We need to hold a mirror up within the tech community to see the reality of being a woman or person of color in tech.

DIRECTOR TBD
PRODUCERS Lisa Morales Hellebo, Teresa Sabatine

Clara is an aspiring acting intern at the 13th St. Scare Theater where she is offered the role of a lifetime, but the starring part comes with a permanent pair of fangs.

DIRECTOR Cecilia Copeland
PRODUCERS Cecilia Copeland, Guillermo Iván, Natasha Coppola-Shalom, Tiffany Fisher-Love

15 TO LIFE is the story of a child condemned to die in prison, battling the U.S. justice system for a second chance.

DIRECTOR Nadine Pequeneza

In 1974, a White House transcriber discovers the lone copy of the infamous 18½-minute gap in Nixon’s Watergate tapes.

DIRECTOR Dan Mirvish
PRODUCERS Daniel Moya, Terry Keefe, Dan Mirvish

DIRECTOR Enissa Acevedo
PRODUCER Enissa Acevedo

Are we punishing horses for being in pain? Follow world renowned equine veterinarian, Dr. Sue Dyson, as she teaches horse owners how to recognize pain signals while diagnosing horses formerly labeled as bad.

DIRECTOR Kathryn Lauritzen

A showdown between an ambitious actress and her unscrupulous business partner turns into a 3-way double-cross.

DIRECTOR Tim Aslin
PRODUCERS Todd Waring, Shane Cibella

In August of 2021 filmmaker Dianne Whelan became the first person to travel the land and water trails of the 17,000 miles of the Trans Canada Trail—the world’s longest trail.

DIRECTOR Dianne Whelan
PRODUCER Betsy Carson

The Ugandan salt lake town Katwe is haunted by the ghosts of its past. This film captures the unjust and complex world that belongs to the salt workers.

DIRECTOR Nima Shirali
PRODUCER Patrik Öberg

ADAM'S APPLE is a divergent coming-of-age documentary from the perspectives of Director Amy Jenkins and her teenage transgender son, Adam. Collaboratively they will trace the transition of Adam from pre-pubescent Audrey to evolving-young-man Adam in an exploration of what characterizes “maleness” for today’s gender-redefining youth.

DIRECTOR Amy Jenkins
PRODUCER Amy Jenkins

Stranded in Las Vegas for Christmas vacation with her gambling-addicted mother, twelve-year-old Adeline Tang fights to keep her family together.

DIRECTOR Tiffanie Hsu
PRODUCERS Pin-Chun Liu, Domenica Castro

Franco Stevens founds a pioneering magazine in a dangerous decade for lesbians and seeds creative and intersectional visibility work within the queer women’s community today.

DIRECTOR Jen Rainin
PRODUCER Rivkah Beth Medow

The story behind the iconic International Male fashion catalog that transformed the "All-American Boy", changing fashion, masculinity, and gay rights forever.

DIRECTORS Bryan Darling, Jesse Finley Reed
PRODUCER Peter Jones

Inspired by Iranian cinema’s beauty and poetry, an Indian filmmaker journeys to Iran chasing the source of such impossible hope despite the stringent censorship of the Islamic Regime. Alongside filmmakers like Jafar Panahi, activists, and regular women, her camera captures the simmering anxieties, fears, hopes and dreams of a nation on the verge of a revolution.

DIRECTOR Sreemoyee Singh
PRODUCER Sreemoyee Singh

While navigating day-to-day life as young people, four friends (Alex, Gregg, Ty, Keith) play a round of disc golf resulting in the loss of Gregg’s favorite disc. While Gregg may have lost his disc, his willingness to take a risk presents him the opportunity for a different reward; something he didn’t know he was looking for.

DIRECTOR William Wayne Windle
PRODUCERS William Wayne Windle, Cameron D. Young

ANOTHER DREAM is an animated, interactive Virtual Reality (VR) documentary that journeys into an Egyptian lesbian couple’s search for asylum and acceptance in the Netherlands.

DIRECTOR Tamara Shogaolu
PRODUCERS Tamara Shogaolu, Lauren Dubowski

One woman’s unshakable connection to the JFK assassination continues to haunt her fifty years later.

DIRECTOR Max Good
PRODUCER Max Good

A fundamentalist Christian professor experiences a profound change when he finds himself undercover in a gay support group to foil their launch of an LGBT homeless teen shelter in their small town.

DIRECTOR Kevin O'Brien
PRODUCERS Kevin O'Brien, Philip Marlatt

Joey (Lola Kirke) joins the Army as a way out of Pennsylvania coal country just as she falls in love with magnetic housewife Rayna (Breeda Wool).

DIRECTOR Deb Shoval
PRODUCERS LA Teodosio, Jessica Caldwell, Michel Merkt

Deceived by the promise of happiness and fulfillment in America, a Turkish immigrant housewife engages in a one-sided telephone conversation with a mysterious Turkish man, as she attempts to rediscover her identity.

DIRECTOR Amy Omar
PRODUCERS Petrus van Staden, Karine Benzaria, Amy Omar

BEFORE THE ASHES FALL is a race toward redemption from Alzheimer’s and the ultimate forgiveness of a father before time runs out.

DIRECTOR Sarah T. Schwab
PRODUCERS Brian Long, Sarah T. Schwab, David Serafine

Looking to the past to explore a path to the future. Interviews with key figures in the African-American Freedom Movement.

DIRECTOR Thom E. Butler
PRODUCER Thom E. Butler

When strangers arrive at her toddler’s birthday party, an expectant mother confronts her son’s unexpected popularity.

DIRECTOR R.J. Glass
PRODUCERS Amanda Freedman, Daniel Leighton
line producer Cindy Zhang

DIRECTOR Dan Mirvish
PRODUCERS Mike S. Ryan, Dana Altman, Dan Mirvish

A tucked-in bank executive takes off on an eye-opening adventure with her mother’s hunky young caregiver, helping terminal patients live out the death of their dreams.

DIRECTOR Andrea Shreeman
PRODUCER Summer Moore

BIG BOYS is a coming-of-age story about Jamie, a teenage boy who develops a crush on his older cousin Allie’s boyfriend on a family camping trip.

DIRECTOR Corey Sherman
PRODUCERS Allison Tate, Corey Sherman

A precocious six year old makes learning about money fun for kids.

DIRECTOR Tanya Wright

A yeshiva boy from Brooklyn helps start the biotech industry, becomes the “King of Biotech” then loses it all as he struggles with bipolar disorder.

DIRECTOR David Greenwald
PRODUCER Debra Polkes

Dialysis patients, medical professionals, and whistleblowers unmask the multi-billion U.S. dialysis care industry that profiteers from patient deaths - treating nearly half a million Americans like cash cows.

DIRECTOR Gordon Skinner
PRODUCER Gordon Skinner

Blue Water Film Festival uses the power of imagination, film, art, and innovation to inspire audiences to thrust them into action on global environmental issues specifically water and our oceans.

DIRECTOR Greg Reitman

Following four skateboarders on their journey towards the Tokyo Olympics, BOARDERS captures what it means to be a skateboarder in this historical moment, when the stakes are higher for everyone involved.

DIRECTOR Sean Fee
PRODUCERS Annika Ranin, Jasmin Morrison

Inspired by a true story BONDED follows the journey of a teenager from Mexico whose dreams of becoming a soccer star are shattered when he's smuggled across the border and sold to a sweatshop making party dresses in downtown Los Angeles.

DIRECTOR Mohit Ramchandani
PRODUCERS Mohit Ramchandani, Jon Graham, Rufus Parker, Luke Daniels

Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, two young songwriters and romantic partners, find themselves caught in movie star Gloria Swanson’s web when she hires them to write a musical version of “Sunset Boulevard.”

DIRECTOR Jeffrey Schwarz
PRODUCER Jeffrey Schwarz

Trapped in a coma, a dying man revisits his boyhood self who seeks to escape the grip of a shameful episode of sexual abuse at the hands of his teacher.

DIRECTOR Adam Matalon
PRODUCERS Adam Matalon p.g.a, Stephen Endelman

BOY CULTURE is the story of an anonymous successful Seattle hustler: ten years after the movie, “X” moves to LA to find that the world is a bit different.

