Featured Projects

Ain't It Though
Genre: Drama

When their estranged mother sends them a box of seven cassette tapes, a young drag creator living in NYC sets out on a journey to their long-lost childhood home in the desert wilds  +

Kitsch
Genre: Horror

An obsessively tidy man battles the ghost who inhabits his new apartment for control of their shared home… and how it will be decorated.  +

Summer with Roxanne
Genre: Documentary

A visiting Indian documentary filmmaker rents a room in the home of an aging paragon of Weird Austin. As Roxanne packs up to move on, she and Nishtha unpack the elements  +

Paramours
Genre: Drama

A unique predicament erupts between best friends, one gay and one straight, as their deeply co-dependent relationship splinters when a woman comes between them.  +

Beauford Delaney: So Splendid A Journey
Genre: Documentary

An Artist’s Life, From Tennessee to Paris, through Harlem. Paranoia, poverty, sexual conflicts, voices in his head, yet he was driven to create great art.  +

Dear Michelle
Genre: Comedy

A trio of pre-teen misfits must rally their small town Southern community to save their local ice rink from closing in the summer of 2002.  +

Hand Holds: Climbing after Parenthood
Genre: Documentary

This free-to-watch web series explores the challenges of rock climbing after parenthood through short conversations with parents who are well-known pro climbers.  +

Intimates
Genre: Comedy

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

Rishta
Genre: Drama

A dependent little brother fears losing his only friend when his big sister is introduced to a potential rishta (suitor) during an Eid gathering.  +

MOVE: The Tragedy of Philadelphia
Genre: Documentary

MOVE is an in-depth exploration of the first known government organised attack on American soil, the bombing of the black liberation group Move in 1985 in the city of Philadelphia.  +

Cherry Orchard
Genre: Comedy

An aristocratic family grapples with the loss of their estate as the world spins madly on in Chekhov’s timeless story, anachronistically reimagined through fractured timelines.  +

Where the Boys Are
Genre: Drama

A lonely technician and curious night janitor at a virtual reality brothel circle around the facility and each other as they face the alienation of a world beginning to embrace  +

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.  +

Technotality
Genre: Documentary

Avant-garde 1920’s and 30’s physicians thrust aside all constraints set by the old scientific and religious guards and launch a global movement, as they carry out ghoulish  +

INTER-STATE
Genre: Science Fiction

A young physicist must navigate working at a teleportation tech startup, as well as survive the mysterious being from another world she has brought into our own.  +

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.  +

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