Featured Projects

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  +

Obsessed with Light:The Genius of Loie Fuller
Genre: Documentary

How could one woman inspire the greatest thinkers and artists of her day such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Auguste Rodin and, more than a century later, influence  +

Paramours
Genre: Drama

A unique predicament erupts between best friends, one gay and one straight, as their deeply co-dependent relationship splinters when a woman comes between them.  +

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  +

Nam June Paik & TV Lab: License to Create
Genre: Documentary

Video art becomes a world-wide phenomenon, portable video documentaries change broadcast television, experimental drama and diverse, ethnic voices influence new generations though  +

Subsurface
Genre: Drama

Trapped and alone, a young man must confront the pain he's endured when he finds himself face-to-face with consequence.  +

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.  +

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  +

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  +

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  +

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.  +

Out of Breath
Genre: Documentary

A billion sufferers and only one treatment. Obstructive Sleep Apnea is the medical field’s forgotten disease. How and why did this happen?  +

Baltimore 100 Years
Genre: Documentary

The transformation of urban America over the last century reveals hard truths, and reasons for hope, through stories from the often misunderstood city of Baltimore.  +

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).  +

To Live
Genre: Documentary

Spurred by her own desire to feel whole, a young filmmaker rushes against time to capture her grandmother’s life in a small village in Belarus when family secrets begin to  +

Salt in Soil
Genre: Student Film

A high-schooler reunites with her grandfather she never knew was alive, and the resurfacing of forgotten memories forces her to confront a dark family secret.  +

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