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Sea Sharp

Fifty-five years after becoming the first woman to solo-hand sail the Pacific Ocean, Sharon Sites Adams looks back at 15,000 nautical miles at sea.

Exodus of the Minds

For decades, Boston has been the world’s leading hub for medical research, built venture capitalists, pharmaceutical companies and generations of scientists drawn from across the globe.

Four ulama ball players spar along the L.A. River beneath the 1st Street Bridge.

THE FIRST BALL GAME / EL PRIMER JUEGO DE PELOTA

THE FIRST BALL GAME is a feature documentary sharing the stories of Indigenous Mesoamerican communities across Los Angeles, the United States, and Mexico, who are reviving ulama and p’ok ta p’ok –

Black and white image of a pregnant woman's belly with the midwive's hand gently holding it.

MID WIF

In Atlanta, two Black midwives work underground to provide safe homebirths.

African American woman in her fifties, seated at a desk wearing a top featuring red and pink flower design. Picture frames are visible, but out of focus, in the background.

In The Public Interest

“The airwaves belong to the people… but which people?”

A DRONE IMAGE OF CAMP HEARTLAND WITH CAPTION TITLES

Camp Secrets: The Founding of Camp Heartland

In the summer of 1993, a twenty-two-year-old college student named Neil Willenson opened the first summer camp in America for children living with or affected by HIV/AIDS.

During golden hour, an older bespectacled astronomer looks up anxiously to the sky. Her younger colleagues, at a distance in a tent behind her, look to her. All are concerned.

Habbal et al.

Synopsis: Dr. Shadia Habbal leads an international team of cloud-fearing astronomers as they prepare for the 2024 eclipse.

a black cat plays on the lap of a White female toddler.

Boys Like Us

Boys Like Us explores the Los Angeles queer scene through the lives of masculine-presenting queers— including trans men, butch lesbians, and nonbinary mascs.

Young woman in early 70's fashion sits on a picnic blanket next to an open suitcase with a notepad in her hand.

Rosl's Suitcase

Disconnected letters tell the effect of the Nazi’s annexation of Austria on some of the Viennese population: it’s the story of Rosa, my Viennese and Jewish grandmother, who left Vienna for New York

A young girl with hair in a ponytail blows bubbles in front of a large, dark building

After more than a decade of brutal mass-killing, torture, siege, detention, and enforced disappearances, Syrian witnesses, investigators, and lawyers are leading the effort to end the Al-Assad regime’s impunity.

Backlash

Fears over rising crime in cities across the country lead to a backlash against policing and criminal justice reforms.

Stealing a Library

STEALING A LIBRARY opens by following Principal Librarian, Melissa Ronning, on her last day before resigning her position at the Huntington Beach Public Library in protest of book censorship and ad

A large empty vista with a single green highway sign reading "Emery County"

True False Hot Cold

Over the course of one hot summer, through intimate time spent with the locals of Emery County, Utah, a story is woven about life in this sparse region, where the residents have less belief in clim

A silhouette of a solitary figure on horseback rides through a snowy Patagonian landscape in Chile. Snow covered shrubbery in the foreground with jagged mountains in the background. The plains in bewteween where the man on horseback is covered in fog.

The Weight of Snow (El peso de la nieve)

In the far south of Chilean Patagonia, ageing gauchos, known as puesteros, live and work alone for months at a time across vast private ranches.

Stolen Sisters

“Stolen Sisters” is a riveting exploration of the MMIWG crisis in Michigan, told through a family’s heart-wrenching search for their missing daughter, highlighting the systemic failures, the moveme

Justice For Layleen

Following the death of a trans Afro-Latina on Rikers Island, a family’s loss blew up into a movement that shined a light on the injustices of the criminal legal system.

Little Tokyo Social Club

The Little Tokyo Social Club was where members of the Japanese Community met to have social dances, singing, current events and meeting halls to gather the newly established Japanese community in 1

The Sound of Hope

A diplomat, a teacher, and a musician declare war on poverty, ignorance, and crime, using an unorthodox weapon: classical music education.

two black male racers stand next to a racecar at a speedway.

Silent Thunder

There had always been a small number of black auto racers in the twentieth century who drove mostly for themselves. In 1972, Leonard W.

SPOKE

SPOKE is a feature documentary that lives inside the fire service, exposing the hidden occupational health crisis firefighters carry home from the job: soaring cancer rates, unspoken trauma, and th

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Echo's Answer

“Echo’s Answer” is a psychedelic reimagining of the life and work of the late visionary singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Trish Keenan.

A middle aged man with long hair and a guitar stands on the coastal bluffs of California.

Oracle: The Life & Music of Michael Hedges

A feature documentary about the life and music of Michael Hedges. The eldest son of Midwestern musicians/educators, Michael Hedges was a young musical prodigy – with an emerging talent that would take him from small-town Oklahoma to Grammy award-winning artist. He was a once-in-a-generation force that would revolutionize the acoustic guitar and inspire a generation of musicians.