DIRECTOR Q. Allan Brocka
PRODUCERS Stephen Israel, Philip Pierce

When a newly famous music producer visits his hometown, he battles the guilt of abandoning his past and the bitterness of an old friend.

DIRECTORS Denzel Whitaker, Quincy G. Ledbetter
PRODUCERS Yuki Maekawa-Ledbetter, Ramfis Myrthil
Consulting Producer Johnny Starke

Still reeling from his breakup, Mo, a practicing Muslim is caught by surprise when Kal, the quintessential All-American, offers to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan. Night after night, they begin to fall in love over what they have in common, as much as what they don't.

DIRECTOR Mike Mosallam
PRODUCERS Sarah Bazzi, Seth Hauer, Alex Lampsos, Chris Panizzon

BUOYANCY depicts the global issue of modern slavery from the highly personal and intensely relatable perspective of a 16 year-old Cambodian boy.

DIRECTOR Rodd Rathjen
PRODUCERS Samantha Jennings, Kristina Ceyton, Rita Walsh

In this immersive portrait of life in an environmental wasteland, four young Ghanaians navigate work and relationships over a single day in Agbogbloshie, the largest e-waste dump on earth.

DIRECTOR Justin Weinrich
PRODUCER Anita Afonu

THE BURNING QUESTION a follow up documentary to the multi-award winning Trashed with Jeremy Irons. The team set out to get to the bottom of the shocking new problem of man-made Pollution.

DIRECTOR Candida Brady
PRODUCERS Titus Ogilvy, Debbie London, Melloney Roffe

During the first days of the attack by ISIS in Northern, Iraq, in August 2014 an American journalist, American NGO worker, Yazidi nurse and a Yazidi warrior are brought together by fate as they attempt to escape the clutches of ISIS.

DIRECTOR Drew Kabbe
PRODUCER Dave Kabbe

Five queer women use brains, brawn, and a touch of loving humor to empower an image-obsessed social media influencer, allowing her strip away gender norms and embrace her true identity.

DIRECTOR Assaad Yacoub
PRODUCERS Ally Johnson, Rob Schow, Helena Sardinha, Rafael Thomaseto

The newest hope for cancer is one of the oldest. Buried for a century, the metabolic theory of cancer is overturning entrenched dogma and reshaping the future of cancer treatment.

DIRECTOR Maggie Jones
PRODUCER Brad Jones

Unable to accept her daughter’s death, Lauren attempts to clone her daughter and carry her to term. Rooted in current science, CARBON explores what happens when someone who can…does.

DIRECTOR Priscilla Anany
PRODUCERS Claire McClanahan, Marisa Vitale

A look at the life and work of the late Los Angeles artist, Carlos Almaraz. From the lens of an immigrant child coming to this country to live his American dream of becoming a famous artist.

DIRECTORS Elsa Flores Almaraz, Richard Montoya
PRODUCER Mark Roberts

Five staggering stories of courage and wonder from beyond the multiplexes of the western world, show us how American movies can change us and sometimes the world.

DIRECTOR Ilinca Calugareanu
PRODUCER Mara Adina

A Jewish high school hockey team seeks to defend its title, while outside the rink, the coaches and players cope with the pressures of their close-knit Orthodox community.

DIRECTORS Daniel David, Aaron Rosenbloom
PRODUCERS Daniel David, Aaron Rosenbloom

DIRECTOR Nancy Frohman
PRODUCER Nancy Frohman

An intimate look into America’s most progressive criminal justice reformer, Chesa Boudin, as he and his office face the most well-funded opposition to a District Attorney’s policies in US history.

DIRECTOR John Maringouin
PRODUCER Sean Gillane

DIRECTOR Eric Hurt
PRODUCER Erica Arvold

A Hurricane Katrina survivor who works to keep Black teenagers in school in Oakland, California finds his personal and professional lives colliding when his 15-year-old-son goes to jail for a crime he didn't commit.

DIRECTOR Cassidy Friedman
PRODUCER Cassidy Friedman

After an imaginative boy’s parents are killed in a tragic accident, he finds solace when he bonds with a homeless man who shares his passion for storytelling.

DIRECTOR Talina Adamo
PRODUCERS Talina Adamo, Kevin L. Humes

The true story of a diner waitress, who was smuggling her co-workers children into California across the Mexico border, and what happened the day she was caught.

DIRECTOR Rodes Phire
PRODUCERS Lauren Selman, Silver Feldman

A day at an Iranian governmental office spirals out of control when a male customer with ulterior motives is unhappy with the passport photo taken by a female employee.

DIRECTOR Rayan Farzad
PRODUCER Petrus van Staden
co-producer Apoorva Charan

DIRECTOR Thomas Eldon Anderson
PRODUCERS Thomas Eldon Anderson, Sean Richardson, Keith Sandler

After being bullied at school, a pregnant teen's family sets out to move from the city to the countryside, unexpectedly revealing a coveted secret of her past that threatens the fresh start they seek. "Crybaby Bridge" explores the urban legend of a mother and child, but the sinister phenomenon may be more than just folklore.

DIRECTOR Sarah T. Schwab
PRODUCERS Brian Long, Sarah T. Schwab, Cardinal Flix, Inc., Emily Fouraker, Without-a-Net Productions, Lori Singleton, Mia Salvaterra

Cyber-Seniors began as a high-school project in 2009 and inspired an award-winning documentary film that has been broadcast in 40 countries and screened in over 500 communities world-wide.

DIRECTOR Saffron Cassaday
PRODUCER Brenda Rusnak

A young Black Deaf woman tries to communicate with the police, but they don’t understand her as she urges them to save her from a brutal abuser.

DIRECTOR Vilma Jackson
PRODUCER Vilma Jackson

Environmental Film Festival in Dakar, Senegal

DIRECTORS Heidi Hoerig, PhD; Ousmane N. Keita, Michel Tsagli, Lauren Gibbs

A young psychiatrist steps out of her depth while searching for a former patient who went missing while looking for a "miracle cure" in the jungle. In the complex world of Amazonian shamanism, she finds her herself battling against mysterious forces she neither understands nor is convinced she believes in.

DIRECTOR Elena Greenlee
PRODUCER Vanessa Perez

A young witch mourning her sister’s death creates a monster whose unrequited affection sends her on a quest for meaning.

DIRECTOR Molly Loftus
PRODUCERS Molly Loftus, Emily Mansfield

Daughters follows three young girls as they prepare to dance with their Dads in prison, a rare prison rehabilitation program started by daughters with incarcerated fathers.

DIRECTORS Natalie Rae, Angela Patton
PRODUCERS Lisa Mazzotta, Justin Benoliel

A single tiny island in the West Philippine Sea is key to controlling unimaginable oil wealth. We examine the lives of the besieged residents and tell their story.

DIRECTOR E Del Mundo
PRODUCER Jack Weinstein

Based on a true story of a mother’s struggle to heal after the loss of her son to a heroin overdose.

DIRECTOR Annette Haywood-Carter
PRODUCERS Cece King, Elyse Russell & Devon Ogden

Frank Moore was a provocative body-centered artist with cerebral palsy, whose work was labeled obscene for more than four decades.

DIRECTOR Keith Wilson
PRODUCERS Keith Wilson, Emile Bokaer

Before Lollapalooza, Burning Man or Coachella, Desolation Center brought punk and industrial music fans in rented school buses into the Mojave Desert for performances that the LA Weekly described as “like some bizarre ritual at the end of the world.”

DIRECTOR Stuart Swezey
PRODUCER Stuart Swezey

POETLove tells the story of a young man who experiences his first love and heartbreak, throwing him into deep despair and pushing him to the brink of madness, until he finds his conduit through music.

DIRECTOR David Paul
PRODUCER Justine Raczkiewicz

When aid and politics meets business, who really gains from the global giving industry?

DIRECTOR Thor Neureiter
PRODUCERS Thor Neureiter, Antony Loewenstein, Rebecca Barry

A comedy about relationships in a tight place.

