A short documentary that tells the remarkable stories behind one of the most iconic photos in history, while acting as a portal into the “varied carols,” to borrow from Walt Whitman, of trauma and the American journey.
The story of WWF villain, Luna Vachon. Raised by a family of wrestling legends, wrestling was her first love. Reaching the peak of her fame in the 90s, Luna’s biggest hurdle was challenging the mainstream wrestling industry and their view on women at that time She aimed to be the biggest, baddest wrestling villain that ever lived. But despite her successes, both her stage persona and reality started to blur. The guilt of abandoning her two sons to pursue her dream job, being diagnosed as bipolar, abuse, and addiction would prove too much. While the crowd yelled out ‘Lunatic’ to her in-ring heel character, little did they know a dark cloud of mental health struggles plagued her in real-life.
For a young Kentucky farm boy, love at first sight came in the form of a violin. A quarter century later, that passion remains steadfast for San Francisco-based fiddler Brandon Godman, helping him weather storms of injustice and adversity. Now, he’s reconnecting with his roots while embracing his musical voice through the creation of a new original album.
Deja Vu (2025) is a documentary by Indian filmmaker Bedabrata Pain that draws parallels between the corporatization of the American farming industry in the 1980s and similar agricultural market reforms in India
Feature-length documentary saga of Italians who were unscrupulously recruited to work cotton fields in the American South, after the Civil War, and their resilient journey of hope, hardship and faith. Told in first person by parish priest Father Pietro Bandini, a "Moses-like" figure expelled by the Jesuits, who led his flock out of death and despair, to a new beginning in the Ozark hills. The Italian enclave Bandini founded, Tontitown, still thrives in Northwest Arkansas. Arkansas PBS broadcast September 2024. Streaming venues fall 2024. https://vimeo.com/794374250
This is the story of Sofia, a young marine biologist from Galapagos in Ecuador, who reconnects with her absent father through their shared passion for trying to save the biggest shark in the world, the Whale Shark.
WE’LL GO DOWN IN HISTORY tells the story of TRUK United, a grassroots, proudly trans football club. Filmed over two years, it captures the team’s highs and lows on and off the pitch as they create a safe haven for their community in the face of rising transphobia.
In 1993 while living in suburban Atlanta and working as an exterminator, a young and alienated Ricardo López began his all-consuming fixation with the Icelandic experimental pop musician Björk. What would transpire over the next three years would lead to hundreds of diary entries, dozens of hours of home video footage, an assassination plot, and the eventual violent death of Ricardo López by his own hand.
Feature length documentary about the infamous video game franchise 'Postal' by Running with Scissors. Exploring the company's history and possible imprint violent video games bring to the real world.
The year is 2024 AD. Beirut is entirely occupied by the forces of privatized boredom. Well, not entirely... A few areas of indomitable players still hold out against the devastation of public space for leisure. Playtime Karantina is the first episode of "Beirut Belongs to Whom ?", a documentary film series about urban issues in Beirut. A collaboration between filmmakers and urban researchers, with the aim of kindling the discussion on our city, and the claiming of it by all its dwellers.
During her lifetime 12th-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen invented a secret language, the lingua ignota, which purpose remains unclear up until today. Taking the idea of visions as a starting point for playing with the filmic image and montage, Lingua Ignota connects a research into the different facets of Hildegard von Bingen’s life - music, plants, language - with an audio-visual diary. Collecting images at Disibodenberg, a former monastery where Hildegard used to live, visiting friends on a Danish Island and seasons changing - the principle of an unknown language connects the images and dictates their order, seeking correspondences between different spaces and temporalities.
Album combines four portraits of places and people filmed over the course of one year: A New Year shows a few days spent in a small hut near the German Czech border. The rhythm of the days dictates the rhythm of the film - making a fire, looking out of the window, spending time together at the table. La Grotta documents a peculiar state of relaxed concentration on a spring day by the sea, solving crossword puzzles with friends and panning shots along the rock formations. Late Summer is a portrait of our friends Heide and Karola, who recently moved into a new apartment. From the stairwell to their rooms, light, objects and colors reveal the idiosyncrasies and experiences of two shared lives. In the fall we visited Ewelina, Nuno and Helena in Portugal, Mãozinha is an immediate and gentle expression of these days together: falling leaves in the park, small hands and large objects, the setting sun paints the clouds in different shades.