Featured Projects

Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps
Genre: Comedy

Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps is the film of trans icon Scott Turner Schofield’s long-running performance art piece embodying the experience of becoming a man.   +

Tree Hunter: Portrait of an American Artist
Genre: Documentary

An acclaimed regional artist and trail tree explorer, Dennis Downes, ties us to nature and our indigenous past.   +

Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project (FCFCEP)
Genre: Documentary

Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project tells the true-to-life stories of those with lived experience in the child welfare system.  +

Queer Youth: A Foster Care Story
Genre: Documentary

Queer Youth: A Foster Care Story is a documentary feature about LGBTQ+ foster youth and families, and how they fight for a better future.  +

School District
Genre: Documentary

Filmed fly-on-the-wall throughout the 2020-2021 academic year, School District chronicles Connecticut’s  +

Black Privilege. White Power.
Genre: Drama

After graduating high school, a young Smith College student joins up with an activist group to fight for civil rights in the Jim Crow era South and ends up taking part in one of  +

Hawaiian Soul
Genre: Drama

Against the backdrop of the 1970s native rights movement, a young Hawaiian activist must gain the support of an agitated and skeptical group of community elders to aid in  +

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  +

In Loving Memory
Genre: Drama

An old, lonely man coping with the death of his only brother is reunited with his estranged son for the upcoming funeral.  +

Umi -The Sea-
Genre: Drama

After a tsunami devastate Northern Japan, a spared fisherman learns how to dive to search for the remains of his missing wife but a freak diving accident forces him to reconcile  +

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.  +

Eudaemonia
Genre: Drama

A fated mistake leads to a fleeting, chance encounter between a traveler and a reclusive New Yorker. When life takes them in opposite directions, each carries the significance of  +

35mm
Genre: Student Film

A struggling actress discovers a mysterious 35mm film reel that eerily depicts scenes from her own life—culminating in her untimely death—and must unravel its origins  +

Misty
Genre: Drama

A middle-aged man stands in awe of his beloved Husky as she helps a community heal after a mass shooting.  +

Barrio Television
Genre: Documentary

“Barrio Television” reveals the untold story of a 1972 media caper, orchestrated by Puerto Rican activists who rebelled against media exclusion and occupied public television&  +

All the World's a Stage: Shakespeare and the Invention of Modern Theater
Genre: Documentary

A journalist, a researcher, and actors fight censorship to tell the story of the charismatic writer Edward de Vere and his literary circle of gay and bisexual playwrights and poets  +

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