DIRECTOR Jay Alvarez
PRODUCER Alexander Fraser

THe DOCUMENTARY PRODUCERS ALLIANCE (DPA) is a working group of more than 230 documentary producers worldwide that advocates on behalf of producers and the health and welfare of the documentary industry.

A taiko drum troop near the failed Fukushima nuclear power plant struggles to stay together after being forced to flee their beloved mountain community because of high radiation levels.

DIRECTOR Darryl Wharton-Rigby
PRODUCERS Darryl Wharton-Rigby, Kevin Perkins

Medical students and families of physicians touched by suicide come out of the shadows to expose the truth about a sick healthcare system that not only risks patients’ lives, but drives our brilliant young doctors to take their own lives.

DIRECTOR Robyn Symon
PRODUCER Robyn Symon

DOUGIE DOG is a heartfelt comedy about a dog dropped off at an animal shelter who is desperate to break free and find a new family to love him.

DIRECTOR Tabatha Golat
PRODUCERS Tabatha Golat, Montgomery Burt

DRAGON WOMEN? is portraying women working in finance in Europe and the US. They will tell us how they survive in the most competitive sector in the world.

DIRECTOR Frédérique de Montblanc
PRODUCERS Bart Van Langendonck, Vincent Metzinger

A Documentary Film About the Beginning of the End of Factory Farming

DIRECTOR Christopher Quinn
PRODUCERS Natalie Portman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Christopher Quinn

There is no rule book when it comes to dealing with death.

DIRECTORS David Ortega, Shane Kelly
PRODUCERS Summer Finley Kelly, Fueld Films and Elizabeth Reed, McKee Wallwork + Co.

An aging former Marine fights to keep his life from unraveling as his son tries to force him out of his longtime family home.

DIRECTOR Hank Bedford
PRODUCER Stephen Vincent

When six New York contemporary dancers join a small downtown dance company, the lines between their private lives and their art start to blur.

DIRECTOR Alan Brown

29 international climate scientists battle heavy seas in the Pacific, searching for answers to the climate crisis. Meanwhile, Earth is suffering the hottest year on record, heading towards extinction.

DIRECTOR Paul McGuire
PRODUCERS Paul McGuire, Alice Henty

DIRECTOR Charles Burnett
PRODUCERS Carolyn Schroeder, Greg Ptacek, Michael Kuehnert

An intimate portrait of director Norman Jewison and the making of "Fiddler on the Roof.”

DIRECTOR Daniel Raim
PRODUCERS Sasha Berman, Daniel Raim

A young Afghan-Kiwi couple journey from New Zealand to Afghanistan to change 51 lives, including their own, in honor of those killed in a terrorist attack in their home town of Christchurch.

DIRECTORS Vanessa Wells, Bariz Shah, Saba Afrasyabi
PRODUCER Virginia Wright

In California, rising student tuition contributes more than state funding. FIGHT FORWARD follows multiple student activists in the state advocating for a return to free tuition in public universities.

DIRECTOR Lesley Elizondo
PRODUCERS Kitty Hu, Samuel Rubin, Luz Gaitan

The remarkable, untold story of Leon Vitali who gave up fame and fortune to serve for decades as Stanley Kubrick’s right-hand man.

DIRECTOR Tony Zierra
PRODUCER Elizabeth Yoffe

A houseparty somewhere in Brooklyn. Whose apartment is this anyway?

DIRECTOR Zoë Rae
PRODUCERS Laura D’Augello, Zoë Rae, Sara McFarlane

In a remote village on the India-Myanmar border, 70 years after Indian independence, news floats in that electricity may arrive. Life flickers between hope and frustration, humor the only constant.

DIRECTOR Anupama Srinivasan & Anirban Dutta
PRODUCER Anirban Dutta

A work that combines documentary and essay, FOCUSED LIFE examines the widespread need for attention in an age of pervasive distraction.

DIRECTOR Conor Provenzano
PRODUCER Chris Howard

Shira Rose Loewenstein is a trans rocker girl who is funding her transition the only way she knows how…petty identity theft.

DIRECTOR Zen Zadih Pace
PRODUCERS Amanda Mesaikos, Katie Rosin

When two best friends transition from adolescence into adulthood they realize their aspirations are sending them in opposite directions.

DIRECTOR Tristan McKenzie
PRODUCER Jackson Weidenfeller

FRITZ blends aspects of comedy and drama, reality and surrealism in a portrait of the artist as a 70-year-old man. This character-driven film proves you are never too old, or too odd, to pursue greatness.

DIRECTOR Ali Sargent
PRODUCER Paul Yoo

A pain-free life sounds great, right? Filmed over 17 years, we observe Gabby’s evolving relationship with her rare disorder as she dreams of escaping her parents’ watchful eyes.

DIRECTOR Melody Gilbert
PRODUCERS Melody Gilbert, Igor Myakotin

A powerful and riveting narrative based on the true story of Ifrah Ahmed, who — having escaped war-torn Somalia — has emerged as one of the world's foremost international activists against gender-based violence.

DIRECTOR Mary McGuckian
PRODUCERS Mary McGuckian, Adrian Politowski

C just turned 13. Two years ago she was raped in her elementary school by another student. Failed by the system, C is determined to bring us into the world and mind of a rape survivor.

DIRECTOR Emily Kassie
PRODUCERS Emily Kassie, Aidan Shipley, Caroline Kassie

GIRL TALK follows 20-something Mia, as she explores the disparity between emotional and physical intimacy, coming to a head when she meets an intriguing lesbian couple.

DIRECTOR Erica Rose
PRODUCER Chelsea Moore

DIRECTOR Rémi Lainé

World Champion pairs figure skater and two-time Olympian, Randy Gardner, goes solo with this raw, riveting expose of his life.

DIRECTOR Sharidan W-Sotelo
PRODUCERS Sharidan W-Sotelo, Randy Gardner

GUEST HOUSE is a feature documentary that follows the stories of three women in a re-entry house as they attempt to acclimate to life after being released from incarceration and battle addiction.

DIRECTORS Hannah Dweck, Yael Luttwak
PRODUCERS Hannah Dweck, Yael Luttwak

An intimate journey into the life of a young gay activist in present-day Egypt.

DIRECTOR Tamara Shogaolu
PRODUCER Ado Ato Pictures

In an average high school where personalities crash into each other, a group of teenagers struggle to find themselves and each other while navigating the pitfalls of High School.

DIRECTOR Roe Moore
PRODUCERS Roe Moore, Bill Mehner, Anne Westcott, Justin Giddings, Evin Michaels

A deeply moving and intimate look at storyboard artist Harold Michelson and film researcher Lillian Michelson, highlighting unsung heroes behind a staggering number of cinema classics including THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, The Birds, The Graduate, and more.

DIRECTOR Daniel Raim
PRODUCERS Daniel Raim, Jennifer Raim

In 1952, a handshake between producer James B. Harris and director Stanley Kubrick created three classic films. Harris makes films still, at age 89. This is his untold story

DIRECTOR F.X. Feeney
PRODUCERS Mark Earl Burman, Susan Canova Vercellino

Head, Hand, Heart—Craftsmanship at Work is a film about the lives and work of the men and women who are building one of the tallest buildings in the United States.

DIRECTOR Kelly Candaele
PRODUCER Kelly Candaele

DIRECTOR Bryn Woznicki

A young woman spends the weekend looking after a secluded mansion, unaware that she may be embroiled in a series of mysterious disasters and her own imminent demise.

DIRECTOR Nick Harwood
PRODUCER Jake Agger

Driven by the climate crisis, five teenagers in New Zealand join the global student protests. But when challenged by Pasifika students the movement has to confront its racial prejudices to lead one of the biggest strikes in the country’s history.

DIRECTORS Niva Kay, Emily McDowell, Phil Stebbing
PRODUCERS Niva Kay, Emily McDowell, Nia Phipps, Phil Stebbing

An atheist and a pastor together explore one of the most polarizing questions in history: Who was Jesus Christ?

DIRECTORS Cory Markum, Drew Sokol
PRODUCERS Cory Markum, Drew Sokol

The aftermath of sexual assault.

