Films In Release
Give Me the Banjo
Following the Broadcast Premiere on PBS Fall Arts Festival in November, The Banjo Project will be available on DVD. Check local listings for times.
We Still Live Here
Now available on ITunes following the broadcast premiere on PBS Independent Lens. Also be sure to check out the companion site Our Mother Tongues for great interactive material from the film about Native Languages.
Made In India
Featured on The Economist Film Project site. Check out the stream for an excerpt shown on PBS NewsHour.
Accelerating America
A remarkable portrait of an inspirational principal, two of his most challenging students, and a school that offers at-risk youth a second chance. Despite abandonment, poverty, and troubled pasts, America and Yazmine struggle to turn their lives around over the course of a single make-or-break year.
August To June
Intimately and exuberantly, this feature length documentary brings us into the lives of 26 third and fourth grade students who still look forward to school.
Now Available on DVD!
Baby It’s You
“A whimsical and completely moving meditation, simultaneously warm, funny, and painful, on what family and children mean in today’s ultra-confusing world”
-Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Blue Vinyl
A critics’ darling at film festivals across the globe and Winner of the Excellence in Cinematography Award at Sundance, BLUE VINYL is a deeply personal and frighteningly vital exposé that has been applauded as “funny and irreverent… one of Sundance’s best documentaries!” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times.
Brother Outsider
Help bring Brother Outsider to Netflix by adding to your queue. Netflix will make the DVD available to subscribers once there is a sufficient demand for the film.
A Chance To Grow
A Chance to Grow follows three families on an intimate journey as they navigate the unpredictable terrain of a neonatal intensive care unit. The inevitable shifts in each baby’s condition provide dramatic twists that challenge family stability and redefine parental love.
Cinema Is Everywhere
Premier at the Austin Film Festival in October as a marquee screening!
The story of the art that defies our differences: cinema. A vivid journey across China, India, Scotland, and Tunisia weaves together four stories of imagination to form an exploration of cinema’s unique potential for fostering global understanding.
Citizens Not Subjects!
For 40 years, the city of Memphis was held in the grip of the less than benevolent despot Edward Hull Crump. Beneath the well kept streets of the City of Good Abode lay the seamier side of bought votes and swift retaliation against anyone who questioned the status quo.
Coexist
Coexist earns an critical acclaim from academic review, H-Net: “Coexist’s textured narratives demonstrate that there are several ways of knowing and experiencing the past, which will not only nuance students’ understandings of this particular event and subsequent healing process, but also broaden their methodological and epistemological scope.” – Lindsay Ehrisman, San Francisco State University
DooF (F-o-o-D backwards)
DooF combines a high-energy game show with something none of us can live without: food! DooF (F-o-o-D backwards) challenges kids to discover the backwards, forwards, sideways, right-side-up, upside-down and inside-out amazing and colorful world of food.
Downside UP
What happens when an impoverished, working-class town decides that its only hope for survival lies within the world of contemporary art? Can these two disparate worlds possibly benefit each other? And why would they even try?
Everything’s Cool
A film about America finally “getting” global warming in the wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action.
Family Affair
Stay tuned for upcoming broadcast dates for FAMILY AFFAIR on the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
Who has the right to define a culture? When a white, Jewish intellectual named Melville Herskovits asserted in the 1940s that black culture was not pathological, but in fact grounded in deep African roots, he gave vital support to the civil rights movement and signaled the rise of identity politics. But what does it mean that his subjects had little or no say in the academic discourse about them?
I’m Just Anneke
DVDs Now Available. Winner of the Outfest LA – Audience Award for Outstanding Achievement in Short Documentary.
Lowell Blues: The Words of Jack Kerouac
Lowell Blues remembers the place Jack Kerouac could not forget. Fusing visual history, language and jazz into a 30-minute film poem, Lowell Blues illuminates Kerouac’s childhood holy land.
