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Deconstruction

After battling cancer for over thirteen years, Joyce Mallonee has decided to channel her experiences into an art show called Deconstruction.

A collage-style painting. It is a black painted canvas with a document affixed on the canvas that reads Action. The document has burned edges. On top of the burned document there is a 1940s photograph mounted with a photo corner. The photograph is printed as a negative and has the ghost-like images of a woman and man posing together in their dress military uniforms.

Moving Like Pond Water

Is it possible to go to war and come back mentally sound?

On Firm Ground

In a race against time, two people battling Parkinson's disease embark on a journey of hope as they undergo brain surgery to reclaim their lives.

Black and white portrait of a man with long hair and a white beard. The text "'Iouli" below the portrait.

ʻIOULI - The Black Hawk

An Inspirational Story of courage and persistence.

Live at the Agora

THE RISE, FALL, AND REBIRTH OF A ROCK-AND-ROLL CATHEDRAL: In the 1970s, the Agora Ballroom concert clubs brought rock-and-roll to the heartland of America and became a springboard for some of the m

NORMAN / NORMAN

After witnessing the brutal murder of his mother 30 years ago, Norman travels to Jamaica to piece together what happened and where he came from by confronting the murderer: his father.

A diverse group moves together along a forested path, sunlight filtering through moss-covered trees. At the center, a man in a wheelchair is pushed by a companion, surrounded by walkers of all abilities, embodying unity, resilience, and adventure.

More Than Steps

In "More Than Steps," lifelong friends Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray lead a group of wheelchair users and their supporters on the Accessible Camino, a groundbreaking adaptation of the historic C

Mama Faru: Mother of Rhinos

Zoologist Desmond Morris once wrote, “What Joy Adamson was to lions, Dian Fossey was to gorillas, and Jane Goodall is to chimpanzees, Anna Merz is to rhinos.” This is the untold story of pioneering

A Scientific Field Camp on The Greenland Ice Sheet, crisscrossed by crevasse traces and ice streams.

THE LIVING ICE OF GREENLAND is a feature-length documentary film about the startling discovery of a dark microbial forest melting the Greenland Ice Sheet far faster than any models predict, and the Arctic scientists traversing Greenland to understand it.

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 woman with her hair flowing in the breeze.

The Comedown // Ending overdose is easier than you think

THE COMEDOWN is a gripping look at the country’s escalating overdose crisis, the misunderstood causes & little-known cures.

A Place For Us

Against mounting environmental pressures and the fastest-growing human population on earth, Africa’s lions are losing their place on the continent and facing extinction.

Image of Earth in front of the night sky, with "100% Possible" written next to it in white text

100% Possible: The Battle for the World's Energy Future

"100% Possible: The Battle for the World's Energy Future" is about scientific climate solutions versus greed, a modern-day "David & Goliath" story.

Rockne

The story of Notre Dame's Knute Rockne -- college football's greatest coach -- as seen from a modern day perspective.

Explaining "The UnGoogleables"

A person with long blonde hair and a gold-adorned outfit is embracing a person wearing a suit. They are standing in front of a building with gold detail on the front

Pride & Honor

A veteran battling stage 4 cancer leads a historic lawsuit against the Department of Defense to restore pride and honor for themselves and other LGTBQI+ veterans before they die.

Atop a pile of concrete rubble, there is a statue of a person holding a sign that says "Hope... Even when the creek rises..."

Come Helene or High Water

Hurricane Helene and the resulting floods and landslides devastated Western North Carolina on September 27th, 2024.

A young Black man smiles with his arms spread wide in front of a blue and white mural reading "statehood."

51st State

People call Jamal Holtz the future mayor (or governor) of D.C. At 25, he is a warm, extroverted, “old soul,” passionately dedicated to establishing Washington D.C.

The image contains three different pictures taking up equal space. The image on the far left has a young girl in a pink wheelchair looking at her grandmother, a white woman in a red shirt. The center image has a young boy in the arms of his mother a blond white woman, as he mouths his blanket for comfort. She is wearing a face mask with a moustache on it. The right image pictures a 5 year old girl, she is pouting and has electrodes on her face.

AFM Documentary

Pursuing the best care for her son, a single mom relocates her three boys to a hotel room two thousand miles from home; a Texas family receives the same devastating diagnosis for their active 5-yea

Man with a camcorder is superimposed behind a teacher in front of his grade school pupils

Interaction Cowboy

Interaction Cowboy looks at the failing education system in the US and the potential for better models of learning than the current, test-taking one.

Bobbi Clincher staring away from the camera.

All We've Lost

ALL WE'VE LOST is a feature length documentary film focusing on the human experience within the case of Barry Beach and the movement for criminal justice reform in Montana.

The American Virus

The American Virus explores the systemic inequities and cultural inequalities at the heart of American society, as experienced by five groups of New Yorkers.

Black and white photograph of soldiers wading through the water on D-Day

These Courageous Men

European Jewish refugees join the US Army to fight the Nazis in World War II.

A man is silhouetted as he enters a basement filled with file cabinets and boxes.

ALMOST LOST (PRESQUE PERDU)

An American filmmaker travels to France to find the mother and child whose lives were saved by his father seventy years ago.

A Malibu beach at sunset with the sun over the ocean and gentle waves along the shore.

The Malibu Mutt

Malibu Mutt tells the true story of Ziad Karram, a young Palestinian refugee who arrived in 1970s Los Angeles chasing an education—and stumbled into creating an iconic food shack that embodied his

A light skinned teenager with brown hair, wearing a black hoodie with red letter design, standing in front of a red wall with the film title "Two Weeks Notice: The Departure of Hella Sketchy" across the lower third

Two Weeks Notice: The Departure of Hella Sketchy

The documentary unfolds as a tribute to Jacob, creatively known as Hella Sketchy, a talented young artist whose life was tragically cut short.

Mediha

Mediha, a teenage Yazidi girl who has recently returned from ISIS captivity, turns her camera on herself to process her trauma while rescuers search for her missing family members. This is the story of the Yazidi genocide and its aftermath, shown through the lens of one young survivor as she confronts her past through personal video diaries, reclaiming her voice and stepping bravely toward the future.