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2012
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Focus Forward is an innovative talk show from the production house of Cinetic. The show brings together a panel of experts from various fields to share their insights and experiences and provide insightful discussions on a wide range of topics. With an aim to enlighten and engage the audience, the show offers thought-provoking ideas and solutions for community and global issues.

The show is hosted by a seasoned moderator who facilitates a discussion around a theme or topic. Each episode typically features three or four panelists who specialize in fields such as business, politics, education, and technology. The panelists are balanced in terms of gender, age, and expertise, ensuring a diverse range of viewpoints.

One of the key features of Focus Forward is its interactive format. The show encourages audience participation, allowing viewers to ask questions and engage in discussions with panelists via social media channels. This approach adds a personal touch to the show and makes it more accessible and engaging for viewers.

Each episode of Focus Forward is centered around a specific theme or topic. The topics covered by the show are diverse and range from business and entrepreneurship to environmental issues and mental health. As such, the show provides an opportunity for the audience to expand their knowledge base and learn about new developments and trends in these fields.

In addition to offering valuable insights and thought-provoking discussions, Focus Forward also focuses on highlighting inspiring stories and positive developments happening around the world. From showcasing entrepreneurs who are making a social impact to featuring innovative solutions for global issues, the show offers a refreshing perspective on the world.

What sets Focus Forward apart from other talk shows is its focus on tangible solutions and actionable steps. The panelists offer practical advice and recommendations for viewers who want to make a positive impact in their communities or the world. From tips on networking to advice on creating a social impact business, the show provides a wealth of information for viewers who want to take action.

Overall, Focus Forward is a must-watch show for those who are interested in staying up-to-date with the latest developments in various fields and are passionate about making a positive impact in their communities and the world. With its interactive format, thought-provoking discussions, and actionable solutions, the show is a valuable resource for viewers who want to be informed and inspired.

Focus Forward is a series that ran for 1 seasons (30 episodes) between June 5, 2012 and on Cinetic

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30. New Gift

April 16, 2013

In today's context of biological and ecological destruction caused by chemical farming, industrial agriculture and genetic engineering, the film explores the core philosophy of "Navdanya" movement ignited by Dr. Vandana Shiva who believes seed is a gift of life, heritage and continuity and saving seeds leads to conserving biodiversity, knowledge, culture and sustainability.

29. Remote Area Medical

April 16, 2013

A debate over healthcare has been raging nationwide, but what's been lost in the discussion arethe American citizens who live day after day, year after year without solutions for their mostbasic needs. Remote Area Medical documents the annual three-day "pop-up" medical clinicorganized by the non-profit Remote Area Medical (RAM) in Bristol, Tennessee's NASCARspeedway. Instead of a film about policy, Remote Area Medical is a film about people, about aproud Appalachian community banding together to try and provide some relief for friends andneighbors who are simply out of options.

28. Good Bread

April 16, 2013

America has the world's highest incarceration rate. As a culture, we're clear on whatconstitutes punishment but have little consensus or care going into reform.Sometimes "innovation" is just a way out. A redirection. Compassion; patience.NOE is an ex-gang member in his late 20s who is just out of prison and has neverheld a job. He might never get one, given the tattoos that cover his body and face.But without a job, he has no training. It's a catch-22.learns valuable job skills, Herb learns what it's like toteach a workforce that comes straight from the streets.In a microcosm of Homeboy's mission, we see Noe learn the ropes - from sifting tomixing to topping to baking - as he shares his story. Bread can be considered manythings - warm; delicious; sustaining. It's also slang for money. This literal slice ofNoe's life underscores the meaning - and the lasting contribution - of "good bread."

27. Robot

April 16, 2013

ROBOT is set in the Yale Social Robotics Lab where Brian Scassellati designs robots we enjoy being around and are helpful in our homes and schools. The film features NICO and KEEPON, robots who are becoming socially intelligent: they teach us lessons, learn to dance and even cheat while playing games with us.

26. The Secret of Trees

April 16, 2013

What do trees know that we don't? 13-year-old inventor Aidan realized that trees use a mathematical formula to gather sunlight in crowded forests. Then he wondered why we don't collect solar energy in the same way.

25. You Don't Know Jack

April 16, 2013

Jack Andraka, a high school sophomore, has developed a revolutionary new test for pancreatic cancer. The future of science is in the hands of our youth.

