Featured Projects

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.   +

Western Conviction
Genre: Drama

1879 Prescott AZ, four local friends aim to get rich and find love influenced by notable characters: Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Geronimo, Wyatt Earp and Celia Ann Blaylock, all  +

K-Hope
Genre: Documentary

The K-Hope is an educational documentary series that explains the history, benefits and dangers of the revolutionary medicine: Ketamine  +

Untitled Internet Archive Film
Genre: Documentary

In a bold effort to save the Internet’s “Great Library” from ruin, tech trailblazer Brewster Kahle—founder of the Internet Archive—battles the powerful  +

The Assistant
Genre: Drama

A Latin-American theatre assistant (a human-like robot) dreams of becoming an actress, but when her work conditions present her with an ugly reality, she must fight to escape from  +

Rishta
Genre: Drama

A dependent little brother fears losing his only friend when his big sister is introduced to a potential rishta (suitor) during an Eid gathering.  +

Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps
Genre: Comedy

Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps is the film of trans icon Scott Turner Schofield’s long-running performance art piece embodying the experience of becoming a man.   +

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.  +

Dear Michelle
Genre: Comedy

A trio of pre-teen misfits must rally their small town Southern community to save their local ice rink from closing in the summer of 2002.  +

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.  +

Mr. Lapidus
Genre: Documentary

Mr. Lapidus tells the story of a Morris Lapidus “The Architect of Joy”, who’s innovative designs were influencing the architecture industry around the world until  +

Waves
Genre: Experimental

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

The Long Walk of Carlos Guerrero
Genre: Drama

The odyssey of survival of an undocumented New York city chef and a young girl from El Salvador, after they get stranded in the deserts of Arizona.  +

Half a Soulja (Urban Casualties)
Genre: Documentary

Byron Breeze, Jr., born without legs or complete hands, is determined to “be somebody” and in the process challenges society to see his wholeness and not just his disability.<  +

SELFLESS
Genre: Drama

A devoted mother, desperate to fulfill her and her husband’s American promise for their son, enacts a tragic plan to secure her son’s future—forcing her family  +

Drop Dead City
Genre: Documentary

NYC, 1975 - the greatest, grittiest city in the world is minutes away from bankruptcy when an unlikely alliance of rookies, rivals, fixers and flexers finds common ground,  +

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