Featured Projects

Send a Voice
Genre: Documentary

A young Lakota mother fights to do the best she can for her children in this poetic meditation on motherhood, trauma, and healing.  +

Dream Boy
Genre: Student Film

After a curious dream, a rosy-lensed yet romance-oblivious girl mistakenly takes an analytical approach in discovering the identity of her secret admirer.  +

Liyana
Genre: Documentary

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland dive into their imaginations to create an original African tale about a girl on a dangerous quest.  +

Two Gods
Genre: Documentary

Two Gods is the story of a man in Newark who, after turning his life around, has found meaning and purpose in his Muslim faith and work as a mortician.  +

"1 in 100"
Genre: Student Film

A documentary focusing on an overnight camp for children with congenital heart conditions and the soul, love, and community that shapes it.  +

Love - A War Story
Genre: Drama

Two men in love - a Jew and a brother of a Catholic priest - masquerading as priests and brothers, attempt a daring train escape from Nazi-occupied Poland when they encounter a  +

Chilltown
Genre: Horror

Four strangers are being hunted by the same demon. They must find each other before the fiend finds them.  +

Petit Beurre (working title)
Genre: Drama

Struggling with the transition into adulthood, a young Iranian- French-American woman escapes from the city and ventures to Cap Ferret where she reunites with her childhood  +

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  +

The Money or The jag
Genre: Drama

In The Money or The Jag a correction officer and prison inmate battle for dominance and autonomy inside a prison controlled by the inmates.  +

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.  +

She Is Syria
Genre: Documentary

She Is Syria is a documentary that follows the journeys of Syrian refugee women and girls who are rebuilding their lives after escaping war.  +

THE EARTH MOVES
Genre: Documentary

A film about Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach, and the connection between physics, opera, and human imagination.  +

Unfiltered
Genre: Documentary

In “Little Haiti” Brooklyn a teenager challenges the ‘Angry Black Woman’ trope through charged poetry that ignites a quest for intergenerational healing  +

Things We Shouldn't Talk About
Genre: Documentary

One filmmaker’s personal journey into the staggering mental health crisis facing queer youth born into unrelenting religious households in today’s political and societal  +

Enjoy Your Visit
Genre: Drama

Kara starts a new job playing an enslaved maid at the historic home of America’s founding father and mother, George and Martha Washington, and uncovers some disturbing truths...  +

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