Community & Change
In Brooklyn, neighbors stand against gentrification. In Israel, a Jewish choir director and Muslim teenagers find harmony against all odds. In 1936 Harlem, Orson Welles and an all-Black cast reimagine Shakespeare and change theater forever. These films capture communities at the crossroads — fighting addiction, confronting racism, building something new from what's broken. This is what change looks like when ordinary people decide enough is enough.
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Pizza, A Love Story
In a six-block radius of New Haven's Wooster Square sit three legendary pizza restaurants — Pepe's, Sally's, and Modern — that have been the heart of the city's Italian-American community for nearly a century. From Frank Pepe's bread cart in 1925 to the lines that still wrap around the block toda...
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Emergent City
Emergent City is a gripping, decade-in-the-making documentary that follows the high-stakes battle over Sunset Park, a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on Brooklyn's industrial waterfront. When a group of private developers acquires Industry City--a massive, aging complex of 16 industrial bui...
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Out Loud
Omar, Muhammad, and Yazan are three 12-year-old Muslim boys from the crime-ridden city of Lod, navigating the final year of elementary school and the challenges of growing up: Omar faces his father's illness, Yazan must confront the fallout of his violent behavior, and Muhammad prepares to leave ...
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Something Better Change
Throughout the 1980s, outfits like Black Flag, D.O.A., Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat and the Circle Jerks helped define the decade's deafening hardcore punk sound, paving the way for the eventual explosion of punk bands through radio and MTV in the decades to come. While punk rock's upper echelon m...
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Hope Village
Lucy Hall is The Hope Dealer. As a young girl, she watched her family disappear into the worlds of alcohol and drugs, and then she too was caught in the web of generational addiction. But Lucy found her way to recovery. Her story of self-empowerment is now at the center of saving others. She's he...
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Across the Line
Stephan James (Race, Shots Fired, If Beale Street Could Talk) is Mattie, a talented hockey player selected by a top NHL team, but his plans are jeopardized by his hustling brother (Shamier Anderson - Labyrinth, Wynonna Earp, Shots Fired) and the corrosive racial tension at his school. Sarah Jeffe...
