Featured Projects

K-Hope
Genre: Documentary

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

White Tears
Genre: Drama

An emotionally distraught woman helps out a stranger who may not be the victim she first appeared to be. WHEN GOOD DEEDS GO DEAD WRONG  +

Laadli (My Darling)
Genre: Drama

A Pakistani-American writer plays the gracious host with her husband on the day she learns her miscarriage is inevitable.  +

Hawaiian Soul
Genre: Drama

Against the backdrop of the 1970s native rights movement, a young Hawaiian activist must gain the support of an agitated and skeptical group of community elders to aid in  +

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.<  +

Universe
Genre: Documentary

A portrait of Miles Davis and his only protege, Wallace Roney, told through the fifty year journey of the artist’s lost masterpiece, “Universe.”  +

Lights Camera Uganda
Genre: Documentary

Uganda’s “Tarantino of the slums” Isaac Nabwana overcomes everything to build his action movie studio in the ghetto. Now he faces his biggest challenge yet.  +

The Other Women
Genre: Comedy

Three suburban girlfriends confront major midlife crises in their marriages, motherhood (or lack thereof) and trysts with younger men.  +

School District
Genre: Documentary

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

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  +

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,  +

I Am An African
Genre: Documentary

A documentary series exploring what it means to be African through the eyes of an African when they are noticed by the world.  +

The Chemical Factory
Genre: Documentary

While reminiscing about childhood in 1980's Oregon, Andrew Leung faces cultural divide through the story of his mother's struggle in 1960's communist China.  +

East Of Hollywood
Genre: Drama

In the underbelly of Hollywood, a down-and-out street performer, convinced he's Marilyn Monroe, gathers a crew of local misfits to help produce her grand performance.  +

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.  +

Make Me Famous
Genre: Documentary

An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on sucess, who thwarted his own career with antics that roiled NYC’s art  +

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