DSL’s available now / DVD w/PPR avail Early October 2023 How far would you go to help someone? When a young First Nations client dies in police custody, free-spirited social worker Stevie (Astrid Van Wieren) goes the extra mile to keep the people she works with away from the system …
DSL’s available now / DVD w/PPR available late October 2023 WINNER: Best Documentary, The People’s Film Festival. New York City is undergoing a period of “hyper-gentrification” unlike anywhere else, but courageous communities and activists are fighting back. Gentrification is not a new phenomenon. In fact, New Yorkers have been talking …
Sleep: simple in its basic description, elusive in attempts at a comprehensive understanding of all its manifestations. What happens behind closed eyes when we lose consciousness and give ourselves over to dreams? And how is our perception of reality changed when the line between waking and sleeping is blurred? Only …
“Pure Cinema. A bold, dazzling cinematic experiment.” – Film Threat The Myth Comes to Life as Contemporary Folk Horror in this new and bold reimagining of the Greek myth Leda and the Swan. Five years in the making, LEDA completed in 2022 as a multi-genre film that straddles MYTHOLOGY and …
Monumental writer in the age of transcendentalism, groundbreaking feminist, critic and parlor conversationalist, Margaret Fuller was the foremost female intellectual of the mid-Victorian Age. As the first American front-line international war correspondent, she covered the Italian Risorgimento and she herself tilted towards a global utopian revolution. Margaret Fuller is brought …
Based on the true story of Orson Welles, Rose McClendon and their revolutionary Shakespeare production! Produced by the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in association with Warner Bros., this 14x Festival Winner tells the dramatic story of when, in 1936, Broadway star Rose McClendon and producer John …
“I had my red hat. It was like… like something that kept me safe.”– Hanka Neiger Ablin. Winner for Best Historical Documentary, New York Emmy’s 2022 following its WNET-NY Broadcast Premier (Dec. 2021). They Survived Together is a true story of endurance, unity and hope… “Horrifying eyewitness accounts of the …
As broadcast on WLRN-Miami. On December 17th, 1979… after failing to stop for a traffic light, Miami police officers gave chase to Arthur Lee McDuffie, a 33-year-old African American insurance agent and former Marine. When McDuffie surrendered, he was beaten until he lost consciousness. That beating by four police officers …