Directed by Hadley Austin

88 minutes

DEMON MINERAL documents life in the radioactive desert of the Navajo Reservation. Travelling through a landscape perforated by orphaned uranium mines in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, the film follows a group of indigenous scientists, elders, and activists as they work to protect a vital living space on contaminated land. Supported by The Redford Center.

Screenings: Premiere, Munich Dok.Fest; Audience Award, Slamdance Film Festival; Mill Valley Film Festival; Big Sky Documentary Film Festival; Phoenix Film Festival

Directed by Sebastian Pinzon Silva & Canela Reyes

77 minutes

Nearly twenty years after fleeing for their lives, a community returns to the overgrown ruins of their home in the jungle for a celebration, resurrecting a village that exists only in their memory.

Screenings: MoMA Doc Fortnight, True/False Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, San Francisco Film Festival

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Directed by Edward Buckles, Jr.

89 minutes

An intimate look at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and its impact on the youth of New Orleans.

Awards: Best New Documentary Director, Tribeca Film Festival; Nominee, Best International Documentary Feature, Zurich Film Festival

Directed by Iyabo Kwayana

9 minutes

By Water is a documentary that was initiated when the filmmaker’s brother left an unexpected message on her phone three years after his disappearance. She saved this voicemail for more than a year before she decided to heed its instructions. By weaving both herself and her brother into the film’s structure, they met again.

Screenings: Sundance, BlackStar Film Festival, Hot Docs, San Francisco Film Festival

Directed by Cyrus Moussavi

14 minutes

A two part music video to accompany Moor Mother's 2022 album Jazz Codes on ANTI- Records.

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Directed by Julia Reichert & Steven Bognar

115 minutes

Rust-belt Ohio. In the husk of a huge, abandoned GM plant, a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur opens a new factory, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism are truly tested by the enormity of the project, and by the cultural differences between high-tech China and post-industrial Midwest America.

Awards: Academy Award for the Best Documentary Feature; Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature; Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary

Directed by Iyabo Kwayana

10 minutes

Filmed near a Shaolin temple in Henan, China, Practice is a mesmerizing visual choreography in which hundreds of people dance as one, expressing the director’s love for collective practice.

Screenings: Visions du Reel, Camden International, AFI Docs, Chicago Underground Film Festival

Directed by Jonathan Olshefski

104 minutes

Filmed with vérité intimacy for nearly a decade, Quest is the moving portrait of the Rainey family living in North Philadelphia. Epic in scope, a vivid illumination of race and class in America, and a testament to love, healing and hope.

Screenings: Sundance, Sheffield, True/False, New Directors/New Films, Full Frame, Camden International, AFI Docs

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Directed by Sebastian Pinzon Silva

25 minutes

Guided by motifs of life and death, Palenque is an ode to a small town that has greatly contributed to the collective memory of Colombia: San Basilio de Palenque, the first town in the Americas to have broken free from European domination.

Screenings & Awards: Festival de Curtas Belo Horizonte Best International Short Film, Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse Audience Award, DGA Student Jury Award Winner; Locarno, New Directors/New Films, Camden International, Festival dei Popoli, FICValdivia, RIDM, True/False

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Directed by Mina Fitzpatrick

19 minutes

A man is found dead when a Chicago film crew travels to chronicle his story. Interviews with the surrounding community slowly unveil the unnerving history of the man and his quest to create a retreat for children who had killed their parents.

Screenings: San Sebastian, Chicago International

Directed by Timothy Fryett

14 minutes

Inside a family-owned, community funeral home on the south side of Chicago, a series of workplace vignettes carefully reveal the peculiar, highly charged intersection of existential drama and banal routine.

Screenings: New Directors/New Films, AFI Docs, Chicago International, Ethnografilm

Directed by Mina Fitzpatrick

6 minutes

Documenting the process of newspaper printing at the largest printing facility in North America, Run of Press journeys alongside two-ton reams of paper as they glide and snake their way through the factory, eventually taking the form of printed stories. The result is an immersive exploration that both depicts and abstracts a space of labor redolent with implications for a troubled industry.

ASC Haskell Wexler Award Finalist

Screenings: Maryland International, Chicago Made Shorts, Chicagoland Shorts vol. 2, FilmBath

Directed by Vic Compher

75 minutes

How are professional caregivers and first responders affected emotionally and physically? Who helps the helpers? Taking a journey into a world the public rarely sees, Caregivers depicts the emotional costs experienced by professional care providers, probing the emotional consequences of professional public service.

Mid-Atlantic Emmy Documentary Award Nominee

Screenings: Spotlight Orlando Film Festival, APHA Global Public Health Film Festival, National Association of Social Workers Film Festival

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