24. The Contenders

April 16, 2013

Biologists spent ten years trying to map the structure of the elusive Mason Pfizer Monkey Virus, a problem that could unlock the cure for AIDS.The Contenders solved it in three weeks.Using the online puzzle game Fold It, scientists are enlisting video gamers to solve real- world problems.Fold It allows regular people from all over the world to team up and contribute to scientific breakthroughs by discovering the shape of proteins.The Contenders is one such team. How did these citizen scientists solve a problem that was once thought uncomputable?

23. Fire with Fire

April 16, 2013

Who would dare to pit one fatal disease against another... inside the body of an six-year-old patient? Dr. Carl June and his team of researchers and scientists at Penn Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have taken cliff-hanging risks in their patients' treatment. With profound results, their medical trials are shattering long-held expectations in the field of cancer research.

22. Techistan

April 16, 2013

Tech entrepreneur Rehan Allawala is on a mission to empower Pakistan's most disenfranchised before they're left behind by the Internet revolution.

21. The Cleanest Pig

April 16, 2013

When Bob Elliott was 25 years old, he had an idea that promised a cure for Type 1 diabetes. Troubled by setbacks and deadends, it took more than 50 years to find a breakthrough. Thanks to the mayor of a small town in New Zealand, a handful of exceedingly rare pigs hold the genetic key to changing millions of lives.

20. Operation Free Lunch

April 16, 2013

For over 25,000 poverty-stricken children in China, a "free lunch" is their daily reality. Journalist Deng Fei set up the Free Lunch Campaign in 2011, raised USD 3.9 million from Chinese social media users in just one year and pioneered the power of micro-blogging in China's battle against inequality.

19. The Sky is NOT the Limit

April 16, 2013

The Sky Is NOT The Limit profiles Peter Diamandis, his character and passion to dream big, through his work as founder and visionary behind the X Prize Foundation. From his recent successes (e.g. the 2011 Oil Clean Up X Prize) to his vision for the next big thing - revolutionizing global health care by partnering with communications companies to bring the knowledge of the medical world to people in developing and rural areas without easy access to doctors - the film envisions the world through Diamandis' inspired point of view, mixing dynamic visuals of recent X Prize challenges with artful animated sequences to visually express Diamandis' vision of a world of abundance.

18. The Auto Tune Effect

April 16, 2013

You're humming along, tapping your toe, maybe nodding your head, listening to your favorite song, the artist's vocals ascending higher and higher up the scale to that heart-stopping, tear inducing pitch perfect note. Flawless. Inhuman? Auto-tune is transforming music. Listening will never be the same.

17. Mushroom Man

April 16, 2013

Renowned mycologist and mushroom pioneer, Paul Stamets, harnesses the power of fungi to fight the planet's leading problems. Decades of research have brought him to the conclusion that mushrooms can save the world, one step at a time. From developing cures for cancer to destroying toxic radioactive waste, Stamets believes that much of the mycological field is still relatively untapped. With only 10% of the world's mushrooms identified, he continues to seek out new species in hopes that his research can continue to cultivate edible, medicinal, and antiviral uses of mushrooms to sustain our future.

16. Emergency

April 16, 2013

Innovation can arise from even the most unlikely places. A harsh desert. A complicated political landscape. In the midst of the forbidding northern region of Sudan, the technologically magnificent Salam Center bears testimony to the most beautiful and basic human impulse: compassion. Dr. Gino Strada is the founder and idea architect behind the only free cardiac surgery hospital on the African continent.

15. DisplAir

April 16, 2013

This is a film about 24-years-old genius Maxim Kamanin and his invention DisplAir. Maxim lives in a small provincial town Astrakhan in a South of a Russia but his invention is going to change world for better. We normally can know such people when they already has became famous and reach. But almost never we see them when they just started. Maxim still look with his idealistic eyes wide open.He found a way to divide a water to a smallest particles and then project an image on it. As a result very soon we won't use not-transparent banners, posters, billboards which are closing our cities. We won't use monitors, TVs which narrows our life space.Displair appears only when we need it and disappears if you don't. You can use us a multy-touch screen. You can look through it and go throug it. DisplAir makes our world transparent!Short Synopsis,Maxim Kamanin's invention - DisplAir. It divides a water to a smallest particles and then projects an image on it. Soon we won't use not-transparent banners, posters, billboards, monitors, TVs.Displair appears only when we need it and disappears if you don't. You can use us a multy-touch screen. You can look through it and go throug it. DisplAir makes our world transparent!

