WORLD PREMIERE When school remains open during a winter storm, twelve-year-old documentary filmmaker Zachary Maxwell seeks out answers from the adults calling the shots. Through tireless efforts which included countless letters, emails, phone calls and other creative forms of outreach, Zachary goes inside the New York City government to understand how weather-related emergencies influence school closings. Anatomy […]
NYC PREMIERE An intimate look into the lives of ‘Unlocking the Truth’, an up and coming heavy metal band who’s members are middle schoolers between the ages of 11 & 12. Follow them as they rehearse in a cramped basement after school, talk about their life styles and how others in school view them, right up […]
An inspiring, heart-warming story told through the eyes of Cory: a brilliant and talented 11 year-old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome. Follow Cory’s journey from the National Dog Show to Westminster, and witness how a boy’s passion for dogs has opened up his communication with the world around him. This plays as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: […]
USA PREMIERE A lonely boy in the middle of a cruel North Dakota winter muses about the oil boom that has drawn his father and thousands of others to America’s Northern Plains in search of work. This plays as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: SHOW + TELL
NYC PREMIERE From Emmy-nominated In The Family filmmaker Joanna Rudnick, On Beauty follows fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, who left the fashion world when he grew tired of the industry’s rigid standards. After a chance encounter with a young woman who had the genetic condition albinism, Rick re-focused his lens on those too often relegated to […]
WORLD PREMIERE Batman, Homer Simpson, a New York Yankees logo – you’re likely to see any of these logos on the yarmulke of a Jewish boy in modern Jewish communities today. “Reverence” dissects the meaning and context behind branded kippahs and the concept of faith in a modern world while exploring the societal and religious […]
With roots in the eponymous, impoverished Missouri town, filmmakers and cousins Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos bring a sensitive touch to this richly observed and sublimely shot portrait of teens Andrew, Harley and Appachey—genuine, multifaceted subjects not typically represented on screen except as stereotypes. Immersing the audience in their environment and in their […]
NYC PREMIERE How did you first learn about sex? Before the Internet put a shocking amount of sexually explicit information at our fingertips, generations of Americans first encountered the birds and the bees at school, usually through educational films. Brenda Goodman assembles an eye-opening array of these well-intentioned but often funny teaching tools to reveal […]
Frederick Wiseman’s second film as a director looks at an urban Philadelphia high school, capturing interactions between students, teachers, parents and administrators. The film was lauded by critics (“brilliant” wrote Richard Schickel) and dreaded by locals (it didn’t play on Philadelphia public television for over 30 years). A landmark in American documentary, this is an […]
Newly restored for its 20th anniversary, Hoop Dreams has never looked so good on the big screen. The film follows two Chicago teens, Arthur Agee and William Gates, over their four years of high school as they aspire to use their basketball skills to create better futures for their families. When the film was released, […]