Featured Projects

Unveiling
Genre: Comedy

Eli, an imaginative 10-year-old Jewish boy, must confront his fears of death and religion, when he's forced to attend a bizarre unveiling ceremony for his late-great-uncle.  +

T-Fred: The Last Frog Hunter
Genre: Documentary

A real-life Boyhood meets Beasts of the Southern Wild. 14 years in the making.  +

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  +

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.  +

School District
Genre: Documentary

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

The Veto
Genre: Documentary

A film about the permanent member veto in the UN Security Council – arguably the most important issue facing global peace and security.  +

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.  +

Technotality
Genre: Documentary

Avant-garde 1920’s and 30’s physicians thrust aside all constraints set by the old scientific and religious guards and launch a global movement, as they carry out ghoulish  +

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  +

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  +

THE EARTH MOVES
Genre: Documentary

A film about Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach, and the connection between physics, opera, and human imagination.  +

This World is Not My Own
Genre: Documentary

Mythical forest creatures, chewing gum sculptures, handmade dolls, a firebrand wrestler, a Kuwaiti art school for kids, a wealthy arts patron, a century old murder case and the  +

Singing Up the Past
Genre: Documentary

Holocaust survivor Guta Goldstein and the songs that have sustained her.Our fundraising goal is for post production and outreach. Please help Guta's incredible and timely  +

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 American Can
Genre: Drama

Based on actual events in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a recon Marine veteran, John Keller, navigates haunted memories serving in Iraq while risking his life  +

Cherry Orchard
Genre: Comedy

An aristocratic family grapples with the loss of their estate as the world spins madly on in Chekhov’s timeless story, anachronistically reimagined through fractured timelines.  +

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