Featured Projects

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  +

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  +

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&  +

Waves
Genre: Experimental

Waves is a journey into the physiological effects of anxiety explored through magical realism.   +

Heart of Lumber
Genre: Comedy

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

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.  +

Million Dollar Block
Genre: Documentary

A complex portrait of a neighborhood and its inhabitants, Million Dollar Block gives us a window into one public housing development on the precipice of change. The film’s  +

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.  +

A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL
Genre: Documentary

A two part film about the legacy of the Holocaust in the Balkans as seen through the eyes of a group of Sephardic Jews from New York with roots in Bulgaria and Greece.Part  +

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.  +

Tattoo Mike: The Illustrated Man
Genre: Documentary

A young artist with a fatal medical condition comes to New York City to have his face tattooed so he can live the life of a carnival sideshow performer, years before a sideshow  +

The Way Up
Genre: Documentary

Meet the real innovators. Follow low-income families and communities as they take power collectively, building real-world solutions to poverty in America.  +

Haunted Basement
Genre: Horror

An imaginative young boy must confront a nightmarish monster that lives in the basement and cannot be seen by his parents.  +

City of Songs
Genre: Documentary

A musician’s extraordinary journey to explore and understand the unique sounds of the world, one city at a time.  +

The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks
Genre: Documentary

The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks is a journey into the mind and work of world-renowned neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks, one of the most fascinating figures and  +

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  +

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