Featured Projects

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.  +

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  +

Busy Inside
Genre: Documentary

Professionally treating Dissociative Identity Disorder, a therapist juggles her own seventeen identities in this poetic and artistically offbeat exploration of a much-misunderstood  +

Immerse
Genre: Documentary

Immerse is an online magazine designed to spark creative discussion of emerging nonfiction storytelling and dedicated to creating a more inculsive media landscape.  +

Dream Touch Believe
Genre: Documentary

The inspiring story of sculptor Michael Naranjo. As a young man Naranjo lost his eyesight in the Vietnam War, but not his vision. He fought past critics and a disability to achieve  +

STING
Genre: Drama

In the unforgiving night of the Bronx’s heroin epidemic, a twin seeks revenge against the street dealers he blames for his brother’s overdose.  +

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  +

Royal Secrets: Resort & Casino
Genre: Student Film

ULEE, a past his prime wannabe casanova, roams a Caribbean singles resort seeking one last shot at love.  +

School District
Genre: Documentary

Filmed fly-on-the-wall throughout the 2020-2021 academic year, School District chronicles Connecticut’s  +

Tree Hunter: Portrait of an American Artist
Genre: Documentary

 Self taught artist and naturalist, Dennis Downes, creates art that reveals our deep connections to the land and travels the country to protect the last ancient   +

Choice Neighborhood (working title)
Genre: Documentary

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

Fracking the System: Colorado's Oil and Gas Wars
Genre: Documentary

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.  +

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.  +

Chilltown
Genre: Horror

Four strangers are being hunted by the same demon. They must find each other before the fiend finds them.  +

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.  +

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.  +

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