DIRECTOR Danijela Stajnfeld
PRODUCER Danijela Stajnfeld

20-year-old Constantina comes from a conservative Greek island. To define her queer identity and overcome social stereotypes hinges on two allies: her family and her art.

DIRECTOR Angeliki Aristomenopoulou
PRODUCERS Rea Postolides, Yuri Averof, Vicky Miha

House of Tulip follows two Black trans activists as they run for office and work to build Louisiana’s first housing refuge that provides residency solely for trans and gender non-conforming residents. We’ll follow the founders as they fight to use their organization to protect and build community in a state with one of the highest murder rates in the country. Their journeys will highlight the dangerous, yet beautiful reality of what it means to be Black trans women in the deep South.

DIRECTOR Cydney Tucker

Realizing that the “human experiment” may be on the verge of annihilation, an unpredictable corporation of gods sends their CEO to Earth in search of a solution.

DIRECTOR Laura Davis

THE HUMAN RACE is an inspirational documentary about five runners, ages 50-90, as they each train for the biggest race of their lives.

DIRECTOR Liz Vassey
PRODUCERS Liz Vassey, Juliet Gray, Debbie Voiles

A young family experiences dramatic changes while coping with a diagnosis of terminal cancer.

DIRECTOR Peter Frintrup
PRODUCERS Peter Frintrup, Daren Flam

Against the backdrop of a small post-punk music festival, dozens of thirty-somethings deal with a wide variety of social and philosophical issues in their respective lives, from missing guitars to generational angst and premature ejaculation.

DIRECTOR Michael Cuenca
PRODUCERS Michael Cuenca, Joshua Levion

In the span of 3 years, Sarah Mardini goes from champion swimmer to refugee to humanitarian to accused criminal mastermind. But her own struggle to define herself will determine what she ultimately becomes.

DIRECTOR Charly Feldman
PRODUCERS Daniel Druhora, Anna Von Dziembowski

Estranged adult siblings reconnect under stressful, emotional circumstances where they realize, no matter how distant they have grown, they’ll always be a part of each other.

DIRECTOR Andrew Shea
PRODUCERS Cindy McCreery, Barbara Morgan, Andrew Shea, Camille Scioli Chambers

At a heightened security time, Majeed, a Muslim cop in Chicago, is forced to question where his loyalties truly lie when his orthodox, estranged father, Baba, unexpectedly visits from Pakistan. Meanwhile, Dua, Majeed’s daughter, is concurrently forced to pirouette between her passion for dance and her roots.

DIRECTOR Iram Parveen Bilal
PRODUCERS Iram Parveen Bilal, Joy Ganes

As an urgent response to swelling economic anxiety and wealth inequality in America, comedian Trae Crowder goes on a journey to explore a radical idea of giving free cash to every citizen—no strings attached.

DIRECTOR Steve Borst
PRODUCERS Rennie Soga, Chris Panizzon

A joyous, elderly, blind man regains his sight, only to be treated more poorly by those around him and begins to realize the world is not it seemed to be.

DIRECTOR Dylan Boom
PRODUCERS Andres Figueroa, Sebastian Delgado

The Sixties witnessed the Golden Age of Cuban cinema—till a political crisis precipitated its decline. Today, a group of young Cuban filmmakers are striving to bring about its renewal.

DIRECTORS Darius Kaufmann, Eytan Jan
PRODUCERS Antoine Goldet, Dea Gjinovci

In The Shadow of the Flag is a reflection on personal loss, an investigation into movement and creativity as therapy, and follows military veterans seeking a sense of tribe in the civilian world as they build a major dance piece, inspired by their personal narratives, with Los Angeles based Diavolo Dance Theatre.

DIRECTOR Adam Matalon
PRODUCERS Adam Matalon, Clare Baren, Jacques Heim

An American filmmaker returns to the Balkans 25 years after he became a paid propagandist for a repressive regime and is forced to confront his personal failings. He works to expose the people and power mechanisms behind the poisonous environment of disinformation that today incites hatred and violence.

DIRECTOR Joe Tripician
PRODUCERS Amira Kudumovic, Joe Tripician

China 1972. A forbidden fruit. Nixon nudges the door open. Three months later, Joan Cohen lands in Beijing with her own forbidden fruit—artistic freedom—and ignites an artistic revolution.

DIRECTOR Nicola Zavaglia
PRODUCER Nicola Zavaglia

This experimental documentary marks the culmination of a call for work from filmmakers, artists, and writers across the United States. Weaving together cinematic tableaux and intimate audio interviews, Journal of the Plague Year is a visual tone poem, verging on science fiction, that probes our nation's pandemic-induced identity crisis. We watch ourselves as if from a panopticon: fearful, alone, constantly commodified, and yet ever striving for change.

DIRECTORS Keith Fulton, Lou Pepe, David Auerbach
PRODUCERS Keith Fulton, Lou Pepe, David Auerbach

A forensic anthropologist discovers her supernatural abilities when working with unidentifiable remains of migrants.

DIRECTOR Ramon Villa-Hernandez

A love story set in modern day, post-revolutionary Ukraine between Julia, an idealistic student activist and a wounded soldier fresh from the warfront.

DIRECTOR Roxy Toporowych
PRODUCER Nilou Safinya

The journey of a young Polish Jewish man who attempts to finish his mother’s death anniversary rituals at her grave during the holocaust.

DIRECTOR Razid Season
PRODUCERS Razid Season, Sarah Wemy

The story told by former political prisoners of how music and song brought resistance and hope to apartheid prisons in South Africa.

DIRECTOR Lindy Wilson
PRODUCER Carolyn Carew

Youth who have died from addiction can not talk but addicted kids can teach and warn others about drug use.

DIRECTOR Jason Williams
PRODUCERS Greg McClatchy, Joel J Horowitz

As the CIA confirms that the Russian government hacked the American Presidential election, the team that produced Hacking Democracy (HBO) in 2006 joins forces with elite computer security experts to ask if the machines that count America's votes, were infiltrated? And if so, by whom?

DIRECTORS Simon Ardizzone, Russell Michaels
PRODUCERS Simon Ardizzone, Russell Michaels

Discover the sinister truth about forced and child marriage in the United States through the lives of three survivors, and witness the fight to end it.

DIRECTOR Kate Ryan Brewer
PRODUCERS Kate Ryan Brewer, Paige Livingston

KNOW YOUR ENEMY is a documentary that takes a clear-eyed look at social justice, free speech, and tribalism, paying close attention to themes and fascinating people—students, professors, activists, parents and more—at the center of these contentious and confusing struggles on our college campuses.

DIRECTOR Scott Hamilton Kennedy

On the evening of a record-breaking blizzard, a young wife’s plans to kill her abusive husband begin to unravel.

DIRECTOR Kyle Butenhoff
PRODUCERS Dana Mackin, Kyle Butenhoff, Matt Ramey

A kaleidoscopic portrait of Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane María, LANDFALL investigates a storm of much greater magnitude: the economic crisis crippling the island long before María arrived.

DIRECTOR Cecilia Aldarondo
PRODUCERS Cecilia Aldarondo, Ines Hofmann Kanna

A man reunites with his transgender father when the two travel across the Southeast out to scatter his mother’s ashes off the coast of Georgia.

DIRECTOR Tim Hall
PRODUCERS Tim Hall, Purvis Jordan, Daniel Hansen

LA OLA is a showcase of the best independent contemporary films from Spain, offering a curated selection of critically acclaimed films.

DIRECTOR Rocio Mesa
PRODUCER La Panda Productions: Jana Díaz Juhl

Louise—a depressed millennial—is drunk and breaks her hip, landing her in physical therapy. There, she makes an 86-year-old BFF who speaks no English. This unlikely friendship gives her the courage to face what she’s been running from all along: Her mother’s younger-onset Alzheimer’s.

DIRECTOR Lisa Steen
PRODUCERS Alexandra Barreto, Taylor Feltner

Three women who are fiercely confronting world challenges and changing lives globally through their everyday work.

