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Television has a special gift for bringing viewers close to people on the small screen. In a time when co-production and competition with commercial channels favors large-scale, star-studded productions, we welcome four programs that closely chart the landscape of the human heart. In FRECKLED RICE we travel into the complex double-world of Chinese-Americans, where a young boy trades baseball cards and learns Chinese as he worries about leaving his friends, his brother, and especially his grandfather when his parents move to New Hampshire. THE ESCAPE, a true story, follows the sometimes tender, sometimes exasperating relationship between two German men escaping from a concentration camp where they were held because they were German in Canada during World War I. In HAROLD OF ORANGE a clever band of Native Americans plays the foundation fund-raising game with a unique - and funny - flair. ULYSSE CALLS MALDITA explores a new phenomenon: how can we get close through our television or computer screen sin this electronic world?