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  +

T-Fred: The Last Frog Hunter
Genre: Documentary

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

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  +

Waves
Genre: Experimental

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

Nourishing Japan
Genre: Documentary

A documentary about food education in Japan; about the people who teach us that our actions - even what we eat - matter.  +

Remainders
Genre: Drama

A young couple’s proposal goes horribly wrong when an altercation stirs up a deep-seated societal divide on an island off the coast of Istanbul, TURKEY.  +

AMERICAN UNION
Genre: Documentary

In post-industrial Alabama, Amazon workers and coal miners fight for good jobs against corporate greed. AMERICAN UNION is a powerful film that follows their collective  +

Dear Anna Olson
Genre: Drama

Dear Anna Olson is a parable of how small, positive actions can have a profound impact on a person’s life.  +

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  +

Hand Holds: Climbing after Parenthood
Genre: Documentary

This free-to-watch web series explores the challenges of rock climbing after parenthood through short conversations with parents who are well-known pro climbers.  +

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.  +

Tree Hunter: Portrait of an American Artist
Genre: Documentary

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

Singing Up the Past
Genre: Documentary

Holocaust survivor Guta Goldstein and the songs that have sustained her.Our fundraising goal is for post production and outreach. Please help Guta's incredible and timely  +

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 Chemical Factory
Genre: Documentary

While reminiscing about childhood in 1980's Oregon, Andrew Leung faces cultural divide through the story of his mother's struggle in 1960's communist China.  +

The Universe(s) of Us
Genre: Drama

When New Yorkers Sophie and Jill/Daniel crash into one another simultaneously (but separately), a multiverse love story emerges that changes each of them forever.  +

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