Featured Projects

Technotality
Genre: Documentary

Avant-garde 1920’s and 30’s physicians thrust aside all constraints set by the old scientific and religious guards and launch a global movement, as they carry out ghoulish  +

Rishta
Genre: Drama

A dependent little brother fears losing his only friend when his big sister is introduced to a potential rishta (suitor) during an Eid gathering.  +

Chocolate Milk
Genre: Documentary

Chocolate Milk is a social impact campaign and documentary addressing Black maternal and infant health through the lens of birth and breastfeeding outcomes in the United States.  +

Unfiltered
Genre: Documentary

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  +

The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Genre: Documentary

The film is an intimate remembrance of the groundbreaking artist, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, who through her art practice guides her audience to a state beyond sorrow.   +

The American Can
Genre: Drama

Based on actual events in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a recon Marine veteran, John Keller, navigates haunted memories serving in Iraq while risking his life  +

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  +

Woman in the Mirror
Genre: Documentary

A graduate of the prestigious Vaganova Academy and a driven ballerina of Jewish descent, who defected from the Soviet Union, toes her way from being a principal dancer of the Boston  +

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  +

Visions in the Fire
Genre: Documentary

Alaskan Native glass artist Preston Singletary redefines what it means to be a contemporary Indigenous artist by blending Tlingit stories and iconography through the medium of glass  +

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.  +

Miss Mermaid
Genre: Drama

May travels from Taipei to New York and discovers a secret life her sister has been keeping from her and their distanced mother.  +

Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps
Genre: Comedy

Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps is the film of trans icon Scott Turner Schofield’s long-running performance art piece embodying the experience of becoming a man.   +

Untitled Internet Archive Film
Genre: Documentary

In a bold effort to save the Internet’s “Great Library” from ruin, tech trailblazer Brewster Kahle—founder of the Internet Archive—battles the powerful  +

The Veto
Genre: Documentary

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

End of the Line
Genre: Documentary

END OF THE LINE - a feature-length documentary - is a character-driven political drama about the New York City subway crisis and a long overdue reckoning on infrastructure. Filmed  +

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