14. Panmela Castro

April 16, 2013

Panmela Castro was born and raised in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has own personal history and desire to make people aware of Domestic Violence Against Women through graffiti art. Panmela is proof that no matter how young you are, you have the power to make change.She created an organization called Rede Nami. Through these organization, Panmela Castro uses her graffiti to help spread the word, and so she took to the streets of Rio's hillside favelas, partnering with human-rights organizations to turn underground public art into messages condemning domestic violence.She travels the world with her art and has been honored with numerous international awards for her social work, including the Diller Von Furstenberg Family Foundation for Extraordinary Women, the Vital Voices Global Leadership Award for human rights, and, on 2012, she was nominated by the Newsweek magazine one of the 150 women that are shaking the world. The strenght and the focus of these young activist, whose artistical work has been denouncing, protecting and even saving lives.

13. The Music Man

April 16, 2013

MUSIC MAN tells the story of professor and inventor Ge Wang who teaches computer music at Stanford University where he began the innovative Stanford Laptop Orchestra. Wang believes everyone who loves music should be able to play it. To that end, Wang was the first to turn the IPhone into a musical instrument when he created the "Ocarina" phone app which became one of the most popular in the world when it was launched in 2009.

12. In Your Head

April 16, 2013

Interface designer Dr. Diane Gromala has experienced chronic pain for the last 25 years. Working with concepts of mindfulness meditation--where a patient focuses on their pain to control it--Dr. Gromala and her team have built an immersive virtual reality environment that essentially allows patients to interface with the self by using biofeedback and sensory cues to modulate pain levels.

11. Speaking with Light

April 16, 2013

Dr Edie Widder is a biologist and a deep sea explorer. She's been fascinated with bioluminescent sea creatures since she her very first dives in the ocean. Using her underwater photography, we travel through the cabinet of curiosities that floats beneath the sea: creatures that sparkle, that fizz, that send of puffs of smoke. Edie explains how bioluminescent sea creatures possess special properties - their special light isn't just pretty, it has remarkable properties that can help us in the fight against pollution. Edie shows us some simple science: in her laboratory, she mixes a sample of sediment with a Vibrio fischeri - a common bioluminescent bacteria, easy to mix and use. She shows us how the light given off by the bacteria will dim in a polluted sample - if it dims quickly, the sample is very polluted, and if it dims slowly, the sample is relatively clean. From these samples, Edie creates "pollution maps" of waterways near cities.Edie takes us from the ocean world, to a world of science, and back to the world above. This is the story of how all things are connected, and how the smallest things in the ocean can have the most surprising properties.

10. The Invisible Bicycle Helmet

April 16, 2013

Design students Anna and Terese took on a giant challenge as an exam project. Something no one had done before. If they could swing it, it would for sure be revolutionary. The bicycle is a tool to change the world. If we use bikes AND travel safe: Life will be better for all.An invisible bicycle helmet is a symbol for the impossible. If you can swing it everything is possible. Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin took on a very special exam project at their southern Sweden design school seven years ago. An airbag bicycle helmet. In MalmÃ¶, Sweden everybody use bikes, if other cities in world would have the same amount of bikes on the streets we would live in a much better world. A greener and healthier world. The bicycle is a tool for changen. Bike safety will make more people use bikes, Anna and Terese believes. They want to save the world. A good thing.November 2011 the HÃ¶vding bicycle helmet was launched in Sweden. Now Anna and Terese has 20 employees and works hard to make their dream come trough.

9. All Hail the Beat

June 5, 2012

All Hail the Beat' celebrates a rhythm machine deemed obsolete in 1984 but still influential until to this day. The Roland TR-808 existed from 1980 to 1984. In that brief time span it was embraced by hip hop and helped inspire the creation of new dance music genres (electro boogie, techno) as we hear in testimony from innovators D-Nice, formerly of Boogie Down Productions, Arthur Baker, producer of the classic "Planet Rock" for Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force, and Juan Atkins, credited with creating the Detroit techno sound. Editor Waajeed, who is also a well known hip hop producer himself, has created a sonic tapestry of 808 beats that runs underneath the film, as if the device itself is giving commentary on its history.

8. Bionic Eye

June 5, 2012

Dr. Joseph Rizzo and Prof. John Wyatt co-founded the Boston Retinal Implant Project. It's a Harvard/M.I.T. collaboration whose "Bionic Eye" technology is aimed at restoring sight to patients who suffer from degenerative blindness. They have invented a microelectronic retinal implant that restores vision to patients, particularly those with age-related macular degeneration and blindness.

7. The Honor Code

June 5, 2012

The Honor Code illustrates the ideas of philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah whobelieves honor is the key to lasting social change from within. With a storyteller's flairand a philosopher's rigor, Appiah shows how the concept of honor propelled moralrevolutions in the past and can do so in the future too.

