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Smoke

In America’s remote forests, wildfire is a constant force. Many of us experience it through smoke rather than flames.

Dear Daddy

It all began with a heavy burden on my young shoulders—a weight I carried for years, convinced I was to blame for my father's untimely death.

Inquiry of Shadows

Inquiry of Shadows is an essay-documentary that examines genocide not
only as physical erasure, but as a psychological colonization of time, memory,
identity, and perception.

Time of My Life

TIME OF MY LIFE is a new feature documentary that follows a group of medically fragile young adults as they come of age in a world where life is short and the obstacles are many.

LOVE & JUSTICE

From 1967 until her untimely death in 1994, Arlene Carmen was the administrator of Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich village.

Mindful Shorts

Mindful Shorts is a series of six experiential short films that explore the practice of mindfulness as it pertains to self and culture from childhood through old age.

BY MY SIDE

BY MY SIDE is an intimate portrait of three veterans suffering from the “invisible wound,” PTSD, the most prevalent and unhealed wound suffered by veterans.

This Is Not an Apple

The life of three Palestinian siblings in Norway is turned upside down by a knife attack, and they try to recover through an apple farming initiative

Matriarch

Matriarch is a documentary that transports viewers to four long-established but largely unknown matriarchal societies through the eyes of four females—a Khasi Indian girl

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.

Refusing Silence

Sentenced to Iran's most notorious prison, a defiant Filmmaker riskers her life to secretly document one week inside Evin Prison, capturing the first footage ever recorded within Evin.

COMMITTED

COMMITTED is a documentary-in-progress produced by Ken Rosenberg, MD, and Peter Miller, Emmy and Peabody-winning filmmakers.

The Metal Detector

Georg is an Austrian retiree whose mother witnessed the crash of an Allied B-17 near their home during World War II.

My Father and Qaddafi

When Jihan was six years old, her father flew to Cairo and never returned. Mansur Rashid Kikhia was the Foreign Minister of Libya, ambassador to the United Nations, and a human rights lawyer.

Relief

RELIEF follows aid workers from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the largest provider of aid in Gaza, as they struggle to bring life-saving assistance to Palestinians.

Courage Under Fire

Courage Under Fire is a profile of one woman’s battle to keep Wyoming’s sole abortion facility open - a mission driven by seeing her mentor murdered and their clinic burnt down – and set against th

The Great Call

We go in pursuit of gibbon song, which has captivated poets, scientists and shamans for millennia across the dwindling rainforests of Asia.

Fifty Violins

For 20 years, Kettering Elementary—a public school in Long Beach, California—has taught every second grader the violin as a part of its core curriculum.

The Oakland Promise

THE OAKLAND PROMISE (working title)

Unbroken Smile

Unbroken Smile is a powerful five-year case study following a young woman's relentless fight for justice after police officers shattered her teeth and attempted to frame her.

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.

The Hunchback

Sufferers of a rare and misunderstood spine disease, which can leave them with a severely curved spine, severe pain and long-term health complications, search for answers, help, and purpose in life

Alien: American Dream Denied

Alien: American Dream Denied spotlights the emotional journey of high-skilled, documented immigrants as they seek permanence in a country that benefits from their talent, but denies them a home.

Ghost of Group B: Chasing the RS1700T – The Brian Betteridge Story

Ghost of Group B: Chasing the RS1700T – The Brian Betteridge Story tells the remarkable story of one of Ford’s rarest rally cars and the man who spent nearly 30 years searching for it.

Healing Trauma - The Resilient Soul

Healing Trauma: The Resilient Soul is a documentary that follows the lives of four diverse individuals who are all survivors of trauma.

Unbreakable Blue

Law enforcement professionals spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with the uglier side of human existence.

Keeping The Faith With Morrie

Morrie Turner, the pioneering African American cartoonist whose newspaper comic strip and television show reached millions of Americans with a powerful message of tolerance from the Civil Rights er

The Sacred & The Snake

At Standing Rock, a two-spirit Jicarilla Apache/Navajo youth leader, a Lakota matriarch, and a non-binary Appalachian join the resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Hard Twist: Through the Lens of Barbara Van Cleve

The feature documentary BARBARA VAN CLEVE'S AMERICAN WEST recounts her family’s settling to Montana in the early 19th century, her youth on a working ranch and tourist destination as a young woman

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.

Voices Over the Water

This is the story of the Scottish Highlanders and their clan chiefs torn apart by a rapidly changing world--feeling their trust betrayed, many Highlanders faced famine and poverty, or emigration to

Rootstock

In 2017, WEED & WINE followed two farming families through a single growing season — the Jodreys, cannabis cultivators in Humboldt County, and the Thibons, biodynamic winemakers in the Southern

Waking Up in a Dream

Birth, death.
Night, day.
Mind, matter.
Heaven, hell.
Nothing, everything.