural Pennsylvania. Bill Strenger narrates the video. He, along with his son, was infected by his wife, Donna, who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion. - [Portraits of Emotion](https://logtv.com/autism/) - Portraits of Emotion is a feature length documentary film that follows over the course of four years the life of 14-year-old Jonathan Lerman, an artistic prodigy who is diagnosed with autism, a lifelong developmental disability that affects learning, communication and social interaction. - [Like a Butterfly (Jak Motyl)](https://logtv.com/butterfly/) - Przemek was born with severe physical handicaps, a quadriplegic since birth who is unable to control the movements of his arms and legs, and is also unable to speak. 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