NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE A documentary that tells the story of the Flint Water Crisis from the perspectives of those who have experienced this tragedy first hand and from activists on the ground working through grass-root organizations to make a difference. While the national news media has been covering this event through the governmental point of […]
NYC PREMIERE Walk Good is an unflinching short documentary about a grieving mother who lost all three of her children to gun violence in three separate and unrelated incidents.
Seeking justice. Grassroots organizations and activists ignored by national news take center stage in From Flint: Voices of a Poisoned City (USA, 23 min., Elise Conklin). Andy Goes In (USA, 16 min., Josh Polon) to uncover animal abuse at America’s top farms. Mass Swell (USA, 12 min., Patricia Silva) lends a powerful counterpoint to media […]
US PREMIERE He’s a $10/hr farmhand with Tyson and McDonald’s in his crosshairs. And his name isn’t Andy.
WORLD PREMIERE A historical marker with moments of poetic domesticity, Mass Swell counteracts dominant media narratives surrounding Ferguson protestors. Mass Swell shows the centrality of black women in organizing Ferguson direct actions, the role that local clergy and ministry played in supporting the Ferguson movement, and the on-going political and social power of eyewitness media. […]
WORLD PREMIERE The US is one of the only non-authoritarian governments to still carry out the death penalty, sentences that disproportionately target the poor and disenfranchised. Civil Rights advocate and lawyer Bryan Stevenson is working to combat this reality one wrongful conviction at a time by giving inmates the quality defense they never had. Murder […]
US PREMIERE In March 1971, Jim Morrison lead singer of The Doors left his life in Los Angeles behind and joined his girlfriend Pamela Courson in Paris to write poetry. Four months later he was dead. Paris, 1971 is a dream-like meditative journey, imaginatively recounting his last days and interment at the mythic Père Lachaise […]
After decades of feeling overlooked by the literary establishment, the Brazilian poet Chacal was invited by Harvard to present his art as a poet and performer. He engages in an autobiographical critique, providing a singular interpretation of Brazilian culture, from the 1960s to today.
Five creators, five mediums. Jim Morrison’s last months in Paris, 1971 (USA, 11 min., David Khachatorian) are imaginatively recounted. James Turrell: You Who Look (USA, 8 min., Jessica Yu) offers a glimpse into the artist’s boundary-pushing work. A Brazilian punk poet is invited to Harvard after years of neglect by the literary establishment in Chacal: […]
NYC PREMIERE Embark on a dazzling journey through time via the remarkable images of National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting and his epic “LIFE” project, a stunning interpretation of life on Earth from the Big Bang through the present. The film also recounts Lanting’s own evolution from natural history photographer to visual chronicler of life on […]