Featured Projects

Intimates
Genre: Comedy

Intimates follows Roberta as she returns home to steal her high school girlfriend back from her brother.  +

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...  +

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  +

The Organist
Genre: Documentary

The longtime organist at San Francisco’s iconic Castro Theatre — an underrecognized LGBTQ artist at the end of his career — attempts to secure his legacy.  +

NORTH STAR
Genre: Drama

A rural rancher and his ailing husband, struggling against poverty and isolation, make a heartbreaking decision in order to preserve the dignity of their marriage.  +

Displaced
Genre: Documentary

DISPLACED is a neglected history of Lithuanian emigration and Russian oppression.  After WWII, many Eastern Europeans prepared to flee the Soviet Union with its expanding web  +

FALLING INTO VALI
Genre: Documentary

The director's obsession for wild bohemian painter Vali Myers becomes possession and eventually a journey to heal and bloom as woman and artist.  +

SUCH A PRETTY GIRL
Genre: Drama

When a dutiful woman from a socially conservative, religious family discovers that her child is questioning their gender, she must decide in a matter of moments what kind of mother  +

I Am An African
Genre: Documentary

A documentary series exploring what it means to be African through the eyes of an African when they are noticed by the world.  +

Dirty Girl
Genre: Horror

When a sexy night out is interrupted by the worst period of her life, a woman’s walk home quickly spirals into a bloody nightmare.  +

Chocolate Milk
Genre: Documentary

Chocolate Milk is a food documentary that takes a detailed look at black motherhood, breastfeeding, and the multi-billion dollar business of feeding black babies.  +

Choice Neighborhood (working title)
Genre: Documentary

Choice Neighborhood focuses on the dynamics that emerge between people as a city leverages significant public and private dollars to transform a struggling neighborhood.  +

Baltimore 100 Years
Genre: Documentary

The transformation of urban America over the last century reveals hard truths, and reasons for hope, through stories from the often misunderstood city of Baltimore.  +

This Joyless Place
Genre: Student Film

A rebellious young woman starts volunteering at a hospice and develops a deep friendship with an eccentric patient with terminal lung cancer.  +

Conversation with the Cosmos
Genre: Documentary

From the origin of spacetime to the Puerto Rican hills, come explore the invisible worlds of the Arecibo Observatory, the biggest radiotelescope on Earth.  +

Shelter Me
Genre: Drama

A young woman fleeing a domestic abuse situation becomes ensnared in a homicide investigation that threatens both herself and a young child she has befriended.  +

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