DIRECTORS Tricia Rissmann, Sabrina Dervis
PRODUCER Fisch Rasy

The mission of the LESBIAN HOME MOVIE PROJECT (LHMP), to preserve lesbian amateur moving images, was inspired by the discovery of school teacher Ruth Storm's 1888-1981 16 mm reels. Ten years and over 400 films and tapes later, LHMP is still at it.

DIRECTOR Sharon Thompson
PRODUCERS Kate Horsfield, B. Ruby Rich, Sharon Thompson

Love and money are both essential but does a person's relationship with money also negatively affect their interpersonal relationships? The only way to find out is to follow one couple as they strip away all of the insecurities, ego, vanity, blame and begin having the difficult conversations that have become so taboo.

DIRECTORS Ama Shabazz, Sayyed Shabazz
PRODUCERS Ama Shabazz, Sayyed Shabazz

During the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown, Artist Heather Spooner created The Letter League, an adult pen pal program, which resulted in heartfelt, humorous and poignant stories of connection and humanity.

DIRECTOR Michelle Boyaner
PRODUCERS Michelle Boyaner, Barbara Green, Wendy Zipes Hunter, Katie Ford, Heather Spooner

The struggle over voting rights is headline news. This fight goes back generations as strategies to suppress the vote have evolved over the decades. Are race and politics inseparable?

DIRECTOR Gavin Guerra
PRODUCER Gavin Guerra

Olympian and four-time world champion kayaker Eric Jackson aka “EJ”, at 56 years old, attempts to maintain his position on the USA Freestyle Kayak team in 2021, marking 28 years on the United States National team—a feat perhaps no other athlete in history in any sport has ever achieved.”

DIRECTOR Shawna Brakefield-Haase
PRODUCER Shawna Brakefield-Haase

A Light In Cañon City, shines upon courageous individuals navigating the labyrinth of incarceration in Colorado. They emerge with wisdom, vulnerability, and an unwavering desire for personal and communal healing.

DIRECTOR Aaron Bear
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Aaron Bear, Chris Panizzon

Left home alone for dinner, a 13-year-old boy steals his parents' live lobsters and takes them to the single mothers of a working class school friend, only to claim in her house a place that goes well beyond that of a dinner seat.

DIRECTOR Gregorio Franchetti
PRODUCER Axel Ohman

Commemorative events in September 2022 in Londorf, Germany, with descendants of former Jewish residents engaging in a meaningful conversation with descendants of local generations of all ages.

DIRECTOR Karen Jungblut

A closeted female detective returns to her backwoods hometown when the only woman she’s ever been with is murdered, but finds corruption surrounding a huge business deal keeps everyone quiet.

DIRECTOR Daniel Lafrentz
PRODUCERS Jeremy Hill, Sam Claitor

As Los Angeles rebirths itself in the annual rites of spring, we follow the lives of Angelenos, tracing their histories to discover how we’ve arrived at this moment in time.

DIRECTOR Ellington Tynes
PRODUCER Cassius Kim

Patriotic young men and women volunteer to defend their country, experience catastrophic injuries, and come home to face emotional and physical barriers to intimacy.

DIRECTOR Mark Schoen
PRODUCERS Mitchell Tepper, Mark Schoen

DIRECTOR Josh Tate
PRODUCER Josh Tate

In many ways, Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, USAF (Ret) fought a fierce battle before, during and after his days as Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilot (“Red Tail”) & POW in WWII.

DIRECTOR Mike Rott
PRODUCERS Mike Rott, Sheldon Rott

A feature length documentary following a group of international women as they prepare for and perform in the Paris Philharmonic’s La Maestra competition for female orchestra conductors. Personal stories of survival, passion and perseverance are woven together with the drama and excitement of this one of a kind event created to break yet another glass ceiling for women.

DIRECTOR Maggie Contreras
PRODUCER Neil Berkeley

Filmmaker Jennifer Abbott explores the emotional and psychological dimensions of the climate crisis and the relationship between grief and hope in times of personal and planetary change.

DIRECTOR Jennifer Abbott
PRODUCERS Andrew Williamson, Henrik Meyer

DIRECTORS Ronaldo Aguiar, Barbara McVeigh
PRODUCER Barbara McVeigh

In a world where disease no longer exists and suicide is compulsory, a father must help his daughter say goodbye to her grandmother until an unexpected event reverses their roles.

DIRECTOR Laura E. Davis
PRODUCER Beatrice von Schwerin

MANJI follows Reverend TK Nakagaki, a Japanese Buddhist priest living in America for the past thirty-five years, as he travels the globe on a mission: to reclaim the swastika as a symbol of peace.

DIRECTOR Yousuke Kiname
PRODUCERS Yousuke Kiname, Adam Weissman

The lifelong partnership between two scientists who discover a rare genetic mutation afflicting hundreds of members of a single family and their search to unlock the mystery behind Alzheimer’s disease.

DIRECTOR Marisa Venegas
PRODUCERS Marisa Venegas, Cristina Venegas

DIRECTOR Sky Soleil
PRODUCER Brooke Dooley

MARIPOSA (Spanish for “butterfly”) is a digital app designed to make transformation sweeter, while shining a light on the declining monarch butterfly population due to climate change.

DIRECTOR Tanya Wright

When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing their uncertain journey, Fazili shows firsthandthe dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared betweena family on the run.

DIRECTOR Hassan Fazili
PRODUCERS Emelie Mahdavian, Su Kim

DIRECTOR Lisa F. Jackson

Maribel has been mourning the tragic loss of her mother by secretly attending the funerals of strangers, but her inability to move on finally catches up with her.

DIRECTOR Merced Elizondo
PRODUCERS Helena Sardinha, Rafael Thomaseto, Alan Hodge

Obsessed with toilets, eccentric entrepreneur Jack Sim sacrifices his comfortable life for an endless battle against the world’s largest man-made crisis: shit.

DIRECTOR Lily Zepeda
PRODUCERS Tchavdar Georgiev, Lily Zepeda, Eugene Efuni

A dramedy about being “one of the few”. A queer, black professional attempts to navigate the challenges of breaking the glass ceiling in corporate America while fielding pressure from her partner to start a family.

DIRECTORS Caralene Robinson, Michael Pinckney, Maurice Elrod
PRODUCERS Angela Burris, Nina Simone Moore, Shawn Outler

We provide grants and other resources to emerging diverse, filmmakers developing narrative, feature films across genres.

DIRECTOR Paula Smith Arrigoni

Guitarist/singer Trini Lopez was born of undocumented Mexican immigrants and overcame all odds in 1960’s America to become one of the first Latino rock stars.

DIRECTORS P David Ebersole, Todd Hughes
PRODUCERS Joan Gand, Gary Gand, P David Ebersole, Todd Hughes

Catalyzing legacy-driven leadership to support a flourishing future for all.

DIRECTOR Paul Yoo and Majka Burhardt
PRODUCER Sarah Garlick and Majka Burhardt

When the elaborate lies told by a serial imposter inevitably unravel, she becomes perilously close to losing her entire identity—and the only person who ever truly loved her.

DIRECTOR Christina Choe
PRODUCERS Amy Lo, Michelle Cameron, Andrea Riseborough

Native Title Rockets investigates the impact on First Nations communities when commercial and government interests threaten sacred Aboriginal land.

DIRECTOR Rochelle Humphrey
PRODUCERS Crystal Clyne, Rochelle Humphrey

Charged with physically and permanently terminating parental rights for the state, a harried family therapist has a come-to-Jesus moment with a family he‘ll never forget.

DIRECTOR Christopher Grant
PRODUCER Christopher Grant

From Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott, filmmakers of the multi-award-winning global hit, The Corporation, comes this hard-hitting and timely sequel.

DIRECTORS Joel Bakan, Jennifer Abbott
PRODUCERS Betsy Carson, Trish Dolman

As a mysterious new variant of a growing pandemic emerges, a squabbling couple in lockdown starts acting like children.

DIRECTOR Artemis Shaw
PRODUCER Artemis Shaw

NHdocs brings filmmakers and cinephiles together by showcasing great films and creating a collaborative space for the community and artists to share, while fostering the next generation of filmmakers.

