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UNAFF

UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival) is an international documentary film festival held in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, San Francisco and at Stanford University each year around the UN Da

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 Adoptees

Vietnamese adoptee Mike Frailey searches for the truth behind the life and death of his childhood best friend 50 years after they were evacuated from their home country together as part of Operatio

Wimblu Magazine

Wimblu Magazine produces and showcases creative documentaries that reconnect ecology and culture in order to restore our sense of belonging and connection to our planet.

The Storms We Carry

“The Storms We Carry” is a film about what happens when the storms inside of us are bigger than the ones outside of us.

Unbreakable Blue

Law enforcement professionals spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with the uglier side of human existence.

In The Public Interest

“The airwaves belong to the people… but which people?”

Queer Christians (working title)

Combining intimate verité scenes with the raw emotion of visual poetic fiction, QUEER CHRISTIANS follows three queer Christian women of color as they struggle to reconcile their intersecting identi

Puzzle Party

In "Puzzle Party," we meet legendary figures and rising stars in the puzzle community, exploring how these playful and often frustrating objects help people navigate grief, open new life opportunit

Welcome Space Brothers

WELCOME SPACE BROTHERS unravels the six-decade-long journey and emotional legacy of “advanced clairvoyant” and spiritual leader Ruth E.

Keeper of the Flame

In the 1980’s, one man’s progressive vision turned Amnesty International into a household name. How did he get there, and where is he now?

Hazy Valley

In their ancestral homeland Los Angeles, members of the Kizh-Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians are responding to the city’s ecological crisis by reviving the highly efficient land stewardship prac

The Harvard 5: a story of love, architecture, and a design revolution

“The Harvard 5: a story of love, architecture, and a design revolution” is a documentary film that tells the little-known story of five ground-breaking architects and designers who ignited a modern

TRACES

TRACES begins when a beloved lion pride is found poisoned in northern Botswana.

#WAY_Anima

Animashree Anandkumar is a powerhouse in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Rosl's Suitcase

Disconnected letters tell the effect of the Nazi’s annexation of Austria on some of the Viennese population: it’s the story of Rosa, my Viennese and Jewish grandmother, who left Vienna for New York

The Great Call

We go in pursuit of gibbon song, which has captivated poets, scientists and shamans for millennia across the dwindling rainforests of Asia.

Silent Thunder

There had always been a small number of black auto racers in the twentieth century who drove mostly for themselves. In 1972, Leonard W.

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.

Saving Summer

Everyone knows the beaches, boardwalks, and nightclubs of the Jersey Shore, but there is another side to this iconic summer vacation destination... an even wilder one.

Surrounded - The EDC Burden

Testifying before Congress, a soft spoken woman warned of an oncoming tsunami born from DDT and other untested chemicals.

Open Arms - The Legacy of Rev. Raymond Judd Jr.

This documentary captures the legacy of a beloved university chaplain whose humble beginnings in a Texas farm town, honest wrestlings with faith and purpose, and open-armed compassion for his fello

My People, My Land (Working Title)

Chinese investors create one of the largest industrial zones in West Africa, where thousands of locals earn their livelihood at the risk of losing what they value most - sacred land, religious prac

Kikuyu Land

Set in Kenya’s tea highlands, Kikuyu Land follows Mr. Mungai, a local land claimant pursuing justice for land taken from his family.

CARRYING (formerly 'Love, Your Birth Mom')

CARRYING is an intimate exploration of the experience of placing a child for adoption.

America Talks 25

“9/11: OUR STORY” is about the making of a remarkable film, “America Talks,” and how a group of inexperienced college students and their professor created an important visual and oral history of th

Pack is Here

With the increased visibility of transgender people in the United States, we are seeing a backlash that results in efforts to block trans people from participation in some of the most basic parts o

WISDOM

One of the most isolated, yet essential islands on earth; Midway Atoll is an escape & home for a select group of scientists, who gave up all modern conveniences to live in seclusion and engage

The Deadline

Tensions are rising, we are becoming more polarised, and the world feels less and less stable. Social media has become a dangerously powerful propaganda tool.

Resurgo Detroit: The Rise from Within

20 years in the making. 3 million photographs, thousands of hours of footage and a one dollar house.

Waking Up in a Dream

Birth, death.
Night, day.
Mind, matter.
Heaven, hell.
Nothing, everything.

For A Million Years

For A Million Years is a universal story about humanism, unity and a romantic belief that music can change the world.

Courage for Yong

After two decades of learning how to manage his bipolar disorder, Yong Yang had finally built a life worth living - until an LAPD officer fatally shot him during a mental health crisis.

A Chasm in Chinatown

"A CHASM IN CHINATOWN" follows the struggles of a Chinese American nonprofit, the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), as its Executive Director, Nancy Yao Maasbach, navigates the challenges of NYC