Films In Release
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.
Monkey Dance
Their parents escaped Cambodia’s killing fields- now dance helps three teens survive the minefields of urban America.
My Father, The Genius
When long-estranged father, dreamer and visionary architect, Glen Small bequeaths his daughter the task of writing his biography, she answers instead with an irreverent film about his precarious career and rocky private life – while he is still alive.
Nations of Peace
Leading politicians and peace experts from the world’s 5 most peaceful countries define and stress the necessity for ‘positive peace’ in creating healthy, wealthy societies.
The New Metropolis
In a documentary series about America’s first suburbs, The New Metropolis explores the challenges our older suburbs now face, and points towards solutions for their revitalization.
Once Removed
The story of a young woman who travels to China to meet her mother’s relatives for the first time, and discovers a family history that encompasses political persecution, imprisonment, and murder.
One in Eight: Janice’s Journey
When filmmaker Cynthia McKeown learned that her friend Janice Fine had been diagnosed with breast cancer, she approached her with the idea of doing a video diary. That diary became the award-winning documentary film One in Eight: Janice’s Journey.
Out In The Silence
Blog posts from directors Joe Wilson & Dean Hamer are now featured on The Huffington Post.
A Place To Live: The Story Of Triangle Square
A Place to Live follows seven gay and lesbian seniors from varying backgrounds as they attempt to secure a much sought-after place in Triangle Square, the nation’s first affordable housing community specifically for LGBT elders.
Poem In Action
Vincent Ferrini calls himself, “the living poem.” At 80 years of age his enthusiasm and energy for life is infectious. Poem In Action portrays the forces which forged him as a poet: his life as an immigrant’s son and factory worker, the Great Depression, the Communist Party and the poetics of place.
Polis Is This
Polis Is This wrestles with the six foot eight inch, 275-pound Colossus of Poetry – Charles Olson, in the squared circle of understanding. Through never-before seen footage and interviews, actor John Malkovich leads an all-star ensemble in a search and explore mission.
The Powder And The Glory
The story of how two pioneering entrepreneurial women– Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein– created an industry, became global rivals and cultural icons, and changed the way we look at ourselves.
Rain In A Dry Land
An Emmy nominated film about culture shock and a leap from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, as two devout Muslim families find new homes in urban America.
Renewal
The first feature-length documentary to capture the vitality of America’s religious–environmental movement. Presenting eight individual stories of Americans around the nation in different faith traditions, who are working to become better stewards of the environment.
Rock Of Gold
The remote Fijian mining town of Vatukoula, which means ‘rock of gold,’ happens to be located less than 30 kilometers from the source of one of the world’s most recognized brands of bottled water.