DIRECTOR Katherine Kowalczyk
Executive Director / Lead Programmer Gorman Bechard

Agatha (70s) feels invisible to the world. After a handsome dance instructor piques her interest, Agatha is determined to take a lesson with him despite having two-left feet.

DIRECTOR Emily Everhard
PRODUCER Sharvari Bhat

9/11 grassroots social activists Jon Stewart and John Feal fight the U.S. government to ensure health and compensation for thousands of First Responders dying from toxins released at Ground Zero.

DIRECTOR Rob Lindsay
PRODUCERS Rob Lindsay, Kristine Yanoff, Kelly Zemnickis

DIRECTOR Gorman Bechard
PRODUCERS Gorman Bechard, Jan Radder, Colleen McQuaid, Stephen Handwerk

Talal Derki returns to Syria, where he gains the trust of a radical family. He is providing a rare insight into what it means to grow up with a father dreaming of an Islamic Caliphate.

DIRECTOR Talal Derki
PRODUCERS Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias N. Siebert, Hans Robert Eisenhauer

An unapologetically sexual teenage girl wages a social media war against her Christian abstinence program, only to realize that she is out of her depth when the leaders of her program decide to match her at her game.

DIRECTOR Kate Hackett
PRODUCER Kate Hackett

Caught up in San Francisco’s counterculture movement in the late-Sixties, a wealthy businessman drops out and starts a commune in pursuit of a utopian society. But his dreams are thwarted when he and his chosen family are faced with a series of tragedies that threaten their very existence.

DIRECTOR Gregg Gibbs
PRODUCER Maura McCoy

DIRECTOR Greg Reitman

Recently diagnosed with Schizophrenia, Janie escapes her dull medicated life finding freedom inspired by a new city and a friendship with the fantastical Pixie.

DIRECTOR Jeneffa Soldatic
PRODUCER Kid Sister Collective

When a first love challenges his guarded sense of what’s possible, a hot-headed young gay man with mild cerebral palsy is forced to confront the disability he’s let consume and define him.

DIRECTOR Travis Mathews
PRODUCER Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams; Andrew Carlberg

OSTEOSTORIES takes us on the journey to wellness through doctors and patients who benefit from medicine’s best kept secret, Osteopathy. Saving lives during the Spanish Flu, it’s equally effective today.

DIRECTOR Muta’Ali
PRODUCERS Lilia Gorodinsky, Jevon Frank, Sonya Denyse

The Color of Our Skin That Divides Us

DIRECTORS Gingi Rochelle, Nia Hill
PRODUCER Antina Campbell

Westchester, Summer 1991. Closeted teenager Daniel Rosen begins to come out to himself when his estranged gay uncle Ira returns home, dying of complications from HIV/AIDS.

DIRECTORS Gary Jaffe, Katie Ennis
PRODUCERS Emily McCann Lesser, Gary Jaffe, Katie Ennis

When Morgan learns his mysterious dreams are suppressed memories, he opens the door to a dangerous past as he is forced into the volatile world of lucid dreaming.

DIRECTOR Charles Oliver
PRODUCERS Rufus Parker, Sukhi Pabla

Bringing the magic of cinema to the world’s youngest nation, South Sudan.

Unrestricted development and mining threaten water sources in Baja California Sur: a global problem is seen in microcosm as small desert communities begin to push back.

DIRECTORS Sarah Teale, Lisa F. Jackson
PRODUCERS Sarah Teale, Lisa F. Jackson

A modern musical adventure of an escaped laboratory experiment and her pungent alley rat friend.

DIRECTOR Elizabeth Hobbs
PRODUCER Elizabeth Hobbs

Claude, an American expat who has used his privilege to sexually manipulate men, concocts an expensive scheme where he hires an African-American personal fitness trainer to live with him for one hundred days on an inherited lake front property to help him attain the “perfect body.” Professional boundaries are crossed, and Claude’s carnal desires lead to deadly consequences.

DIRECTOR Stephen Riscica
PRODUCERS Martine Melloul, Marko Ckonjevic, Adam Davenport

A late-90s genderqueer pre-teen defies a grieving mother and uncomprehending best friend to embody their true gender and sexual identities in the wake of a devastating family tragedy.

DIRECTOR Halo Rossetti
PRODUCERS Kathryn Foley, Halo Rossetti, Meaghan Wilbur

A young and ambitious but failing chef’s dreams of culinary fame turn nightmarish when he’s tempted by some persuasively sinister spices.

DIRECTOR John Dylan Roberts
PRODUCERS Jeffrey Kurz, Chip Duncan

Fire catalyzes rebirth in an Illinois grasslands where a group of Midwesterners reconstruct a once natural cycle to recover one of the rarest habitats in the world, the American prairie.

DIRECTORS Ben Crosbie, Tessa Moran
PRODUCERS Ben Crosbie, Tessa Moran

PREPARE FOR LAUNCH takes an intricate look into the life of American astronaut John S. Bull from the original class of 19 astronauts chosen to go to the Moon in the 1960's.

PRODUCERS Vince Williams, Alex Williams

Presenting Geraldine Page examines the remarkable, often turbulent journey a theatrical genius who showed the world just how far we can dream if we have courage to reach for it.

DIRECTOR James Michael Hughes
PRODUCERS James Michael Hughes, Jeffrey Schwarz

While people struggle to survive under sanctions in Saddam’s Iraq, nine-year-old Saeed must use his wits to bring the mandatory cake to celebrate President Saddam's birthday or face the consequences—prison or death.

DIRECTOR Hasan Hadi
PRODUCER Leah Chen Baker

PTSD911 explores the struggle of emergency first responders who battle the demons of post-traumatic stress but are often afraid of losing their job if they ask for help.

DIRECTOR Conrad Weaver
PRODUCER Nancy Frohman

In a small Appalachian town crippled by opioid addiction, a young drug dealer is coming to terms with life she’s chosen.

DIRECTOR Andi Morrow
PRODUCERS Andi Morrow, Gardner Grout, Richard Garber, Kristen Dye

An unexpected death amidst a wedding grips an Iranian-American immigrant family with a moral dilemma.

DIRECTOR Maryam L’Ange
PRODUCER Amy Poncher

RAMONA AT MIDLIFE is a dark comedy about a single mother and former Literary It Girl who discovers that her unflattering current reality is the subject of a hot filmmaker’s newest project. As Ramona faces up to her disappointments and wrecked friendships, she finds true creative power and is finally ready to become her best self.

DIRECTOR Brooke Berman
PRODUCER Kristen Vaganos

DIRECTOR Thom E. Butler
PRODUCER Thom E. Butler

Struggling with new parenthood and stalling careers, Kallia and Ram’s lives are thrown into chaos when Kallia’s blind mother goes on a mission to exorcize the family from the evil eye.

DIRECTORS Artemis Shaw, Prashanth Kamalakanthan
PRODUCER Artemis Shaw

In a hidden safehouse in Ghana, social workers help two children recover from a childhood enslaved to fishermen. But their story takes an unexpected turn when their rescuer embarks on another rescue mission and asks the children for help.

DIRECTORS Alyssa Fedele, Zachary Fink
PRODUCERS Alyssa Fedele, Zachary Fink, Davis Coombe

A film about the risk-takers, innovators and disruptors who are changing the face of Detroit.

DIRECTOR Melissa Dowler
PRODUCERS Melissa Dowler, Tom Dowler

American expat Kerra Bolton restores her ancestral relationship with the ocean, diving deep into the Atlantic to map sunken slave ships. With a team of Black marine archeologists, she reclaims lost history while rediscovering the strength of her own, Black body—one scarred by traumas that are both recent and centuries-old. But before she can answer this ancestral calling, she must first conquer her fear of open water and learn how to swim.

DIRECTOR Kerra Bolton
PRODUCERS Rachel Pikelny, Kerra Bolton

REVELATIONS IN TEAR GAS explores the social, racial, and political tensions of America in 2020, beginning at the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, OR.

DIRECTOR Thisara Pinto
PRODUCER Leela Dunn

Millennials, at 2.3 billion people, are they largest generation in the world and believe in their own power to disrupt, change, alter and direct just about everything. Given present circumstances, this generation may be arriving on the world stage just in the nick of time.

