Featured Projects

Buried
Genre: Drama

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

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.  +

Jersey Boy
Genre: Drama

A Sikh boy growing up in suburban New Jersey struggles with his identity after a family tragedy in the aftermath of 9/11.  +

Kinetosaur
Genre: Documentary

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.  +

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.  +

Stormy Feathers
Genre: Comedy

Boy meets girl.  Boy loses girl forever.  Angels and Deities are assigned to oversee his recovery on the mission to save romance.  Never trust Cupid.  He might  +

Heart of Lumber
Genre: Comedy

Raised by a cult of talking antique furniture, Sadie’s life changes the day she makes her first friend.  +

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  +

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  +

Transmission
Genre: Drama

In the early 1990’s, three women — a refugee, a video jockey, and the daughter of a famous communist patriarch — form an unlikely friendship and alliance.  +

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.  +

A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching
Genre: Documentary

A love letter to our kindred avian neighbors: New York City’s pigeons—told by the New Yorkers who adore them (and even some who don't).  +

Dirty Girl
Genre: Horror

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.  +

Paranoia
Genre: Drama

Two unlikely childhood friends navigate their increasingly fragile and uncertain world as rumours of war and deportation loom over their lives and relationship.  +

Summer with Roxanne
Genre: Documentary

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
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  +

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