Featured Projects

AMERICAN UNION
Genre: Documentary

In post-industrial Alabama, Amazon workers and coal miners fight for good jobs against corporate greed. AMERICAN UNION is a powerful film that follows their collective  +

Object of Affection
Genre: Drama

At his massive birthday party, a future Yale Law student pursues a fascinating freshman girl, but his innocent pursuit mutates into a savage ritual.  +

Take It Slow
Genre: Drama

An inexperienced bisexual man goes on a date with a younger gay man, and finds out that his preconceived notions on gay dating culture don’t stand up to reality.  +

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.  +

Royal Secrets: Resort & Casino
Genre: Student Film

ULEE, a past his prime wannabe casanova, roams a Caribbean singles resort seeking one last shot at love.  +

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  +

Amma' Pride
Genre: Documentary

Valli supports her trans daughter, Srija, as she fights for state recognition and social acceptance of her marriage in their small town in South India.  +

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.   +

Limping Towards Babylon
Genre: Comedy

Five graduate student roommates are all secretly in love with the wrong person, until a professor's theft lights the fire that ignites their contained passions.  +

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.  +

Mass Romantic
Genre: Documentary

When filmmakers and scholars race against time to save 20,000 Indian films from extinction, they reveal how culture is lost—and found—in the digital age.  +

Singing Up the Past
Genre: Documentary

Holocaust survivor Guta Goldstein and the songs that have sustained her.Our fundraising goal is for post production and outreach. Please help Guta's incredible and timely  +

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.  +

Fracking the System: Colorado's Oil and Gas Wars
Genre: Documentary

A concerned mother joins grassroots activists to protect her son’s school from oil and gas drilling but the oil and gas industry fights back.  +

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  +

Between Us and the River
Genre: Drama

Two college students in love must reconcile their relationship when they find themselves on opposing sides of a war in which they wanted no part.  +

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