DIRECTORS Josh Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell
PRODUCERS Josh Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell

When a victim of cyberattacks seeks justice against her aggressor, she finds herself powerless in face of a system that doesn’t grasp the long-term, painful implication of online assaults.

DIRECTOR Adina Sadeanu
PRODUCER Axis Media Production

An ambitious feature documentary film that uncovers how the fashion industry has impacted some of the major waterways of our planet through the manufacturing of jeans and other textiles.

DIRECTOR David McIlvride
PRODUCERS Roger Williams, Lisa Mazzotta

DIRECTOR Scott Gracheff

A film about how the power of words, and the love between siblings, can inspire a movement

DIRECTOR Amanda Lukoff
PRODUCERS Amanda Lukoff, Daniel Egan

Stefan moves into the Bulgarian enclave in suburban Tennessee, where comical rivalries, suspicions, and hijinks conspire to come between him and his American Dream.

DIRECTOR Tzvetana Denkova
PRODUCERS Megan Jordan, Tzvetana Denkova

DIRECTOR Sam Zalutsky
PRODUCERS Kevin Corstange, Alyssa Roehrenbeck, Sam Zalutsky

Secret City is a documentary series about how the military industrial complex has shaped the region of San Diego. Using the process of facial-motion capture with interviewees, Apodaca creates surreal animations, bringing the city life.

DIRECTOR Evan Apodaca
PRODUCER Jacquelynne Le

DIRECTOR Cady McClain
PRODUCERS Cady McClain, Kate Super

A young boy and his terminally-ill mom go on the biggest adventure of their lifetimes.

DIRECTOR Andie Naar
PRODUCER Andie Naar

The pioneers of American wind energy, from yesterday’s mavericks to today's champions, evolve in-step with national and natural forces.

DIRECTOR Paul Yoo
PRODUCERS Paul Yoo, Ali Sargent

SILVER LAKE SHORTS is a monthly, free (submissions and admissions) screening series featuring Los Angeles filmmakers aimed at boosting the local independent film scene.

DIRECTORS Jared Corwin, Benjamin Sharpe?

DIRECTOR Brad Lubin
PRODUCERS Brad Lubin, Elijah Long

After the Boston Marathon Bombing, a group of world-class experts in religion and computer science create cutting-edge simulations to predict and prevent religious radicalization and violence...but saving lives in the real world is harder than they thought.

DIRECTOR Jenn Lindsay
PRODUCER Jenn Lindsay

Sisters Act follows fearless religious sisters forming a network to end sexual slavery, counterbalancing the dark and abusive rings of traffickers who exploit women internationally.

DIRECTOR Dea Gjinovci and Antoine Goldet
PRODUCER Chachi Hauser

SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the remarkable story of electronic music’s female pioneers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.

DIRECTOR Lisa Rovner
PRODUCERS Anna Lena Vaney, Marcus Werner Hed

In Sitka, Alaska, residents are presumed guilty after a town leader goes missing and they turn on each other in their quest for the truth.

DIRECTORS Helena Sardinha, Rafael Thomaseto
PRODUCERS Helena Sardinha, Rafael Thomaseto

Charly, a five year old cancer patient, rediscovers the power of her imagination when she meets a very insistent yet charming little girl named Lana.

DIRECTOR Sabrina Stoll
PRODUCER Tiziana Giammarino

When a snuff film crew mistakenly kills their lead actress too soon… they get more than they bargained for with her replacement.

DIRECTOR Joanna Fernandez
PRODUCERS Caroline Norton, Jeremy Truong

Patrick is a painter who must use his talent to try to save himself from a underground criminal art network and set his life straight.

DIRECTOR Brandon Gibson
PRODUCER Beth Wheatley

Two boys ushering at their Baptist Church are faced with confronting their faith, love and morality.

DIRECTOR Michael Donte
PRODUCERS Michael Donte, Sam Leopold

An elderly woman is faced with a life/death decision after her husband, a man who has been diagnosed with a terminal heart disease, informs her that he will spend his final days alone in order to spare her the emotional distress of watching him die. The 17-year old neighbor boy, who acts as their surrogate son, is contemplating his own life choices, which become influenced by the couple’s circumstance.

DIRECTOR Sarah T. Schwab
PRODUCERS Brian Long, Sarah T. Schwab, Megan Smith-Harris

In 1969, a riot at New York’s Stonewall Inn launched the gay rights movement, and changed the course of history. In June, 2019, millions of LGTBQ people across the globe will commemorate 50 years of gay liberation. STONEWALL FOREVER tells the story of that uprising, traces its five decade legacy of resistance, and culminates with the bar today — now a National Monument but facing an uncertain future.

DIRECTOR Jeffrey Schwarz
PRODUCERS Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Justin Mikita, Jeffrey Schwarz

DIRECTOR Gretl Claggett
PRODUCER Sonia Blangiardo

Faced with the threat of losing his eyesight, Mark Cousins explores the central role of looking in his own life, and in the past, present and future of humanity.

DIRECTOR Mark Cousins
PRODUCERS Mary Bell, Adam Dawtrey

A documentary exploring the existential, artistic and family life of musician and former evangelical, David Bazan, set against America’s own crisis of faith highlighted during the 2016 presidential election.

DIRECTOR Brandon Vedder

As the building of the former West Hollywood dance club Studio One and its sister music venue The Backlot face demolition, a battle to save it and preserve the past erupts.

DIRECTOR Marc Saltarelli
PRODUCERS Marc Saltarelli, Lloyd Coleman, Gary Steinberg, Chris Isaacson

SUBJECT MATTER builds a bridge between inspiring storytelling and creating meaningful change by providing funds to compelling documentary films that highlight social issues and matching grants to organizations tackling the featured topics.

In a rural Nebraska town, a woman and her granddaughter go in search of a suit, a seemingly simple task that is revealed to have a much more monumental purpose.

DIRECTOR Carol McCann
PRODUCER Michael Lesser
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Alan Ball

DIRECTOR Casey Beck
PRODUCERS Mary Cardaras, Kerry Chan

A formerly flamboyant hairdresser escapes from his nursing home and takes a long walk across a small town to style a dead woman’s hair.

DIRECTOR Todd Stephens
PRODUCERS Todd Stephens, Stephen Israel

A struggling recent college grad gets wrapped up in the nefarious dealings of an evil data-tracking company, setting off a hilarious chain of events.

DIRECTOR Maceo Greenberg
PRODUCERS Kevin Harding, Clayton Van Nortwick, Desiree Staples, Maceo Greenberg

Renowned Cook Islands Master Carver, Vaka builder, Painter, Poet and Social provocateur Mike Tavioni’s connection with art and knowledge sharing is as important to him as breathing is to life.

DIRECTOR Glenda Tuaine
PRODUCER Glenda Tuaine

Devastated by the loss of his teenage son, Palestinian school teacher Basem El-Saleh struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker Lisa and his emotional support for his most promising student Adam.

DIRECTOR Farah Nabulsi
PRODUCERS Sawsan Asfari, Ossama Bawardi, Farah Nabulsi

A journey through a year in the life of three family farms cultivating cannabis, food and community in the pursuit of a regenerative future.

DIRECTOR Claire Weissbluth
PRODUCERS Claire Weissbluth, Jesse Dodd, Ryan Troy

The groundbreaking life and work of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally - a personal journey through 5-decades of the American theatre, the struggle for LGBT rights, triumph over addiction, finding true love, and the need (now more than ever) for writers and artists to shape society's values.

DIRECTOR Jeff Kaufman
PRODUCERS Jeff Kaufman, Marcia Ross

A relationship is put to the test after the girlfriend is sexually assaulted and the boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit.

DIRECTOR Shatara Michelle Ford
PRODUCERS Pin-Chun Liu, Shatara Michelle Ford, Yu-Hao Su, Lee Stobby

Facing persecution in Iran, a young closeted gay man flees to his distant family in Scotland. Thrown into a new culture, he falls in love... only to have his freedom and life threatened anew when his asylum case is rejected.

