The Way Up

Meet the real innovators. Follow low-income families and communities as they take power collectively, building real-world solutions to poverty in America.  +

QUEST

QUEST is a portrait of an American Family living in North Philadelphia captured over the course of ten years.  +

The Town That Shot the Sheriff

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Hungry for Love

Two down-and-out New Yorkers meet for the first time and embark on a five-borough food crawl together. Though they share a love of food, their relationships to their bodies are  +

Liyana

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.  +

God on the Street

A headstrong woman interviews strangers in an attempt to prove that spirituality can be separate from religion. Instead, her subjects help her confront her addiction to unrequited  +

An Unfinished Song

Concerned with music, collective memory, and the shelf life of justice, this film is both a meditation on the soul of the Nueva Cancíon folk movement of 1960s Chile and  +

The Next Page

A father and son cope with pediatric cancer, reconcile with their past trauma and build a new future.   +

Rice: A Filipino Love Story

A love letter to rice expresses a romance full of beauty, contradiction, and hard choices.  +

An Unruly Faith

A young, devout activist challenges the male hierarchy of the Mormon Church by invigorating a movement to ordain women to the priesthood, and upon being exiled as a heretic, rocks  +

Seats at the Table

 In a maximum security prison, college students and juvenile offenders meet weekly to discuss Russian Literature and discover the transformative power of their shared  +

The Jerusalem Syndrome

The line between religious belief and insanity begins to blur when 12 psychotic patients enter a community house in Jerusalem.     +

Displaced

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  +

Flush

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The S Word

The S Word, a feature length documentary, will tackle one of the most unfathomable and cloistered issues of our time by telling stories of suicide attempt survivors, along with  +

Minor Attraction

Pedophiles are synonymously known as monsters, aberrations and perverts. But what if someone is attracted to children, yet does not act on that attraction?     +

The Newark Project

Six Newark, NJ students struggle to build a future as one of the most troubled cities in America tries to fix a “failing” education system.  +

Be Natural

A documentary searching for Alice Guy-Blaché, who at 23 was the first female director, became a powerful figure in film, then vanished. http://www.kickstarter.co  +

El Sistema USA

El Sistema USA is a feature documentary that is tracking a handful of kids in a diverse, impoverished community in West Philadelphia as they participate in Play On, Philly, a classical  +

death becomes you

death becomes you will be a feature-length documentary film which will explore people's attitudes, beliefs, and perspectives on death.  +

ARUKU ( I Walk )

A soul-searching filmmaker documents chance encounters with fellow pilgrims who set out on a renowned Japanese pilgrimage extant since the 12th century.   +

SORTED

A young Bangladeshi woman takes her uncertain future into her own hands to change the destiny of her family, her country, and the planet.  +

AFTER THE WAR

The insidious nature of post-traumatic stress, and the complex question of how it's healed, is explored through the personal journeys of three American combat veterans from  +

Trapped

Three teenage friends run away from their problems only to find much bigger ones when they must devise a plan to escape a sinister curse holding them inside a haunted house!  +