Featured Projects

Object of Affection
Genre: Drama

At his massive birthday party, a future Yale Law student pursues a fascinating freshman girl, but his innocent pursuit mutates into a savage ritual.  +

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  +

Intimates
Genre: Comedy

Intimates follows Roberta as she returns home to steal her high school girlfriend back from her brother.  +

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.   +

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.  +

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  +

Ayahuasca Diaries
Genre: Documentary

Ayahuasca Diaries, made with Amazonian tribes and contemporary scientists, is a film about an elixir transforming personal lives and world culture.  +

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.  +

Heart of Lumber
Genre: Comedy

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

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.  +

This Little Land of Mines
Genre: Documentary

This Little Land of Mines reveals the inspiring resilience of the Lao people as they live among and work to clear 80 million unexploded American bombs from when the U.S. secretly  +

#UNFIT
Genre: Documentary

#UNFIT is a feature-length documentary film in which medical doctors, mental health professionals and leading Republican influencers go on the record,  +

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.  +

Domestic Bliss
Genre: Comedy

Two exes are locked in a hilarious battle for their former apartment, highlighting the economic pressure most tenants face today.  If you care about affordable housing, please  +

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.  +

Ain't It Though
Genre: Drama

When their estranged mother sends them a box of seven cassette tapes, a young drag creator living in NYC sets out on a journey to their long-lost childhood home in the desert wilds  +

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