Featured Projects

A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching
Genre: Documentary

A love letter to our kindred avian neighbors: New York City’s pigeons—told by the New Yorkers who adore them (and even some who don't).  +

Intimates
Genre: Comedy

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

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.  +

Transmission
Genre: Drama

In the early 1990’s, three women — a refugee, a video jockey, and the daughter of a famous communist patriarch — form an unlikely friendship and alliance.  +

ARUKU ( I Walk )
Genre: Documentary

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

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&  +

Make Me Famous
Genre: Documentary

An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on sucess, who thwarted his own career with antics that roiled NYC’s art  +

Heart of Lumber
Genre: Comedy

Raised by a cult of talking antique furniture, Sadie’s life changes the day she makes her first friend.  +

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.  +

Ramshackle
Genre: Comedy

After being released from prison for vehicular manslaughter, a wrongfully imprisoned ex-con seeks revenge on the used car tycoon who sold him the faulty ride.  +

Mr. Lapidus
Genre: Documentary

Mr. Lapidus tells the story of a Morris Lapidus “The Architect of Joy”, who’s innovative designs were influencing the architecture industry around the world until  +

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 Little Land of Mines
Genre: Documentary

This Little Land of Mines reveals the inspiring resilience of the Lao people as they live among and work to clear 80 million unexploded American bombs from when the U.S. secretly  +

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.   +

Our Daughters
Genre: Documentary

For the sake of their twin daughters, an Indian adoptive mother and a white birth mother venture into uncharted territory with an open adoption, crossing racial and cultural lines.  +

Half a Soulja (Urban Casualties)
Genre: Documentary

Byron Breeze, Jr., born without legs or complete hands, is determined to “be somebody” and in the process challenges society to see his wholeness and not just his disability.<  +

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