Anne Checler
Anne Checler is an award-winning documentary editor with over 15 years of experience in long and short-form documentaries, television and web series which have covered a wide range of topics from Resistance fighters during WWII and the Black Panthers to slave labor in Brazil and the music of Charlie Chaplin. Her work has been featured on Independent Lens/PBS, NBC, France 2, TV Globo, Filmstruck.com, mlssoccer.com, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, DocNYC, and various other international film festivals.
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Where Are They Now? Lost Works From the W.P.A. Era
Last month, an exhibition titled “Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s” opened at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes four posters depicting America’s national parks that were designed during the Works Progress Administration, a program created in 1935 by President Franklin Roosevelt following the Great Depression. One […]
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The Case of the Missing Park Posters: An Ex-Ranger Hunts for New Deal-Era Art
A former park ranger is on the hunt to complete a collection of posters by artists commissioned by the government celebrating national parks.
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Why the Supreme Court Endorsed, Then Limited Affirmative Action
Ruling in a case that challenged practices that colleges use to select a diverse student body, the Supreme Court reverses itself.
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In the Long Fight to Protect Native American Families, a Law Stands Guard
For generations, Native American children were removed from their homes and placed with white families. A recent Supreme Court ruling affirms the rights of Native families and tribes, giving them preference in adoption and foster care placement.
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Generations Stolen
For decades, Native children were forcibly separated from their families – today, communities are working to overcome generations of trauma.
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Transgender Rights, Won Over Decades, Face New Restrictions
More than 50 years after the Stonewall uprising marked the birth of a movement for LGBTQ+ rights, transgender activists continue to push for inclusion.
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Forced Into Federal Boarding Schools as Children, Native Americans Confront the Past
Native Americans demand accountability for a federal policy that aimed to erase Indigenous culture.
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Amazon Rainforest Defenders Confront Violence, Encroachment and Politics
Debates over development in the world’s largest rainforest have led to deadly conflicts, threats to its indigenous people and harm to the global atmosphere.
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A New Housing Program to Fight Poverty Has an Unexpected History
Some cities are trying to help poor children succeed by having their families move to middle-income, so-called “opportunity areas” – an idea that was once politically impossible.
