Featured Projects

THE JANES
Genre: Documentary

“The Janes” is the story of an underground network of women who banded together to provide safe, affordable and illegal abortions in the late 1960s and early 70s in  +

Buried
Genre: Drama

Buried, a hybrid narrative and experimental film, explores the physical and surreal surrounding work burnout, stress and rage.  +

T-Fred: The Last Frog Hunter
Genre: Documentary

A real-life Boyhood meets Beasts of the Southern Wild. 14 years in the making.  +

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.  +

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.  +

Nine
Genre: Documentary

Nine is a poetic verité film chronicling Gerald and his father figure Henry who forged a powerful relationship in the harshest of environments. Now, Gerald is on  +

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.  +

Le Faux Marin
Genre: Drama

A young woman and her father break down on the side of a desert road while en route to her wedding.  +

Misty
Genre: Drama

A middle-aged man stands in awe of his beloved Husky as she helps a community heal after a mass shooting.  +

People's Theatre Project Documentary
Genre: Documentary

Art changes minds, hearts & policy. For over 15 years, People’s Theatre Project, based in Washington Heights, has made theatre with & for immigrant communities to  +

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  +

Dream Boy
Genre: Student Film

After a curious dream, a rosy-lensed yet romance-oblivious girl mistakenly takes an analytical approach in discovering the identity of her secret admirer.  +

Rooted
Genre: Documentary

GERMAINE JENKINS—urban farmer, activist, and a Black mother—is taking on the power structure in North Charleston, SC, to save her cooperative farm, Fresh Future Farm  +

MOVE: The Tragedy of Philadelphia
Genre: Documentary

MOVE is an in-depth exploration of the first known government organised attack on American soil, the bombing of the black liberation group Move in 1985 in the city of Philadelphia.  +

This World is Not My Own
Genre: Documentary

Mythical forest creatures, chewing gum sculptures, handmade dolls, a firebrand wrestler, a Kuwaiti art school for kids, a wealthy arts patron, a century old murder case and the  +

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.  +

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