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“Raw Faith” explores former minister Marilyn Sewell’s long journey to happiness

For something that seems to play such a prominent role in society, spirituality doesn’t often get the serious and honest exploration it does in Raw Faith. The documentary, which premieres May 20 at 8pm on Documentary Channel, follows two years in the life of Portland minister Marilyn Sewell, who devotes almost all her time and energy to helping the members of her unitarian congregation, to whom she is beloved. She does so to the detriment of her personal life, causing her grown sons to proclaim their bitterness toward the church for stealing their mother away from them. After 17 years, […]

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Filmmaker Mimi Chakarova bravely explores “The Price of Sex” in new documentary

Plenty of movies and news reports have attempted to shine the light on the scourge of sex trafficking, but few efforts have the immediacy and impact of filmmaker Mimi Chakarova’s The Price of Sex. A photojournalist by trade, Chakarova was inspired to explore the topic because of her background in Bulgaria, where the trafficking of young, poor women is an epidemic. Her bold investigation takes her into the lives of women who have escaped the life, and even some men who perpetrate it. She travels around Eastern Europe and the Middle East, providing an unflinching look at a problem that […]