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American Commune

Year
2012
Country
USA
Duration
90’
Director
Rena Mundo Croshere and Nadine Mundo

In 1970, 1500 hippies and their guru Stephen Gaskin founded a commune in rural Tennessee. The members forked over their savings, grew their own food, delivered their babies at home and built a self-sufficient society. Raised in this alternative community by a Jewish mother from Beverly Hills and a Puerto Rican father from the Bronx, filmmakers and sisters Rena and Nadine return for the first time since leaving in 1985. Finally ready to face the past after years of hiding their upbringing, they chart the rise and fall of America’s largest utopian socialist experiment and their own family tree.

Production and Sales
Mundo Sisters, Rena Mundo Croshere, Nadine Mundo, [email protected], www.mundosisters.com
Director
Rena Mundo Croshere and Nadine Mundo

Rena Mundo Croshere and Nadine Mundo are a sibling directing team and co-owners of the production company, Mundo Films. The sisters work as a team with a shared skill set of directing, producing, writing, editing and story development. They both began their careers in college. While at New York University, Rena directed a documentary about teenage prostitution in Cuba, called Prostitution Y Tourismo. While studying at San Francisco State University, Nadine directed and edited Art of Survival, a documentary about capoeira (an Afro-Brazilian martial art) and inner city youth. American Commune is their first feature documentary.

Selected Filmography

American Commune (2012)

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Crepuscule
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Crepuscule
Year
2014
Country
Ukraine
Director
Valentyn Vasyanovych
Duration
61’
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A Diary of a Journey
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A Diary of a Journey
Year
2013
Country
Poland
Director
Piotr Stasik
Duration
54’
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Grandma
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Grandma
Year
2013
Country
Canada
Director
Khoa Lê
Duration
85’
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Bintou
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Bintou
Year
2014
Country
Germany
Director
Simone Catharina Gaul
Duration
64’
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Blood
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Blood
Year
2013
Country
Russia
Director
Alina Rudnickaya
Duration
62’
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Night Labor
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Night Labor
Year
2013
Country
USA, Canada
Director
David Redmon and Ashley Sabin
Duration
64’
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The Last Limousine
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The Last Limousine
Year
2014
Country
Russia
Director
Daria Khlestkina
Duration
73’
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The Last Station
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The Last Station
Year
2012
Country
Chile
Directors
Cristian Soto, Catalina Vergara
Duration
90’
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Trucker and the Fox
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Trucker and the Fox
Year
2013
Country
Iran
Director
Arash Lahooti
Duration
78’
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