Thank you for your eyes this summer! Here’s the latest.
This summer you helped with two causes. In July, we provided medicine to nursery school children across three nurseries in Muketuri, Mizen Teferi, and Andode. Many of these children have no access to basic medical care, which leaves them open to illnesses and infections that are treatable everywhere else. In August, as wildfires displaced communities across North America and stretched local pantries thin, we funded the equipment that makes food rescue possible: aluminum trays, carts, and the rest of the unglamorous gear that moves a meal from surplus to someone who needs it.
Amazing!
What’s next? September sends kids back to classrooms across North America. In the Babati district of rural Tanzania, that same start looks very different. Babati is one of the poorest districts in the country, and a severe shortage of teachers across the region means the classroom a child walks into may not have anyone standing at the front of it. Our support this month goes to So They Can, whose education program trains teachers, feeds and supports students, strengthens school boards and school infrastructure, and runs Mamire Teachers Training College, which takes on the teacher deficit directly by training teachers and securing them jobs.
New Mountain+ has a new look, and two new ways to browse the catalog.
IMPACT sorts the catalog by what a film is about and what it asks of you. Immigration & Displacement. Mental Health & Wellbeing. Survivors & Resilience. And more.
MOOD sorts by how you want to feel when you sit down. Feel-Good & Uplifting. Thought-Provoking. Nostalgic. And more.
+Sports holds a special home for all things sporting. Following such a dramatic summer season in the sport-world, this is where you can keep the interest going.
Same films, chosen with the same care. You can just find them now. Go explore the new categories and see what surfaces.
The People and The Olive
A group of American ultramarathoners run 129 miles across the West Bank in five days, replanting uprooted olive trees alongside the Palestinian farmers who tend them. A hopeful film about a place the news only ever shows us divided.
Now streaming.
Strip the Script
Our first podcast is live!
Hosted by Jazz Lintott, Strip the Script streams first on New Mountain+: real conversations with actors and filmmakers, no script and none of the press-tour polish.
Five episodes are up, featuring Katherine McNamara, Mena Massoud, Steve Carr, Adjani Salmon and William Stanford Davis. Jimmy Akingbola closes Season One on October 13.
House of Hope
This powerful documentary comes to New Mountain+ this December. It is set in Palestine, the same ground as The People and the Olive; ten years later the land has changed.
Start in the olive groves now. More on HOUSE OF HOPE soon.
Thank you for your eyes this month! Here’s the latest.
This month you helped with an amazing cause. We provided clean drinking water to Mango Tree Girls School. A Kenyan boarding school for girls that provides education to highly vulnerable and orphaned girls.
Well done!
In celebration of our first newsletter, we have also donated to help restore New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains, where the devastating Las Conchas wildfire scarred over 156,600 acres and destroyed vital upland forests that Indigenous communities depend on for cultural and natural resources. This ongoing initiative strengthens Tribal climate resilience and reflects a commitment to honoring Indigenous sovereignty by supporting community-led restoration efforts.
What’s next? Nursery school children in Ethiopia lack access to basic medical care, leaving them vulnerable to preventable illness and infection. Our support will provide medicinal treatment to children across three nurseries in Muketuri, Mizen Teferi, and Andode, helping them grow into healthy, independent adults.
Water For Life
Water for Life follows three people who refused to let governments and corporations take their water. One was shot and imprisoned and won an international prize from his cell. One spent a decade in court against a mining company and won.
It sits close to home for us. In May, we funded a fire brigade to protect rainforest and orangutan habitat through a dry season. In June, we supported a solar-powered borehole so girls at the Mango Tree Girls School in Kenya no longer depend on rainfall or a costly water tanker. Different continents, same fact: water is growing scarcer, and the people with the least power are left to defend it.
Berta, Francisco, and Alberto were asking for the same thing as the communities we support: enough water to live on, and a say in what happens to it. We hope you’ll watch.
Nadia
With the World Cup unfolding across stadiums in the US, Canada, and Mexico, Nadia reminds us what football can mean beyond the scoreboard. Nadia Nadim fled Afghanistan as a child after her father was executed by the Taliban, eventually finding refuge in Denmark, where she became an international football star, and this documentary follows her journey back toward a country and a grief she was never allowed to fully confront.
Democracy Under Siege
As the president’s second term stress-tests American institutions, Democracy Under Siege arrives at exactly the right moment. Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Laura Nix and anchored by the razor-sharp political cartoons of Ann Telnaes, the film examines executive overreach, a crisis in judicial ethics, and a media landscape saturated with disinformation, asking plainly whether American multiracial democracy can survive the pressures now bearing down on it.
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