Featured Projects

The Other Side
Genre: Drama

When an eight-year-old boy struggles with his identity, his estranged birth mother Tara finally decides to meet him and his adoptive family for the first time in many years but  +

Our Daughters
Genre: Documentary

For the sake of their twin daughters, an Indian adoptive mother and a white birth mother venture into uncharted territory with an open adoption, crossing racial and cultural lines.  +

Age Ain't Nothin but a Number
Genre: Drama

When a young woman falls for a successful businessman who is already married, she is forced to re-evaluate life choices and comes to grips with the reality of love and relationships.  +

The Assistant
Genre: Drama

A Latin-American theatre assistant (a human-like robot) dreams of becoming an actress, but when her work conditions present her with an ugly reality, she must fight to escape from  +

Man of the Year
Genre: Documentary

The country of Rwanda is celebrated as a beacon of hope in Africa, but this reputation obscures a sinister truth. Man of the Year is about the myth of Rwanda, and follows survivors  +

Yankee Restraint
Genre: Documentary

Consumed by years of mounting debt, Craig and Philip descend into addiction, depression and despair. With the veneer of their picture-perfect life now stripped away, the couple  +

Margie Joseph Makes A New Impression (working title)
Genre: Documentary

A short documentary about RnB singer Margie Joseph who made incredible but forgotten recordings with top musicians and producers. Is creative success alone enough?  +

Woman in the Mirror
Genre: Documentary

A graduate of the prestigious Vaganova Academy and a driven ballerina of Jewish descent, who defected from the Soviet Union, toes her way from being a principal dancer of the Boston  +

At Your Cervix
Genre: Documentary

Inside U.S. medical schools specially trained women teach pelvic exams using their own bodies, but sometimes students learn by practicing on each other, or on anesthetized women  +

Urban Food Chain
Genre: Documentary

     Beyond nourishing the body, good food strengthens communities, cultures and economies.  +

Women's World
Genre: Documentary

Bringing to life the legacy of San Francisco Chinatown’s nightclub era, a group of senior Chinese American dancers hit the road, bridging once isolated Chinese-speaking worlds.  +

Obsessed with Light:The Genius of Loie Fuller
Genre: Documentary

How could one woman inspire the greatest thinkers and artists of her day such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Auguste Rodin and, more than a century later, influence  +

Ramshackle
Genre: Comedy

After being released from prison for vehicular manslaughter, a wrongfully imprisoned ex-con seeks revenge on the used car tycoon who sold him the faulty ride.  +

Rooted
Genre: Documentary

GERMAINE JENKINS—urban farmer, activist, and a Black mother—is taking on the power structure in North Charleston, SC, to save her cooperative farm, Fresh Future Farm  +

Fracking the System: Colorado's Oil and Gas Wars
Genre: Documentary

A concerned mother joins grassroots activists to protect her son’s school from oil and gas drilling but the oil and gas industry fights back.  +

Just Never Leave
Genre: Drama

An American punk rocker has to pull a crime job in Buenos Aires to save her transgender girlfriend from a terminal disease.  +

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