6. Solar Roadways

June 5, 2012

Scott, an Idaho engineer, was pained to see that the US alone used 3,741 Billion kWh of electricity per year, and nothing is being done. He and his wife came up with a real solution: cover roads with solar panels, collecting energy from the sun and providing to the areas around.

5. Hilary's Straws

June 5, 2012

Hilary Lister is a record breaking quadriplegic sailor from Kent, England. She suffers from the progressive condition reflex sympathetic dystrophy and controls her single-handed ship by using sip-and-puff technology for steering and sails. Sip-and-Puff technology is a unique innovative method used to send signals to a device using air pressure by inhaling or exhaling on a straw, tube or "wand." As a recent invention it is now primarily used by people who do not have the use of their hands. Hilary has taken this innovation to new heights. She is the first quadriplegic to sail solo across the English Channel (in 6 hours and 13 minutes). On 24 July 2007, she became the first female quadriplegic to sail solo around the Isle of Wight. She won the Sunday Times Helen Rollason Award for Inspiration in 2005. Hilary was able-bodied until the age of 15. She was introduced to sailing in 2003, which she says gave her life "new meaning and purpose".

4. Meet Mr. Toilet

June 5, 2012

MEET MR. TOILET introduces us to Jack Sim, Singaporean businessman-turned-sanitation crusader. Worldwide, 2.6 billion people lack access to safe sanitation, resulting in disease, contaminated water sources, and 1.5 million child deaths per year. Because human waste is a taboo subject, little progress has been made. But as "Mr. Toilet," Sim has opened the dialogue wide open -- through humor, plain speaking, and a humanitarian business model. To get the poor to adopt simple toilets, he says, "treat them like customers." His vision has helped place the sanitation crisis on the global stage.

3. Newtown Creek Digester Eggs: The Art of Human Waste

June 5, 2012

Flush a toilet in Manhattan or Brooklyn and chances are that you are sending your regards to the Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant in Greenpoint, directly across the East River from Manhattan, just south of the United Nations. At 54 acres in size, it is the largest of fourteen wastewater treatment plants operated by New York City's Department of Environmental Protection.To anyone taking a taxi to a New York airport over the Kosciuszko Bridge on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the plant's eight silvery "Eggs" challenge the Manhattan skyline. Fourteen stories tall, they're the largest objects on the Brooklyn waterfront, huge props built for a science fiction film. Few New Yorkers, particularly the one million who rely on them, realize what they actually do--or what they contain.Because an earlier wastewater treatment plant built at the same site in the 1960s lacked the secondary wastewater treatment needed to meet the standards of the Clean Water Act of 1972, the Department of Environmental Protection began a decade-long, $5.2 billion upgrade and expansion of Newtown Creek in the late 1990s. This included the design and construction of eight "egg-shaped digesters," enormous steel bulbs to host trillions of hungry microbes at a balmy 98° Fahrenheit--human body temperature--so they can eat their fill of human waste ("sludge") and produce, as a byproduct, methane, a renewable "biogas" that can be fed into the natural gas grid to heat 2,500 local homes.The use of egg-shaped digesters--giant stomachs--is a good example of progressive European wastewater technology adapted to U.S. locales (Boston, Baltimore, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC), but the Newtown Creek wastewater treatment plant is remarkable for other reasons.Greenpoint, Brooklyn, like neighboring Williamsburg, underwent a rebirth as a destination for the young and creative, no doubt drawn by modest rents. The management at Newtown Creek, led by plant superintendent Jim Pynn, reached ou

2. Heart Stop Beating

June 5, 2012

The story of Billy Cohn and Bud Frazier, two visionary doctors who attempt to replace a dying man's heart with a rotor-driven device of their own design. If successful, this technology could prove life is possible without a heartbeat, and bring us one step closer to overcoming America's number one killer--heart disease.

1. The Landfill

June 5, 2012

The United States produces 390 billion pounds of garbage every year, and finding places to dispose of it is a serious environmental and economic challenge. But what if we could change the way we think about garbage, from something to be disposed of to something to be harvested? THE LANDFILL profiles a small county landfill in Upstate New York, which is using a system of composting, recycling, and methane capture technology to operate sustainably while producing electricity for 400 homes in their area. By focusing on the people and ideas behind this innovative waste-to-energy initiative, THE LANDFILL shows the beauty and potential of the stuff we throw away.

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Focus Forward is available for streaming on the Cinetic website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch Focus Forward on demand at Vudu.