SWINE

After his dream restaurant fails, a world class chef returns home to start fresh, only to find himself being dragged into the dark criminal underbelly when he goes into business  +

Tree Hunter: Portrait of an American Artist

An acclaimed regional artist and trail tree explorer, Dennis Downes, ties us to nature and our indigenous past.   +

The Organist

The longtime organist at San Francisco’s iconic Castro Theatre — an underrecognized LGBTQ artist at the end of his career — attempts to secure his legacy.  +

Choice Neighborhood (working title)

Choice Neighborhood focuses on the dynamics that emerge between people as a city leverages significant public and private dollars to transform a struggling neighborhood.  +

Haunted Basement

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

Kinetosaur

A documentary profiling John Payne, who created interactive works of lasting impact, transformed his town into an artist’s haven that now faces a complicated future.  +

Fracking the System: Colorado's Oil and Gas Wars

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.  +

Summer with Roxanne

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  +

Unfiltered

UNFILTERED is a coming-of-age hybrid documentary that follows 15-year-old Tamia McArthur as she challenges generational cycles and fights to reclaim her childhood in a world that  +

Dirty Girl

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.  +

NORTH STAR

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.  +

The Slabs

Two homeless brothers brave the summer heat in their newfound home of Slab City and confront their painful past.  +

This Little Land of Mines

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  +

Tattoo Mike: The Illustrated Man

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 Veto

A film about the permanent member veto in the UN Security Council – arguably the most important issue facing global peace and security.  +

Kitsch

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