Featured Projects

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.  +

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).  +

Estamos Unidos
Genre: Documentary

Hundreds of Central American migrants form a “caravan” and must navigate the pains and joys of unity along an arduous journey across Mexico and towards the United States.  +

THE EARTH MOVES
Genre: Documentary

A film about Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach, and the connection between physics, opera, and human imagination.  +

Chasing Ownership (Working Title)
Genre: Documentary

After more than five decades of collecting rare and vintage pieces dating back to 1932, Samu Qureshi, a Washington football fan, believes he is finally ready to part with his  +

CG-17
Genre: Documentary

A groundbreaking yet simple approach for implementing 100% renewable power production and utilization, without dwelling on the doom & gloom.  +

Dream Touch Believe
Genre: Documentary

The inspiring story of sculptor Michael Naranjo. As a young man Naranjo lost his eyesight in the Vietnam War, but not his vision. He fought past critics and a disability to achieve  +

Chekhovian
Genre: Documentary

A daring NYC ensemble's visceral year-long descent into Chekhov's masterwork explodes the boundaries between art and reality, exploring the fragile divide separating process  +

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  +

The Assistant
Genre: Drama

A Latin-American theatre assistant (a human-like robot) dreams of becoming an actress, but when her work conditions present her with an ugly reality, she must fight to escape from  +

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.  +

Sacred Animals
Genre: Drama

An estranged father and son revisit their deer hunting tradition in the Idaho mountains. Packing out their kill brings their wounds to the surface.  +

Rest Assured
Genre: Comedy

In this dark ensemble comedy, a motley crew of insomniacs, who have tried everything, attend a sleep retreat in order to learn how to sleep.  +

Nam June Paik & TV Lab: License to Create
Genre: Documentary

Video art becomes a world-wide phenomenon, portable video documentaries change broadcast television, experimental drama and diverse, ethnic voices influence new generations though  +

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  +

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  +

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