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100% Possible: The Battle for the World's Energy Future

"100% Possible: The Battle for the World's Energy Future" is about scientific climate solutions versus greed, a modern-day "David & Goliath" story.

Time of My Life

TIME OF MY LIFE is a new feature documentary that follows a group of medically fragile young adults as they come of age in a world where life is short and the obstacles are many.

Wood Street

Wood Street is the last stop for unhoused brothers, John and LaMonté. They moved here eight years ago after police pushed them from other encampments around Oakland. After a two-alarm fire in July, their tight-knit community faces eviction. It’s their goal to stop it.

Broadway, Bars, and Fortune

In a climate of increasing crime and high recidivism, an organization chooses a unique path of transformation through arts and theater.

The Americans

For decades, refugees have begun their journey to the American Dream at a meatpacking plant in Storm Lake, Iowa. But after their shift is over, they dream of something better than the kill floor. Intimately following the lives of the refugees at a meatpacking town in Iowa for over four years, The Americans explores the human reality of the American dream and the personal sacrifices behind it.

PAPER MOON Rise

PAPER MOON Rise is a feature documentary that retraces the Kansas and Missouri locations of Peter Bogdanovich’s 1973 classic, Paper Moon.

Welcome Home Daddy

This documentary chronicles the deeply personal journey of LtCmdr Peter Steinhauer, an American Vietnam War veteran who found a unique path to healing the wounds caused by war.

A War On Childhood

A War on Childhood explores the profound impact of screen use on early childhood development, fueling a youth mental health crisis, and how a growing movement of parents, educators, and experts are

ALMOST LOST (PRESQUE PERDU)

An American filmmaker travels to France to find the mother and child whose lives were saved by his father seventy years ago. 

Exodus Stories: Voices from the Caravan

With intimate access, Exodus Stories follows the high-stakes journeys of Central American immigrants Daisy, Dennis, and Cindy who escape violence and persecution and join the 2018-19 migrant carava

Fish and Babies (Don't Feel Pain)

For much of the 20th century, babies routinely underwent major surgery without adequate pain relief.

Papertown

When a paper mill in a small Appalachian town suddenly closes, leaving 1,200 people without jobs and undoing the economic fabric that held the community together for over a century, how will its pe

Worship Factor

Worship is at the heart of the Christian life: we pray, sing, and write music.
But worship is more than that: it is about justice and how to care for people's needs.

Can Wine Save The Planet

This Documentary project is going to show an ecosystem of Vintners in their small microcosms, working with nature to create better soil, which in turn creates more vibrant and energetic wines.

Oracle: The Life & Music of Michael Hedges

A feature documentary about the life and music of Michael Hedges. The eldest son of Midwestern musicians/educators, Michael Hedges was a young musical prodigy – with an emerging talent that would take him from small-town Oklahoma to Grammy award-winning artist. He was a once-in-a-generation force that would revolutionize the acoustic guitar and inspire a generation of musicians.

Boys Like Us

Boys Like Us explores the Los Angeles queer scene through the lives of masculine-presenting queers— including trans men, butch lesbians, and nonbinary mascs.

Athenia's Last Voyage

At sunset on the first day of WWII the British passenger ship Athenia was bound for Canada in the North Atlantic, and nearly everyone aboard believed they had sailed beyond the reach of the newly d

Archival Producers Alliance

The Archival Producers Alliance was founded in 2023 to bring together archival producers to explore contemporary issues facing our industry, and to influence policy & effect change.

Before Their Time

Activist Iesha Sekou and her team of violence interrupters fight gun violence in New York City, guiding young people to peaceful resolutions in their Harlem neighborhood.

Syria Justice

After more than a decade of brutal mass-killing, torture, siege, detention, and enforced disappearances, Syrian witnesses, investigators, and lawyers are leading the effort to end the Al-Assad regime’s impunity.

Jovita y Valentin

The story of four migrants who take action into their own hands to support the families of other migrants who went missing while attempting to cross the Arizona desert.

Penumbra of Memory

Eight former political prisoners reunite fifty years after their detention in one large room together during Argentina’s last military dictatorship.

Los Cautivos: The First Battle Over Native American Education

As the Western frontier closed, America sought to forcibly re-educate Native Americans at Indian Boarding Schools.  Their motto was “Kill The Indian To Save The Man.”  In 1892, the Pueblo

Fifty Violins

For 20 years, Kettering Elementary—a public school in Long Beach, California—has taught every second grader the violin as a part of its core curriculum.

The Space Less Traveled

Edgar Mitchell's return to Earth in 1971 was a revelation, setting the course for a lifetime of ceaseless exploration.

Weed & Wine (Part II)

The 2020 feature WEED & WINE followed a year in the life of two farming families: one growing biodynamic grapes in France; the other growing organic cannabis in California.

On Firm Ground

In a race against time, two people battling Parkinson's disease embark on a journey of hope as they undergo brain surgery to reclaim their lives.

The Last Car

After the mysterious disappearance of a friend, director Devin Thomas unearths dozens of unexplained deaths on Amtrak’s long-distance trains.

SPOKE

SPOKE is a feature documentary that lives inside the fire service, exposing the hidden occupational health crisis firefighters carry home from the job: soaring cancer rates, unspoken trauma, and th

Sign My Name to Freedom

Betty Reid Soskin is America’s oldest park ranger, famous for tirelessly shedding light on the forgotten history of racial segregation in California. But there’s a hidden side to Betty she rarely talks about. Back in the 1960s, Betty was a si​nger/songwriter with a voice like Billie Holiday and the relevance of Nina Simone, but she turned her back on a potential career in music, and her songs haven’t been heard for 40 years.

Haunted by Helen Liu Fong

Investigating the disappearance of visionary designer Helen Liu Fong from American design history, architect Mina Chow is haunted by her own fears of being forgotten.

He Said, She Said, Now Someone Is Dead

Angelina Resendiz was a 21-year-old U.S. Navy sailor. She was raped and murdered by a fellow U.S. Navy sailor — a man with a documented history of sexual violence the Navy knew about and ignored.

Artemisia

After a devastating trial, artist Artemisia Gentileschi becomes the unexpected face of a new art movement amidst personal tragedy and public scrutiny.

Bella

"Bella," is about the life, influence and impact of California-based artist Bella Lewitzky.