DIRECTOR Darwin Serink
PRODUCERS Tommee May, Chelsea Winstanley

THIS COLLAPSE OF ALL THINGS revisits the life and work of Frederick A. Demmler, 1888-1918, a promising Pittsburgh-born artist killed near the end of the First World War.

DIRECTOR Charles Kaufmann
PRODUCER Charles Kaufmann

THREADS aims to document the voices of artists from different generations, weaving a polyphony of experiences and thought in the artistic fashion world.

DIRECTOR Evangelo Gasos
PRODUCER Liliana Kawase

A lonely gay singer-songwriter learns how to ask for what he wants in life through a newfound romance with an honest and communicative married couple.

DIRECTOR Greyson Horst
PRODUCERS Emmi Shockley, Philly Hughes, Kara Bartek

An aging book-crusher in occupied Czechoslovakia searches for beauty and meaning in a collapsing world through the books he rescues from destruction.

DIRECTOR Genevieve Anderson
PRODUCERS Kelly Miller, Steve Gaub

Part bounty hunter, part Robin Hood, and part James Bond - Martin Kenney is one of the world’s most successful fraud hunters. He tracks and traps financial criminals and brings them to justice. A trusted consultant to the FBI, Scotland Yard, and the World Bank Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR), Kenney works with governments, law enforcement agencies, corporations and private citizens all over the world to stop grand corruption and fraud.

DIRECTOR Alison Armstrong
PRODUCER Alison Armstrong

Seventy-five years after the remarkable escape of seven Jewish siblings who evaded Nazi capture, the daughter of the youngest child embarks on an international quest to uncover answers about her family’s extraordinary survival and the outstanding bravery of the German strangers who helped them.

DIRECTOR Beth Lane
PRODUCER Beth Lane

A journey through one life that is every life. Bring a compass.

DIRECTOR Texas Tomboy Brand Prod.

The story behind Michael (Woodstock) Wadleigh’s ecological thriller, WOLFEN (1981), one of the most talked about films of the last 40+ years and the American maverick’s only Hollywood feature.

DIRECTOR Stewart Buck
PRODUCER Stewart Buck

Based on the award-winning book, UNDER THE BLOOD-RED SUN is the gripping story of a young Japanese American boy in Hawaii who comes of age after Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.

DIRECTOR Tim Savage
PRODUCER Dana Satler Hankins

Lia (32) travels to Ibiza to work as a maid in luxurious summer rental houses to financially support her parents back in Brazil. Enjoying her newfound freedom on the paradisiacal island, Lia is determined to take power over her body and her future when she is suddenly confronted with the news that she might be infertile.

DIRECTOR Maxime Kathari
PRODUCERS Dea Gjinovci, Chachi Hauser

An unexpected invitation launches a grieving young woman on a solitary road trip through the American Midwest as she struggles to reconcile the losses of her past with the dreams of her future.

DIRECTOR Morrisa Maltz
PRODUCERS Laura Heberton, Katherine Harper, Lainey Bearkiller Shangreaux, Vanara Taing, Tommy Heitkamp, Morrisa Maltz

A mysterious, deadly illness is affecting a group of people in New Brunswick. The provincial government is covering up environmental contamination. Can those affected fight back and save lives.

DIRECTOR Paul McGuire
PRODUCER Alice Henty
producer Samuel Lieberman

In an effort to save her series with the New York Times, a clever journalist infiltrates the isolated theocracy of Texas twenty-five years after its secession to write about the bizarre patriarchy and outrageous culture, but when she bonds with the sisters she didn’t know she had, she puts herself and them in great danger.

DIRECTOR Kevin T. Morales
PRODUCERS Brenna Palughi, Kevin T. Morales

An assistant to a late-night show host seeks refuge when her boss threatens to have her take part in the show’s popular but morally questionable segment.

DIRECTOR William Breittholz
PRODUCER Soratchabhumi H. Sukkasem

A crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most dangerous cranes, where he is able to find his freedom.

DIRECTOR Dania Bdeir
PRODUCERS Coralie Dias, Dania Bdeir

A filmmaker's life is changed forever when she brings psychedelic psychotherapy pioneer, Stanislav Grof's extraordinary journey to the screen by immersing herself in his theories.

DIRECTOR Susan Hess Logeais
PRODUCERS Susan Hess Logeais, Stanislav Grof

After current US Olympic Bobsled Captain Steven Holcomb suddenly dies from a lethal combination of pills and alcohol just days after he interviews him, veteran sports filmmaker Brett Rapkin attempts to interview other top Olympic athletes about the subject of mental health. It turns out to be something that clearly needed to be discussed.

DIRECTOR Brett Rapkin
PRODUCER Brett Rapkin

This searing documentary chronicles the anti-gay pogrom raging in the repressive Russian republic of Chechnya and shadows the LGBTQ activists risking unimaginable peril to rescue victims from a targeted campaign of torture and death.

DIRECTOR David France
PRODUCERS Alice Henty, Askold Kurov, David France, Joy A. Tomchin

DIRECTOR Katharine Mahalic
PRODUCERS Pete Ryan, Katharine Mahalic

With only nine fluent Elders remaining, the Haíɫzaqv First Nation is racing to teach the next generation their Indigenous language. Hopeful and intimate, WE’RE ALL WE GOT is an observational documentary that reveals what it’s like growing up in a community fighting for its future.

DIRECTOR Alex Takats
PRODUCERS Alex Takats, Tévan Wilson

ISIS has your children, and the U.S. Government ties your hands. What do you do next?

DIRECTOR Sofian Khan
PRODUCER J. Motts

NPR’s Diane Rehm investigates the right-to-die movement.

DIRECTOR Joe Fab
PRODUCERS Joe Fab, Diane Naughton, Diane Rehm

The emotional stories of members of the LGBTQ community who challenge stereotypes about gender and sexuality, demonstrating their diverse journeys in overcoming physical and figurative mountains while summiting Mt. Hood.

DIRECTOR Devin Tau
PRODUCER Devin Tau

In this new feature-length documentary film, award-winning director, Mike Rott, is on a mission to navigate the sensitive subject of antisemitism via a youthful and lighthearted investigative approach. He will interview everyday people, historians, clergy, Jews and even antisemites as he tackles the simple title question, WHY THE BLEEP DO THEY HATE ME?

DIRECTOR Mike Rott
PRODUCERS Mike Rott, Sheldon Rott

The inspiring, often humorous, conflict-embracing journey of musician/artist/novelist/confessional poet Wild Billy Childish as he achieves unanticipated worldwide cult fame via a strict Punk D.I.Y. ethos.

DIRECTOR Jeff Feuerzeig
PRODUCER Jeff Feuerzeig

A gay couple from Ireland travel on the Trans-Siberian railway through Russia, Mongolia and China stopping off to meet with members of the LGBTQ+ community living under oppressive laws and harsh societal attitudes.

DIRECTOR Paul Rice
PRODUCERS Paul Rice, Sasha White

YOU ARE HERE follows artist and writer Obi Kauffman on his journey to complete the 3rd book in his opus series “The California Lands Trilogy”. Through exploring Obi’s lyrical and poetic expression of California’s desert ecology, “You Are Here” inspires Californian’s to know their natural environment and in turn protect it.

DIRECTORS Nadia Gill, Dominic Gill

Amidst radical changes in nicotine use worldwide, one filmmaker's journey through the confusion & fear leads to a startling discovery about Earth's most hated stimulant. Society may be changed forever.

DIRECTOR Aaron Biebert
PRODUCER Jennifer Biebert

A Kosovar woman is sent to witch doctors to cure her infertility, but when she becomes pregnant, her wartime past comes back to torment her.

DIRECTOR Antoneta Kastrati
PRODUCER Casey Cooper Johnson

ZIGZAG examines the physical and intellectual zigzags of the refugee crisis under the prism of a female refugee, Svetlana Boym, who as a Harvard professor became one of the most respected voices of modernity redefining what it means to live between borders.

DIRECTOR Maria Zervos
PRODUCER Maria Zervos

When Zoua, a boy who lives a lonely life on a deserted island, discovers a land far away, his dream of having kids to play with might finally come true.

DIRECTOR Nicolas Wendl
PRODUCER Tiziana Giammarino